Commodification

intrinsic worth of humanity because to be human means protecting the body’s integrity. In other words, it is disrespectful to use oneself as a mere means to benefit others as it takes away from the meaning of humanity. Another scholar might say that commodification of organs will leads to undesirable social consequences, such as donors will be viewed as commodities rather than as humans thus affecting the quality of social life. Last, but not least, the growth of black market is evoked by…

The gendered ideas of women and sports was obvious during game events as well as staffing Talbot 2013:284 Talbot 2013:284 Many women were appalled by the cloths they were made to wear to show their level of seniority and rank Talbot 2013:284. Talbot 2013:284 Gendered hierarchies as well as definitions of sports performance were apparent in decision making and perception of women competitors Talbot 2013:284. women will perform as well as men if they received the same kind of attention…

Development of a Research Question Having picked my topic of interest “The Harley Davidson Biker” I needed to explore options for the question. I started out with “What is the culture of the Harley Davidson biker?”. That was too small; there was very little information. I expanded the question to “What is the biker culture?” and that returned more results. I then narrowed it down to “How has the biker culture changed over the years?”. This seems to be a more valid question that readers would…

“it was they who were embarrassing us” (Updike). Lengel cautions Sammy of the implications of his rebellion, stating “I don’t think you know what you’re saying” (Updike) and reminding him of his parents. Essential to the narrative is the commodification Sammy points out. From the beginning, Sammy is holding “HiHo crackers” (Updike) for the customer he refers to as a witch. Soon enough, the girls are “behind a pyramid of Diet Delight peaches” (Updike). While Queenie’s parents have…

Penttinen, the sex workers’ rights movement “emphasizes the profitability of sex work and [presents] it as such a rational choice as opposed to other forms of labor and which ground the arguments in individualist freedoms to earn money through commodification of sexuality.” (2008: 17) In doing so, it emphasizes the concept of objectifying these individuals as sexual objects as continuous profit is made off of their…

Welcome to America: Home of the Oppressed Many people in society today believe one can excel in life simply because of the color of their skin. While some people, whites, excel in life, there are is an opposite group who are suppressed, blacks. Since the beginning of American history, white individuals have suppressed the black race by slavery, segregation, and even mass incarceration. Even though the addition of the Civil Rights amendments guaranteed equal rights for blacks in the…

This happened because slaves acted the part that needed to be acted, often in order to secure for themselves the best possible future. Johnson solidifies this by saying, “By knowing what slaveholders were looking for, slaves could turn their own commodification against their enslavement,” also slaves began to realize “civility rather than strength would entice a likely buyer” (164). Another part that demonstrates this is, “When slaves looked at a particular buyer, they could do so with an…

for parades, pageantry and an expanding number of televised games has been described as influencing fever and madness. During these discrete times, exposes and editorials proliferate, resolving in low graduation rates and the recruitment and commodification of young men and women simply for their athletic talent and potential. In society today, people believe that there is somewhat a commodity for black athletes. One might think that sometimes the black athletes…

committee was able to collect a surplus of $225 million through ever developing commodification of the athletic product. It was in 1984, that the IOC started a new financial development program known as TOP (The Olympic Program). TOP was a corporate commercial membership group that allowed companies to use the Olympic symbol in advertising programs for the four years between events for the price of $50 million. This commodification meant that the control of the product had slipped from the…

With that being said it is also a product, this has been referred to as the commodification of news. And like any commodity it must be sold in order for its producers to remain afloat. Pretty much all news sources whether, digital, print or television depend on advertising revenue. This means that must keep their ratings, clicks or…