Social Class Observation

One of my observations is that patients have very distinctive ways of interacting with one another depending on their social class. I feel that social class is more than just how much money you have. It's also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to -- and has a strong influence on how you interact with others. According to our class definition of culture, culture is “learned, shared, patterned, dynamic, creative, and processual or emergent. It is about behavior and belief (material and symbolic). And it is enacted, performed, practiced.” With this class definition, social class is a subcategory of culture because social class is a form of behavior and belief towards other people. In a medical field, you see

Early interaction is when we learn how to form social ties; however, I did observe that there is one major difference between the way children from low and middle upper classes socialize. Based on what I have learned about class divide in Social Psychology and Adolescent Development, I am assuming that while low-class children are on the street learning how to mingle with other kids, the upper-class children spend most of their time in planned activities and do not get many opportunities to play with other children. When those children grow up, their social class is reflected in the way they interact with other adults. I have noticed that lower and working-class patients are over all more sociable than middle and upper-class patients. When they come in the hospital, most lower-class patients greet the whole waiting room out loud. Some of them also strike a conversation very easily with other patients who are perfect strangers. They start talking about the weather and end up talking about their children, their jobs, etc. It can almost get into personal conversations with a complete stranger, because they feel so comfortable. To someone just coming in, they seem like old friends. On the other hand, middle class and wealthy patient are not as sociable towards other patients. They are pretty quiet and reserved. Most of these patients bring a book or pick up a magazine and

Human living conditions are diverse. According to the textbook definition of diversity, diversity is “the sheer variety of ways of being human around the world.” Despite the social class divide in human, each group have their privileges and their sense of lost that one group has but the other doesn’t. However, they both function in society uniquely. Upper and middle-class elderly patients have the economic resources that they need but most of them are very much alone. They don’t have a network of relatives who are there for them in their older years. Since they do not have a close relationship with their extended family, and their kids are too busy working and cultivating their own children, many of them end up alone or in nursing homes. On the other hand, lower-class patients do not have the monetary resources but they have a network of relatives that take care of them. Their relatives do not have much to offer, but more importantly, they offer