Many people in today 's society are facing the tough choice between staying near to what’s familiar, what they call home or the unknown, all for the sake of a better and more hopeful future. This is due to the fact that many individuals come from a small rural area where, even though they have strong ties and bonds with the community, they cannot find a job that would sustain their basic needs. This has forced many to choose to venture off towards a bigger city, one that is well established, with a higher division of labor but less class consciousness. This social problem is addressed in the article entitled “Smallville, USA, Fades Further” printed in The Wall Street Journal. In this paper I will address different views of this social problem
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This is due to the fact that there has been a change in the labor market. Many are conflicted and emotionally troubled by having to leave their families behind thus their main support system. Consequently resulting in families apart when it is inevitable that at some point they will need each other. Regardless if some economical support is given to people in these small towns that remain, it is not substantial enough to maintain their living expenses. Causing many of those people to feel alienated (Durkheim) and thus forcing them to move towards areas where class consciousness (Marx) is a thing of the past and they find themselves trading it in for an opportunity at higher division of labor. By making this change they can now afford what they are helping create however, it also brings with it anomie (Durkheim). Agreeing with this is the Houston Chronicle where it mentioned "Work is not just a source of income; it 's a source of self-value and self-esteem," he said. “It makes you more functional and more healthy." Commented by Paul Stewart. (Houston Chronicle 2014) When we look at the whole picture you find disturbance within a nation that is being caused by serval issues stemming from lack of class consciousness to the division of labor. …show more content…
Exploitation as described by Marx is “the worker gives more than is given in return” causes poverty (Appelrouth and Edles 2016:70) when a worker is only given salary that is only enough to sustain a family for a moment not a future. This places the community on a dependability need situation, such in the case of the article, where when people were younger business was booming, now that they are in retirement age, most of the younger families cannot find sustainable employment because most of the capitalist have moved businesses towards mass production
This is due to the fact that there has been a change in the labor market. Many are conflicted and emotionally troubled by having to leave their families behind thus their main support system. Consequently resulting in families apart when it is inevitable that at some point they will need each other. Regardless if some economical support is given to people in these small towns that remain, it is not substantial enough to maintain their living expenses. Causing many of those people to feel alienated (Durkheim) and thus forcing them to move towards areas where class consciousness (Marx) is a thing of the past and they find themselves trading it in for an opportunity at higher division of labor. By making this change they can now afford what they are helping create however, it also brings with it anomie (Durkheim). Agreeing with this is the Houston Chronicle where it mentioned "Work is not just a source of income; it 's a source of self-value and self-esteem," he said. “It makes you more functional and more healthy." Commented by Paul Stewart. (Houston Chronicle 2014) When we look at the whole picture you find disturbance within a nation that is being caused by serval issues stemming from lack of class consciousness to the division of labor. …show more content…
Exploitation as described by Marx is “the worker gives more than is given in return” causes poverty (Appelrouth and Edles 2016:70) when a worker is only given salary that is only enough to sustain a family for a moment not a future. This places the community on a dependability need situation, such in the case of the article, where when people were younger business was booming, now that they are in retirement age, most of the younger families cannot find sustainable employment because most of the capitalist have moved businesses towards mass production