Question

7.How do institutions (school, the legal system, the government, etc.) enforce class differences? Give at least one example of how an institution reinforces class inequality.

8.What role do you think race plays in intergenerational mobility? Do you expect to end up in a higher income class than your parents? Do you think this is true of white people in your generation?

9.Do you think the US can more accurately describe as a meritocracy or a caste society? What are the reasons you think so?

10.Do you think the COVID-19 crisis has confirmed Marx’s theory of class? What has the crisis exposed about the conflicting interests of workers and employers?

Answer 1

Q.7

Ans.

Social class is huge determinant of many of the most fundamental aspects of the human life today in the modern society. All the institutions from Schools , to legal system to government policies etc., play key role in determining how our beliefs are formed and well as how our value system is shaped up.
They impact not only in selecting our profession, Income, Occupation, how we live , where we live but also how we die.
This starts at the young age at homes and schools where children are taught about the Middle class, lower class , upper class, working class and values that go with each class.
Even religion varies by the class.
Educational institutes also play a role in passing the inequalities from one generation to another generation.
Income level segregation , for eg. Where people live based on their income is very common in class segregation.
Since many schools are funded by the local communities so kids living in communities where funding is more will have better facilities, teachers, and computers and other things available then in communities where the communities earn less and schools get less funding.
Also the social circles which kids make in the school or college are the basis of how they network or are connected later in life in jobs and decide how they earn. SO the inequalities start at very early stage in life and carries on from generations to generations.