Analysis Of Class Divisions: Difference In Opportunities

Class Divisions: Difference in Opportunities Do we all have equal opportunities? Do we all have the same chance to be successful? Does what class your in really effect the means of everything you do? Class does exist, each person you see walk by has a class. In fact, everyone is labeled by a class weather they associate themselves with one or not. It’s a piece of you that isn’t announced but is visible and effects you everyday. Class, a system of ordering society, is based on perceived social or economic status. However, is class solely based off your income, or does your income actually effect your opportunity in society all together? Gregory Mantsios explains in his article “Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics of class

Mantsios doesn’t explain how the dream is rooted in education and jobs. I agree class division controls our place in society and is rooted in education and jobs. What does this mean exactly? Our class controls the way in which each one of us will live our lives. The class at which we are born into already plays a big role in which we can develop as people. Mantsios says, based on where you can afford to live decides on what kind of education you can get. If you live in a poor district your more likely going to get a poor education; whereas, if you live in an upper-class district you will get a better education. For me, I grew up in a small, middle class, town. My house location happened to put me in the smallest school, roughly 200 kids, in the district. Going to such a small school there is only enough teachers to have one teacher per grade. This in my opinion limits your learning ability because you have to learn at the same rate as every other student where you may be smarter then them. Whereas, in bigger, nicer, and higher class schools they have teachers for every subject possibly even multiple allowing student to learn at their own pace, not the pace of every other student in the class. It also may neglect some aspects of learning if the teacher isn’t as strong in teaching a

However, he does back-up his statement with research done to test this, but he seems to overlook why intelligence, brilliance, and achievement is based off class. With each tier in income there is a different level of what to expect from that child. The higher your family’s income the more that is expected out of the student. Families only expect from students to meet with the same standers they achieved. These standers overall set how much help you get, how much you try, how much your pushed. A lower class family probably isn’t going to be there to push you, pay for the best possible education, or expect you to be a straight A student living a C average life. This is reflected through SAT scores the higher your income the higher your score. Students who have to live up to there family’s straight A lifestyle are going to get better scores because they have to strive to be what the family is. The lower class tier you are in the lower the score will be. This was reflected in my life, I’m a middle class child; therefore, I lived a middle class lifestyle. My parents worked a lot so they weren’t always there to push me to be a straight A student. They expected me to keep my grades above a C average. I mostly kept all A’s and B’s and graduated in my class 113 of 226 exactly average among my classmates. My SAT scores were also reflected through my class an average