Social Class & Poverty in the US: Crash Course Sociology #24
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Date: 2022-04-04
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CCtoocool
Thank You Crash Course. I'm doing a project about Educational quality based on gender and socioeconomic status. This video helped me.
Look at what I have so far.
Educational quality based on gender and socioeconomic status is an issue today because it can involve quality of life qualities as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society. The World is filled with people with all kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds. A person-s socioeconomic status is determined by their work experience and by their work experience and their individual or family-s economic position which is based on income education and occupation. A child in a low socioeconomic status household is exposed to low-quality child care, poor and distressed schools and economically depressed neighborhoods. There are many factors that can influence a child-s academic success or failure. Those that come from a low socio-economic background have even more challenges to face. Students who came from a low SES are not as academically successful as those who come from higher status. These are major issues faced everywhere in the world and in every school district and will continue to be a problem. To fix these problems I suggest that it is our responsibility to ensure that every student receives an equal education no matter their background and home life.
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Thank You Crash Course. I'm doing a project about Educational quality based on gender and socioeconomic status. This video helped me.
Look at what I have so far.
Educational quality based on gender and socioeconomic status is an issue today because it can involve quality of life qualities as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society. The World is filled with people with all kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds. A person-s socioeconomic status is determined by their work experience and by their work experience and their individual or family-s economic position which is based on income education and occupation. A child in a low socioeconomic status household is exposed to low-quality child care, poor and distressed schools and economically depressed neighborhoods. There are many factors that can influence a child-s academic success or failure. Those that come from a low socio-economic background have even more challenges to face. Students who came from a low SES are not as academically successful as those who come from higher status. These are major issues faced everywhere in the world and in every school district and will continue to be a problem. To fix these problems I suggest that it is our responsibility to ensure that every student receives an equal education no matter their background and home life.
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Charles
You can have money and still lack or miss opportunities you otherwise are entitled to, for a vaerity of cultural & social reasons.
Living near NYC around mostly: blacks, latinos, and european jews. It is clear that if you are black, society already has a negative idea of you, especially if you look like a hip hop artist. Furthermore, there are many race groups, and well, some race groups are more comfortable than others. Life is easier if you are white in the US, because it is easier to integrate with, well, the particular group of people that enslaved and took the land and resources from the grandparents of other groups, and so they generally have more resources at their disposal.
If you take other peoples land today, then make and enforce a rule that says you cannot take anyones land, and called it a civil society, well now, your children are way more likely to end up on those top two tiers. The ones who had their land taken on the other hand, you are likely find their decendant in the bottom 2 tiers.
Poor peole are just poor, because they just are, they don't try hard enough, -or- are they the decendants of victims of wars, slaverly & colonialism?
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You can have money and still lack or miss opportunities you otherwise are entitled to, for a vaerity of cultural & social reasons.
Living near NYC around mostly: blacks, latinos, and european jews. It is clear that if you are black, society already has a negative idea of you, especially if you look like a hip hop artist. Furthermore, there are many race groups, and well, some race groups are more comfortable than others. Life is easier if you are white in the US, because it is easier to integrate with, well, the particular group of people that enslaved and took the land and resources from the grandparents of other groups, and so they generally have more resources at their disposal.
If you take other peoples land today, then make and enforce a rule that says you cannot take anyones land, and called it a civil society, well now, your children are way more likely to end up on those top two tiers. The ones who had their land taken on the other hand, you are likely find their decendant in the bottom 2 tiers.
Poor peole are just poor, because they just are, they don't try hard enough, -or- are they the decendants of victims of wars, slaverly & colonialism?
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Tom
As someone who grew up solidly in the upper middle class (UMC, I had quite the experience when (through poor life choices) I wound up going to a community college in a lower class/poor area. While I eventually went on to graduate top of my class with my finance degree (thanks to the 'glass floor' the UMC provides, that time in the poor area spawned an intense interest in the difference between class distinctions. Many things I took for granted (a car at 16, college fully paid for, investment vehicles for retirement, family trusts) were wholly unfathomable to a group of people I didn't know existed.
From my own personal experience, groups are also very insulated against each other. I live in a town once rated 'The Best Town in America' by Money magazine (I know, right. Ten minutes away is the town often rated as the Worst in America. Yet our streets are brimming with a suburban bucolic feel and our crime blotter is blank. Fascinating.
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As someone who grew up solidly in the upper middle class (UMC, I had quite the experience when (through poor life choices) I wound up going to a community college in a lower class/poor area. While I eventually went on to graduate top of my class with my finance degree (thanks to the 'glass floor' the UMC provides, that time in the poor area spawned an intense interest in the difference between class distinctions. Many things I took for granted (a car at 16, college fully paid for, investment vehicles for retirement, family trusts) were wholly unfathomable to a group of people I didn't know existed.
