Sociologists question a person’s ability to understand other cultures within their own culture they have grown up with.. “A culture must be studied in terms of its own meanings and values… Sociologists endeavor as far as possible to avoid ethnocentrism, or judging other cultures in terms of the standards of one’s own,” (Giddens, Duneier, Appelbaum, & Car, 2015). Throughout this paper I will be giving insight into Germany’s culture, and views. Germany is not as diverse as some other western cultures, but their location in Europe has drawn many ethnic groups. Language is one thing that is not entirely consistent in this country. “Due to the presence of immigrants, a number of other languages are spoken in Germany as well, including Polish,
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The wall was a physical and representational symbol of the population separation between East and West Germany. When the wall was torn down, this was important because the two sides of Germany were once again a unified nation. Before the wall was even built, Germany had, and still is mentioned today, the negative national identity that reflected their position during the Holocaust. The people of Germany tried to explain why it had happened using sociological methods: “Marxist thinkers believed it was an event of fascism, while others blamed, the rejection of the rational and universal principles of the Enlightenment and the adoption of romantic irrationalism… Lingering differences between the attitudes and practices of West and East Germans are often attributed to the so-called Mauer in den Köpfen, or wall in the mind— an allusion to the physical wall that used to divide East and West Germany” (Edison, …show more content…
Sociologists use social stratification to describe inequalities among individuals within societies (Edison, 2006).
“By the early twentieth century, German society was divided into more or less clear-cut classes. Industrial workers included both the skilled and the unskilled…The middle classes included small businessmen and independent members of the trades, white-collar employees, professionals, and civil servants. Finally, the upper or upper middle classes consisted of industrialists, financiers, high government officials, and large landowners, among others” (Edison, 2006).
Karl Marx’s class theories are evident within this. He believed that the expansion of industrial capitalism would only strengthen the difference between classes due to the fact that the working class could never earn the amount that the wealthy gained from their work production. Weber had a different view than Marx. He believed that the individual’s skill and credentials should determine their social standing (Giddens, Duneier, Appelbaum, & Car,
The wall was a physical and representational symbol of the population separation between East and West Germany. When the wall was torn down, this was important because the two sides of Germany were once again a unified nation. Before the wall was even built, Germany had, and still is mentioned today, the negative national identity that reflected their position during the Holocaust. The people of Germany tried to explain why it had happened using sociological methods: “Marxist thinkers believed it was an event of fascism, while others blamed, the rejection of the rational and universal principles of the Enlightenment and the adoption of romantic irrationalism… Lingering differences between the attitudes and practices of West and East Germans are often attributed to the so-called Mauer in den Köpfen, or wall in the mind— an allusion to the physical wall that used to divide East and West Germany” (Edison, …show more content…
Sociologists use social stratification to describe inequalities among individuals within societies (Edison, 2006).
“By the early twentieth century, German society was divided into more or less clear-cut classes. Industrial workers included both the skilled and the unskilled…The middle classes included small businessmen and independent members of the trades, white-collar employees, professionals, and civil servants. Finally, the upper or upper middle classes consisted of industrialists, financiers, high government officials, and large landowners, among others” (Edison, 2006).
Karl Marx’s class theories are evident within this. He believed that the expansion of industrial capitalism would only strengthen the difference between classes due to the fact that the working class could never earn the amount that the wealthy gained from their work production. Weber had a different view than Marx. He believed that the individual’s skill and credentials should determine their social standing (Giddens, Duneier, Appelbaum, & Car,