lower classes for labor. Moreover, the elite social classes possess social and cultural capital in addition to financial capital. Forms of social and cultural capital serve to facilitate the actions of the upper classes, while preventing those with lower status to access positions of power. The capitalist market economy exacerbated some of the class hierarchies, while also allowing for the emergence of a new middle class. Although the middle class would never possess the wealth or power of the elite, a middle class does possess some political agency, particularly when engaged in collective action. The purposes of… Continue Reading...
social classes, the powers that be, really have a duty… Continue Reading...
results (Seigel, 2000). Moreover, sociologists ponder over the social patterns that exist among social classes and the complications that arise from conflict between such social classes. They try to establish the relationship between deviant behavior and social class. These are some of the considerations and ponderings of sociologists when examining the Social conflict theory. The theory explores issues to do with inequality on societal settings. The theory states that the laws and norms adopted by society only reflect the interest of the more influential and powerful society members.
The following situation comes to mind when reflecting over the theory: a chief executive of… Continue Reading...
social classes. As the author points out, "A more realistic profile of occupational classes in nineteenth-century Vietnam would have emphasized the existence of a landed, literate, leisured elite, a mass of peasants, a Buddhist clergy, and a powerful, alien Chinese merchant class" (pp. 30-31).
The practical experiences of the Vietnamese leadership throughout the 18th and 19th centuries with Chinese religious, political, economic and social institutions resulted in further adaptations that made them uniquely Vietnamese in character. For instance, the author notes that, "On the whole, in nineteenth-century Vietnam there were… Continue Reading...
strengths of those who were previously of the subordinate social classes, people like Grace and Marty in The Woodlanders. Although social Darwinism is usually used to perpetuate injustice and inequality, a deconstruction of social Darwinism that is applied to Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders shows how the author's "evolutionary pessimism" is paralleled by an ironic optimism.
Social Darwinism has misappropriated Darwinian theory of evolution by using the theory to justify the subjugation of non-whites and women. On the contrary, a deconstruction of social Darwinism can be located in the theories of Karl Marx, who wrote concurrently to Darwin. Hardy's novel… Continue Reading...
variances between adult Whites and Blacks, and between different social classes, are… Continue Reading...
as how it can either widen or narrow the gap between different social classes.
Now that I am used to online learning, which relies exclusively on technology, I can see all the differences between this method and face-to-face learning. With online learning, we are able to do almost everything we can do in a traditional classroom. The main difference is that when we interact with students and instructors, it is all based on text messages, email, and forum post and that means losing the nuances of face-to-face communication. For example, there is no body language or eye contact to give us context.… Continue Reading...
some colleagues Peter and Paul, who come from lower and upper social classes, always disagree on who to seduce the coffee girl and this is the problem. Peter wants to take the girl to lunch but Paul doesn’t want that since he claims to have made advances first.
The girl is in a quagmire since she is the cause of the conflict. The manager has to identify this conflict to be able to set a baseline on the next step to take. This is a self-esteem and power conflict. Both Peter and Paul want the same woman and none is willing… Continue Reading...
