Karl Guthe Jansky

The Conflict Theory, first suggested by Karl Marx, is a sociological theory widely used to explain the behaviors of a society. This theory, unlike the functionalist theory and symbolic interactionism theory, looks at society as being in a state of everlasting conflict due to the domination of the upper class over the competition for limited resources. The three images displayed below are phenomenal representations of the Conflict Theory as they express the competition for limited resources, the…

Some wanted to replace competition with cooperation in the industry, such as socialist Karl Marx. However, these dreams of the reformers were considered to be impractical in which some failed in their attempts, like Robert Owen. Utopian socialist Robert Owen thought that the goodness in human nature could be revealed if they were cooperative…

Introduction: Many people living in Western societies are completely dumbfounded when it comes to knowing where their clothes are actually from or who made their clothes. People aren't aware of things like the unregulated sweatshops in Bangladesh and other foreign countries. Many people often forget where their clothes are actually coming from when they see a cheap price tag. Third world countries are having their sweatshop workers being exploited all to fulfill the needs for cheap fashion for…

Poverty is a multidimensional concept that encompasses inadequacies in the three most fundamental pillars of human life: access to healthcare, education and living standards. Due to the capitalistic nature of our societal mechanisms, corporations exploit and thrive off of poverty. Cheap labour is a facet of their exponential profit. Poverty is not the root of socially immoral behaviour but is rather a product of it, as it is a result of the free-market’s hierarchical, trickle-down wealth pyramid…

because Communism is well-defined and specifically lists what elements are and are not present, there are many variations of Communism that may be extremely different from one another despite similar ideological roots. Communism was first introduced by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in their seminal The Communist Manifesto in 1848, but did not appear as a major, lasting political entity until the founding of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898. This party would later split into…

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how people interact with others and influence our thoughts and actions. Moreover, he talks about awareness of the relationships between personal experience and wider society. Our lack of understanding affects our social order in society. Likewise, Karl Marx and C Wright Mills have the same point of view on the problem of isolation in a modern society. However, Mills does not only want isolation on capitalism. He agrees that much alienation…

They were leaders for women’s suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws, and civil rights. They were pioneers of programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and the NAACP. They were America’s most inspiring scholars such as Helen Keller, John Dewey, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King. They were the authors of America’s most sacred ballads, including America the Beautiful and The Pledge of Allegiance. And, it seems…

In this reading response, I will be focusing on the article “The Criminalization of Everyday Life” by Sally Engle Merry and “Division of Labor” by Emile Durkheim. Merry and Durkheim have opposing ideas on the topic of crime and criminalization. While Merry believed that it functions to restrict and dominate a group of people, Durkheim believed that it is a necessary tool for societies to operate. Merry stated that laws target aspects of everyday life to insure control of the dominant group…

Technology was originally conceived as emancipating, but instead has become a means to domination in the advanced industrial revolution. Marcuse offers a critical theory of domination for advanced industrial society, which sets the framework for how social change and emancipation are transforming. As our society transitioned into a progressive industrial revolution independence of thought, autonomy, and the right to political opposition began fading away thus leading to Marcuse’s theory of a…