Karl Popper

Traugott’s Organizational Hypothesis In his book, Armies of the Poor, Mark Traugott looks at the revolution in France from February 1848 to June 1848. Traugott’s goal is to explain his organizational hypothesis reasoning behind the Revolution of 1848. Traugott draws on the works of Tilly, Lees, and Chorley for his analysis. Traugott’s main argument is that the organizational hypothesis he puts forward can account for most, if not all the similarities and differences between the two groups…

Self Presentation The Sociologist and writer, Erving Goffman are widely known for his social theories presented in his book “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”. His work created a basis for sociology which is the study of a functioning human in society and for modern America. In this essay, his different theories will be discussed through a personal experience I had in my life while engaging in interpersonal communications. I will first start out with who I am and how I…

Socialism: What It Means Socialism needs to be clearly defined because the meaning of socialism gets confused with many other different classes of economic systems. The main mistake people make about socialism is that people confuse it with communism. Some people even think it is part of a capitalist form of economics. A good example of a socialist government, is the government of Cuba. In Cuba, the government owns the businesses, however the state hires the employees. As stated by Richard…

When Marx published his Communist Manifesto, the wealthy capitalists that owned means of production exploited working class by low-wages and inhumane working conditions. Whatever they produced, such as textiles, coal and iron were virtual necessities for even these workers and boycotting these products were practically impossible. One couldn’t go running around naked or spend Winters without any heating. Nowadays, it’s different. Thanks to capitalism and technological innovation, standard of…

everybody so that irrespective of what the individual has contributed, the person receives from the society as much as he/she needs. Similarly, Edmond Ugoh in his book, Agenda of Communism, argues that communism allows the weak that are not able to contribute much – even when they have put in their best, to have more than they are able to contribute if what they need is more than what they are able to contribute. This ideology is said to be utopia and it has only “existed under authoritarian…

The Sociological Hand to Communism in Black and White Society is obsessed with perfecting the world. From photoshopping beauty to creating robots to work for free, all of humanity is devoted and desperate to create a Utopia. They go to drastic measures to erase any trace of human imperfection and difference. In The Giver, the reader explores the Utopian state created by author, Lois Lowry. In this state there is not a trace of fear, pain, war, or hatred. There is no competition for social status…

Welfarism The word ‘welfarism’ as a midway between capitalism and socialism is said to have been “coined by the British economist John Hicks, and introduced into contemporary debate about social justice by Amartya Sen; and connotes that the distribution of economic goods is evaluated by the effect it has on the welfare of the persons concerned” (Web 29/03/2017). In a similar way, Omoregbe in his book, Social – Political Philosophy, states that “welfarism as a ‘midway’ between capitalism and…

Andrew Carnegie published his essay The Gospel of Wealth to fight for a change in capitalist world. He thinks that individual capitalist’s duty is to play a role in social and cultural influence, to improve the world. In his essay Carnegie mentions, “the duty of the man of wealth: first, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance” (The Gospel). Carnegie is saying that wealthy men need to be an example to everyone else. They need to act professional and…

Capitalism the economic and political structure in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state itself (Oxford English Dictionary, 2017). Capitalism is extremely present in the work “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville. Capitalism is present in sense that the story takes place on Wall Street. The take away of Wall Street and capitalism is that hard work reaps benefits in the form of monetary and respect…

Theory-Driven Analysis The Marxism theory is essential to understand political and economic statue. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expanded upon the theory of Marxism. The political and economic theories of Marx and Engels was later developed by their followers to form the basis for the practices of communism. However, the Marxism theory also applies to literature context. The Color Master demonstrates several examples of Marxism throughout the story. The Color Master, provides a perfect…