Sociology Week 14

This week in sociology we talked about social class. It's interesting because no one talks about it. It's a subject that is so commonly avoided, and it's rude to bring it up. No one wants to offend anyone, and it is just an uncomfortable subject altogether. We learned that it really isn't that common to have a lot of money. Even to be upper middle class, is being above most of the United States. It doesn't feel that way though. Living here in the suburbs I know that me and most of my friends usually think of ourselves as average. As I get older I'm starting to see that we are well above average. It reminds me of a conversation I had with my sister when she first went to college. She was telling me that it was crazy to see how people lived off of way less money than we were used to. Kids who were paying for their own college with loans, who had to be very careful about what/when they ate, and who just had to be way more mindful about spending their money overall. I didn't really understand this when she told it to me, that I would be considered rich to so many people. But after growing up more, and learning about this more in class I see that it really is true.