I have learned about the wealth inequality before, but more in terms of inequality among races. My initial reaction to the video, "Wealth Inequality in America" was shock and disgust. I knew that the top 1% makes significantly more than the rest of the country but when it's put in terms of work ethic and stock holding it BLOWS MY MIND! They account for 50% of stocks and bonds owned and the average CEO makes 378% more than the average worker in his own company. What even qualifies someone to make that much more than the average worker, when I guarantee that "average joe" works just as hard if not harder, like a worker bee working for the queen. I was surprised to see what people thought the wealth distribution was, while I knew it was extremely skewed I was definitely unaware that it was that much of a difference and it makes me wonder, how did we let this happen? What justifies this distribution? It is shocking and disturbing to me even more than it sort of remains a topic that is more or less unspoken of.
Social status and class are not a topic I generally think about, I would have always considered myself and my family to be in the middle to upper middle class, but when looking at the wealth distribution I may as well consider myself as a student WAY off the charts. I'd have to wholly agree that the video, " People like us" makes some very valid points. In this country we don't like to think that social class exists yet it obviously does, and the judgments of what class you belong to is made simply by appearance or what social functions you attend. I also love the term that in America we belong to "tribes" and we that we do often times separate ourselves from people who don't "fit into our social group or class", mostly because I think it makes us uncomfortable and people hate to have the feeling of uncomfortability. Social class determines a lot, it creates prejudices and divides people who don't know each other from Adam but because they don't shop at the same stores or live in the same neighborhoods they don't come together. I think that says a lot about society today, that we have these ideals about what makes a person 'fit in' or 'belong'.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Blog Post #1
Hi everybody,
My name is Jeanine Geraci, no relation to the lawyer on television ,but it is funny to be asked occasionally. I am a psychology major with a minor in sociology and going for a certification in family and child studies. Some fun facts about me are that I love to work with children and I currently work with special needs children. I already have a blog, although not a writing/ reading or academic blog. It pertains to fashion and specifically a "woman's guide to dressing.a curvy body", I felt like women with curves needed to be represented more and it's a good outlet for me. I have over 1000 followers and I think that is pretty neat that people like me enough to read what I have to say!
I think this class is an excellent requirement for students and introducing them on how to properly write a research paper and become more comfortable with reading and writing. I would consider myself a "good" writer, at least I would hope so considering it is something I really enjoy and am a Senior in college that I would have quite a bit of experience in writing thus far. I have always liked writing and I really do love to read, I wasn't always a good reader and I had to have services in 2nd and 3rd grade to improve my reading skills. I consider myself an excellent reader and pretty well read, but that being said I don't have time to leisurely read with school taking over most of that time.
In the field of psychology writing is very important, many psychologists end up publishing their own books and writing extensively on their particular fields of study. I can see myself doing research and publishing in the future. I will also hopefully be going for a Masters and a Psy-D in clinical psychology which would require quite a bit of writing. Some things I would like to change about my reading habits is to read more for myself and books I'm interested in aside from school. I would like to work on my procrastination in writing although that seems to be more of a time management issue than anything else, and be more confident in my writing skills. I hope that with this class I can better my writing and reading skills and acquire the patience to read more thoughtfully. I am always open to criticism and the ability to learn more and of course better myself, I hope that I can take away a lot from this course and wish I wouldn't have waited until my last semester to take it.
My name is Jeanine Geraci, no relation to the lawyer on television ,but it is funny to be asked occasionally. I am a psychology major with a minor in sociology and going for a certification in family and child studies. Some fun facts about me are that I love to work with children and I currently work with special needs children. I already have a blog, although not a writing/ reading or academic blog. It pertains to fashion and specifically a "woman's guide to dressing.a curvy body", I felt like women with curves needed to be represented more and it's a good outlet for me. I have over 1000 followers and I think that is pretty neat that people like me enough to read what I have to say!
I think this class is an excellent requirement for students and introducing them on how to properly write a research paper and become more comfortable with reading and writing. I would consider myself a "good" writer, at least I would hope so considering it is something I really enjoy and am a Senior in college that I would have quite a bit of experience in writing thus far. I have always liked writing and I really do love to read, I wasn't always a good reader and I had to have services in 2nd and 3rd grade to improve my reading skills. I consider myself an excellent reader and pretty well read, but that being said I don't have time to leisurely read with school taking over most of that time.
In the field of psychology writing is very important, many psychologists end up publishing their own books and writing extensively on their particular fields of study. I can see myself doing research and publishing in the future. I will also hopefully be going for a Masters and a Psy-D in clinical psychology which would require quite a bit of writing. Some things I would like to change about my reading habits is to read more for myself and books I'm interested in aside from school. I would like to work on my procrastination in writing although that seems to be more of a time management issue than anything else, and be more confident in my writing skills. I hope that with this class I can better my writing and reading skills and acquire the patience to read more thoughtfully. I am always open to criticism and the ability to learn more and of course better myself, I hope that I can take away a lot from this course and wish I wouldn't have waited until my last semester to take it.
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