Social Status

This week in Sociology we talked about Social class in America. We define people by what occupation they have an how much they make and then put them on a ladder, the wealthiest capitalists class in at the top and underclass is at the bottom. I found out that there was a bigger amount of the population in the middle class, while there was a very minute group of those who were wealthy and at the top. After learning about that, we learned that social stereotypes is what keeps us from going up or down. We read the article Social Classes and the Self Fulfilling Prophesy. The social class that you are raised in makes you think you have certain limitations and leaving that specific social class is something that's discouraged. We talked about why it's called the Self Fulfilling Prophesy. We predict how a single person will behave within their social class and how that person is constantly surrounded by messages and signs that keeps him from rising up or going down and instead ends up staying where he is expected to stay; in his social class.