Social Class

For the past week, we've been discussing social class. And we've become aware of what types of things divide social class such as aquired tastes for clothes, foods, etc. One thing that came to mind for me while thinking about an example of this is the fact that people with low-incomes tend to eat at fast food restaraunts much more often than people with higher incomes. People with higher incomes can afford a nicer dinner than McDonald's so they typically don't crave that greasy food for dinner because they know they have many more options. Also, from the video, we became aware that once you've adapted to ways of a certain social class, nothing you do can or will change that. For instance that woman that got a make-over to attract wealthy older men. She still didn't know how to act and she just didn't seem right trying to be something that she clearly wasn't. Social class doesn't only become a way of dividing the rich from the poor, but it goes much deeper than that. It separates peoples actions and many specific things about their lifestyles.