In society these days, there are many unfair or inequalities. The significant inequality is the class difference. The class difference affects to some living style and so on such as education or living style are different whether upper social class or not. Also, the class difference causes class discrimination, sexual orientation decimation, and there are not only people in poverty who are adults but also some children in the United States are in poverty as a social justice issue. There are some major debates that should be considered. The unequal society is a difference for the standard of living and such unequal society is highly visible in the society and the inequality does not only affect to income but also it affects to geographical divisions. Moreover, the level of education is different. For example, whether if a child goes to a public school or private school, this is the one of the differences for unequal society. How the class difference or class discrimination occur? And what kinds of the child in the United States are in poverty and how it comes? Society is unequal and race, gender, or class makes unequal society. Children should be protected by society from being poverty.
Why are people unequal in society? Poverty is defined as the state of being extremely poor, or the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount on the website. There are some facts from the articles. Poverty in the United States, 40% of poverty people is New Mexicans. This number is the 806,000 out of a total population of 2 million. They missed meals last year. The highest poverty race among some 46 million Americans is African American people marked 27.4%. The highest age of poverty is under 18 years old that is marked as 22.0% and the highest family type that in poverty is the female head; no husband present marked 31.6%. There is a fact that 15% of people in the United States are in poverty (Katel). In this article, Katel focuses on children poverty. As I mentioned, the highest poverty age is the under 18. Children are likely to be in poverty. Most of them have a difficulty for getting food. There are only 1% of people in the United States whose income is $7,000,000 higher. In New York, the gap of income between rich and poor people is very huge and it is also increasing. In 2000, the average income of a native-born high school dropout was about 7.4% lower than it would have been that year had the immigration that occurred between 1980-2000 never occurred. It means that in the United States, inequality is still increasing so that rich and poor society exists. It is the job of the government to limit inequality and try to create conformity. For those facts, Clemmitt wants to point out and address that the gap of income between rich and poor people exists in the years ahead. Such gap makes poor people to live harder. When George Bush was the president of the United States of America, government cuts on top earnings should be extended to stimulate the economy, while many democrats back extensions only for lower earners (Clemmitt). It shows that the education affects children. Now we are able to see that inequality emerges with each and every interaction.
This is because every individual possesses qualities, which may be better or worse than author’s. Also, the difference of children how they got educated is very important and it affects to their future. What children get educated is the issue relating to their future. Today we look back and suggest that shutting down the government under those circumstances was an irrational idea. However, I look back and think it was one of the greatest moments of my career. Why, because typically, politicians make their decisions based on votes. And yet in at least this one instance politician set aside these concerns and stood up for what was right, for our children, our shared future, and for the United States. For this one battle, for the time being, we forgot about politics and focused on good government, and if we had to take beating for it then so be it and as a direct result of that government shutdown, we wrote a bill that provided for the first balanced budget in nearly forty years and allowed us to pay down the largest chunk of our staggering national debt in the history of this country.
The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education. Education has always been seen as a fundamentally optimistic human endeavor characterized by aspirations for progress and betterment. It is understood by many to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and social status. Education is perceived as a place where children can develop according to their unique needs and potential. It is also perceived as one of the best means of achieving greater social equality. Many would say that the purpose of education should be to develop every individual to their full potential and give them a chance to achieve as much in life as their natural abilities allow. However, some take a particularly negative view, arguing that the education system is designed with the intention of causing the social reproduction of inequality and creating a workplace for society.
There are some people in the United States that the United States is becoming more unequal. Most of them are not a good prospect and causes the inequality of health outcome due to insufficient wages, a high ratio of high political office wages to lower working class wages and immature emphases of wealth to people less fortunate. The United States government borrowed money from the Chinese and Japanese governments. For the most part things went downhill from these and even more so when George Bush Jr. came in. Now in the president time where Barack Obama is president things still have been easy.
Former presidents messed up so bad that it seems like forever until the United States end this madness. President Obama was elected in 2008, and to me has been doing well. His first term is almost up and most would say that he has not made any progress, but with all of the things he has dealt with there is no way he came clean up this mess in just four years. I think president Obama can make society well if he got four more years. In African Americans the death rate for cancer is approximately 25% higher than for White people in 2001. They are also seen in women like infant mortality and low birth weight. Infant mortality may have decreased among all races during the 1980 to 2000 time period, but the black and white gap in infant mortality increased. Not only do men receive better benefits white males get the top of the line.
In class, we have read “Ain’t I A Woman?” and “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” For “Ain’t I A Woman?” Sojourner Truth makes the case for liberated slaves newly and she presided to give a new land for them after the Civil War. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in Akron, Ohio. With this essay, all people should have the same rights as white people. For “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” people should notice that there are many poverty or poor people in society and the unequal society is a difference for the standard of living even if the country is a developed country. Again, according to Philosophers’ of the time enlightenment the nature of society created inequality. These philosophers also believed that it was the job of the government to limit inequality and try to create conformity. Social conflict is another way of creating inequality within a society. Social conflict is the act of struggling over something important in value. Again, this creates winner, loser situation.
One of the writer of the article, he approach takes a very critical view of the education system arguing that is merely reinforces inequalities in society. They go on to state that in teaching a “hidden curriculum,” the system is only in place to create a dominant and trained work force to work for and fit the needs of the capitalist society. From a young age children being to be shaped to fit these societal needs and are made to believe that their place in society already decided for them through norms and values. In conforming to what they believe is normal, societies avoid anomie and complete social collapse as well as keeping the social classes from rising above their stations or asking questions. In contrast to such a negative outlook on the education system, functionalists look at how the teaching of norms and values creates social solidarity where shared beliefs bring together all classes. Integrationists take yet another view exploring the concept of pupil to teacher interaction and how labeling can shape behavior. Finally, feminists take the view that the education system works in favor of males in giving them a higher status in the economical market thus justifying the suppression of women.
In conclusion, the information that I have gathered is from many different sources on the Internet or articles. All of my information is pretty much significant to the topic that I choose. My main issue was basically about the economy and how its unequal is so many different ways. The world will and has always been divided based upon race. Inequality is obviously continuing all around us. The reasons for this are the efforts of the powerful, social institutions, culture, socialization, and instruments of force. Many wish we could stop this inequality. However, once inequality starts there is no way of stopping it. Therefore, we are doomed to suffer in an unequal society for the rest of our lives. Most of writers wish if there are no discriminations or unequal society but the reality turned out to be very different.
