About me
Im Klaus Friedrich a long time Maumee Vally student with a deep interest in the human mind and the societies we build with them.
I started this fascination into society early into sophomore year during the civil rights intensive where my question of "why can't we as a people instigate change like we did back during the civil rights movement" was firmly answered with I don't know response. I then began poking around with that question until it brought me to the topic of sociology. From there I got the opportunity to speak to a sociologist and was recommended the book "The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life". From there I began reading more on the topic trying to expand my knowledge on what people know, and think, about society.
Nothing is better than doing what sociologists actually do to learn about the subject so now I'm putting some of the things I've learned from reading and discussing to use by creating a small study of my own. The study is about class mobility (when someone moves up or down the class divide we have created in our country) so I will be interviewing people that have gone from the bottom of our society to the top while also looking at the data already out there on the subject. I want to see how class mobility affects the people witnessing class mobility and the people changing class. I also want to see how this affects a country like the United States where such rags to riches stories are praised.
Nothing is better than doing what sociologists actually do to learn about the subject so now I'm putting some of the things I've learned from reading and discussing to use by creating a small study of my own. The study is about class mobility (when someone moves up or down the class divide we have created in our country) so I will be interviewing people that have gone from the bottom of our society to the top while also looking at the data already out there on the subject. I want to see how class mobility affects the people witnessing class mobility and the people changing class. I also want to see how this affects a country like the United States where such rags to riches stories are praised.