Forum 1

The question I wanted to know is does your socio economic status affects your education. This was done in a group discussion, and the census was that yes it does. The reasons as to why people believed this was because if you can afford a tutor, and school supplies and extra-curricular activities such as field trips through high school and elementary then you have a better opportunity than the rest of the kids who can’t. Also, if you have the money to attend post-secondary school, which is very expensive, you have more experiences, connections and again opportunities. Therefore there are connections related to money and receiving a certain level of education.

Through this forum posting I was trying to get at the point that education and socio economic status are related, and through a social analysis of the two we can see this. People who have more money also have more opportunities in all aspects of life, but especially education. An alternative perspective could be that there are situations where people exceed and receive a higher education even if they don’t come from money, but they would have had to work harder at it. Social analysis is looking at a census and questioning and becoming aware of the situation. It is learning by doing not just by listening in a classroom, which this class is all about. My thinking hasn’t changed since writing this forum; I still believe that the higher the socio economic status the easier and better opportunities come to you. Next semester I am going to try and comment more on others forum responses, and hope that they give feedback as well to my responses because it will help when trying to improve our forums.