Poverty As A Pre-Destination
This investigates the American lower, middle, and upper class from an academic, sociological viewpoint. Also discussed is the so-called “symptoms” of life on each social stratum and the exploitative economic role of the poor.
In the end, no one can know for sure if fact follows fiction or vice versa. In discussing each of the three commonly-recognized social classes in America it is easy to wonder if each is a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way: “The poor are poor because, after all, someone has to do the dirty work. The middle class are “middle class” because there will always be “average” people. The rich are rich because there must be a tangible end to human aspiration.” But in the end it is just as easy to ask, “Why?” Every social construct on earth is self-imposed by society and that is the really disheartening aspect of sociology. In a world full of chaos I think establishing a solid social hierarchy is a plausible way to make sense of the world but that does not make it right. Inequality is not an inevitable part of life as much as it is a side effect of our flawed human nature.
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