Social solidarity

barriers, by working in solidarity, resulting in less blame for worker burn out, blaming one another or service user, for poor outcomes. A physiological and psychological…

includes Marx’s conflictual yet realistic key concept on exploitation, closely tied to Durkheim’s naïve functionalist outlook on the industrial revolution and solidarity. Marx criticized the industrial capitalist division of labour, whereas Durkheim saw it as an opportunity for workers to express their freedom of choice and come together forming social cohesion. Originally, Marx believed “capitalism inverted the world of work and turned it against the workers thereby developing a system through…

Politics and social justice are two ideologies which are closely linked as most of the time political behavior lead to social justice or injustice. Simply put social justice is the mere justification of the status quo in the society. Many times there have been demonstrations against some sort of intolerable status quo as a result of various barriers to economic, social and political development such as inequality, war, poverty etc. While social justice may be termed as political driven, many a…

Racial justice is difficult to maintain if people are not consistent with challenging laws and institutions that perpetuates racism to occur. For racial justice to be present in America, there should be equity for everyone despite their social and class status. This can happen if people of color and white folks are aware of their difference through education on people of color’s history. However, before envisioning what racial justice would look like, we must first discuss steps on how to…

machine,’ time management became ever-more efficient, thus beginning mass production. With mass production developing into mass distribution, those with more currency were now able to acquire goods in excess –in comparison to their peers- thus creating social differences. An example of these differences was introduced by Karl…

From a sociological perspective, social inequality has been defined in many ways by influential theorists such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim. All theories of social inequality are founded on the basic conceptualisation of inequality as unequal distribution of resources, although each theorists describes various reasons for this. Karl Marx is one of sociology’s most influential theorists and his theory of class conflict has been pivotal in understanding social inequality. Marx believed that the…

Society has long been plagued by discrepancies between between the social classes due to lack of mutual understanding. Yuri Herrera’s “The Objects,” a dystopian short story, uses a rat and a louse, the narrator and rafa, to reveal underlying misunderstandings among the social classes. “The Objects” is an allegory which attempts to connect animalistic instincts to the potentially immoral competition among working classes as they climb the corporate ladder. The narrator’s description of his…

identified to be part of the good society which are found in the social market rather than the economic market. The economic market is characterized by bilateral transfer which means exchange but in a social market there is unilateral transfer where people do not necessarily give something because they receive something back such as voluntary work, blood donation and charity. People operate on both markets. In other words, the social market refers…

Finally, social media were used for the government’s propaganda through humor. The citizens demanding their rights framed the concept of Gezi through various ways such as posters, banners, graffitis, and caricatures. Nevertheless, political humor was the powerful weapon and the useful tool to form a political presence in the country during the Gezi. Nancy K. Baym argues that humor can be very significant to create social meaning in the online environment. In her work “The Performance of Humor in…

referred to as the bourgeoisie. In a capitalist society the bourgeoisie are those who have enough social and cultural capital due to working, although they are given this capital by the elite. This elite has the power and knowledge to provide for the bourgeoisie. Although, the bourgeoisie can be manipulated by this powerful elite because they have all the power. In sociology this is referred to as the social conflict theory. The concept was originally introduced by Marx. The basis behind the…