Briefly contrast two theories of the ruling class covered in week 9. The two theories discussed were Marxist theory and Weber’s theory. Marxist theory consist of two main classes: the proletariat and bourgeois. Marxist theory explains how someone’s class is determined based on their role, either the worker or the capitalist. The capitalist or bourgeois are the owners for the means of production and own the workers or proletariat’s. The proletariat or workers sell themselves in order to work for the bourgeois’s. He figured this would cause “social conflict”, but in reality he found that the bourgeois and proletariat’s work together and need each other in order to function. One can think about it like this, the driver for a big CEO hedge fund
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Contemporary trends found in urban poverty consist of individuals finding a second job in order to pay for their rent, groceries, and gas money if they have a car or transportation money to get to and from work. Rent and groceries are the main expenses for those living in poverty. My class and I watched a video and a man was being interviewed and he said that his credit card bill was about $8,000 just because of groceries alone. Some individuals don’t even have the money for prescription drugs so they tend to die quicker because of the lack of medical attention. Moreover, shelter is even a dilemma. Many live in low income housing or even public housing assistance. If they are unable to receive public housing and maybe don’t quality for low income housing because their income is lower than can be, then many live in trailers or even in their own vehicles. If individuals do live in apartments, then they just rent out a room within the apartment with others who they may not know just to have somewhere to live for …show more content…
On the other hand, gender consist of social traits that society considers suitable or appropriate for males and females.
Gender is socially constructed by the way society views the roles of genders and what they should do and shouldn’t do based on whether they are female or male. Judith Lorber points out how society structures and stratifies our gender norms. Many sociologists see gender as a social construction and how to differentiate the gender roles of both. Gender role socialization is a form of gender being socially constructed because through gender roles since before we are born we are taught how to be masculine and feminine. This is done through our families, schools, peers and even the media.
For example, before we are born in the baby shower, pink signifies that the mother will be giving birth to a girl and blue signifies that the mother will be giving birth to a boy. When the child is born, girls are taught to play with dolls while boys are taught to play with trucks. As the child grows up, girls wear dresses and shoes while boys wear pants and sneakers. These roles grow into being a part of our lives because of how and what we are
Contemporary trends found in urban poverty consist of individuals finding a second job in order to pay for their rent, groceries, and gas money if they have a car or transportation money to get to and from work. Rent and groceries are the main expenses for those living in poverty. My class and I watched a video and a man was being interviewed and he said that his credit card bill was about $8,000 just because of groceries alone. Some individuals don’t even have the money for prescription drugs so they tend to die quicker because of the lack of medical attention. Moreover, shelter is even a dilemma. Many live in low income housing or even public housing assistance. If they are unable to receive public housing and maybe don’t quality for low income housing because their income is lower than can be, then many live in trailers or even in their own vehicles. If individuals do live in apartments, then they just rent out a room within the apartment with others who they may not know just to have somewhere to live for …show more content…
On the other hand, gender consist of social traits that society considers suitable or appropriate for males and females.
Gender is socially constructed by the way society views the roles of genders and what they should do and shouldn’t do based on whether they are female or male. Judith Lorber points out how society structures and stratifies our gender norms. Many sociologists see gender as a social construction and how to differentiate the gender roles of both. Gender role socialization is a form of gender being socially constructed because through gender roles since before we are born we are taught how to be masculine and feminine. This is done through our families, schools, peers and even the media.
For example, before we are born in the baby shower, pink signifies that the mother will be giving birth to a girl and blue signifies that the mother will be giving birth to a boy. When the child is born, girls are taught to play with dolls while boys are taught to play with trucks. As the child grows up, girls wear dresses and shoes while boys wear pants and sneakers. These roles grow into being a part of our lives because of how and what we are