Social Inequality In Modern Times By Charlie Chaplin

Social classes play a large role in today’s society growth due to them being key players for the economy and progression of ideas. This mean that social growth depends on the social class levels success in their jobs that they pursue. For instance, factory workers and business leaders are necessary to develop and manufacture goods that will benefit the world: transportation, agricultural investment, and technology. In today’s time, social classes are determined from family income and education level. In addition, through the different classes, social inequality tends to exist because there is competition between classes. Social inequality varies, but most common ones are labour exploitation, diminishing of human rights, and socio-economic disparity. Because class is a critical concept, theorists like Karl Marx and Max Weber believes that social classes are determined through more aspect such as …show more content…
For example, the film Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin reflects each theorists’ theory of social classes through protests, factory work, and characters’ interaction. Analyzing Modern Times through Weber 's and Marx’s theory of class illustrates that social inequality provokes the working class to resist the wealthy because resistance empowers the proletariat. Max Weber believes that social inequality exists because social class is created through power. Weber’s theory of class is developed through economic power and has three types of characteristic: (1) “a number of people have in common a specific causal component of their life chances,” (2) the component is based from economic interests, and (3) “is represented under the conditions of the commodity or labor markets” (Weber The Distribution of Power within the Political