In chapter 9 of Class Matters, When the Joneses Wear Jeans, it explains how the Joneses are the top richest class and they don’t look like it and less wealthy people can look like a higher class than what they actually are. On page 135, it states “ Social class, once so easily assessed by the car in the driveway or the purse on the arm, has become harder to see in the things Americans buy”. This means that we accuse people of being a certain social class because of what they wear or what they have. Americans feel socially pressured to buying high priced goods and to move up the economic ladder to please everyone else. But at times, the more rich are spending their money on service instead of goods so it’s harder to distinguish the really rich from the not so rich. Once people start judging you, you feel forced to try to move up even if you can’t move
In chapter 9 of Class Matters, When the Joneses Wear Jeans, it explains how the Joneses are the top richest class and they don’t look like it and less wealthy people can look like a higher class than what they actually are. On page 135, it states “ Social class, once so easily assessed by the car in the driveway or the purse on the arm, has become harder to see in the things Americans buy”. This means that we accuse people of being a certain social class because of what they wear or what they have. Americans feel socially pressured to buying high priced goods and to move up the economic ladder to please everyone else. But at times, the more rich are spending their money on service instead of goods so it’s harder to distinguish the really rich from the not so rich. Once people start judging you, you feel forced to try to move up even if you can’t move