Social class has been found in almost all societies and countries because it is how a society can organize itself and function properly. As the structural functionalism theorist, Emile Durkheim claims, that every part of the society serve an important role in keeping the society in line (Replogle, 2018). So, whatever class a person is in matters as long as if one class fails to do their job, it will permeate to the other classes creating an immense destruction to the whole society. Inevitably the importance of social class has been essential. The way our society is stratified came from how our forefathers set up this country in what is called, “three class model”. Which is how three class model divides the society into the upper, middle and poor class based on social and economic status. In addition, the majority of Americans would consider themselves as part of the middle class. As a sociologist, we can use sociological theories and concepts to better understand how social class has been formed and the impact it has on individuals.
Every individual has a different view and definition of what social class remains as. In the sociology, world there are three main theorists that contributed to the makeup of the interpretation of the word “class”. First, is Karl Marx’s conflict theory, basing it on a capitalist mentality, that there will always be someone above someone else. In this example, the two groups the Bourgeois (working class) and Ploteriaterian (laborers), Bourgeois