I do not believe that a person’s socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines their future. There are many significant individuals in history that have led successful lives, even when they were not born into a wealthy family. The status of a person can be determined upon one’s gender, their family name/wealth, religion and the education they received. One example that is evident of a person’s socioeconomic not being the sole reason for success is our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. He was a president that did not come from a wealthy household. He was unable to afford a high standard of education as other presidential candidates and was self-educated. Even though he was not as blessed as others, he still strived to achieve greatness, which was accomplished. I believe that one’s status does not determine their future. It depends on one’s mind-set, and the values they carry with them in life.
I agree with Jasmine when she says that it depends on one's mind-set and values they carry with them in life. Your values generally are influenced heavily by the environment you grow up within. There is absolutely no doubt that something others or yourself may see as something that might hold you back to your greatest advantage. It all depends on how you decide to play the cards you've been dealt with in life. I can say this from personal experience. I used to go to a school where I was the only kid in my class who was not white. I used to get picked on a lot because I was from a different lifestyle. My mom came to my school to pick me up wearing our cultural clothing, judging her and thinking she didnt understand english or let alone speak it, when in reality her english is just as good as mine and I had nothing in common with the other kids. I was embarrassing and I hated being there. If it wasn't my culture and religion, I'd just be my personality cause I was and still am interested in things that other didnt accept. Even in my own community of Muslims, i am judged and labeled as being completely unaware of things in my relgion because I was born here and I dont wear hijab and Im not consistent with my prayers. In reality, what they fail ti realize is that I know and am involved more or just as much as someone who looks the part. Over time, I took that and I learned to hold my ideal closer to me than you will ever be able to imagine no matter what and I am confident of who I am now. People can sense that and I feel I gain an emmence amount of respect because of that. Even though it may seem like nothing compared to Abe Lincoln, I still feel its a pretty good example.
Abi your personal experince is a great example of socioeconomic "disadvantages" not being a determining factor of one's lot in life. I feel that you are already a success and am confident that you will have greater successes as you get older.
I agree with Abby when she says that "it all depends on how you decide to play the cards you've been dealt with in life." Being advantaged or disadvantaged in society is what you have been given and how you work with it. Its up to you if you want to use those things in a way that will positively affect you, or not use them in anyway at all. I guess one example can be the deaf community. They grow up greatly disadvantaged because they do not have one of the five senses, but they can still live a normal life and do things that everyone else does--if they apply themselves. They can drive cars, go to college, have jobs, or whatever else they want to do. But its their drive and there will to push past their disadvantages or use them to their own benefit that will push them past their limit. They used the cards they were dealt and made a royal flush when they apply themselves.
Maha we will be speaking about people with hearing disabilites later in this course. I think our class will begin to see as we read about the deaf community the strong point you made about the deaf community being influential members of our society.
When it comes to a person's socioeconomic status three aspects society focuses on are income, education and occupation. Ones income tends to increase as their level of education increases. This is because a higher education provides a person with the necessary skills needed to enter occupations that provide a higher pay. However, income tends to decrease the lower the education level is. All in all, those who have received a high level education and have high paying occupations such as, doctors will be looked by society as a person of high standing while those who have less education and have less income may be looked as a person of low standing. By being categorized it sometimes impacts some people's lives greatly because they may feel looked down upon or not as good enough as others. However, I agree with Jasmine and Chandni that a person's socioeconomic status does not determine their future, it all depends on one's mind-set and their values they carry with them in life. As Maha mentioned, one must push past their disadvantages and use them to their benefit that will push them past their limit.
I do believe a person’s socioeconomic status affects them psychologically, but it depends on the situation and the individual’s attitude that truly shapes them, and then they in turn shape their future. I do agree with the others but the factor of environment must be taken into consideration as well as the elements within that environment and the individual at hand. Someone who is truly motivated and determined, a natural leader, and someone who knows happiness is real will rise above all the odds with to their resolve nestled tightly in their heart and do something with their life.
