Week 8: Social Class

There are many different aspects of looking at social class, I chose this video because there are some great definitions and quotes about the many terms that helped me understand stand social class on a new level.

In reading Dines, chapter 19 the new politics of consumption: Why Americans want so much more than they need, I found some very valuable information about Americans and social class. A point was argued about how Americans have been maipulated intp participating in a dumb-downed, artifical consumer culture, which yielded few true human satifactions. We often just assume that our true needs are all that we are trying to meet in our culture, but is that really true.

"Individuals try to keep up with the norms of the social group with which they identitfy." (Dines, 2003) This just goes to show that the social comparision and dynamic manifestation have longterm and continue to be a part of our Americanized culture.