Marx's Conflict Theory Analysis

From the early stages of our lives, we are taught necessary attributes to ultimately do one thing, work. We are able to receive the necessary education to achieve the career that we are the most passionate about and would enjoy the most. Despite landing the career of your dreams, poor experiences regarding work, power, and the workplace can still happen. An example of this abuse occurred with a friend of mine whose name, for privacy, is going to be Jane. Though she did not have the career of her dreams, Jane still had a job in the kitchen of high school. She worked with three other women that had all been working at the school for a fair amount of years. As time went on, one of the women that held a higher position of authority started …show more content…
In this case, I specifically used the conflict theory by Karl Marx to help me understand this example better. This interpretation made it clearer that these types of incidences are bound to happen. This theory states that social problems are unavoidable. Marx also refers to capitalism that says those who run the company care little about the people that serve their purpose. Through this perspective is seems that employees, like my friend Jane, are inevitably going to be abused, which raises some concerns and questions. Are we always going to be subject to abusive situations at work? Can we not solve this issue because social problems are bound to happen in the capitalist economy? I hope that we can eventually find answers to these …show more content…
We would like to believe that society values family more than money, but that is not the reality. The United States is a nation that views success on the amount of money you have and the job position that you hold. Therefore, business owners do what is necessary to make their company the most efficient and profitable. There is no need to accommodate workers to their familial needs because that has nothing to do with the success of their company. After reading the article by Shamehri about Swedish society and how it invests in its children, I was quite surprised. I had no idea that there were systems that cared this much about children. It seems like a sensible way to allow for the imperative time that parents need to have with their children. As it said in the article, compared to the system here in the United States, it sounds like a utopia. There are a couple ideas that we should take from both Scandinavian and Swedish models. One of the main ideas is forcing employers to be more flexible with their employees’ hours. It is extremely important that parents spend time with their children while they go through various stages of life. Because children are exposed to several different forms of germs and bacteria, they are bound to become ill. It is necessary for the parents to be able to take care of their sick