My family’s experience with social mobility is extremely unique. Alike many immigrants, they came to this country with nothing. My grandpa had to work many years to even be able to bring his family here from Lebanon. After coming here, Read More …
Other Inequalities 606
If there is one thing about social inequality that I wish I could write about, I would cheat and say two things, which are colorblindness and affirmative action. The reasons why I group these two concepts together is because I Read More …
Other inequalities 910
I, in general, wish I would write more about things I don’t understand, things I don’t have experience with; I often find myself wishing to be imbued with knowledge and thus able to solve everyone’s problems, but alas. I think Read More …
Other Inequalities 808
For social inequality I actually find many aspects of it interesting. Sociology in general is fascinating to me and that is exactly why I decided to major in it. Anyway back on topic I have a few topics that I Read More …
Other Inequalities 334
One thing I wish I could write about in social inequality is the impact of frowning up in different environments while experiencing different formats of speaking and how might this affect the influence of opportunities. This is because growing up Read More …
Social Mobility 176
I have not faced mobility within my family and if I have my parents made it unnoticeable. I grew up and still am in an upper middle-class family, if anything it went from middle class to upper middle class but Read More …
Social Mobility 200
My family is interesting as most families are. One of my grandmothers was adopted, and the other lived a very interesting life. My dad’s side of the family grew up in decent circumstances one thing that made it difficult for Read More …
Place 910
I would often play outside with my brother and friends in all seasons. Hide and seek with my cousin, running through the small patch of woods (where we weren’t supposed to go), always winning. Splashing in the water puddles made Read More …
Place 808
Growing up, I was placed into a poverty environment where my family was raised with not very much money. However, we still made the most of our time multiple kids will come out on the block we would always ride Read More …
Place 227
TC, Texas, is a very academically competitive town. All kids are “pitted” against each other in order to individually soar in their academic career. My graduating class was 519—and all of us were playing as competitors since kindergarten. I don’t Read More …