Sociological Factors. Educational Status and Parents' Occupational Status

Sociological Factors
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Educational Status and Parents' Occupational Status
Educational status is a privilege that happens to a person in their life. It refers to how educated a person is or the level of education that one reached. It helps determine things such as the people they interact with each day. Occupational status is another privilege. It refers to how prestigious one's occupation is or the class of one's career. In this case, the parents' occupational status refers to how prestigious is the work of the parents. It is another significant determinant of how one's daily life is (Erola et al., 2016).
Ethnicity entails a person's cultural characteristics like nationality, the language that one speaks, and the ancestry, among others. It is a collection of cultural factors that are tied to a person or a group of people. Racism, on the other hand, has to do with one's physical appearance ranging from skin color, the structure of bones, the hair, and color of the eyes, among others. It is, therefore, the grouping of people in line with their inherited characteristics, both physical and behavioral. Ethnicity and race are, therefore, two words that are related but different in the sense that racism looks at the physical and behavioral characteristics. In contrast, ethnicity relates to cultural factors. One can possess more than one ethnic group but can only be from one race (Williams & Deutsch, 2016).
The two variables, the educational status, and the parents' occupational status, have played a significant role in making me who I am today. I am a university student pursuing a great course in the social sciences field. Most people associate us with social characteristics and being able to interact with other people easily. This is true, but we should not forget that the educational status matter more. I spend most of my time with people who have been privileged to join a university or a prestigious college. This is automatic because we have common issues to talk about. We can talk about our lectures or even the academic trips that we get. Those who are still in secondary schools can only associate with those of their level. I mostly remain quiet when I find myself in the company of secondary school students. My educational status, therefore, has so much shaped my relationship with other people (Lynn & Ellerbach, 2017).
My parents' occupational status has determined my relationship with others too. My father is a surgeon while my mother is the managing director of a local NGO. Most of my peers that we freely interact with come from the family status that is of the same class as ours. I do not despise those from families whose parents work in jobs that are considered of lower status than my parents. It just comes automatically. Maybe the reason is that they think I will look down about them, but the main reason for this is t...