Social Class

Although I wasn't in class much last week and wasn't there for the social class discussion, I still find the concept of social classes very interesting. Growing up in this area and going to a school like Stevenson have alwasy seemed normal for me. I never thought of myself as upper class or weathly; in fact, I always compared what I had to the people I went to school with and it was all the same. I always knew I was blessed to be living in such a nice, safe area, but I never really realized how blessed I am. Compared to a lot of people in the world, I probably seem extremly weathly, when I just consider myself middle class. It's crazy the different perspectives people have on social class. What might seem lower class to one person, could be included middle class to another. Or middle class to one but upper to another. And our possessions have a large part in defininting what social class we are placed in. If someone were to be walking around in Coach shoes and Tiffany jewlery, you wouldn't typically place them in the lower class section of society. Or if two people were driving, one in a Mustang and the other in a station wagon, you automatically think the person in the mustang is of a higher social class. Now-a-days people are definded by their possessions.