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  • Essay / final - 904

    According to David Croteau, social class is "a group of people sharing a roughly similar economic position and lifestyle", a large group of people whose rank is close to each other in matters of property (wealth), power and prestige. according to Weber. Systems of stratification “are made up of social structures and cultural norms that create and maintain inequalities by classifying individuals into a hierarchy of groups receiving unequal resources.” With these two terms, we used these terms and Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl's social class scale model to identify our family position using the Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl model. According to Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl, they used education, occupation, and income to determine social class. Using their model to determine where my family and I are on the scale based on education, occupation, and income, I would say that my family will be working class because my mother and father do not never finished high school or went to college. My parents legally immigrated to the United States after the Secret War, and coming to a country where they didn't know how to speak the language or adapt to the culture was really difficult for them. My mother wanted to continue her studies, but my father and his parents forced her to work instead of studying. Having not received a good education, she did not have a good job that would allow her to provide for her family. But once my father and mother started working, we lived a very good life without difficulty entering the lower middle class, but once they divorced, my mother was the only one to take care of our eight children, which was very difficult for her, dropping us to the lower class (lower class). My mother was unemployed for a while until she finally found another job to support us....... middle of paper...... or be able to afford it. Thus, people who have fewer socioeconomic resources are less likely to engage in PCA to have a better quality of death. People with higher socio-economic status are more likely to be able to plan their ACP than people with lower socio-economic status who are not able to plan their ACP. What is related to my social mobility is that I may be able to start my ACP due to my socio-economic status of having a degree and having a well-paid job, because if I had a low socio-economically, I would struggle or even not bother to do my ACP to help me with my care when I am old. So everything plays a role depending on your socio-economic status and having a good education and well-paying jobs you are more likely to have better health than the poorest person who is struggling to earn money and who is in poor health..