limited educational and career opportunities to keep them struggling to support their
families and living in fear of becoming homeless. On the contrary, the upper-class,
who own nice homes and cars and can usually afford to send
their children to
college, who can afford two or more expensive homes, cars, and luxury items.
In short, Tyson (2006) concluded the
groups as America’s underclass,
lower-class, middle-class, upper-class, and “aristocracy”. The America’s underclass
is the homeless,
who have few, if any, material possessions and little hope
improvement
(p.55). The lower-class is the poor whose limited educational and
career opportunities keep them struggling to support their families and living in fear
of becoming homeless
(p.55). The middle-class is the financially established, who
own nice homes and cars and can usually afford to send their children to college
(p.55). The upper-class is the well-to-do, who can afford two or more expensive
homes, several cars, and luxury items. The “aristocracy” is the extremely wealthy,
such as the owners of large, well-established corporations, for whom money
(mansions, limousines, personal airplanes, and yachts) is no problem whatsoever
(p.55).
Another category of social classes that always used in society are upper-
class and lower-class
(Hall, 2001, p.74), the material condition related directly to
one’s economic existence. The people can be said the upper-class if they have more
than enough money and they can buy everything that they want, like house, car, or
they can go abroad for vacation or for refreshing. And the people can be said the
lower-class if they do not have enough money for the cost of living. The lower
classes must follow the
upper-class because the
upper-class is the owner of the
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