Those who have been pampered and have always been well off are the people that will fall because they are accustomed to getting what they want, when they want it. When they leave that little cozy egg of an environment and are thrust into the melting pot with everyone else they won’t be able to handle the demand and responsibility they must now live with. To know happiness one must first know and understand pain. Those are the people, who, if they are good by nature, will be the mature and wiser people in society while those who are accustomed to luxury will remain childish and immature when things do not go their way.
In the end, it is up to the individual to take their life into their own hands.
A person’s socioeconomic status does not determine the person’s endpoint, but it does determine the obstacles that a person will face throughout their life. Everyone has problems, including the rich and the poor. A person of the lower class might grow up to become a businessman, facing debt and tuition issues along the way. Another person might be born into a family business, but their obstacle will be trying to live up to expectations and actually working instead of taking the easy way out. Just as Abby said, and which I agree with, a person’s environmental factors greatly impact the way their life is shaped and the person that they become, but it becomes their responsibility to make the best of the situation.
Maha also gave a great example of the individuals who were born deaf and were still able to live a fulfilling and successful life, despite the disadvantages they must have faced. However, it all resides upon the individual. Do they want to accept their conditions, or do they want to change them?
Great point, "A person’s socioeconomic status does not determine the person’s endpoint, butit does determine the obstacles that a person will face throughout their life." This was a beautiful way to phrase your argument. I agree with you completely.
Note: I wasn't in class for this lesson, so bare with me if I am straying off the topic or am forgetting anything.
I believe that a person's socioeconomic status is merely something that determines the challenges that a person will be facing. Everybody else had stated the points where a poor man can become rich, and a wealthy man poor. This is very true however in many cases. Thomas Edison is a great example, for he had dropped out before finishing even half, let alone his first year of elementary school. He lacked education (formally), refusing to even let his mother teach him, and was born into a family with a middle class status. This man had taught himself from such a young age, and became the greatest inventor of his time, even after becoming deaf. So even with handicaps, such as lack of formal education, and becoming deaf, he still progressed as many others have before, and after him. So socioeconomic statuses are legitimately just labels, because they can be changed in the end depending on the actions, motivations, and intent of the people, or a person.
Katie's three aspects of socioeconomic status, income, education and occupation are exactly the words I was looking for to explain my point. But I don't exactly agree with her reasoning. Many people who don't have great jobs or education still succeed tremendously. I'm going to use Shanoor and myself as examples. Today in our line excercise Shanoor was at the back and I was at the front. I guess that represented that I'm provided with beter opportunites than him. On the contrary, I feel like Shanoor is doing so much better than me at life and he's going to succeed with much less of a problem than me. Not saying that I'm not going to succeed but his work ethic is much stronger than mine.
An example of someone who didn't have a good education that didn't provide him with the right skills to succeed is my father. My father didn't attend college and didn't finish high school but I feel like he's the most intellegent person I know. He didn't grow up as "priveleged" as me but he now owns a business. Socioeconomic status doesn't matter about doesn't effect your future.
To my standing, I believe that socioeconomic status does affect or impact one's future. I cannot say there isn't any connection at all. To me, it can either becoming the driving force or the stopping force to someone's success. It can also measure the convenience of the success obtained. It has been statistically proven that people on the higher social ladder are more successful than people on the lower social ladder in terms of career and income. Also, along with the increase of average income, there is an increase in standardized test scores. This I think is very significant because situations might be changed if every person had access to such adamant and strong financial resources. I hold no doubt in my mind that if the average income is really high for a certain individual, he or she will most likely be successful than someone who doesn't have a lot of financial resources. However, I will not say that people of the lower class cannot be successful. It's just they have a whole new range of difficulties than the rich person.
Also, moving away from the financial factor, there is also the social factor involved. People grow up in different environments and are influenced by many different things psychologically (Chan and Ishrat)There are people in this world who are not social and there are those who are. I feel as if social people have more confidence to attack their goals than people who aren't social. If you combine a low income person with an unsocial person, that person will most likely face many obstacles when it comes to success as compared to a person with lower income with more of a social personality. These are only generalizations I am making. (More common portion)
However, it is important to consider one's mindset. Having a low income can become a drive for education like it did for my dad.However, I feel like this is getting rarer and rarer in society nowadays.
