Egalitarianism

Across culture and history, the governing body of a nation has occupied a position of dominance over the individual. However, the status quo of the nature and purpose of government is constantly evolving due to intellectual breakthroughs. Such intellectual breakthroughs are often pioneered by ingenious thinkers, namely philosophers. Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand are both radical philosophers whose visions run the risk of dismantling the normalcy of society, particularly components of the…

An evolving cultural dialogue between political, philosophical, literary and social spheres greatly characterises the Utopian genre. Literary utopias negotiate the condition of modernity and ponder its implications for the future of mankind. For that reason alone, Utopia’s contemporaneity renders it a genre capable of adapting to the demands of time. Influential texts in the utopian dialectic are unique negotiations between Utopia, reality and the desires of the author. This is evidenced in…

How do the makers of the film The Castle, and the author of The Colour Purple explore the ways people stand up for their values and beliefs? The Castle is a 1997 film that predominantly focuses on Daryl Kerrigan battle against the government to prevent the eviction of his family from their home. The Castle contains elements of the unequal distribution of power and the struggle for justice. Comparably, these aspects of the film can be identified in the 1982 epistolary novel, The Colour Purple.…

support and unyielding praise that was occurring during the March on Washington. The March on Washington was a successful push for jobs and freedom. It was created by the American Left, which is a political group that supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. Organizers included trade unionists, civil rights activists, and feminists, with a large majority being African Americans and socialists. According to the article, some…

Society is - by definition - a diverse range of people living together in a more or less ordered community, with communal values and ethics. Simply put, an egalitarian society is one that strives for equality amongst its citizens. Whether or not contemporary Australian society is egalitarian is debatable, depending upon your position in society. Australia is governed by democracy, a concept that allows for a system of government to be elected based upon a single, and fair vote by each and every…

Rahilly ‘Gender Truth Regime’ Rahilly (2015) adapts Foucalt’s concept of a ‘truth regime’ to explain the ideological prevalence of the gender binary in modern western society. She argues that at an individual, interactional, structural and ideological level, the notion of sex and gender being intertwined has a pervasive effect. Weaving this with West and Zimmerman’s (1987) concept of ‘doing gender,’ she likens parents’ resistance to the gender binary to Bernstein and De la Cruz’s (2009)…

We use of stereotypes all the time without knowing it. Stereotypes are learned through direct observation from the culture around us and enter our consciousness. In our society talks out loud about egalitarianism, equality and justice as our own values, but at the same time such equality exists only as an ideal. There is still a great unconscious level of prejudice in our society that effect of racial, gender micro-aggression. The overtly biased expresses through our expressions, stance, verbal…

fields of child welfare or mental health to unwittingly participate in oppressive practice with clients. This happens whenever we engage in coercive social control of the individuals we serve thus we move away from social justice, empowerment and egalitarianism and instead create an unequal balance of power (Wilson & Beresford, 2000). Oppression in social work practice can surface at multiple levels when we fail to recognize the practice implications that grow out of the complexity of the…

disease desperately needs to be recognised and treated in our country. According to the Australian values statement form published by the Australian Government, Australia is a country where the values of “equality under the law” and “a spirit of egalitarianism that embraces mutual respect, tolerance and compassion for those in need” are so important, how can the Australian Government be so heartless as to watch on as these poor people suffer right under their noses? Anyone anywhere could get…

In the society we live in today, people don’t typically recognize the fact that there are completely unjust standards held for women than there are for men. Women are obligated to a supplement of rules, morals, and responsibilities to stand by in regards of their bodies and research shows that women aren’t allowed to do certain things because they’re seen as ethically wrong; however, if men were to do the exact same action it would be considered no big deal. The viral campaign, Free The Nipple,…