Karl Guthe Jansky

him or her unique. Someone who generally feels that they need something in their life to make them stand out from others in society takes this approach. The second approach to alienation is acceptance, but P not desiring to be different. P then uses one of four possible strategies to cope with this, the first being that this is a “special case” and that if it were not for this specific person, then he or she would be a heterosexual (Cass, 1979). The second strategy is that P identifies as…

Communism is an interesting ideology that seems great theoretically but is very difficult to apply in the real world. From the Soviet Union to China, communism has always been a part of human history. Rather than looking at either of these, this essay will look at communism that unravelled in a small island by the name of Cuba and will try to determine if Cuban communism is an ideology. Before this can be delved into, ideology must be first understood and must set the conditions in which an idea…

In today’s capitalist society, those who own the means of production must devise ways to rationalize paying their workers at relatively low wages while still trying to earn a profit for their businesses. In this scenario, I will explain how “Moneybags”, the owner of the means of production, rationalizes paying his workers at a factory that assembles cell phone parts, through a Marxist perspective. According to Marx, every day, the worker’s means of subsistence “must therefore be sufficient to…

At its heart, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by historian Jefferson Cowie is about the political change of the white working-class from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Chronicling why working-class laborers, such as Dewey Burton, who the author describes as a …,” radically changed political parties from New Deal Democrats to Reagan Republicans, Cowie primarily argues that examining the political voter base of the working-class in the 1970s demonstrates how the…

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people” - Karl Marx. Systematic oppression can be used to control the ways of society and get into the minds of civilians to “convert” to new methods of life. In the novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, civilians of lower class and women are targeted in the society, known as Gilead, to enforce laws put together by the upper class civilians.…

Carl Degler's views against the labor unions and capitalism are divided into what he thinks as “conservatives” and “radicals”. The labor movement accepted capitalism and acted in a conservative way to the radical changes in the economic system. Modern capitalism is the freeing of land, labor and capitalism from values of a traditional society. Capitalism is defined as “a economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than…

Capitalism and Communism are both economic systems that are still being used today. Although there are pros to both economic systems, there are also cons to both as well. Capitalism is still used in America today while Communism is used in North Korea. Even though these two systems are very different they still meet the needs of people that use them, but they do so in completely different ways and methods. In the economic system of Capitalism, there is no interference by the government. “The…

popularity and controversy around the world within all social classes. The Sociologists Max weber, and Karl Marx contributed to socialist in different ways, and with different theories. Karl marx focused in the characteristics of capitalism, he focused in three specific topics:” historical materialism, modes of production, and the relation between capital and labor”Little, W. et al. (2014). Karl marx's seemed to not like the inequality that was being really relevant between the social classes.…

Karl Marx is often quoted as one of the founding fathers of sociology, along with others such as: Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Durkheim. He may not have been the one to first use the actual term sociology, but he was a very important figure and highly influential when it came to the founding of sociology. He is known for being the author of the books The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, as well for as being the founder of Marxism. In addition to these accomplishments, Karl Marx…

postulates that it was not the intention of Lewis to make the poor look as if they were helpless, and that they could not escape from their undesirable conditions. On the contrary, Oscar Lewis believed in the struggles of these individuals much like Karl Marx believed in the proletariat and their fight to rid themselves of the oppression of…