Social Location

The way in which my social location can impact my relationship with Asif is my gender and perceived age. In the case study, Asif stated that he feels shy and uncomfortable speaking to women his age. If he is feeling uncomfortable, that could hinder the communication process while counseling (Walsh, 2013). The fact that I am both a woman and close to his age could magnify the feelings that he has expressed. Even though I am twenty-five years old, I do appear much younger than my age. When counseling with Asif, he may experience difficulty communicating with me because I look to be close to his age. Asif has strong emotional reactions, and it may be difficult to get him to see how his thoughts are the root of the fear that he is experiencing.

Perspective and social location are different for every single person, even siblings do not agree on everything, and see many situations in different ways. This is because each person has a perspective partially shaped by their social location and partially shaped by how they interpret their social location. Social location can blind people about issues that are happening in their country but not in their community, it can change one’s perspective and outlook on many topics, it can play a key role in how people perceive the world and others around them, and it can also give people resources to help other. In this paper, I will demonstrate this by examining the effects that growing up in my social location had on me, and by analyzing Elisabeth T. Vasko’s book: Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders. Not all communities have the same problems or issues,

This creates a two-tier health care system in which powerful and wealthy people enjoy better healthcare outcomes than people who lack funds and power. This tiered system leads to health care disparities (Henslin, 2011). Intersectionality is a conflict perspective theory that created a framework for further analyses of where health care disparities originate. Lisa Bowleg describes intersectionality theory as a way “for understanding how multiple social identities such as race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and disability intersect at the micro level of individual experience to

When I begin to think about social location I instantly think about where I’m from, and where I was raised. Social location means much more than that. It is your race, age, sex, social class, religion, sexual orientation, and so much more. Social location varies from person to person and everyone plays their own role in their social location lifestyle.

Social Location: A Key to Our Identity? Each and every person is unique. There are several factors that contribute to what makes a person special and different from another individual. These factors include our personality and our social location.

Compared to California’s education demographics, San Leandro has a higher percentage of high school graduate, but a lower percentage of higher educational attainment compared to the entire nation (bachelor’s degree or higher). Using Thompson and Hickey’s model for social class in the United States (2005), my family would be considered working class. This is defined as “clerical, pink and blue collar workers with often low job security; common household incomes range from $16,000 to $30,000 [and] high school education” (Thompson et al., 2005). My mother currently works as a part-time waitress and is going to community college to receive an associate’s degree in accounting. My father has been working as a full-time cook at a Chinese restaurant in Oakland Chinatown for about 25 years. His highest level of educational attainment is high school. These racial and social class demographics are important in understanding my social location.

think how my social location will impact and/or influence my perspective on the case is that as a young women who comes from a family with a fluid religious background, could impact how I perceive her situation to be. For example, since I do not come from a family with strong religious beliefs, or come from a family that uphold the same religious beliefs as Parisa, could be completely different in the way I view of women raising a child without being married. Even if I do come from the same religious background as Parisa, it does not necessarily mean that our families practiced the religion the same. So it would be important to explore the important of religion with Parisa and whether that is impacting her decision.

When determining the social location there are many factors that describes who gets to play from who couldn’t. Gender, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, Age, Disability versus able bodied, sexual preference all played a pivot role. According to Sports in Society, the idea that sports are contested activities is most vividly demonstrated in disagreements over who is allowed to play sports and the conditions under which certain people can play.

As described in Social Class Matters, placement in a class system can occur through ascription or achievement. The class that a person is ascribed to or achieves greatly correlates to the privilege in their life, and can determine many things in life – access to quality education, availability of medical care or living conditions. Social class matters as it can almost pre-determine the quality of life that a person will lead.

Social location can be defined in numerous ways due to the aspects that influence it. Predominantly, it is a person’s place in the world based off of race, religion, sexuality, gender, etc. All the factors that influence a person’s social location not only tell their standing or place in the world, but how they were raised, who they are looking forward to becoming, and how they will fare in the future. A person’s beliefs weigh heavily into social location more than other factors later in life. Early on, it tends to be the unchangeable features such as gender and race that weigh down.

Social location is the “different social corners of life that people occupy because of where they are in a society. Social location includes things like your job, income, education, gender, race, religion, nationality and age.” (page 4) My social location mainly includes my education, nationality, and age.

For most of my life, my social location consisted of a low socioeconomic status. I was born in the Bronx, NYC toward the end of 1993. My mother was kicked out

Class is important as it can determine various aspects that will have a significant impact and influence on how people’s lives are shaped. Feminists have argued for other things to be included such as social divisions to show how they intersect with class. Economic inequalities can have an impact on class as they can determine a person’s status, wealth, income and lifestyle. Class is important as social inequalities exists amongst the rich and poor. Important social factors include poverty, health and education. A person’s identity is just as important as their class. People may face discrimination due to their identity, whether that may be due to their gender, age, ethnicity or disability. Social mobility is where people are in a different social class now from which they were brought up in. However sociologists argue that class is less important in contemporary society today than it once used to be.

This is the lowest class in the social class stratification. While the majority of the working class now live reasonably healthy and prosperous lives, a low minority do not. These people cannot work. They include the long-term unemployed and the disabled and chronically ill. They are in effect, shut out of much of what most people can attain. This group of

No single factor can determine a person’s social class – race and socioeconomic status are intimately entwined, a person’s race and ethnicity in terms of social stratification will often determine a their socioeconomic status. When a person is born their families characteristics can help or hinder chances of moving through social classes; therefore social class is inherited. Although there’s little social mobility among social classes, social mobility is possible lots of us would like to be inachieved statuses moving upward in the social cast system, but for that to happen each person in the world would have had to been created equally - born with the same freedoms and life chances. Because of our differences and social inequalities, people are not born with the same freedoms and life chances.