It is a combination of multiple factors along with mindset that affects one's future. However, I feel like a person's socioeconomic status does affect one's future. It shapes the way you think and act which may lead to success or not. But I do feel some generalizations based on socioeconomic are GENERALLY true but doesn't always have to be.
I agree with almost everyone on this post especially Chandanie and Ishrat. Yes the environment will have certain impact on them but not enough to change their future to complete failure. It depends immensely on the persons character, emotion, and ambition. These qualities determine their success in the future and how much they try just like Abraham Lincoln, as jasmine mentioned. Additionally, Ishrat mentioned that it deals with the amount of obstacles they will face and I completely agree with that. They will face many more obstacles than more advantaged people. They will struggle much greater than most people but if they have the true characters of a leader, they will succeed.
A person’s socioeconomic status in some way does impact their future and or determine their future only if that person allows it to. Socioeconomic status is” a classification indicating the close relationship between a person’s social status and his financial status.” I believe that a person’s socioeconomic status can impact one’s future because it is a part of who they are from the very start. Take for example a family who is low-middle class, less educated and so forth and they bring a child into this world, the child is going to have to struggle along with the parents to achieve things that come easier to those who have a high standing in society or who are wealthy or even financially stable. With the right environmental factor that child will grow up to obtain a better socioeconomic status than he had when he was younger because he knows how it feels like to be of low socioeconomic status, and it may be something he does not want for himself or his family. It is this same child that will have to face more obstacles, but with ambition and determination this child can achieve a better socioeconomic status than the one he was born into.
Jasmine refers to Lincoln as an example in which socioeconomic status does not greatly impact their future. However, if Lincoln were born into a wealthy family and he experienced many privileges and did not have to work as hard to obtain an education and/or the obstacles he overcame would he have been the 16th president? Probably not because his mind set would be different, his life as a child would have been completely different, changing his future. There is no doubt that a rich man can become poor and that a poor man can become rich but what drives the desire to travel up the latter of socioeconomic status? Many people do move from one level to another level throughout their lives.
I agree with Ishrat and Chandni when they say it depends on one’s mind set and it all relies on the person. Being that a person who was poor from a very early age may become rich as an adult has to do with the choices he made in order to reach his/her goals of not being poor, because they know how it feels to be poor from youth. Like Katie said, status, income, and occupation are three aspects that are important in determining ones socioeconomic status. But the way things happen may affect the future. Therefore, how someone obtained his education early on in life may teach them greater lessons that will help them become successful as of someone who was extremely privileged. I feel that your socioeconomic status can influence your life, your mind set but it can’t determine your future. Yes, it may be able to impact your future but not completely determine it. It is up to the person and how the person reacts to their socioeconomic status that may impact them later on in life.
I believe that a person’s socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines their future. I disagree with the part where Jasmine sets Abraham Lincoln as an example saying he wasn’t wealthy and still became a president. I’d like to add few things first. It’s just so rare in society to see a person from poor family having a bright future. Lincoln was one of the fewer classes of poor people can improve his condition but majority of them doesn’t end up being rich. They work with their butts off for getting money unlike those of them who are already rich and having a lot of money from parents. An example from my life is I wanted to be a doctor. It was my dream but I had to give it up by thinking of my parents sides. I’m the older son in the family. Therefore, they expect a lot from me as in helping out my family and also my siblings financially. Since medical is the long term process and at the same time it’s so expensive now I have to think of being an Engineer which takes only 4 years and going to somewhat a college where I can study without paying money. If I was rich and my parents had sufficient amount of money than probably I wouldn’t have to give up my dream being a doctor. So, to me socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines the future of that person.
Statistically, having a stronger socioeconomic status in society enables someone to have a better future just due to being present with more resources and tools to exasperate the skills they already possess. It's also partly due to the social paradigm that's in place that tends to shift focus away from the middle and lower classes.
