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.