Reproduction A Biological And Social Way Of Life

Jacky Wu SOCY 1100, Fall 2014 Professor Erbaugh Essay Assignment November 27th, 2014 Reproduction: A Biological and Social Way of Life Why do people usually stay in the same social class that they are born into, no more and no less than what they start out with? Is it an unwritten law of society engraved into our heads or something else in the world that does this? Society tells us to to strive for the best that we can be but in reality, people tend to stay in the same social class they were born into, whether it be working, middle or upper class but the reality is that it is nearly impossible to ascend to a higher social class. This is the cause of two things in your life while growing up, social reproduction and stratification a.k.a†¦show more content†¦For example, my parents came here from China in the 1980s without almost no money and they worked hard for nearly 30 years in order to become lower middle class citizens and what do they want from me? Not to work as hard as they did, but just for me to live a good, comfortable like they do now and that makes me another product of social reproduction. Soci al class also make a difference in educational institutions. Since the majority of the students in my high school were kids of middle or working class parents, there were not many social class differences in the school that I attended. But I did see lower class kids somewhat taking advantage of the upper class kids like going over the upper class kid s house to hang out because they had all the new game systems or a pool. Sometimes if you don t have money, it doesn t even matter whether even if you are highly educated. Although it didn t matter much in the school that I attended for high school, the working-class students in the law schools in the Granfield reading had issues due to their social class. They were often alienated for the upper class students in the prestigious law schools they attended despite their excellent college grades. They began to see themselves as different and subsequently developed measures in order to combat this. One measure they did was to fake that they were from a higher social class family in order to