Social Class

This week in sociology, we talked about social classes. We watched a show called, "30 days." I'ts about a couple that tried to survive only working minimum wage jobs for 30 days without any help. In this interesting show, they show how hard it is to live your daily lives on the edge of the blade. They made it clear how if they only miss even one day of work, it affects their whole budget for the month. But that was the least of their problems, they took in kids that made it extra stressful for them to cope up with their everyday budget not knowing what to eat for dinner. I liked it because it opened my eyes on how the difference in social class greatly affects the privileges someone gets growing up, and the privileges that we don't have growing up restricts us from what we can actually do as we grow up. Like deviance, poverty is a brand in our society that leaves you nameless and unimportant to those who are in a "higher" class than you.