Capitalist mode of production

fewer still, reliable policy-makers fewest of all. It is worth asking why leading politics in West Africa by 1850 in contact and sometimes close contact with Europe for three or four centuries should have failed to make adjustments in their mode of production and exchange, adjustments that could have helped to meet the external challenges of…

Ever since the time of birth we have been engaging in social interactions, whether is be through verbal or non-verbal communication. It is a vital component in the growth of a human being; it’s almost impossible to through life without social interaction; our relations and perceptions constitute how interact with someone. Mills once brought up that our sociological perspective connects our personal experiences with larger social issues, which means that our commonly held understandings are what…

Max Weber’s key concept was rationalization. This refers to the eradication of mystery and emotion from everyday life and their replacement by rational calculation and control. This essay will discuss Weber’s contribution towards sociology in terms of rationalization and his attribution to ‘The Protestant Ethic’. It will introduce Weber’s key approaches, such as social theory, rationalization in regards to modern society, bureaucracy, the ideal type and a contemporary example of rationalization.…

Alienation and Anomie: Social Psychology of Societal Regulation Alienation is a concept central to sociological work as a popular tool for analysis. This is highlighted in this statement by Erich Kahler “The history of man may very well have been written as a history of the alienation of man”, (Seeman, 1959). Sentence about current use imperically? In the 1950’s ...Seeman developed five basic meanings of the ways the concept of alienation has been used: powerlessness, meaninglessness…

Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) is a Netflix original series which took the whole nation by storm. It is captured under the comedy /drama genres and focuses on a lot of important themes throughout. The apparent protagonist in the series is a thirty two year old, middle class, white woman - Piper Chapman. This character is based on Piper Kerman – whose memoir of drug trafficking provided the shows outline. We see from the very start of the series that Piper has the ideal set up, she lived a…

Anthropology study of human beings throughout history, whether in the past or in the present. A simpler way to put it is anthropology is the study of human beans their origin, societies, and cultures. Anthropology shows us how human beings no matter how different they are from our society and culture give meaning to their lives. In chapter 1 we learn the different applications of anthropology from linguistic anthropology to forensic anthropology. There are so many different divisions of…

“commodity fetishism” wherein an intrinsic value is placed on commodities which obscures the human labour that it took to produce it. Furthermore, he argues that “commodity fetishism” masks social relations within an exploitative capital society as the production and exchange of commodities is not merely about the behaviour of money but a social practice that reflects the conflict of social classes. The consumer society Marx critiqued manifests in Toronto malls such as Eaton Center or Yorkdale…

(Yaprak, 2012). 3. Case study Case analysis #2: Apple in China Background Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation, which designs, manufactures and sells personal computers, consumer electronics and software, and provides related services. The company has experienced a tremendous growth from 2001 when it has introduced its iPod mp3 player (Jurevicius, 2013). Apple Inc. is considered to be the most successful electronics company in the world. Internal environment analysis –…

orientalising the USA and the Western World as the undesirable and reviled ‘other.’ This otherness metanarrative increasingly faltered as the issue of juvenile delinquency and rebellion was linked to both cultures. This was a new and changing mode of knowledge production in which US media culture was undercutting the Soviet propaganda…

now titled, the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Marx described his theory as a worker 's separation from the product the worker produces. This separation results in the worker being alienated from the product within the capitalist mode of production. In general terms, alienation means to feel foreign in the world or society you are living in. Throughout “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Araby,” the main…