From my own personal experience, groups are also very insulated against each other. I live in a town once rated 'The Best Town in America' by Money magazine (I know, right. Ten minutes away is the town often rated as the Worst in America. Yet our streets are brimming with a suburban bucolic feel and our crime blotter is blank. Fascinating.
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Avianca
You don-t get tip to who your born to. People of color more likely to be in poverty because last of support from family coming from dysfunctional home. Internal jealousy with in their own family. If a person of color goes go to college, their family is often dependent on them to take care of the family and runs to their every need. When in reality the college graduate now has debt to be paid and still find a job in a society where you are seen as a the Helped I worked with tones of recuiters and they always tried put me in admin or receptionist rolls, when my degrees were in marketing and finance. Then the wages were low it nearly covered my cost to work. Definitely wasn-t enough to pay bills or rent. Even if a person does try to do better, society the white world makes it hard for them
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You don-t get tip to who your born to. People of color more likely to be in poverty because last of support from family coming from dysfunctional home. Internal jealousy with in their own family. If a person of color goes go to college, their family is often dependent on them to take care of the family and runs to their every need. When in reality the college graduate now has debt to be paid and still find a job in a society where you are seen as a the Helped I worked with tones of recuiters and they always tried put me in admin or receptionist rolls, when my degrees were in marketing and finance. Then the wages were low it nearly covered my cost to work. Definitely wasn-t enough to pay bills or rent. Even if a person does try to do better, society the white world makes it hard for them
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Tami
That is a common mistake when dealing with Marxist theory. Marx wouldn't call the owner of a small business a bourgeois, because he doesn't own the means of production. The owner of a small store is still subjected to the class that owns the means required to produce the cotton, the clothes and so on.
Buying a cupcake truck and hiring two employees doesn't make you a capitalist. That's what the whole speech about the -entrepreneur- got wrong.
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That is a common mistake when dealing with Marxist theory. Marx wouldn't call the owner of a small business a bourgeois, because he doesn't own the means of production. The owner of a small store is still subjected to the class that owns the means required to produce the cotton, the clothes and so on.
Buying a cupcake truck and hiring two employees doesn't make you a capitalist. That's what the whole speech about the -entrepreneur- got wrong.
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Alasdair
This is a great unbiased view in general but I still have problem with the fact the upper class over 250k is split only in 2. This is a prob in the UK as well those who earn a few 100k are lumped in with those who earn a few 100m. There is actually a greater difference in these levels then there are of those who earn say 15-30k. Especially if it is a single earner receiving top level tax and no allowances, not even the basic 11k tax free
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This is a great unbiased view in general but I still have problem with the fact the upper class over 250k is split only in 2. This is a prob in the UK as well those who earn a few 100k are lumped in with those who earn a few 100m. There is actually a greater difference in these levels then there are of those who earn say 15-30k. Especially if it is a single earner receiving top level tax and no allowances, not even the basic 11k tax free
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Lorien
huh. I make more money as an electrician than any white collar person I know. This is the problem. People treat me like I don't belong in my area, even better, follow me around the store like I'm going to steal. LOL The predetermined bias of social class to define your place is the bigger issue.
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huh. I make more money as an electrician than any white collar person I know. This is the problem. People treat me like I don't belong in my area, even better, follow me around the store like I'm going to steal. LOL The predetermined bias of social class to define your place is the bigger issue.
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atv008
I must have missed it, but is this talking about household income or individuals? Because if it-s the former, I find looking only at income is not the best way to assess social class. The video uses -person- as an individual and -families- interchangeably which makes some things unclear.
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I must have missed it, but is this talking about household income or individuals? Because if it-s the former, I find looking only at income is not the best way to assess social class. The video uses -person- as an individual and -families- interchangeably which makes some things unclear.
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moonbox
Where I live (Georgia USA not the country) social class really does matter I-m Upper middle class and I do get a lot of attention being that in the city I live in 1 in every 4 people are in poverty
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Where I live (Georgia USA not the country) social class really does matter I-m Upper middle class and I do get a lot of attention being that in the city I live in 1 in every 4 people are in poverty
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Ryan
Hey Crashcourse! Absolutely love your videos! They're amazing! I was looking for a video on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and couldn't find any in your resources. Any chance we'll get one?
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Hey Crashcourse! Absolutely love your videos! They're amazing! I was looking for a video on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and couldn't find any in your resources. Any chance we'll get one?
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