However it's not a variable of utmost importance in relation to how bright their prospective future may be. No two people are born on equal footing and we do live in a country that encourages hard work, diligence and intelligence over inherent social worth due to your upbringing. We can't control the situation were born into, and we can't control the situations that will be thrown at us throughout life, but we can, and should control the way we react and handle them. There are a lot of factors that trump sheer socioeconomic status in deciding what our future entails and it would he extremely cynical to assume that one is forever linked to the class they were raised in.
I completely agree with Anil, having a stronger socioeconomic status provides more resources, but it doesn't mean that person will successful. That status can be a curse and a blessing. A blessing in the sense that you have more resources, and a curse in the sense that you might become so use to being spoon fed that you stop working towards success. At the end of the day an employer wants a more qualified and hard working employee, not a lazy one even if they are rich.
I agree with Anil and Shahnoor. Having a stronger socioeconomic background could help out someone in the future because of the multiple resources that are available to you. However that does not mean that someone with a stronger socioeconomic background will be more successful than someone with less resources. That depends on there drive to succeed in whatever feild they are trying to pursue. Maybe having everything from parents to begin our life could hurt you because you have never really had to work for anything, where people who are disadvantaged would have to work hard. And with hard work success will follow.
I agree with Anil and Shahnoor. Having a stronger socioeconomic background could help out someone in the future because of the multiple resources that are available to you. However that does not mean that someone with a stronger socioeconomic background will be more successful than someone with less resources. That depends on there drive to succeed in whatever feild they are trying to pursue. Maybe having everything from parents to begin our life could hurt you because you have never really had to work for anything, where people who are disadvantaged would have to work hard. And with hard work success will follow.
I do not believe that a person’s socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines their future. There are many significant individuals in history that have led successful lives, even when they were not born into a wealthy family. The status of a person can be determined upon one’s gender, their family name/wealth, religion and the education they received. One example that is evident of a person’s socioeconomic not being the sole reason for success is our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. He was a president that did not come from a wealthy household. He was unable to afford a high standard of education as other presidential candidates and was self-educated. Even though he was not as blessed as others, he still strived to achieve greatness, which was accomplished. I believe that one’s status does not determine their future. It depends on one’s mind-set, and the values they carry with them in life.
ReplyDeleteWhat a strong post. Lincoln was a great example to support your stance.
DeleteI agree with Jasmine when she says that it depends on one's mind-set and values they carry with them in life. Your values generally are influenced heavily by the environment you grow up within. There is absolutely no doubt that something others or yourself may see as something that might hold you back to your greatest advantage. It all depends on how you decide to play the cards you've been dealt with in life.
ReplyDeleteI can say this from personal experience. I used to go to a school where I was the only kid in my class who was not white. I used to get picked on a lot because I was from a different lifestyle. My mom came to my school to pick me up wearing our cultural clothing, judging her and thinking she didnt understand english or let alone speak it, when in reality her english is just as good as mine and I had nothing in common with the other kids. I was embarrassing and I hated being there. If it wasn't my culture and religion, I'd just be my personality cause I was and still am interested in things that other didnt accept. Even in my own community of Muslims, i am judged and labeled as being completely unaware of things in my relgion because I was born here and I dont wear hijab and Im not consistent with my prayers. In reality, what they fail ti realize is that I know and am involved more or just as much as someone who looks the part. Over time, I took that and I learned to hold my ideal closer to me than you will ever be able to imagine no matter what and I am confident of who I am now. People can sense that and I feel I gain an emmence amount of respect because of that. Even though it may seem like nothing compared to Abe Lincoln, I still feel its a pretty good example.
Abi your personal experince is a great example of socioeconomic "disadvantages" not being a determining factor of one's lot in life. I feel that you are already a success and am confident that you will have greater successes as you get older.
