Discuss your findings and their implications for your life chances (Weber’s term to refer to the relationship between social position and levels of education, occupational status, health, etc.).

Please answer the following in detail. Please keep in mind that the student is a 25 year old female when answering:

1. After reading the chapters 9 & 10 in Macionis, (Macionis, John J.,2019 Society: The Basics, 15th ed., NJ:
Prentice Hall.) view the
following documentary. (https://digital-films-com.mxcc.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=189203&tScript=0)

Go
to the following website and calculate your social class https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/23/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/ Discuss
your findings and their implications for your life chances (Weber’s
term to refer to the relationship between social position and levels of
education, occupational status, health, etc.). HINT: Be sure to use
Weber’s definition of “life chances” in your response.
Imagine
that you are someone living in a social class lower than your current
class (if you are a member of the lowest social class, then imagine you
have become upwardly mobile to the social class just above your own).
Describe your level of education, occupational status, wealth, and
income. How do you think your outlook might change with respect to
obtaining a college degree, providing for a family, finding some economic
security, planning for the future, and your career aspirations? Provide a
thorough and detailed analysis.
How
do social scientists distinguish between high-income, middle-income, and
low-income countries? Discuss the correlates of global poverty. What
accounts for severe and extensive poverty throughout much of the
world?
Read the New York Times article on Social
Mobility. Then, answer the following Questions:
a.
What clues tell the reader that Della Mae Justice grew up in a low social
class?
b. How did Ms. Justice change her social class?
c. Why is Ms. Justice uncomfortable with her new status?
d. According to Ms. Justice, what don’t people with low socioeconomic
backgrounds have?
e. Why did Joe Justice rescue Ms. Justice from foster care?
f. How did the opportunities Mr. Justice provided for Ms. Justice change her
chances to become part of the middle class?
g. Why was Berea College a comfortable place for Ms. Justice to continue her
education?
h. How has her sense of family obligation affected Ms. Justice’s life?
i. Why did Ms. Justice move back to Pikeville?
j. What type of law does Ms. Justice practice?
k. According to Ms. Justice, how does socioeconomic status affect how far a
person can go in life?
l. What things is Ms. Justice doing to ensure Will and Anna have middle class
childhoods?
m. What types of knowledge or experiences does Ms. Justice feel is common for
middle-class people to have?
n. According to sociologists, what distinguishes middle-class children from
working-class children?

6. Gender
roles indicate that men conduct themselves, on the job and at home, in ways
that distinguish their work from that of women. They do that with
skill-and-task orientations that pointedly exclude both open expressions of
vulnerability and primary responsibility for empathetic concern- the duties of
women. Once divided from spouses, by divorce or by death, men receive less
support from friends and kin than women do, in large part because they have
invested less in those bonds, withholding the emotional expressions of nurture
and need that can generate intimacy. They shortchange those relations in
pursuit or enjoyment of the privileges of manhood, but often find meager payoff
when they retire or lose their wives. After viewing the film, Gran
Torino:
· Discuss the ways in
which aging masculinity is socially constructed and the high cost paid by men
for their gendered power and privilege at earlier stages in the life course.
· Walt has exited
long-term social statuses that provided a source of identity and meaning in his
life. The film begins with Walt entering into isolation and, in sociological
terms, alienation. Discuss how male socialization makes Walt’s experience
common.

7.
Identify and discuss three factors that contribute to the feminization of poverty.
Identify a public policy that could lessen the risk of poverty which women face
and discuss its merits.

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