The Dispossessed By William Deresiewicz William Deresiewicz identifies the American classes as “upper”, “middle” and “working” class. I believe he uses working class instead of lower class because the term working class is used very often in the media, it’s more common. Also lower class to me is a more derogatory term and working class is more “politically” correct. I also think he is using the term working instead of lower so he doesn’t offend anybody. When I hear someone say “lower class” I think of someone very poor and struggling with life, bills, and living situation.
Compare/Contrast Class and race are important demarcation factors in America in determining educational and job opportunities, as well as income level. In his essay “Class In America”, Gregory Mantsios outlines the widely held beliefs about class in the United States. In more recent times The New York times released a series of articles “Shadowy Lines that divide” by Jenny Scott That talks about class in modern society. Both articles analyze the gap between the poor class and the upper class, but both have different opinios on In “Class In America” Mantsios talks about how American people hardly talk about class, or they don’t like too. “If someone were to ask a person to describe himself or herself, he or she would most likely not mention his or her class, such as upper class or lower class” (Mantsios, Class In America, 308) He or she would be more likely to tell their race, geographic location, or industry.
Therefore, we can conclude that Citizen Kane advertized his feelings towards the lower class and how the people can expect his best interests into making it better for them. There is also the Irrelevant Conclusion fallacy since Kane had predetermined his victory over the campaign without knowing if he had won. I also noticed that Kane used words like under-privileged, under-paid, and under-fed instead of poor, low-income, and hungry. These words are called Euphemisms which are words that sound more appealing to the audience and help avoid
In documents 2 and 3 you can easily tell that event the population is divided into social class going from the top of the class to the bottom. Mencius said “there are those who use their mind, and there are those who use their muscles.” Mencius is saying that the philosophers, the ones who use their mind, are most important or at the top of social class. He is also saying that the people who use their muscles are lower in the social class in the “mean people.” This is because Han China saw these types of people as unskilled workers. Some of the people who were classified as “mean people” were merchants, artists, and slaves. In Athens if you were actively involved in politics you were high in class.
Pip goes through many changes throughout Great Expectations due to the changes in his social class. Dickens explores the class system of Victorian England, ranging from the most despicable criminals (Magwitch) to the poor peasants (Joe and Biddy) to the middle class (Pumblechook) to the very rich (Miss Havisham). P ip originally believed that the higher your class the better you were treated and the more love and amenities were given to you, this is why he was frustrated at Joe for raising him the way he did. “I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.” (1.8.92) Pip is irritated that Joe was raised in the lower class and as a result so was he. Joe was Pip’s father figure and because of that Pip was never taught well manners or how to behave gentleman like around other people.
Daniel Pacheco English 101 H. Barsamian 4/29/12 The Immortal Life of Segregation To me social class is what matters most today. People have judgments about others based on their economic standing. People treat other people differently because one is richer then the other. We are all separated into social class the lower class are all grouped together in one neighborhood and the rich in another but we cant be mixed we have to stay in our social class. If we look back in history race was what mattered most.
People who live in the undeveloped countries could may be the ones to bring in new knowledge. Another implication is that rich people are not biologically superior to poor people. The idea of the "survival of the fitness" was included in between the rich and poor, stimulating the theories of racial and high class superior. The rich people believed they were stronger and managed to "fight for survival" better than the poor. This issue happened from the past, for example, African-American were seen as lower-class people and had to be slaves because they were seen as different.
The second way poverty can be defined is as relative poverty which is the inability to afford the average standard of living for a particular society. A positive for this definition is that it takes social expectations into consideration, however a negative of this definition is that we cannot compare results between cultures as each culture has a different set of expectations. Many sociologists would say that poverty exists solely because of the way an individual chooses to live their life and the norms and values they choose to adopt that are different to the rest of societies. On the other hand there are some sociologists that blame the inequality within society. The functionalist theory of poverty by Davis and Moore can be applied to all aspects of society.
Introduction As the world evolves around us; one of the things that stay the same is the way that people criticize others for their social class. Social class is also based on the way you talk and how one projects oneself towards others. In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, class distinction is seen through means of one's social status in the society of that time. Also, one's speech and accent can place him in upper class, middle class, or lower class. Aside from that, Shaw also shows the different ways the two classes, upper and lower, run their lives.
The Ninny In the late nineteenth century, and even today, the rich have believed themselves more important than the poor. When the story took place, it was common to have people divided by the amount of money that they owned, otherwise known as their ‘class’. People in the upper class believed that because they were fortunate enough to have such wealth, they were also entitled to treat anyone in a lower class as if they were inferior. This was demonstrated by a character in Chekhov’s short story, The Ninny. A peasant governess was used as an example of the fear and subjective nature of the poor when confronted by the wealthy in the late nineteenth century Russia.