DeleteI agree with Abby when she says that "it all depends on how you decide to play the cards you've been dealt with in life." Being advantaged or disadvantaged in society is what you have been given and how you work with it. Its up to you if you want to use those things in a way that will positively affect you, or not use them in anyway at all. I guess one example can be the deaf community. They grow up greatly disadvantaged because they do not have one of the five senses, but they can still live a normal life and do things that everyone else does--if they apply themselves. They can drive cars, go to college, have jobs, or whatever else they want to do. But its their drive and there will to push past their disadvantages or use them to their own benefit that will push them past their limit. They used the cards they were dealt and made a royal flush when they apply themselves.
ReplyDeleteMaha we will be speaking about people with hearing disabilites later in this course. I think our class will begin to see as we read about the deaf community the strong point you made about the deaf community being influential members of our society.
DeleteWhen it comes to a person's socioeconomic status three aspects society focuses on are income, education and occupation. Ones income tends to increase as their level of education increases. This is because a higher education provides a person with the necessary skills needed to enter occupations that provide a higher pay. However, income tends to decrease the lower the education level is. All in all, those who have received a high level education and have high paying occupations such as, doctors will be looked by society as a person of high standing while those who have less education and have less income may be looked as a person of low standing. By being categorized it sometimes impacts some people's lives greatly because they may feel looked down upon or not as good enough as others. However, I agree with Jasmine and Chandni that a person's socioeconomic status does not determine their future, it all depends on one's mind-set and their values they carry with them in life. As Maha mentioned, one must push past their disadvantages and use them to their benefit that will push them past their limit.
ReplyDeleteI do believe a person’s socioeconomic status affects them psychologically, but it depends on the situation and the individual’s attitude that truly shapes them, and then they in turn shape their future. I do agree with the others but the factor of environment must be taken into consideration as well as the elements within that environment and the individual at hand. Someone who is truly motivated and determined, a natural leader, and someone who knows happiness is real will rise above all the odds with to their resolve nestled tightly in their heart and do something with their life.
ReplyDeleteThose who have been pampered and have always been well off are the people that will fall because they are accustomed to getting what they want, when they want it. When they leave that little cozy egg of an environment and are thrust into the melting pot with everyone else they won’t be able to handle the demand and responsibility they must now live with. To know happiness one must first know and understand pain. Those are the people, who, if they are good by nature, will be the mature and wiser people in society while those who are accustomed to luxury will remain childish and immature when things do not go their way.
In the end, it is up to the individual to take their life into their own hands.
A person’s socioeconomic status does not determine the person’s endpoint, but it does determine the obstacles that a person will face throughout their life. Everyone has problems, including the rich and the poor. A person of the lower class might grow up to become a businessman, facing debt and tuition issues along the way. Another person might be born into a family business, but their obstacle will be trying to live up to expectations and actually working instead of taking the easy way out. Just as Abby said, and which I agree with, a person’s environmental factors greatly impact the way their life is shaped and the person that they become, but it becomes their responsibility to make the best of the situation.
ReplyDeleteMaha also gave a great example of the individuals who were born deaf and were still able to live a fulfilling and successful life, despite the disadvantages they must have faced. However, it all resides upon the individual. Do they want to accept their conditions, or do they want to change them?
Great point, "A person’s socioeconomic status does not determine the person’s endpoint, butit does determine the obstacles that a person will face throughout their life." This was a beautiful way to phrase your argument. I agree with you completely.
DeleteNote: I wasn't in class for this lesson, so bare with me if I am straying off the topic or am forgetting anything.
ReplyDeleteI believe that a person's socioeconomic status is merely something that determines the challenges that a person will be facing. Everybody else had stated the points where a poor man can become rich, and a wealthy man poor. This is very true however in many cases. Thomas Edison is a great example, for he had dropped out before finishing even half, let alone his first year of elementary school. He lacked education (formally), refusing to even let his mother teach him, and was born into a family with a middle class status. This man had taught himself from such a young age, and became the greatest inventor of his time, even after becoming deaf. So even with handicaps, such as lack of formal education, and becoming deaf, he still progressed as many others have before, and after him. So socioeconomic statuses are legitimately just labels, because they can be changed in the end depending on the actions, motivations, and intent of the people, or a person.
