Pierre Bourdieu's Social Class

Pierre Bourdieu states that each generation makes more money than their previous generation but never enough to move themselves out of and change their social class. Parents pass down social class from one generation to another, which is described as social reproduction. From Pierre Bourdieu’s point of view, I believe that this will happen in my lifetime. So far, I have seen the tendency of my parents being in the middle class, my dad makes most of my family’s income owning his own carpentry company and my mother works in a library. My mother stayed home with my older brother, myself and my younger sister until I was 10 years old, where she then went back to school and is now working. I think that this has an impact in my families social standing,

My father’s mother also did not go to work until all of her children were old enough to stay home alone. Same goes for my mother’s side of the family. My grandpa worked for American Airlines for many years after he retired from the Air Force. My grandma did not go back to work until my mother moved out and my uncle was in high school and she only went to a secretary job. This consistency is shown throughout two generations on both my mother and my fathers side of the family, and because of this consistency, there is no way that my family would have made it out of a different social class. I am currently going to school majoring in Elementary education, which will keep me in the middle class, around the same place that my family has been in. Unless I marry someone who is very wealthy, which is not very likely, I will stay in the middle class, most likely just a little higher in the middle class than my parents. My family did not really prepare me to be a college student because neither of my parents went to college. The best advice that was given to me was to go to community college for two years, get an associates degree and then transfer to a four-year