Social Inequalities manifest them in all societies. Rich stay with the rich while the middle class and poor get among each other.Most people that belong in the upper class only socialize with other people in their social class. This then leads to explain why wealth seems to stay within their group; things such as the Social Register are also responsible. The way that things have been and most likely always will be.The Social Register list includes the elite families in the U.S. and serves the purpose for the elite to only socialize with those on the list, making them a tight knit group.Higley discusses from a social perspective, on how the people in the upper class got to be there and how they keep their wealth with those near them.
Most of the upper class shares what is called a group awareness or a common fate, this is the belief that they consider one another. Higley describes a system called a social register in which the main purpose of the social register is to restrict social mingling for the other members by determining who can be a part of their register and who can not be. This seems like secret clubs where only certain individuals can join. Examples are like their private schools, upper class colleges, fraternities, private clubs, religion, debutante balls, and the previously discussed.
Through upper-class college education and various types of fraternities in the likes of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the private order of these institutions continue to reign supreme into the upper class and social order. Another key in the upper-class are the uses of fundamental beliefs. Religion and the upper-class is uniform with the status of many protestant denominations. Churches are upper class , the church does not carry a distinctive imprint of upper-class support, philanthropy, and values. These values become norms of the upper-class and are affiliated with beliefs, values and behaviors upon a majority of the population.
These elites have carved out a path for their descendants to follow. A child born into the upper class will go to private preparatory where he will make friends who also belong to the upper class. In the future he/she will enter college, but not just any college. Once again, in these universities they will be socializing with upper class people. In college they can join fraternities which will give them access to a large group of people. George W. Bush Jr. is a great example of this, once in Yale he joined the secretive and prestigious Skull and Bones fraternity; many members later achieve high positions in society, which they use to help one another to climb up the ladder.
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