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How Does Socioeconomic Status Determine Our Future?
Introduction
I find myself on social media from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. When I
wake up the first thing I do is reach for my phone and check my notifications, which include:
Texts, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook messages. As Im walking to class Im looking at my
phone and scrolling through my instagram and twitter feeds. Even while Im in class I will look
at my phone and check instagram, twitter, facebook, etc. Whenever I have free time I am
constantly checking out social media. Then the last thing I do before bed is check my phone
again for anything new or something that I may have missed throughout the day on social media.
In this day and age social media seems to be the main thing that people are surrounded by.
Whether its Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. people always seem to be on their phones and
engaged in whats happening online. I find myself wondering why Im constantly on my phone?
Why is anyone constantly on their phones? What is the big deal about social media and why is it
so hard to go without looking at it for a day?
Television is capitalizing on our obsession with social media; one such show is Gossip
Girl. Gossip Girl includes a website called Gossip Girl, and this website puts all of the
characters in the show on blast using social media. Everything is on their social media site:
From their love lives to the extravagant trips they go on an anonymous blogger, gossip girl, tells
it all--literally all their secrets. The show takes place in the upper east side of New York which
anyone could tell you is quite expensive to live in. All but one of the main characters come from
that are happening in the real world? and Does social media have a play in peoples
socioeconomic status?
I will be talking about how people are treated differently due to their socioeconomic
status and what role social media plays in an individuals socioeconomic status.
To address these questions I will compose a study of individuals from different backgrounds and
socioeconomic classes. These individuals will be interviewed for a job and will answer a series
of questions during the interview process. Attached to the interview will be 3 screenshots of
portions of their social media sites including: twitter, instagram, and facebook. Then each
interviewer will pick the individual they seem best fit for the job after reviewing their answers
and looking at portions of their social media. In the end of the study we should see if the
individual either coming from a lower or higher socioeconomic status is preferred and if their
social media pages had anything to do with this decision.
Literature Review
different; children dont necessarily follow in their parents footsteps and as such, have a better
chance of climbing the socioeconomic ladder. Other examples of higher socioeconomic success
rates in Europe include provisions for pre-K programs. France, for example, has identified
patterns in which there are higher monthly incomes associated with remaining in pre-K programs
2 years or longer; in ;contrast, remaining in pre-K for 1 year/less/not at all, is associated with a
reduced monthly income (Currier, 2011).
Entering the Conversation
If all men are created equal then why are people being treated differently based on their
wealth and status? Even the little things that people have; such as clothes and food, others are
going to judge and make assumptions. Oh thats generic brand coco puffs, they must be poor.
Shes wearing knockoff vans? No way. So how do we see who gets judged and for what
References
Baker, A. A. (2009, November 18). Book Notes. Retrieved February 11, 2016, from
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327930pje7903_9
Bradley, R. H. (2002, February). Socioeconomic Status and Child Development. Retrieved