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Socioautobiography

Marie Rodney

Chamberlain College of Nursing

SOCS 185N Culture and Society

July 28, 2019

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Socioautobiography

My name is Marie, I was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti one of the poorest countries in the

Caribbean, and where I spent the most fascinating part of my life with my family. In my family,

we are not rich, but education was the most important thing in our opinion since we were in the

middle class of society and the hope that education could help me climbs new steps in a society

haunted me every day. “The family is the most important agent of socialization in all societies.

From our infancy onward, our families transmit cultural and social values to us” ( Kendall 2018)

My parents as the agent of socialization taught me that education was the doorway out of

poverty. For my parents having a good education can open many doors and it was the creed of

the family. In a way, I can say that life smiled a bit because my family had a roof over their

heads, which is different from homeless people born in the streets. Life may never have been

different for them. ( CO1, CO2)

If we analyze how society is built, we can say that it is almost impossible for a homeless

person to own a home without that house being offered or given. On the other hand, it is also

easy for some middle-class or disadvantaged people to find themselves on the street because

their home can easily be auctioned or removed by eviction or by one of the financial instants for

non-payment accumulated debts. As a result, the concept of homelessness is transmitted from

generation to generation. To understand poverty, we must ask the question of the social

significance of these measures and inform the societies that created them. Thus, society does not

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help much in terms of moving up the social ladder from which people are more likely to stay at

the point of departure, or is stuck in the same situation as they were before, in this sense to quote

the adage that says "society offers nothing but demands a lot". True, it is not today that men have

discovered that there are rich and poor. Nor that this difference was not without effect on the law

which orders the community of men. (CO2, CO3, CO4)

Some researchers say, “that inequality in education is due to social class and family

background” For a long time, inequalities were read through the prism of social classes, the

division between dominant and dominated, or rich and poor. That’s mean people who were born

into a wealthy family or middle-class family always benefit some social advancement, they have

a chance to go to good schools, have good jobs and in the other side people who are born in

poverty may still stay in their condition or will remain in the same condition as they were before.

Today, these dividing lines have become more unclear: with the economic

transformations of recent decades, for example, new jobs have emerged which reveal a "new

wage condition" with less secure borders than the old working classes. One could also think that

in postmodern societies, the rise of the democratic ideal and the overall increase in standards of

living have reduced disparities. However, the sensitivity to inequalities has not lost its strength:

the "new inequalities" denounced today by experts and actors in society feed new debates

revolving around the question: what is a society? “ As we have seen, in closed systems of

stratification, group membership is hereditary, and it is almost impossible to move up within the

structure. Custom and law frequently perpetuate privilege and ensure that higher-level positions

are reserved for the children of the advantaged” (Kendall 2018). Money goes where there is

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money, it is not an illusion, the inequalities in society are always very striking despite various

debates on the issue. Many people or organizations fighting social disparities.

According to Ernst Michel an American who lives in Florida regarding his sociological

perspective inequalities and poverty, there is no simple technological or economic reason to

explain why inequality and poverty vary so much from one society to another. Research suggests

that the level of employment and the distribution of market income play a major role in the

evolution of poverty and inequality rates and that education always has a positive effect, but

some groups do not seem to not benefit so much from these opportunities. The advantages and

disadvantages are not evenly distributed among the population, even among groups with a

similar level of education, for example, women, youth, people with disabilities, First Nations and

recent immigrants are more likely to experience episodes of poverty. And children who grow up

in poverty are more likely to live in it once they become adults.

For a long time, poverty was perceived as an income deficiency, characterized by the

shortcomings that it entailed in everyday life: the lack of education was thus only a consequence

of the state of poverty in which the children were living needy. Ernst approach to human

development is revolutionizing the ways of seeing things. Poverty is a lack of basic functional

capabilities. The limitation of abilities can concern both the physical need. To have a proper diet,

to be properly dressed and housed, to be protected against diseases as the immaterial domain of

the expression of opinions or that of the acquisition of knowledge. Education is no longer seen as

a qualitative dimension of life, accessible after basic needs have been covered, nor as a gateway

to achieving and maintaining a certain level of growth, but as a fundamental right to enjoy all his

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abilities. Education gives everyone the power to make choices, it is the most powerful tool for

emancipation.

The sociological imagination is important to each of us because having this awareness

enables us to understand the link between our personal experiences and the social contexts in

which they occur. (Kendall 2018). From what I have been able to understand, much of the

research on inequality and poverty focuses on the individual determinants of low income, such as

family trajectory, educational attainment, and participation in the labor market. These

determinants, whatever their relevance, do not explain why, at about the same level of wealth,

some societies are characterized by greater inequalities than others. Focusing on individual

factors tends to obscure the role played by institutions and public policies. (CO5, CO7)

In conclusion, I will say that if we keep the concept of balance of power, wealth, poverty

and inequality in society, there will always be great social debates to try to improve living

conditions being. To combat poverty, it is recommended that governments adopt action plans

with specific and measurable public goals. These objectives have the immense advantage of

indicating leadership and encouraging the mobilization of all social actors. By setting concrete

goals, governments challenge themselves and commit to changing their usual methods. These

action plans should also identify the policy and institutional changes that will contribute to the

achievement of established priorities. As this is by far the most important moment in the world of

public policy, it is suggested to use the budget discourse every year to take stock of poverty and

inequality.

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References

Kendall, D. (2018). Sociology in our times: The essentials (11th ed). Boston: Cengage Learning.

Sandoval, D. A., Rank, M. R., & Hirschl, T. A. (2009). The increasing risk of poverty across the

American life course. Demography, 46(4), 717–737. doi:10.1353/dem.0.0082

Murali, V. and Oyebode, F. (2004). Poverty, social inequality and mental health. Advances in

Psychiatric Treatment, 10 (3), 216-224. doi: 10.1192 / apt.10.3.216

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