Dela Cruz, Jethro Francis S.

10-Electron
Week 1 English 10

Performance Task:

The Title of the Research: The impact of students’ socio-

economic background on academic performance in
Universities, a case of students in Kisii University College

Proponent: Dr. Charles Kombo Okioga

Date Published: March 2013

Insights:

The study tackled about an individual or a family’s

socioeconomic status in life will affect one’s income and
wealth of the family. A family with a higher socioeconomic
status in life will have more income and wealth in the family,
that also means that the parents can give their children a
better quality of live to them. All of these things heavily
depend on what occupation in life you’ll be getting, a job or
occupation was described as one key component of one’s
socio-economic status encompassing both income and
educational attainment.

Doctors, lawyers, and engineers are considered a high

status in classification with challenging work, ability, and
greater control on their working environment, those are the
occupations that can provide nicer, even luxurious, lifestyle
to their family. Meanwhile, jobs like housekeepers, janitors,
and maids are viewed as a much lower than the high-status
occupations, these are also paid significantly less with
worse working environment even though more laborious and
hazardous. The family with low-status occupations struggles
more in every aspect such as financially, mentally, and
emotionally, of life than the high-class families.

Findings suggest that the children of parents with a

high socioeconomic status tends to express disengagement
behaviors such as not paying attention to the topic and
fidgeting with objects. While their less fortunate peers have
a more engaging behavior to their surrounding like making
eye contacts and nodding as a sign of happiness when put
into an interactive social environment. Even though the
more fortunate ones have a far wide access to resources in
improving their development. Families with high
socioeconomic status can easily provide the good quality
care, needs, and information for their children to prepare
them for school, but they seem to not care because they see
it as not necessary for their future because of their current
status in life. For me, this shouldn’t be right/tolerated
because not everything in our life is permanent and we
should also know to not rely always on the wealth of the
family. The less fortunate ones are eager to learn and to
socialize because they’re already taught that education is
important and can really change the trajectory of our life.
We wouldn’t be where we are right now if we didn’t take our
academics seriously.
Source/Link:
https://www.academia.edu/download/49538820/5.pdf