Karl Otto Koch

The mental frameworks we use to make sense of the world is known as ideology. Louis Althusser, a French Marxist, described it as “an imaginary relationship of an individual to real conditions of existence”. Althusser’s goal is to display how ideology works and for us to challenge it, he does this by splitting ideology into Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) and Repressive State Apparatus (RSA). In season 6 episode 24 of Grey’s Anatomy ISA and RSA are both used by multiple characters and both are…

Edgar Solis Professor Shea English 101 12/10/2017 Capitalism Vs. Socialism: Which is better and which is moral? Socialism is no new thing. It is not new to mankind. It is an idea, the promise of a better life for all, that has been around of centuries. Several nations around the globe have experimented with this economic system, but although it is a system that has been tried, it is not one that is all that true. There have been great strides towards socialism and away from capitalism in…

Modern Shit The History of Shit by Dominique Laporte explores the function of waste throughout history as it plays roles in the development of language, technological development, and government laws. Correspondingly, the silent film Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, explores the consequences of the growth and use of new technologies in the industrial sphere and critiques the effect that it has on communication. Both texts reference industrialization as Chaplin analyzes the hierarchical…

130641T S. C. P. Weerasinghe George Orwell’s Animal Farm and it’s depiction of post-revolution Soviet Russia Animal farm is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. Although disguised as a story of animals living in a farm, this story actually reflects the political situation in Russia, starting from the era of Tsar Nicholas, right through to the era of Joseph Stalin. Author clearly uses a series of metaphorical events and characters to portray how after a revolution fuelled by oppressed public,…

In Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower the reader sees a society whose commons has been destroyed by large-scale forces such as an alternative-right wing President controlling an inadequate, neoliberal economy, a capitalist civilization which fails to maximize the ‘good’ of all citizens, and a national ideology that is built upon a rigid, outdated set of values. The large-scale failure of the commons coincides with the theory proposed by Hardin about what makes an unsuccessful or…

When reading Karl Marx’ and Frederick Engels’ The Communist Manifesto the same argument is used, they argue that capitalism is an evolution of the feudal economy and call for a proletarian revolution promising a utopia of ‘stateless communism’ once the condition of class consciousness is reached. “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of…

Introduction to the article : This is an analysis of the article ‘’Why Should the Global Reserve System Be Reformed?’’ from José Antonio Ocampo , he is a Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global, Thought at Columbia University; He holds a BA in Economics and Sociology from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in Economics from Yale University .He has received a number of…

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a German philosopher and Marxist sociologist who was a member of The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. His works are still acclaimed by the public and they are mostly giving arguments against capitalism, modern technology and the entertainment culture amongst others because they represent, according to him, a form of social control. One of his most acclaimed work, One-Dimensional Man which was published in 1962. We have to keep in mind that he was writing at a…

While there may be many various explanations to the theory, involving the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills explains it as one of the key ways, in which individuals can understand society and social change. (sociological imagination handout, pg3) It is similar to putting on a new pair of glasses, in this case, with sociological lenses. One may begin to see the world, society, behaviors, and everyday interactions in a distinctively different way. To apply the sociological imagination,…

JAIMINKUMAR PAREKH 7792906 ASSIGNMENT; CRIME ANALYSIS CASE ANALYSIS OF ZIMMERMAN VERSUS MARTIN USING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES Sociological theories helps to understand relationships between individual and the society. “Sociological theories are defined as the statements of how and why particular facts are related.... used to analyze and explain objects of social study and facilitate organizing sociological knowledge”,(sociological perspective, 2013). The 2013 case Zimmerman versus Martin is a…