Karl Jaspers

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…

Anthem by Ayn Rand is the story of Equality 7-2521 living in a primitive, socialist future. Society has become nearly the perfect representation of Marx's ideals. The word “I” no longer exists because the individual no longer exists. “We” is used in place of “I” because life is all about mankind working as a collective unit. Every aspect of life is controlled by a council that makes all the decisions for everyone. Children are raised together in collective housing all their lives, and as a…

This article – Was ist Äufklarung? - was written by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1784. In this year the German newspaper Berlinische Monatschrift published the following question made by the priest Johann Friedrich Zöllner: What is enlightenment? One month later Kant wrote and published in the newspaper this article to answer the question. Kant starts the article by answering clearly the question what is enlightenment. By enlightenment he understands that is the man´s release from his…

"The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it." This quote sums up exactly what went wrong with the revolution on Animal Farm, as Old Major provided the animals with a picture of a utopian world where every animal was to work to his capability, and still never go hungry, and enjoy luxuries that were never even thought of with Jones on the farm. But when the revolution became a…

Violence exists in The Great Gatsby to showcase the pitfalls within Fitzgerald’s society, such as the pedestal the rich sit upon, allowing for exploitation of the lower class and the role plays into economic cruelty. Fitzgerald, through a captivating story, details a story of America’s faults and emphasize on the urgency of improving the country. Violence toward the opposing gender is a common thread sewn through the pages of The Great Gatsby to emphasize the cruelty and inequality ever…