Unequal Childhood Analysis
I feel your novel Unequal Childhoods shows us social organization in the United States and how stratification can affect our lifestyles. In turn, this process begins in early childhood and continues for the rest of our lives. People are sometimes oblivious to the damage that can be done from this, and your book highlights the many issues that may arise from our class system.
You have represented a dividing line between the middle class, the working class and poor. In your eyes, these are the most important classes in the United States because they illustrate a real, and the most common family status. Your writings have given us individual accounts of the struggling classes and many of the challenges we may face from day to day, and how this matters more to us because we are not all a part of the upper class.
Throughout your study, it was apparent how the white and black middle-class children in this study must face a sense of falling under a label and low power for children that are a part of this status.
A major question I feel that was pursued could be, “How does social class affect the lives of children?” Language is powerful in all the stories from your research. There’s way more communication between families and this leads to children learning more …show more content…
Everyone had followed a path that was not too far off from their parents, and in relation they may have a similar income and major life choices. So, you could draw a general conclusion about a person based off their social class they were born in to, but it will not always represent the individual. These conclusions are important as to understand how to avoid prejudices in our society and if you are born into a poor family, you should educate yourself the best you can and work harder than everyone else to make a better life for
You have represented a dividing line between the middle class, the working class and poor. In your eyes, these are the most important classes in the United States because they illustrate a real, and the most common family status. Your writings have given us individual accounts of the struggling classes and many of the challenges we may face from day to day, and how this matters more to us because we are not all a part of the upper class.
Throughout your study, it was apparent how the white and black middle-class children in this study must face a sense of falling under a label and low power for children that are a part of this status.
A major question I feel that was pursued could be, “How does social class affect the lives of children?” Language is powerful in all the stories from your research. There’s way more communication between families and this leads to children learning more …show more content…
Everyone had followed a path that was not too far off from their parents, and in relation they may have a similar income and major life choices. So, you could draw a general conclusion about a person based off their social class they were born in to, but it will not always represent the individual. These conclusions are important as to understand how to avoid prejudices in our society and if you are born into a poor family, you should educate yourself the best you can and work harder than everyone else to make a better life for