social class

This week in sociology we talked about social classess. We learned that the class you are born into is pretty much the class you stay in for your whole life. We also watched a video and read a chapter of a novel about 2 different cases of non-working class citizens trying to live minimum wage job lives. It was really interesting how hard it really was for these people and how many people have to live like that for real. This situation is unfortunate because america is supposed to be the land of oppurtunities, however, it is really hard to get oppurtunities unless you are born into a wealthy family. This idea relates to my life well becuase my grandfather worked at an office making a middle class salary and now my father works at an office and makes a middle class salary as well. My father however, does make a little more than his father and our family now is better off than his family was but we are still upper middle class family.