response paper 6

When we are young we don’t know the difference between social classes. All we know are our wants and we get a simple no or yes to getting our desire. I realized what social class is when I was turned nine years old and entered the third grade. I moved to the suburbs for the first time and you could tell who had money and who didn’t. Many of the people I had come to meet in the elementary school had big two floor houses, nice cars, big birthday parties, and mostly everything they wanted. It took me two years to get a bike and my mother and step father shared one care. That’s how it was very distinguishable to me in social classes at first. The minute I realized another kids parent had two cars money definitely was not an issue for that kid.

I’ve always had an open mind about my position in society but didn’t look at it closely as Karl Marx did. I did realize there was a separation of classes but not into effect that we are retained to certain social class. I figured we can make the best of our life and change our position of our social class willingly whenever we wanted. It would just take realization of where you are in the social class ladder and if you want to go up you must work harder. I do realize I come from a family that is in the middle of the social class and currently I remain in the middle. Although the fact of going to college is to change the class in which we are born into breaking the classification of “castes”.

As a younger person I believe to myself I have not experienced false consciousness. I believe you experience false consciousness when you have the ability to pass into the next social class but are retained back by whatever. The example of being exploited by your boss that Karl Marx uses sets up the idea that you as the worker have the knowledge and understanding that if you revolt you can achieve more and will move up by making the public around aware you understand your being exploited.

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Response paper 5

Response Paper 5

Formal social control is the regulation of the people, group, or society by compliance with set rules or form of consequence. If you speak out of terms within the class you’re in and it’s a rule not to, your grade can take a loss of points due to your action. Breaking the law has consequences of formal social control as paying fines or jail time. A mechanism of social formal control at my job is if you are careless with the money. In your register either you steal it or count change wrong making you short cash, or are over cash by the amount of $25 you get a write up. Three write ups is a termination, also stealing from the company results in automatic termination. These are guidelines so a worker stays business related and doesn’t confuse work with their personal life, its simply just about making money, each employee is more of an object.

Informal social control is reactions of peers which makes the conformity of that community or area. On the Kean university campus informal social control are simple things as curtsy as helping an individual pick up papers that slipped out their folder while walking, or providing a smoker with a lighter when the don’t have one. Although it is also evident in social groups. In my group of friends lying is a disturbance, if you have something to do and cant hangout or can’t do someone a favor just be honest. For example if Jonathan would keep lying, the more he lied the less we would talk to him and be social with him until he caught on and eventually changed his ways.

In a society of standards of equal balance formal control is a dominating factor, although among social standards informal control rules. In social groups constant acts of breaking the law occur due to social pressures. Countless teenagers drink underage and throw parties to be cool in which they are breaking the bounds of formal social control. Deviance -The fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards, esp. in social or sexual behavior. in the inner city and urban communities being a thug is more socially accepted in strong areas and break laws or formal social controls is looked as a cool respectable type of mentality. Deviance is the defiance of formal social control in which society is bind by. In defiance the human mind feels emotions of satisfaction and sense of superiority.