Even though you missed our discussion, you are right on point. Great post
DeleteKatie's three aspects of socioeconomic status, income, education and occupation are exactly the words I was looking for to explain my point. But I don't exactly agree with her reasoning. Many people who don't have great jobs or education still succeed tremendously. I'm going to use Shanoor and myself as examples. Today in our line excercise Shanoor was at the back and I was at the front. I guess that represented that I'm provided with beter opportunites than him. On the contrary, I feel like Shanoor is doing so much better than me at life and he's going to succeed with much less of a problem than me. Not saying that I'm not going to succeed but his work ethic is much stronger than mine.
ReplyDeleteAn example of someone who didn't have a good education that didn't provide him with the right skills to succeed is my father. My father didn't attend college and didn't finish high school but I feel like he's the most intellegent person I know. He didn't grow up as "priveleged" as me but he now owns a business. Socioeconomic status doesn't matter about doesn't effect your future.
To my standing, I believe that socioeconomic status does affect or impact one's future. I cannot say there isn't any connection at all. To me, it can either becoming the driving force or the stopping force to someone's success. It can also measure the convenience of the success obtained. It has been statistically proven that people on the higher social ladder are more successful than people on the lower social ladder in terms of career and income. Also, along with the increase of average income, there is an increase in standardized test scores. This I think is very significant because situations might be changed if every person had access to such adamant and strong financial resources. I hold no doubt in my mind that if the average income is really high for a certain individual, he or she will most likely be successful than someone who doesn't have a lot of financial resources. However, I will not say that people of the lower class cannot be successful. It's just they have a whole new range of difficulties than the rich person.
ReplyDeleteAlso, moving away from the financial factor, there is also the social factor involved. People grow up in different environments and are influenced by many different things psychologically (Chan and Ishrat)There are people in this world who are not social and there are those who are. I feel as if social people have more confidence to attack their goals than people who aren't social. If you combine a low income person with an unsocial person, that person will most likely face many obstacles when it comes to success as compared to a person with lower income with more of a social personality. These are only generalizations I am making. (More common portion)
However, it is important to consider one's mindset. Having a low income can become a drive for education like it did for my dad.However, I feel like this is getting rarer and rarer in society nowadays.
It is a combination of multiple factors along with mindset that affects one's future. However, I feel like a person's socioeconomic status does affect one's future. It shapes the way you think and act which may lead to success or not. But I do feel some generalizations based on socioeconomic are GENERALLY true but doesn't always have to be.
I agree with almost everyone on this post especially Chandanie and Ishrat. Yes the environment will have certain impact on them but not enough to change their future to complete failure. It depends immensely on the persons character, emotion, and ambition. These qualities determine their success in the future and how much they try just like Abraham Lincoln, as jasmine mentioned. Additionally, Ishrat mentioned that it deals with the amount of obstacles they will face and I completely agree with that. They will face many more obstacles than more advantaged people. They will struggle much greater than most people but if they have the true characters of a leader, they will succeed.
ReplyDeleteA person’s socioeconomic status in some way does impact their future and or determine their future only if that person allows it to. Socioeconomic status is” a classification indicating the close relationship between a person’s social status and his financial status.” I believe that a person’s socioeconomic status can impact one’s future because it is a part of who they are from the very start. Take for example a family who is low-middle class, less educated and so forth and they bring a child into this world, the child is going to have to struggle along with the parents to achieve things that come easier to those who have a high standing in society or who are wealthy or even financially stable. With the right environmental factor that child will grow up to obtain a better socioeconomic status than he had when he was younger because he knows how it feels like to be of low socioeconomic status, and it may be something he does not want for himself or his family. It is this same child that will have to face more obstacles, but with ambition and determination this child can achieve a better socioeconomic status than the one he was born into.
