Educational inequalities

    The first reason for educational Inequality is the lack of meritocracy in society.  Meritocracy is defined as a social system that gives opportunities and advantages to people on the basis of their ability rather than, their wealth or seniority. Our social system is less of a Meritocracy.  This is because society has given more emphasis to a social system that gives opportunities and advantages to people on the basis of their social positions, and the how much power influence, and wealth people have,  rather than focusing On The abilities and talents that people have gained or achieved Through their work or the abilities, talents, they are born with or into.. One of the reasons that class And education inequality are high Is the  majority of the “normal” 99% of American people who are working and middle-class citizens cannot see due to their lack of awareness and the willful ignorance they have about the way our social hierarchy and class system stratification is very  tightly harden . This does not mean that these people are not normal. This could mean that some people still believe that you can come from nothing and through a good education, a lot of hard work a person can slowly move up the social ladder to gain more social status in society.  This leads you to more job opportunities to work so you can buy a house have a good life future (be able to retire peacefully and still be successful. This belief is known as the “American Dream “.Unfortunately, the “American Dream “is a myth it is not really possible for person from the person from the lower working class to achieve   the “American Dream “the odds of it happening are slim unless people have the resources and social connections and education to be successful in society. The American Dream “Was only possible for the majority of people after World War II to 1970 when the economy was good and there was much less social and class inequality than there is now  In reality, only one person out of one thousand people can be lucky enough to achieve the “American Dream “ and be successful In our society. This Is because of the fact that even though our original class system stratification was designed for the rich to help the poor our class system stratification now is only allowing the rich people to become  richer and the poor more poor. THIs is as a result, of policy drift. 

Social mobility IS the ability of somebody to change from one social group or class to another our class system stratification is an important factor that Increasing class Inequality In many ways because our class system stratification is not allowing opportunities for social mobility.  is which means not only do the working and middle-class citizens not have more opportunities gain money, power, resources’ to , achieve the “American Dream “ and be successful ,(be the one percent of society , but the majority of people do not have enough money . David Leichardt  talks about how poorer students who have the top test scores are not Even applying to higher schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale because they do not have the money or resources to get Into these top schools. This is because most of these Poor college students are ascribed into either the lower working class or middle-class social status As a result; this is another   reason why people have class inequality. Our class system stratification allows for very limited social mobility so it is very hard for poor working class citizens to become upper-class citizens.   In fact it would take a working class citizen nine generations to become an upper class citizen.   There are two types of social mobility in society intergenerational and intra generational mobility.  Intergenerational social mobility is the ability of a specific individual to move up or down the ladder within his or her lifetime. You come from humble origins, but intelligence and hard work, climb up the social ladder. On the other hand, Intergenerational social mobility, the changes of social class of different generations of family members. If, for example, your parents were squarely working class and you, for whatever reason, occupied a position in the middle class, you could serve as an example of Intergenerational social mobility e of intergenerational mobility. David Leichardt talks about how poorer students have less Intergenerational social mobility the intergenerational mobility. 

The last reason for educational Inequality in society is ascription and achievement in society the difference between an achievement culture and an ascription (born into culture is not difficult to understand.   Achievement( is earned or learned status or behavior which in society means that people are judged on what they have accomplished and on their ability Ascription means that status is attributed to you by things like birth, relationship gender, age, interpersonal connections, or educational record.  The former kind of status is called achieved status and the latter ascribed status. Achieved status refers to doing; ascribed status refers to being. Achievement-leaning societies or organizations justify their hierarchies by claiming that senior people have "achieved more." In ascription-oriented cultures, however, hierarchies are justified by "power-to-get-things-done."  People like college students in the article can get an Achieved status of education by going to college to get a degree but people cannot change their ascribed status unless people marry rich individuals. The United States of America is becoming more of an ascribed oriented culture than an achievement culture because our social hierarchies are justified by “The people who have the power-and influence in society to-get-things-done these individuals are the upper class citizens. This is why there is so much inequality in school systems the poor students never get to show off their skills in the world if the government only favors the rich upper-class citizens in society.