People Like Us

In sociology this week, we watched a movie called "People Like Us". This movie was so interesting to me and showed how much social class really affects our lives. What was really shocking to me, is you could tell what class someone is in by what grocery store they shop at. For example in this small town in Ohio, people either went to the organic grocery store or the regular one. The regular grocery store usually had consumers of working class or lower class; while the organic store was more upper middle class. Who would ever think that even bread could identify what social class were in?! Well appearently it does. There was a "bread expert" at this one store who was an older lady. She said the wonder bread lower class Americans buy more of that; while wheat bread more upper middle class buy this kind of bread because they are more willing to spend money on healthier grocery items. This was very eye opening to me and I never would expect that where we shop or what kind of bread we buy could identify our social classes. In my life, i've noticed more and more how much social class effects my life daily. We live in a very upper class life in my high school and it is hard to see the bigger picture when all you can see around you is people who are very fortunate. I'm sure many of us will be in shock when we see what life is really like out there.