Understanding Social World: Learning, Ethnicity, and Social Class

This report provides an overview of the ways individuals learn about the social world, emphasizing the roles of family, society, and education. It explores key concepts such as ethnicity and social class, including the different social classes (lower, working, middle, and upper) and how individuals learn about them through observation, behavioral capabilities, family influences, hidden rules, classrooms, and double consciousness. The report also presents real-world experiences, particularly within the United Kingdom, highlighting issues of discrimination and social class disparities in areas such as employment, education, and media representation. The conclusion summarizes the report's findings, emphasizing the impact of ethnicity and social class on discrimination and opportunities.

Ways of learning
about social world

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main body .......................................................................................................................................1
Ethnicity and social class. ...........................................................................................................1
Key concepts. ..............................................................................................................................2
Real world experience..................................................................................................................3
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Social world is spread in very large area and it includes many things. Technologies make
easy to learn about whole social world. Scientist learn many things about this world through
research and find that it includes local organizations and community, national organization,
institutes, society and global community (Bliuc, Goodyear and Ellis, 2017). For through many
old evidence and people helps in learn about these concern and it includes creation of world from
starting and how to improve peoples life. This report cover ways of learning, concept of
understand to social world and real experience.
Main body
Way of learning about social world include family, people, teachers and education as
well because through this ways give information about social world. People learn many thing
through society and culture. These things change and give shape to human behavior because
according to social world they change their behave with other (Nummenmaa, Lahnakoski and
Glerean, 2018). They not only knows about occupation social structure and society but it also
knows about cultures, norms, religion and belief system.
Ethnicity and social class.
Ethnicity is a term of social world and it includes discrimination the bases of gender,
culture, caste, color and many other things. So these behave of human come from way of
learning about social world and these information put in ind of people by their family, society
and environment. After learn about ethnicity they identify about people caste, religion and region
through their language, history and color.
Social class is also a term of social world and through learning by different way and
found that three types of class present in society. Social class means group of peoples that they
have similar wealth and status so society make class of peoples on the basis of income and status.
It includes lower class, working class, middle class and upper class. According to learning social
world and got information about social class so people get preferences and opportunity in jobs,
study and Respect get in society as well. Lower class includes those people that suffer from
poverty, homelessness and unemployment. This class of peoples can not take high education and
they suffer from lack of medical care due to poverty. Basic needs of these peoples not fulfill like
housing and food, decent clothes, safety and vocational training. Media also highlight and abuse
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to this class in negative way. Media blames that mothers of this class give birth to more babies
and fathers are criminals.
Working class includes those peoples they engage in manual labor and minimum
educated. Unskilled worker includes like cashiers, dishwashers,maids etc. this class has no
opportunity to growth in present and future for make advance career. Skilled worker in this class
includes carpenters, plumbers and electricians. Skilled worker of this class can make more
money compare than middle class like teachers, secretary etc.
Middle class known as sandwich class because it come between lower and upper class.
They do white collar job. It includes lower middle class and upper middle class because both
class divide on the bases of wealth, education and prestige. Lower middle class made lower
educated and lower income like manager, small business owners and teachers. Upper middle
class made highly educated and professionals with high income such as doctors, lawyers and
CEO's.
Upper class includes very rich peoples because they have huge amount of old money.
Through old money they make more and more money and assets so all generation get made
assets. They get preference in everything and prestige as well in society. This class of peoples
sent to their children in expensive schools and provide better education.
Key concepts.
Social learning concept is very wide concern that means people knows about other cast,
region and religion through observation. Humanity beliefs and knowledge come in people about
ethnicity and social class through way of that whole world work around (Lakhiar, Mughal and
Bhattia, 2017). They learn many social thing from others and change behavior. Following
concepts of way of learning in about ethnicity and social class :-
Observation learning :- people learn through observation also on the basis of wealth,
cloth, language etc so they observe and understand about nation and religion of other peoples. So
this concept also very better for way of learn about ethnicity and social class.
Behavioral capability :- this concept helps in learn about social class and ethnicity.
People learn through behavior of other because knowledge change and affect to behave of people
(Belsky, 2018). Every people learn and gather knowledge so these thing change their behave
automatically. If high class people meet with lower class people so it not give prestige to lower
class.
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Families and relative :- people learn about social world through parents as well because
parents give knowledge and information about caste, class, gender and other many things so
people start do discrimination with other (Dreby, Tuñón-Pablos and Lacy, 2019). Society not
give prestige to them and abuse. Social class and ethnicity increase through learn about social
world.
Hidden rules :- hidden rules is a concept of way of learning about social class and
ethnicity because every religion has holy books and other things. All details and information
about different religion kept in these books. So people read holy books elated to own religion
and learn many thing about social world. This thing affect on social class and ethnicity.
Class rooms :- this concept is very best in way of learning about ethnicity and social
class because through this learning make easy about these. In education system in united
kingdom teachers and students discriminate to other according to their religion and color.
Teachers are not aware and students operate social class in schools (Dubois, Rucker and
Galinsky, 2015). These things affect to students and its education as well. Rich class treat very
bad with lower class and do not give prestige and respect. Teachers also give information and
knowledge about ethnicity and social world. So students learn through about social world.
Double consciousness :- this concept refers that they discriminate on basis of color of
people that means if white people society see to other as own so all types of discrimination and
conflicts prevent and if they see in other way so this thing create issue aggressively.
Real world experience.
In real world social class and ethnicity create many problem and issue because these
things increase discrimination and in United Kingdom white people discriminate with each other.
Upper class people get preferences and better job and prestige also in society.
For example in United Kingdom when Obama became president so people and public
made issue because his color is black (Parker, 2018). So on the basis on ethnicity people
discriminate each other and not give prestige and preferences to them. Through ethnicity society
affected is very badly in UK. In present time social class and ethnicity is a big concern.
In UK people suffer from social class because there people get job on the basis of class. If
lower class people well educated and wants to get good job like doctors, lawyers and professors
so they does not get job because it belongs to lower class. So these thing create issue at large
level. Education also do not get by lower class people due to huge discrimination. Black people
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has to suffer for job as well as study. Media also highlight to poor and lower class through abuse
them about their personal life.
In United Kingdom rule according to social care that child get managerial job if
grandparents of child were of higher class and they pay for education, child care so their
grandchild get job easily. That means if grandparent relate to upper class and contribute money
for welfare of poor children so their grandchild get better job easily (Bancroft, 2016). This thing
increase discrimination and social class day by day and lower, middle class suffer for job and
education because preferences give by all sectors to upper class.
Conclusion
From above study it has been summarized that social world is very wide and it learning
also very lengthy process. This report conclude that ethnicity and social class increase
discrimination in UK because people discriminate and other all sector like education and
organization do partiality on the basis of color, age, gender, religion, region and nation. In UK
they give preferences to upper class people and lower class people can not get better job like
managerial work, doctor and professor. So through this they has to suffer from poverty and
unemployment. Many types of way of learning present about social class and ethnicity. People
know and learn about social world through their parents, teacher, society, hidden rules and
beliefs and norms. So their behavior change according to beliefs and norms.
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