Social Classes

This week in sociology we talked about social classes. We looked at lost of comparable houses, in drastically different neighborhoods and watched as the prices dramatically rose and fell. This went along with movie we watched that talked about different social classes from people of those different social classes. Seeing people from such dramaticly different social classes talk about the samentopic but in very different ways was very eye opening. We then shifted our focus towards people in poorer classes and what life is like for them. They get by with basically nothing and do things people in other classes wouldn't dream of for very little money. When we watched the movie about the guy who lived with his wife on minimum wage jobs for 30 days, seeing what they went through made everything much more real for me. 

I see people all around me, growing up, and at other schools not too far away that are really struggling to get by. You just see it though for a few minutes and walk away and think about how hard it must be for them but then go on with your life. For these people it is their life and they can never just walk away and forget about it. I want to make more of an effort now to help these people who are for absolutely no reason other than luck, less fortunate than me. Very small actions I could do could dramatically change their life.