All human societies have been class-based in some way shape or form. The U.S. population consists of a variety of different income classes but because of this, the leap between the upper class and the lower class is a big one. The main differences such as the financial status of the two, the education of those involved and the social issues that being in each class brings upon the people, shows just how few people can have so much while many other can have so little.
Probably the most obvious and the first thing that comes to mind when comparing the two groups is the financial status. At the top of the economic ladder is the upper class, this class makes up about one-to-five percent of the entire American population. The so-called one percent includes the households that earn more than …show more content…
People who fall under the lower class classification typically have lower levels of literacy than other classes, this is due to the lack of significant opportunities that wealth can offer such as little to no access to the internet, fewer books, etc. Paul Willis, a cultural theorist, conducted a study entitled “Learning to Labour”. In this study, he investigates the connection between social class and education. He found that a group of working class schoolchildren had developed a negative outlook towards learning, making the acquisition of knowledge undesirable and perpetuating their presence in the working class. Willis argues that the working class students reject mental labor not just because of their experience at school, but also because they lower class develop a "work hard move forward" mentality. This draws the working class schoolchildren to manual labor whereas the wealthy or the upper class are generally known to have a higher education, maintaining mental labor, which includes employment which requires prior education or some degree in a particular field of study. The upper class