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Educational Inequality – by Sarah Elgohary

Updated on July 31, 2025

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The topic I want to talk about to today is education. More specifically, I intend to focus on the differences in educational opportunities 


The topic that I want to write about for the semester is educational inequality in schools. More specifically, I intend to focus on the differences in educational opportunities that wealthy students as opposed to the lack of opportunities and resources that poor minority students do not have in their schools. I decided to write a paper on education for many reasons.First, I took the social problems class and wrote a fifteenth paper on educational inequalities in the United States because it was very interesting. Even though, I wish we lived in a utopian society with no problems let alone educational inequality; I realize that there are no easy solutions to educational inequality and people need to study it from many different perspectives to get a better understanding whole picture.

I believe that getting an education is the foundation to human beings having the ability to reason and develop rational thought to make our own decisions. This is because we are not controlled by instinct like other species.In other words, without an educated human being would be animals because they did not learn to read or write. Therefore, humans would not have the ability to reason because they would be controlled by instincts. As a result, I believe that all human beings are born innocent babies who come into the world without knowing anything, so they have to be socialized by many different socializing agents.The most important socializing agent besides a person’s parents is education because education is the main institution that allows people to have access to all of the other socializing agents. Education sets the motion for people to help gain a perspective or world view, in, order to learn about social norms, morals, good and bad behaviors, how to build good character, gain knowledge and a large well–connected social capital network. Education is needed to achieve your dreams and goals in life, to be a successful and productive member of society who knows how to make good decisions that not only benefits them but benefits all of society as well.

Education is the most fundamental element in a modern and civilized society in my opinion. Based on my knowledge and research,race has an effect on many factors that have led to inequality in the education system, such as educational achievement, educational attainment, social status, lack of school funding, ascription, and social mobility People do not look at all of the different elements that cause educational inequality in society. Therefore, most people do not have the sociological imagination, which is why they only look at the inequality in the education system through one aspect the lack of school funding. Thesis statement: C. Wright Mills developed the principle of “sociological imagination,” which states that in order to explain any single problem in society, people have to look at the problem from all aspects. This is why when sociologists want to study educational inequalities they have to analyze them through how race intersects with the lack of funding, social status, educational achievement, educational attainment, class mobility, and ascription. All of these factors help sociologists explain and understand why there are many differences between the educational opportunities and the limited amount of access to the resources that students in poor high schools have. As a result, they cannot obtain a good college education because they cannot afford to get into college.

by Sarah Elgohary

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