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According to David Croteau social class is “a group of who share a roughly similar economic position and lifestyle,” a large group of who rank closely to one another in property (wealth), power, and prestige according to Weber. Stratification systems “are made up of social structures and cultural norms that create and maintain inequality by ranking people into a hierarchy of groups that receive unequal resources.” With these two terms we used these term and Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl’s model of social class ladder to identify our family position by using the Dennis gilbert and Joseph Kahl’s model. According to Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl’s they used education, occupation, and income to determined social class. By using their model to determine where my family and I are on the ladder based on education, occupation, and income I would say my family will be in the working class because my mom and dad never finished high school nor went to college. My parent immigrated to the U.S legally from the Secret War, and coming to a country that they do not know how to speak the language or adapt to the cultural it was really hard on them. For my mom, she wanted to continue her education, but my dad and his parent forced my mom to work instead of getting an education. Because of not having a good education she did not get to have a good job that will help support the family. But once my dad and mom started working we were living a really good life with no hardship making into the lower middle class, but once they divorced, my mom was the only one taking care of us eight children which was really hard for her, dropping us to the underclass (lower class). My mom was unemployed for a while until she finally found another job to support us....

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...t or be able to afford it. So the people that are less socioeconomic resources are less likely to engage in ACP to have a better quality of death. People that have a better socioeconomic are more likely to be able to plan for their ACP than people that are less socioeconomic who are not able to plan for ACP. Who this is related to my social mobility is that, I may be able to start out my ACP because of my socioeconomic of having a degree and having a well pay job, as to if I was having a low socioeconomic I will have a hard time or not even bother to do my ACP to help me with my care when I get old. So everything do play a role dealing with your socioeconomic status and having a good educations and well pay jobs, you are more likely to have a better health life than compared to the poorer person who is struggling trying to make money and are having a bad health.