Economic Inequality

This week in Sociology we talked about economic inequality not only within the world which is usually what's talked about when inequality is brought up but also the amount of inequality in the United States and also in a much smaller scope, within our districts and the ones around us. Because we are so used to our surroundings we don't always take the time to step back and realize how good we have it. Our district and neighborhoods we live in by going to school in this district, while they may seem normal to us, are actually far exceeding the level of wealth in our surrounding areas and especially in the scope of our country and world. It's pretty crazy when you step back and actually look at the amount of money and life that the majority of people live with even within the same
country

I have grown up living in many different areas. I went to a Chicago Public School for 9 years of my life and have lived in several different neighborhoods in Chicago so I have been around lots
of different people and their living situations. I was used to it because that was the environment I grew up in. Lots of the kids I went to school with qualified for free or reduced lunches and when lunch cards were passed out each day in our classrooms, everyone knew who those kids were but it meant nothing to is because they were our friends and we didn't think of them any differently. There were so many situations like that where kids showed how they were from different socioeconomic class levels but until now when I step back and think about it, I hadn't even realized this was the case.