Class and Culture

Last weekend in general conference many of the apostles spoke on the importance of family and gave many of the same statistics that we are learning in class.  I thought that was pretty cool! Some of the things mentioned included decrease in birth rate and population, an increase in age at time of marriage, cohabitation, and an increase in children born out of wedlock.  These have become trends because the worlds view on the family is changing. 

We also discussed the difference between class and culture and how they affect a family.  We decided that people typically determine ones class by their income and external appearance.  As we talked about this more in depth, it was mentioned that class is a poor way to "define" people.  For example, children born in a higher class are not necessarily better than those in a lower class.  They just happen to have more resources and usually a higher education.  But that doesn't mean that someone born into a lower class couldn't work their way up to a higher class and become more successful than those born into a high class. 

We generally group people into cultures depending on their beliefs, experiences, and customs.  We may think of a culture as a group of people from a specific place or nationality but we discovered that individual families can also have their own cultures.