We as humans believe we are all equal and unified as one, but in reality we are separated by classes and stereotypes that our own culture create. People are born in different economic systems all around the world and economic factors are important in determining ones future according to Marx and Weber. Today people are separated into different classes such as upper class, middle class, the working class, and the lower class. People in the working class are often stereotyped as having bad taste, lack of intelligence, reactionary politics, poor work ethic, and dysfunctional family values. Because of these stereotypes, there are consequences that affect race, gender, and global inequality as a whole.
Race can be understood as a classification system that assigns individuals and groups to categories that are ranked or hierarchical(pg.270). There is really no clear-cut variation among human beings, but race is more when someone is culturally and socially different. African Americans in the 1950s were introduced to television because the white middle class was diminishing and television wanted to reduce the struggles for economic justice and social inequality by delivering the message that the American Dream is achievable by anyone no matter what class or race they are. For example, the show The Jeffersons showed a self-made African American man that pulled himself together and moved up social economic status and was able to do this on his own. This self-made African American would dress differently to those African Americans that still lived in the projects and hes son would have access to an education such as going to college. This is why people in lower social economic status are judge and stereotyped as having lack of intelligence and bad taste. People in the working class lack power; therefore, they dont have the ability to command resources in their particular domain(Shortell). In other words, they dont have the resources such ...