Social Mobility

I've been reading a book by Malcolm Gladwell (the same guy who wrote blink and the tipping point) called Outliers the story of success. And More or less Gladwell looks sociologically at society and uses various theories and experiments to show the odd ways and reasons (usually relating to class) on how people got around in life. Ultimately, to no one's surprise, Gladwell sees the rich succeed in every category as the poor squander good fortune time and time again. Our system, as unfair as it is, seems to have real functional reasons behind the way it works. Its unfortunate that people have to still be enslaved to such a classist society in this day and age.

monopoly

I thought monopoly was really interesting and put the social classes into a prospective that was easy visualize. The person who rolled to be the lowest class had the hardest time making money and the person with the highest class only moved up. It was easy for the rich to be entrepreneurs but the poor only had eneough money to get themsleves by so they could not invest. It represented the capitalistic society we have in America and how hard it is for someone to get out of poverty. I believe our government needs to do more to help people out of the cycle of poverty. I don't think that everyone should make the same amount of money, but I do believe that we should all be given the same oppertunities, expecially as a child. However, with the school being run off the taxes the schools in more wealthy areas will always have better resources, maybe thats a place to start a change.

movie

I didn't realize how much people thought about social class. I guess I just have always thought of it as people are just trying to make their live's better by working hard and earning money not really switching social classes, but I guess that comes along with it until you get to a certain class where it is not only money but name. I thought that the woman that taught you how to act to fit into upper class was wierd at first, but then I was thinking that reform schools do the same thing except for kids.