People Like Us

This week in sociology we watched a video called "People Like Is'" which related to the idea of hierarchy is social class. There was a family who told their story going back to this theme in the movie. It was about a family being raised by a woman named Tammy, who lives in Ohio. They lived in a house that could definitely use some repairs. Tammy said something while she was telling her story that stuck out to me, "it's not my fault I'm poor, I was raised poor." That just goes to show how where you grow up impacts you for the rest of your life. However, I admire her ambition to try to, not necessarily change social classes, although that is what her son would like, but to make her life better. Instead of collecting welfare, she walks 10.5 miles to work at Burger King. That is admirable, in my opinion. Where I grow up and in my family, education is extremely important. It's expected of me to go to college, without question. In Tammy's society, it's not "frowned" upon if you don't put education first. Or even if you don't graduate high school. Where you grow up, will constitute the actions you make.