Tinesha Deleston
Sco100 148
5/21/13


The article Cause Of Death: Inequality written by Alejandro Reuss, is about how the poor ( Which Are Manly Black People) in the United States have to go through social inequality because they have lack of education, not enough money, and not the best class status. Whereas the rich ( Which Are Mainly White People) have the upper hand with everything in our society because of their good wealth, class status, and education. He also mentioned how the poor are more likely to engage in crime and end up dead more than the rich because of how they were brought up, plus the environment that they live in. We as the citizens living in America are forced to believe this system that's set upon us as being true. The question is Is This System Really True, looking at it from a sociologist point of view? Honestly speaking this is a system that's meant to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer.
     Chapter 9 focus on the issues of class inequality, income, wealth, the U.S. class system, and the power that people hold in order to become apart of these different issues. One specific part that is mentioned in the chapter which is called Mapping The Major Classes, briefly talks about the different categories of classes that we ( The Citizens) are all under. Their is also a model of this U.S. class system that's giving in the chapter as well. These different classes makes up who we are now and 9 times out of 10 who we are going to be for the rest of our life. Although most of the time we tend to move up or down in these classes due to certain situations that may occur in our life.
     The video Opening Tease ( From People Like Us), Social Class In America made by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, focus on issues of social class in America. You will see different people of whatever class they belong to judge others by their social status based on their appearances. Their wasn't any in between with the classes, it was either you're underclass, working class, middle class, or upper class. We live in a world based on assumptions upon people's class system that they belong to. This video is the perfect example of the stereotypical world that we live in today.