Karl Otto Koch

personally I do not think he would have known. Darwinian thinking is now deeply engraved in areas such as economics and even business administration. Through this paper I will attempt to see how Darwin interacted with economists of his time such as Karl Marx, how much Adam Smith influenced Darwin, and how the Victorian economy affected how people acted. Furthermore, this paper will try to see how corporate environment can be affected through a Darwinian approach. It is hard to know how much…

Through the origin of society, our civilization witnessed the coming and going of class distinction. The social class is a system of social classification that assigns different values upon different groups of people in any particular societies. People are grouped into a set of hierarchy with different standards of living, ranking, and benefits in the community. During the French period ruling by Louis XVI, the social order divided into three different groups, which are First, Second, and Third…

In Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin criticizes the effects of capitalism on the working class. Through a different lens, one can view this as a contemporary critique of control freaks. He uses parody and exaggeration to strengthen his assertion. Chaplin uses parody to strengthen his assertion by making a mockery of how human beings are forced to fit around and within the institution in modern society particularly in relation to the “American Dream” and “the pursuit of happiness”. The theme of…

In sociology, there are three major theoretical perspectives – Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist. Each of these three standpoints demonstrate different outlooks and beliefs of why things socially occur in general. Essentially, it is a group fixed assumptions about societies that answers underlying questions we may ask ourselves. These perspectives are vital to our understanding and acknowledgment of the way we naturally interpret social interactions. Functionalist Perspective,…

As long as it has been in presence, society has always been portrayed into social classes, the very rich and the very poor. For this reason, society has created the concept that the unprivileged people have to work heavy to receive a portion of goods. With this in mind, the outset of the French Revolution was due to the build up of social inequalities. French citizens were being unfairly treated and revolted in order to get the changes they wanted. In the article Social Inequalities it…

Imagine putting on lenses, in which one can uncover underlying issues; one understands the topic but does not fully comprehend it. While most people in the world understand that there are economic separations between the rich and the poor, the concept that the separation is not just economically but is in fact a range of dimensions such as education, family structure, etc often becomes lost in translation. The Marxist lens discusses this issue; it uncovers that the class divide between the rich…

Societies in which organized religion is heavily involved in the government have historically limited personal liberties. According to Raif Badawi, a Saudi writer and activist, “States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.” These problems are not caused by the religion itself, and are instead caused by the way said religion is applied in society. In The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne often inserts commentary about Puritan…

Emile Durkheim today is known for his work in “sociology”. In Durkheim’s assessment in relation to employment, he firmly believed that work-related knowledge posed limitations of people’s choices in the workforce. Durkheim believed that “crime” is a typical attribute in all civilizations. Durkheim was a recognized for his thoughts on how “society” was organized. Durkheim concentrated his work on the operational of the usual and contemporary groups (Hurst, 2017). As stated by Hurt (2017),…

Civil Disobedience Mahatma Gandhi states, “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt” (Gandhi). Furthermore, within the dystopian world that Aldous Huxley proposes in “Brave New World,” the government is diminishing due to corruption. The society full of enslaved people are forced into conformity and dehumanization. These schemes that are conducted are pioneered by Ford, the Controller, and enforced by the Director. It is until…

There have many shifts in the world today, including shifts in economic systems. In “Theoretical”, an excerpt from Anti-Dühring, the author Frederick Engels describes the capitalist economic system. Within his description of capitalism, he defines the term historical materialism and its relations to defining social structure. In addition, Engels explains the fundamental contradiction in capitalism and the contradictions that arise from it. Furthermore, Engels explains what he envisions to be the…