Gladwell’s overall claim in this chapter is that the class and family life you come from affects your chance of success. Coming from a lower class, Gladwell says, causes you to be less assertive around authority and less pressured into ambition. Parents of lower class families often do not encourage their kids to fine tune their talents through extra-curricular activities, but in middle to upper class families, kids are able to partake in multiple activities with the support of their parents. Also, in middle to upper class families, children are taught a “sense of entitlement that… is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world” (Gladwell 108). Children in the lower class are not taught this and therefore deprived of the advantage of knowing how to assert themselves.…
Diverging Development is an article by Frank F. Furstenberg Jr, about the advantages and disadvantages of social class. Many studies have been conducted on our social class and we have found that education and affluence make a very big difference on poverty and some of life’s disadvantages. Diverging Development explains that kids from privileged families secure nice jobs compared to those raised in poor families. When we analyze social status, we are able to get a better understanding of power. There is a stereotypes of the working and the poor which refer to them as lazy and unintelligent. Some of are most important problems are lack of food, school fees and even growing up in a an unsafe environment. Children in poverty often go without…
The greasers are known as the low class and they are treated poorly by society and the have it all socs. Ponyboy realizes that him and the rest of the greasers will forever just be “White trash with long hair”. (55) This how they are just known as trashy poor guys and are always looked down on just because they don't have much money. This makes greasers life hard because they get blamed for everything and they can't get higher in life when they…
“For the most part, class avoidance of class-laden vocabulary crosses class boundaries” (Mantsios 304). There are measurements in salary, physical appearance, and education to determine class. Mantsios studies showed that 34 percent of America’s wealth is held by the one percent, and almost one of every eight people are living below the poverty line ($19,307 dollars for a family of four in 2004). But it is not getting any better, since it has increased approximately $4,000 since then. One of the biggest reasons people are in poverty is because people cannot afford proper education to become well-sustained. It is all dependent on factors beyond our control. Mantsios compared class backgrounds of a life of a white male, whose father is a manufacturer and an industrialist who was enrolled in a prestigious preparatory school, and a black female, whose father a janitor and mother a waitress who lives in the ghetto. Who do you think has more of an advantage in life? The white male, as a result of opportunity handed to…
In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, there are two gang. They are defined by there social classes.The greasers are financially unstable and considered academically challenged. The Socs are financially stable and considered academically gifted. Even though ponyboy is financially unstable, that does not mean he will not secede in life; his educational aspect will determine his altitude.…
A social class background has a very powerful influence on a child’s chances of success in the education system. The children that are from a middle class background will normally perform better than the working class.…
The Socs from The Outsiders all can be compared to a gentleman named Richard Cory from "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Cory and the Socials all dress nicely and are in higher class. To the poorer people, such as the greasers, it seems like the Socs have everything; money, family, a nice house, and a good education, but just like Richard Cory, they have problem. They face struggles that are different than regular people. Average people have to get money and a job while the Socs and Richard Cory are always being pressured to be perfect. One specific Socs, Cherry Valance, is much like Richard Cory. It may seem like she has the perfect life, but in reality, she had problems people like Ponyboy have never heard of. Everyone wanted to…
The most important difference is that the Greasers live in poverty, while the Socs are rich and have their perfect little home. Ponyboy says “We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class.”(Honton 3).This shows that the Greasers are poorer than anybody else.This also shows that the Greasers sometimes can't maintain them selves because they don't have money. Therefore, Greasers are too poor, and don't have it easy like Socs that have everything they desire.…
Quiz #5c- 10 points ( Chapters 11-12) Student Name ( Print your name) MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one answer that best relates to the information as presented in your textbook. Please mark the correct answer 1.…
Read Ch. 1, 3, 5, & 12 of Sociology: A Brief Introduction. Review this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Participate in class discussion. 4 out of 7 days Day 3 2…
The schools that are in wealthy communities are better than those that are in the poor communities because they have better teaching methods and resources (Anyon 172). In the essay “ From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, ” by Jean Anyon, he describes the difference between a “ working- class school” and an “ executive elite school”. The working-class school consists of parents that have blue-collar jobs such as, factory workers, pipe welders, and maintance workers (Anyon 170). These jobs do not require much skill other than following orders given by their employers. Students that attend this type of school are taught to follow the steps of procedures without any decision making because they are being tracked to follow the footsteps of their parents (Anyon 169). For example from the essay “ Class in America” by Gregory Mantsios, the profile of Cheryl Mitchell shows that she went to a large public school that was patrolled by security guards in Brooklyn, New York (Mantsois 309). She was taught basic skills and was conveyed the importance of doing everything under someone…
A closest replete with the latest designs, belonging to the most expensive country club, the size of your house, and your everyday vernacular are all characteristics important to the highest social classes. In order to maintain the “social status” of the wealthy, one must have enough money to do so. Never would someone living in a broken down home nor a trailer park be categorized as “upper class”. A person of this economic status cannot afford to be living in a large home or mansion, forcing them to be apart of the lower class, both economically and socially. Because so many want to be higher on the economic and social scale, it forces the upper class to seem elite or special (Why group). People want to have money, to get into a higher class, and to be living a lifestyle that seems so different from their own (3 action pattern). Social class completely revolves around money, thus proving that you cannot determine social class without economic status. Although we would like to think we are not defined by the amount of money we have or how nice of a car we drive, we live in a world where everyone wants to be the richest and have the nicest things (condition…
At the school on the Rez, Junior is the smartest kid by far. But at Reardan there are students who know more. That helps Junior get challenged. Gordy, one of if not the smartest kid in the school, helps Junior out.“Gordy taught me how to study. Best of all he taught me how to read”(Alexie 94.) Gordy knows more than Junior. So Gordy helps Junior out and he is someone Junior can learn from. It also shows that Junior likes that there is someone who is better than him and can challenge him when he says, “Best of all.” Which is a phrase you would use if you were excited about something. Junior had someone that was smarter than him. That didn't hold him back it did the opposite. He had Gordy pushing him because he knew more than Junior. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, a young Indian boy with high hopes for the future describes how being poor will help you in life.“My uncle told me there's going to be a muddy road and an easy road. The rich kid takes the easy road and the poor kid takes the muddy rough road. And they're building up strength the whole time.” (Sawyer 8:10 .)Rich people have more privilege and they have it easier. Poor kids have less privilege and they have it harder. But poor kids get strength from having to work harder to get what they want. It also shows how his uncle is really influencing him to work hard and telling him that hard work pays off. Since the poor kids have to work harder they become better people and warriors. The rich kids are considered a better class, so they don't have to work as hard. In the future, the poor kids will have learned more than the rich kids. The uncle is also a very positive role model and he’s helped this boy have…
The social class of the poor is not a thing that you work for to achieve it, it is a thing that you were born with it. People do not achieve to be poor, get a reduced amount of of an education, and difficulty to get food, clothes and shelter. Social classes put a harder effort to accomplish higher opportunities and improvements. Surrounded by demographics, social mobility and growth can be transformed through harmful categorizes. It is imperious that poor people find self-determination, educational opportunities and discover a way in society by increasing…
7.Geography (Helps you know where everythings is, climate , and what groups of people live in each region.…