Social Class

This week in Sociology, I learned a lot about social class. People who were at the bottom, people who were at the very bottom, people in the middle, upper class, and people who were very, very upper class. The trend seems that the rich will always get richer and poor will stay the same, without moving up or go down even lower, sadly. It was interesting that so many people who were poor were actually very content with their lives. The people who were extremely wealthy usually weren't content with their lives and always wanted more and more. Then, the people below poverty level wanted to move up. Just like the people who lived in the trialor in the movie. It was very saddening to see their lives, and see how hard the Mom was working at Burger King but the reality of moving up in social class is almost no chance at all. It wasn't her fault though; she was born and raised in that social class so she is probably going to stay there for the rest of her life.

Personally in my life, I've experienced actually moving down a class. When my parents were together they were pretty well off, when they got a divorce however, everything changed. We lost our car and home. My mom had no money. Luckily, she had an education to fall back on and was going to start working as a teacher once again. IT is interesting how much more I appreciate everything now that I've been through all of that.