25 Jul 1- This week I found the social class latter to be the most i
1- This week I found the social class latter to be the most interesting. The social class is divided up into six different classes. The largest social class is made up of 34% of the population and it is the lower middle class. I thought it was a interesting how it states that the lower middle class can afford to maintain a mainstream lifestyle but will struggle to do so. This statement reminded me of how nowadays people are always trying to keep up with the latest phones or even how much social media affects everyday lifestyle. It honestly saddens me that people care so much about what other people think that they will go broke just to make it seem like they have it. In my opinion it is the people from the lower middle class and under who feels the need to want other to think they have more than they actually do. I also found it interesting that people from the capital class sometimes feels guilty for how much money they have. It must be a hard thing to deal with, feeling guilty for your success. Bill Gates have given more money to the poor and medical research than anyone in history. I think its great to see that someone as wealthy as Bill Gates still cares about the people who are in need. Henslin, James ‘Mastering Sociology’ 2014 pg 207-209……………………………………………………………………………….2- Consequences of Social ClassThe importance of social class is that it affects every aspect of our lives – our health, family life, education, religion, politics, and even out experiences with crime and the criminal justice system (Henslin 2014). Henslin (2014) goes on to say that as one goes up in the social class ladder their health improves as if they go down the ladder in social class their health gets worse. Which makes a lot of sense that you feel like you are accomplishing goals in life so your overall mood would improve (Henslin 2014).One part in our textbook I found interesting is how a man who needs and could possibly benefit from medical or mental health help and how he was just be released to be picked up by the police in a day or two. That sounds so very familiar because I hear similar stories from officers when I worked at CHP. A person who is in poverty cannot afford medical insurance, hence when they are talking to the county hospital all a doctor does is give the medicine and send them on their way. A hospital can not afford to house a person who has no means to pay. You compare that to say anyone in this course and the resources we have with school counselors someone is bound to be able to give us more substantial help than that poor man is getting.Also reading how politics relates to social class, I did not understand this until I did further research in what each political group believes. Henslin (2014) states the higher class people tend to vote for Republican and that the government should intervene in the economy to provide jobs and to make citizens financially secure. I read another source that thought this would help in the poverty discussion. I guess to really understand what the government can do about jobs that they may not be doing as well as some people might want them to be would need more research.Reference:Henslin, J. M. (2014). Mastering Sociology. Pearson Upper Saddle River, N.J…………………………………………………………………………………………………3- Social inequality affecting many cultures and societies. The term social stratification is described by sociologists as the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, powder, and prestige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society, or other group (182). Social classes are defined by means of their relationship to a social group, educational level, income class, amount of wealth, and prestige. The three basic stratification structures were identified: slavery, caste, and social class. I would like to talk about stratification in the United States. Social class is a good example of stratification to describe inequality in America. Most Americans believe there are three class models – the rich, middle class and the poor, but sociologist William Thompson and Joseph Hickey proposed class systems with six distinct social classes; the upper, corporate elite, upper middle, traditional middle, lower middle, and working classes.Upper class also referred to as the “blue bloods” for instance the Roosevelt and Bush families. In the past, well-known upper-class families are included while later are those who have achieved a highly wealthy status in their lifetime. Corporate elite is the high incomes and the potential for wealth from stock options among them are top executives or CEOs who receive the best financial compensation of all occupations in the US today. Their income exceeds the combined income of 90% of households in the U.S. On the other hand, the upper middle class is composed of professionals who are highly educated and some of them have master’s degree at least and have high income. In this group, members usually have a great influence on society because they are actively involved with professional as well as personal networks. The middle-class term has been found to be used to either define a group of managers and professionals also referred to as upper middle class or those have significant differences in occupation, educational level, and income. Families occupying the center of American society may be called middle-middle class. Those who are lying in the middle of the socio-economic divisions are commonly where the working class and the lower middle class meet. The lower middle class is usually having less privilege compared to the middle class. Individuals in this group are commonly working in supporting occupations and rarely learned advanced degrees through often they are bachelor’s degree holders. Working class is used to symbolize individuals who are working at this level.1 Henslin, J. M. (2014). Mastering Sociology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.2“Social class in the US.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Social_class_in_the_US…………………………………………………………………………………….4- What I found interesting in this weeks readings was that about slavery today. You would think that in todays society that slavery doesn’t exist it was something that only exists in our history books. But unfortunately slavery still does exist today maybe people don’t think about it cause its not directly called slavery but human trafficking. There are two different types of human trafficking labor and sex trafficking. But I wanted to talk about the sex trafficking. There is an article on CNN about sex trafficking and how its the new American slavery. In this article they are following one girls story her name is Sacharay (or that’s what she wanted to be known as for the article) she was 14 at the time. She didn’t have friends and was often teased a lot because of her dark skin. When she finally made a friend this girl became her best friend and she could tell her anything. One day Sacharay’s best friend asked her if she wanted to skip school so they did and they went to a barber shop and the best friend introduced her to some guys. One of the guys in his 30’s took a liking to Sacharay. This guy started to buy her gifts, pay her compliments and started to offer her advice on adolescence stuff. She recalled ‘If me and my sister would be arguing, he’d be like, ‘you can’t get into an argument with your sister like that.’ He was more like a dad, but then again we had sex, so it wasn’t. It was just in the communication and how he talked to me.’ This is child rape. Anique Whitmore who is a forensic psychologist in Atlanta stated that ‘subversive mix of romantic love and parental care can create havoc in the mind of an adolescent’. Whitmore also stated ‘what we know about sex crimes is that it’s not about sexual pleasure. It’s about control,’ said Whitmore. ‘what is similar to some of those girls that I work with is their self-esteem or lack thereof. You either become vulnerable to a man on the street or a man you meet in school. You become vulnerable because you’re looking for attention.’ Sacharay’s trafficker started to ask her for favors to help him make some money. He asked her to have sex with other guys and soon after it became more and more guys. He would tell Sacharay he loved her for doing that and that made her feel special. Soon she was having sex with about 40 men a day she told her trafficker she was in pain and couldn’t do it anymore. That’s when he grabbed a gun and told her she wasn’t going anywhere. Soon after Sacharay trafficker brought her and another teen to Atlanta because he could get a higher price for the girls about $32,000 a week. There has been studies done in Atlanta about sex trafficking and just in Atlanta its a $290 million dollar industry. This is a big city with the busiest airport and many hotels around. Where people fly in they are looking for sex they found someone like Sacharay’s trafficker and go from there and then fly out later. So a lot of this people aren’t caught because they leave the same day on a plane. Sacharay has her own tattoo now given to her by her human trafficker its branding in away to let others know that she is his. Her journey away from exploitation lead her to a nonprofit organization called The Living Water Center. This organization offered things that would have ever been available if she hadn’t gone to The Living Water Center and that is a GED and a job. ‘I used to hate looking in the mirror at myself,’ said Scaharay. ‘I still struggle, but I can say I’m stronger, I’m wiser and I can honestly say I do love myself. And I have hope for myself.’ Scaharay also got a new tattoo that says ‘Free to Be Me’. This is just one example of slavery that is happening today and fortunately Scharay’s story has a happy ending to it but there are still many out there that need help. Refences:Coorlim, Leif and Ford, Dana ‘Sex Trafficking: The new American Slavery’ CNNhttps://www.cnn.com/2015/07/20/us/sex-trafficking/index.html
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