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Social Stratification in the United States
And how our class system influences our daily lives
Different people are placed into different classes in society. Societies have been doing this for thousands of years. People of the same order are placed into the same groups and subgroups. Societies have always been stratified.
Living in a class system influences the daily interactions of individuals. Our class system dictates our entire daily life; what stores we shop at, what schools our children go to because of the neighborhood we live in, what kind of job we have, car we drive, and what kind of house we live in.
Our class dictates our job, our job dictates our income and health insurance, our income and health insurance dictates whether or not we go to a doctor and what quality of health care we can afford.
The people we hang out with and become friends with is all based on our class. Being a member of a higher class would equal a different job, different neighbors, and different friends. Some people spend their whole lives fighting to reach a higher class.
If our society were a caste system, we wouldn’t have any choices as far as improving our lives. We would be stuck in the class we are born into. A caste society dictates what kind of life people have, what their job is, what…
