My_Life_Chances_As_Compared_With_The_Rivers

My Life Chances As Compared With The Rivers Life chances, as defined by Dr. Perkins, are one’s access to goods of society which are generally in short supply (lecture 11/7). As one moves up in her status in the stratification hierarchy, her life chances will increase. This can be seen in the comparison of life chances from two different social locations; mine and the Rivers’. In order to understand what this means, one needs to know what is meant by social location. One’s social location is a sum total of statuses that the person presently is (lecture 9/17). For example, I am a fairly well educated freshman, Asian-American, young man. Though this is not a complete representation of my social location, it will suffice as an example by which the reader can identify. A large part of a person’s social location is defined by her social class. I have come to the conclusion that I fit into the “Average-middle” class. According to Macionis, middle-class people generally accumulate a small amount of wealth over time, such as a house, the household income for this class usually falls between $40,000 and $80, 000 a year, and average-middles typically work in less social, class, rivers, family, macionis, life, neighborhood, location, chances, chance, one, lower, higher, high, grow, education, year, works, typically, two, status, society, school, rivers’, professional, own, order, one’s, mother, members, means, live, level, lecture, least