Collective Effervescence Research Paper

Growing up, I came from a very privileged suburban family. When I was born, my mother and father were not married. In society, having a child before marriage was very unacceptable. A family that is married with children has more social hierarchy, than a family that parents are legally married. When my parents got married, they gained socioeconomic status. Marriage is an achieved status, so it can be earned with effort. An ascribed status is something that is given because of the situations you are born into, like my race. If my family was compared to an African-American family that is married, has the same income, and in the same city, my family would still have social hierarchy though, because we are white.

Just like you can earn achieved status, you can also lose it. My parents got divorced when I was in seventh grade, which caused them to lose some social hierarchy. Shortly after, my mom had many health issues with her back and neck. Even thought my mother

After a long talk with my family, I decide to stay for a couple reasons. One the biggest reasons I stayed, was because I feel like at Ferris is a collective Effervescence. Collective Effervescence is an energy were someone feels larger than themselves, because of shared events. When I am at Ferris with my friends and they are doing schoolwork it motivates me to work even harder on school, because we have a shared goal. I felt if I moved home I would start hanging out with my friends who do not attend college and not have a shared interest to do well in school. Also, in the radiography program at Wayne State a 3.5 GPA is the average grade point average to be accepted into the program. I feel as though I would never be able to keep that score through college. It probably is a self-fulfilling prophecy though, which is a belief that by alerting a situation causes it to come