In
what social class do you belong? What are your privileges? How those statuses
shape your life? In the video “people like us” show us how the people are
rank in different social classes based
on how they look and what they wear.
Measurement
of class in America:
·
Fallen
Gentry- well-born and well-bred people.
·
Social
climber- anyone that becomes friends with someone else if
they have something that they want.
·
Working
stiff- a guy who has to work for a living;
not someone who has an easy and/or well-paid job.
·
Social
critic- the reasons for malicious conditions of the society.
We
classified the different class by how the people looks, popularity, money or
how big their house is! But what it is exactly that made us belong to our
class? If ones have popularity and a nice car it makes us belong to the upper
class? Or just make us consumer and with good skills to have popularity? We never
tend to have friends that are less than us but more than or equal to us, we
separate our self from people that do not fit on our groups of social classes. “America
is a country divide into thousands of different social identifications starting
with: the neighborhood you live in. what
type of food you eat, how far you got to school, the way you wear your hair. “The
choices that you make reveal your class- all the possessions and activities add
up to a life style , and America
today having money means having the freedom to create your own lifestyle as
long you fit in with the taste with the particular social class”. To many it is
a fact that no one want to feel less and that it is very important what the
others may think of you; we being socialized
that we have an equal opportunity that
ones that keep everybody to fight and work really hard with the only propose of
accomplish our dreams. We being socialized that if we work hard enough with can
have class mobility- move from poor
to rich! No one realize that it is not that easy and probably will take a whole
life to change it. No all people fit to their surroundings you may have a lot
of money but to those that have a lot of power
you may not be enough to be one of them, they will not accept you!
In the
article "Media Magic: Making Class Invisible" by Gregory Mantsios;
there is a strong emphasis on social classes and the mass media, and how the
mass media has a strong hold on how we as a collective society feel about one another within our environment. He
describes how each class: poor, middle, and rich, are affected by the media. Mantsios
first speaks about how in the media the poor do not exist, are faceless, are
undeserving, are an eyesore, and only have to blame themselves. In the United
States, the magazines, movie studios and television are the major theme of the
media that form part of our culture today. However the media does a good job hiding
the inequities from public view; there seems to be a bridge between social
classes from what is really the truth to what it actually being publicized, and
the false truths attached to class distinctions, (poor, wealthy, middle class,
upper middle class, etc). The poor virtually do not exist! It is stated that
forty million people in our nation are ignored! When the media does address the
poor it is said that it's contradictory messages and portrayals. The poor are
reduced as human beings and have become a mere statistic (numbers). The poor
are viewed as an eyesore, black, drug abusers, etc... However it is set that
poor people are poor because "they brought it upon themselves".
My
personal opinion is that the media it is hegemony
that if they said it was snowing in the middle of summer, people would
probably think it was. There are so much that the media keeps from the American
people that it is unreal.
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