Holiday Cards: A Social Analysis

It is within human nature for us to depict our social classes through our everyday lives, even if it was an unconscious action. It is as little as sending extravagant holiday cards on card stock paper that a person is performing class (Morkert, Mahay, 2015). I would have never thought gifting a holiday card was performing class. With our eyes and ears, we think that social class is a simplistic concept when in reality, it is a complex system. Social classes are often times misunderstood. The media misconstrues the meaning of each social class. This becomes problematic because without the understanding of social class, upward mobility seems utterly difficult. An intriguing concept that belongs in the psychological world is known as the social cognitive theory. This can be defined as acquiring knowledge through
The clothes we wear is our costume. The props enhances the individual. Being in a particular class means that we would have to behave in a certain manner. The stage is where everyone is observing the actors and actresses (Morkert, Mahay, 2015). Something that I discovered to be shocking was the simplicity of sending holiday cards was performing social class. A mistake that I did not consider were the components of the holiday card. The holiday cards consist of cardstock paper, which is expensive. Additionally, the aesthetic borders that surround joyful individuals and families. People who have the time and money to send these holiday cards are people of upper and possibly middle class. Although some may argue that the families were just simply sending holiday cards, whatever was the purpose of sending out the holiday cards, I have now learned that performing class comes with not only conscious, but also unconscious action. I would assume that those who perform upper social class are looked as highly while families who cannot afford to send extravagant greeting cards are