Compare And Contrast Essay On Social Class Vs Education

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I want to say that my single parent family’s socioeconomic standings didn’t have a huge impact on my education and what I have achieved but, that would be a lie. Looking back on my life, I’ve realized there were other paths that I could have chosen that would have affected who I am today if, my mother was in a higher social class. Not to say she was, by any means, considered lower class and that I didn’t have many opportunities; she was unquestionably in the middle, which still works to my advantage compared to some people I know. In this essay, I will outline my personal educational experiences and how it has affected the paths I’ve chosen. We will take a look at the sociological imagination and how that

Let’s start off with, what exactly is sociological imagination? “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.

That is its task and its promise.” (Mills, Charles. Pg 16) How can we relate this to education? If you decipher the definition; you’ll see it comes down to whether something is a personal trouble or a social issue. At first when you are being affected by the problem at hand it is considered a personal trouble, that is until you discover how common it really is. For example, Sociology

Live (YouTube, 2015) did a video to explain it in the way of jobs. When unemployed, we look at it as a personal trouble, then you realized that, in fact one million out of ten million people are also jobless, this is a social issue. If we take that and apply it to education and the affects of a family’s social class, the same rule would be relevant. Schooling was, and sometimes still considered a privilege; something that only the higher class populous got to experience. Such

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factors of this could be because of a parent’s financial standing, another factor would be that