Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

In Chapter 4 of A Novel Approach to Politics Van Bell discusses two of the major economic systems in use throughout the world, Capitalism and Socialism, and their fatal flaws. Capitalism’s fatal flaw, described as the Tragedy of the Commons, is an overexploitation of a resource. Socialism on the other hand solves Capitalism’s fatal flaw by regulation, but creates its own fatal flaw, Socialism is not good at producing goods only distributing them. An example of the Tragedy of the Commons is the…

What is in Control? In Deleuze’s essay on the “Postscript on the Societies of Control” he explains that we have moved from a disciplinary society to a society of control. He uses Foucault’s description of the disciplinary society to move into the control society. The disciplinary society we once lived in has us moving from one closed environment to another, with each holding its own form of law and expectations. From home, to school, to factory, we used to move in these enclosed environments,…

Natural capitalism, as described by Lovins and Hawkin, is a new and improved principal for capitalism. It is their belief that capitalism cannot be considered as such unless natural capitalism is considered. To achieve natural capitalism there are a set of requirements that need to be considered. The first being, the environment is an essential factor of production and as such and must be considered when deliberating on things such as prices of goods. The second requirement that is raised is…

The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels is a well-known political piece of writing. It’s been around since the late 1850`s and has contributed to revolutions around the world based off the message it conveys to the readers. The writing of Marx and Engels attempts to enlighten and mobilize readers who feel their message is true against a certain group of people. Marx and Engels openly explain the problems with capitalism and how there has been a huge gap between social…

What comes to mind when people think of the word happiness? Is it community, materials, wealth? In our society we define happiness as having all the money and materialistic things that the heart desire. Our society bases happiness of having more things instead of spending time on family and community. Arthur Brooks wrote an article titled “Love People Not Pleasure”, in this article he explained that our society focuses on our extrinsic goals like financial and material success, instead of…

Sociological Imagination was a term first used by the sociologist C. Wright Mills. Sociological Imagination can be defined as “the ability to make connections between our personal experiences and the larger forces of history (lecture notes).” The cultural and social historical events are the sociological structures that can affect our life. This paper will use sociological imagination to connect my personal life to some historical events in the past years. This includes historical events such as…

The Three IPE Theories and Appropriateness of Marxism Within international economic policy, there are three main ideologies. International economic policies tend to fall under mercantilism, liberalism, or Marxism. As the study of economics, technologies, and organizations all evolved, these ideas came into being. Each way of thinking comes with assumptions, policies, pros, and cons. Mercantilism’s most basic assumption is that a country’s only true measure of strength and wealth is the amount…

Question #2: Define in detail the Thomas Theorem, explain how it is relevant to sociology, and explain how it helps explain sociological events in Chicago. W.I Thomas (1863-1947) was an influential sociologist who was at the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. Thomas mainly focused on the importance of the interactive dependence of individuals and social life and culture. He is well known for his term “the definition of the situation”. This term means that before an individual…

Where Can We Put Phenomenology, Logical Positivism, and Critical Theory in The Urban Planning Context? This short paper addresses the evolution of social inquiry in the planning actions. To shed some light on the social inquiry subject and its development in the planning field Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory approaches will be examined in detail. These three perspectives will be compared and contrasted in each other to obtain similarities and differences in what is seen as…

Analysis of Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto “Unrestrained capitalism cannot last, as wealth and power will concentrate to a small elite”. This is essentially the motto for The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. The declaration reveals the stark separation between the the bourgeoisie, wealthy elite, and the proletariat working class. In order to understand the motive for a manifesto of this sort you would need to know the person writing it. When Marx was just a…