Cohen On Poverty Summary

Last week I read the article “Cohen on Poverty.” That article is about differences in social class between the upper class and the lower class family. This article is indeed compelling to read. I learned that social class is not the way that I think it should be. There is a misconception about it. Many people think that in order to be considered as upper class, they must work their way up. I remember in my Humanities class we talked about this as “rising from rags to riches.” However, as I read this article it is not that way. Many sociologists think of the classes as individuals who are inside the boxes instead of working their way up on a ladder to a higher class; for example, the lower class individual stays with the lower class group, and