Albert Chan
English 1A
22 September 2013
The Effects of Social Class to Family In the article “The Color of Family Ties: Races, Class, Gender, and Extend Family involvement” by Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, there is a theory that they believe in reality, people misunderstand the wrong concept of family involvement. In this case, we need to realize this conflict is still happening in the societies. Base on the authors’ data, Black and Latinos/Latinas families show that they likely to have less education than the whites families therefore black and Latinos/Latinas will focus on reply the helps from the members of the families rather than being independent (49). Toward more, Gerstel and Sarkisian also discuss that in their researches; women’s work class and their social roles are huge issues in the family and the society, which they examine (50). After Gerstel and Sarkisian talks about the relationship between education and women’s role towards the social class, they additionally argue that the economic conditions are the roots of the families (54). Therefore, the ideal of families’ connections is about the roles that social class has. Social class will play bigger roles in than ethnicity while difference group has developed ways to deal with the emotional and financial changes. The article is about the facts that people, doesn’t matter the genders, they often have the wrong understanding of the connection within American families. Gerstel and Sakisian explains clearly that because social class is more significant than the race, gender, the education or even the class as the results in determining a family's characteristics, social class reflects the kind of lifestyle a family is living. Social class is also a representation of a family's financial capability. Race or ethnicity can represent cultures but not as the standards of living. The first data explains about the education and how it affects on the social roles. When talking