ReplyDeleteJasmine refers to Lincoln as an example in which socioeconomic status does not greatly impact their future. However, if Lincoln were born into a wealthy family and he experienced many privileges and did not have to work as hard to obtain an education and/or the obstacles he overcame would he have been the 16th president? Probably not because his mind set would be different, his life as a child would have been completely different, changing his future. There is no doubt that a rich man can become poor and that a poor man can become rich but what drives the desire to travel up the latter of socioeconomic status? Many people do move from one level to another level throughout their lives.
I agree with Ishrat and Chandni when they say it depends on one’s mind set and it all relies on the person. Being that a person who was poor from a very early age may become rich as an adult has to do with the choices he made in order to reach his/her goals of not being poor, because they know how it feels to be poor from youth. Like Katie said, status, income, and occupation are three aspects that are important in determining ones socioeconomic status. But the way things happen may affect the future. Therefore, how someone obtained his education early on in life may teach them greater lessons that will help them become successful as of someone who was extremely privileged. I feel that your socioeconomic status can influence your life, your mind set but it can’t determine your future. Yes, it may be able to impact your future but not completely determine it. It is up to the person and how the person reacts to their socioeconomic status that may impact them later on in life.
I believe that a person’s socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines their future. I disagree with the part where Jasmine sets Abraham Lincoln as an example saying he wasn’t wealthy and still became a president. I’d like to add few things first. It’s just so rare in society to see a person from poor family having a bright future. Lincoln was one of the fewer classes of poor people can improve his condition but majority of them doesn’t end up being rich. They work with their butts off for getting money unlike those of them who are already rich and having a lot of money from parents. An example from my life is I wanted to be a doctor. It was my dream but I had to give it up by thinking of my parents sides. I’m the older son in the family. Therefore, they expect a lot from me as in helping out my family and also my siblings financially. Since medical is the long term process and at the same time it’s so expensive now I have to think of being an Engineer which takes only 4 years and going to somewhat a college where I can study without paying money. If I was rich and my parents had sufficient amount of money than probably I wouldn’t have to give up my dream being a doctor. So, to me socioeconomic status greatly impacts or determines the future of that person.
ReplyDeleteStatistically, having a stronger socioeconomic status in society enables someone to have a better future just due to being present with more resources and tools to exasperate the skills they already possess. It's also partly due to the social paradigm that's in place that tends to shift focus away from the middle and lower classes.
ReplyDeleteHowever it's not a variable of utmost importance in relation to how bright their prospective future may be. No two people are born on equal footing and we do live in a country that encourages hard work, diligence and intelligence over inherent social worth due to your upbringing. We can't control the situation were born into, and we can't control the situations that will be thrown at us throughout life, but we can, and should control the way we react and handle them. There are a lot of factors that trump sheer socioeconomic status in deciding what our future entails and it would he extremely cynical to assume that one is forever linked to the class they were raised in.
Well said!
DeleteI completely agree with Anil, having a stronger socioeconomic status provides more resources, but it doesn't mean that person will successful. That status can be a curse and a blessing. A blessing in the sense that you have more resources, and a curse in the sense that you might become so use to being spoon fed that you stop working towards success. At the end of the day an employer wants a more qualified and hard working employee, not a lazy one even if they are rich.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anil and Shahnoor. Having a stronger socioeconomic background could help out someone in the future because of the multiple resources that are available to you. However that does not mean that someone with a stronger socioeconomic background will be more successful than someone with less resources. That depends on there drive to succeed in whatever feild they are trying to pursue. Maybe having everything from parents to begin our life could hurt you because you have never really had to work for anything, where people who are disadvantaged would have to work hard. And with hard work success will follow.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anil and Shahnoor. Having a stronger socioeconomic background could help out someone in the future because of the multiple resources that are available to you. However that does not mean that someone with a stronger socioeconomic background will be more successful than someone with less resources. That depends on there drive to succeed in whatever feild they are trying to pursue. Maybe having everything from parents to begin our life could hurt you because you have never really had to work for anything, where people who are disadvantaged would have to work hard. And with hard work success will follow.
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