Whatever social class you are placed in matters a lot, maybe too much, in America. There are six social classes, each come with there own perks and minuses; upper class, upper-middle class, middle class, lower class, the working class and the underclass. These social classes depict whether or not you live comfortably or live paycheck-to-paycheck struggling to find where the next meal is going to come from. It seems that the people in power don’t mind the continuous growth of poverty in this country and a big part of this is where people are placed within these social classes, because the injustices of the advantages that the social class give to only a certain amount of people.
People from the upper class and upper-middle class are usually the people that are financially stable in all aspects and have more of an impact on the government and how it will effect them, “Armed with money and social capital, 10 percenters can bend government to their economic ends. We see this in upper-income tax cuts; vanishing estate taxes; deductions for retirement savings and mortgage payments; favored treatment for earnings and appreciation from investments. But it also enables them to thwart housing programs which might provide upward mobility for others” (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-inequality-in-america_us_5b86d189e4b0cf7b00316252.) This is an epitome of what impact social class and certain income has on someones life, even others.
Pierre Bourdieu, explains the definition of social reproduction; “the tendency for social class status to be passed down from one generation to the next.” This ideal most likely describes the social injustice of today and how it came to be. What Bourdieu is trying to explain that the rich did not just become rich and the poor become poor. Wealth has been passed down from generation to generation, which is called cultural capital, and allows families with money to continue to save and expand their wealth given to them. Those with little to no money do not have much money to give to the upcoming generation because there isn’t much money that poor families can casually save for years. So, given this description and the social class injustice, who’s fault is it really that the poor keep getting poorer and find themselves working 14 hour jobs that pay minimum wage, having to pay taxes, bills, and having to find food?
Principles of Sociology 