Social Class

This week in Sociology we talked about social class. We played a game and watched a movie on different social classes and how others perceived them.

The game we played was s metaphor to show how people that have more money have more opportunities. At first it seemed to be fair since we all had the same amount of coins to start with but then as we kept playing only a few were left with a lot of coins and almost everyone was left at the bottom with nothing. You can see this more with a graph showing a big gap in the middle because you are either at the top and very wealthy or you are at the bottom with little or no money.

The movie we watched showed how people in different classes do not like to interact with each other. Each class felt that the other was always looking down on them. Everyone feels that they do not understand the other class. But really what separates our classes? Is it money? Where we live? I think it just what we are given and what we decided to do with it that really separates us from one another.