Social Class

Social class can be beneficial, but also a very limiting factor. In the moive that we watched this week we learned how being born into a low social class can result in one being stuck in that social class for their whole life. On the other hand, being born into a high social class may lead to a lot of good opportunities and other benefits. The lady in the movie who worked at burger king has been stuck in that class for her entire life. And the guy who was a WASP has been socially constructed to believe that he is better than everyone. We can see this in statistics such as a higher percentage of minorities beeing jailed than whites, and a greater percentage of minorities being in poverty than whites. Social class is a limiting factor and is very hard to change and we must recognize that social class is not always decided by the individual.