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    Winners and losers A capitalist society is based on the idea that you can’t get ahead in life without stepping on someone else’s back. In Ursula Le Guin’s story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”, written in 1973, show a society where everyone is happy and full of life. This town is an almost utopian society when the story begins. Children are running and playing, and the narrator talks about how great the city is. However, the city is not as good as it seems. This is because the source of…

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    rational thought that is prominent in the Protestant ethic. According to Weber, this leads to a world in which the individual’s freedom is at threat, often trapping them in an iron cage. Weber establishes that the spirit of capitalism is imbedded in the Protestant ethic. He explains that those who are financially successful have roots in Protestantism. This can be explained by “…the spirit of hard work, of progress, or whatever else…

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    Fall 2016 IPED 202 Final Exam Questions Which of the three findings in the article do you find most troubling about our economy and society? Please list and explain each briefly. (20 points) Unemployment rate increased highly so that people had hard time to find jobs. In the article, the annual survey depicts, "Unemployment skyrocketed to 10 percent and the jobless rate is still a stubbornly high 9.6 percent." Therefore, people hard to earn money if people do not have jobs. As the unemployment…

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    information about “how the effects of the state institution and state policies operate to fulfill this general maintenance function.” (p. 51). In applying the method of power structure research, instrumentalists Marxist based on two theoretical principles taken from Capital volume I. These principles are the Principle of Commodification and the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. The basic notion of the principle of commodification is the capitalism converts all use values to exchange values…

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    Capitalism in our country has grown and expanded to such an extent that it has reached a point of invincibility almost. Capitalism has throughout the years created groups or even categories of social economic class within the population, which has dramatically changed the way we all view each other. Along with inequality, it has created a difficult structure for the people of lower classes to be able to climb up into a higher class to be able succeed in life, which many times fails because they…

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    certain way. The choices they make to live a healthy lifestyle can give them far more chances to live longer and have a healthy life. Reading about Weber and Bourdieu I found their research very interesting in studying why some social lasses are healthy than others. Also in studying their research they both had views on lifestyles that individuals take on. Weber viewed people’s choices to live a healthy life due to consumption. He saw that people had a purpose of…

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    Alienation is defined as “the transformation of people’s own labor into a power which rules them as if by a kind of natural or supra-human law” ("Marxism & Alienation"). This idea was developed by Marx in his 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. He believes there are five dimensions and three sources of alienation which in commodities have powers to govern the activity of human beings. The first aspect of alienation is the product itself. This allows the capitalist to generate…

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    Gender based identities have been created through the history and described by different perspectives from liberalism to evolutionally psychology. Liberal view of the role of women is that house work and childcare is a personal choice and women choose to do these tasks. Liberalism separates two aspects of life, public and private. They believe that public decision is political and economic matter to the life of people and personal decision is about what you do and buy. There is no connection…

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    Karl Marx criticizes capitalism in a multitude of his essays, including the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. His critique of capitalism varies from the exploitation of workers to the instability of the capitalist system, but fundamentally his issue with capitalism is the dehumanization of laborers. Marx argues that under capitalism, laborers are dehumanized because they are alienated, or disconnected from fundamental human properties, in four aspects – products of labor, labor,…

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    Weber 's worry with the implying that individuals provide for their activities permitted him to comprehend the float of verifiable change. He trusted that sound activity inside an arrangement of sane legitimate power is at the heart of present day society. His human science was above all else an endeavor to investigate and clarify this moves from conventional to normal activity. Weber came to trust that the legitimization of activity must be acknowledged when customary lifestyles are surrendered…

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