Family Structure Vs. Races: Effects On Families In The United States

Family Structure vs Races: Effects on Families in the United States

In the United States of America, there are many different types of families. Whether the family is large or small, each family is in a social status. A social status is a “person’s standing or importance in relation to other people within a society.” (“Social Status”). In the United States, many Americans believe there are three social statues, upper, middle, and lower class. However, according to “Boundless, Class Structure”, there are seven social statuses and within each social status, one type of family structure tends to dominate the others. The “traditional” American family is no longer one structure. In today’s time, many new family structures are now accepted into the social standards and

The upper class or “the rich” are usually of those who have great power and therefore greater control of the country. The next level down would be the upper middle class, which are people who typically have higher education, high salaries, and high-status jobs (Boundless, “The Class Structure”). The distinction between upper middle class and lower middle class is that the upper is made of professionals, while the lower is made of semi-professionals. Both groups are living comfortably in America and most are well educated. The working class consists of people and families that are of low-status occupations and lower educational backgrounds. Typically, many in this group are high school graduates and may work in retail jobs or manual labor (Boundless, “The Class Structure”). The lower class, which makes up roughly 27% of the population are described as “those at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy who have low education, low income, and low-status jobs.” (Boundless, “The Class Structure”) This group is the poorest of the poor and are at a greater risk of falling in the poverty