Reflection On Social Class

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Working in the grocery store field, I had the chance to communicate with people of various background and social classes. I work as cashier at Hannaford in South Burlington which accepts most of card like food stamp, credit card or debit card. We see customers from both sides of the range; some are wealthy, while others are low and average workers people. I have worked as cashier field for a couple of years now, and before taking this Anthropology class I had never seen certain attributes that I have watched of late in our customer. I have understood that somebody 's social class is uncovered in numerous unexpected ways. My current observation are economic and cultural changes of class. One of my observation is that customer have exceptionally …show more content…

Low-class people do not compliant when it comes to buying products. Part of the issue is that they cannot afford the cost of healthy food. Since Food Stamp (the free government money for low-salary people) just help to buy little food, most of the time people need to choose between paying their utilities and purchasing high cost food that are healthy. Another issue is that these people do not understand consumerism manifest, how healthy is it or is that food have environmental or health impact. When they do not understand consumerism manifest, they do not ask for clarification because there is no choice to ask. "Consumerism is economically manifested in the chronic purchasing of new goods and services, with little attention to their true need, durability, product origin or the environmental consequences of manufacture and disposal"(Verdant). Upper-middle class people are opposite to lower class. They are not threatened by consumerism manifest. They are totally blind on the environmental consequences of manufacture and disposal while buying food. This is a conduct that is taught to upper working class children when they are youthful. This is outlined in Invisible Inequality in the discussion between the middle-class parents and children. When they tell their children that pay attention on environmental consequences while buying, but parents are not paying attention on it. This will make their children voiceless and shy to raise the voice about environmental pollution when they are

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