The Importance Of Social Class In Society

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Every day, by going to our modest men's businesses, we meet and interact with the World. It is composed of men's in dark suits, driving large black cars, those who remind us that they are better because they own materials that we don't have and earn more money than we will ever see. Then, we meet homeless people, outside, sitting on the ground, begging for money in order to buy food, remembering that there is always worse than our case. In the midst of all this, we are there, the middle class.
According to Business Dictionary, social class is "a status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired mainly through economic success and accumulation of wealth. Social class may also refer to any particular level in such a hierarchy. Generally, we differentiate three main social classes : the working class, approximatively 60% of the labour force ; the middle class, about 36% and the capitalist class about 2% of the labour force, they own more than 40% of the total income. In United …show more content…

They regroup the television, the radio, and newspapers. Aware of the power they have on us, media influence our thoughts, our acts, and our ideas in order to serve their interests. It isn't the purpose of this essay, but it would certainly not be too complicted to demonstrate that medias have a close link with politicians and that each one serve the interests of the others. Diana Kendall, in “Framing class : Media representations of wealth and poverty in America” (“The meaning of difference, pp 448), denounces the way the media influence our thoughts related to the poor class. Media give a wrong representation of the poor, this leads us to stigmatize and create stereotypes, often unfair. Moreover, they spur men to categorize people and create social construction about them, we tend to think that rich are better than us and that we have to stand back of poor people or

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