Social solidarity

Human curiosity has led to both positive and negative innovations for civilizations around the world. Throughout America’s history, oppressed groups have tried to accomplish certain goals using certain means of innovations and movements. Between Feminism and Civil Rights movements, they each have wondered what could be done to better their lives. Feminism’s roots began in the 1800s from the curiosity of what life would entail in a world where women could divorce their husbands, and where they…

Social control is an ideology constructed, in which Sociologists recognize two general functions of this concept, of formal and informal sanctions. The interrelation of these sanctions, depend on one another in order to restore influence (YouTube, 2017). The norms and values established within our society, are a fundamental part of this everyday socialization. Norms, based on the cultural attitudes of the society in which you live, shape a person's attitudes and behaviors of what is deemed…

Introduction Sociologists have developed three main perspectives to decipher the social world. Each perspective evaluates the society, social patterns, and behaviors through a different lens. These traditional paradigms include structural-functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. The structural-functional theory focuses on the interdependent role of each part that works collectively to stabilize the complex machine of society. The conflict theory considers the inevitable…

early 20th centuries, contributed many important works to the field of sociology. Tonnies' work focused largely on academic theory relating to society and social interaction, particularly because it is related to social change and the beliefs and traditions that guide society, but he is remembered for his distinction between two basic types of social groups- • Gemeinschaft (community) • Gesellschaft (society) This was his most influential work. Gemeinschaft Gemeinschaft is often translated…

conventional standards believed to help citizens create a balanced social and personal lifestyle. These norms were constructed in what we call: social contracts. The fathers of these social contracts were philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Their founding ethics gave birth to future philosophers’ views and opinions on these social standards. While some differences between Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau’s social contracts are evident, the premises of their contracts are…

materialist basis to Marxist philosophy. This is to uncover and comprehend a continuous developing subject with a logical method and reasoning (Sabine & Thorson 1973 p.687). Marx’s theory of revolutionary subjectivity suggests that in order for a radical social change to occur, this will depend on three conditions (Harrison 2014 p. 21). The first condition regards the productive powers of labour. This looks into the features of labour with conscious life activity, whereby this distinguishes us…

CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…

The chapters name “sectional prejudice”—and imply class division—as forces that may be stronger than racial solidarity. Working class distaste for the emerging black bourgeoisie (dubbed here “the colored 400”) manifests itself through a competition for the accouterments of middle class domesticity (183). The fair’s contests, conceived to raise money to pay the church’s mortgage, reward the individuals who sell the most tickets and refreshments with tokens of the bourgeoisie, including a piano,…

makes every effort to maintain the imposed social order, accepting it passively, and pushing away anything and everything that might challenge it. ‘Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!’ (Wharton 1920). There might be a debate about whether May was truly innocent or it was simply a façade to manipulate everyone around her who might jeopardize her social appearance. We are told that she…

Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality, assessed the daily social occurences of everyday life that create the basis of people’s behavior through social interactions. The extensively observe the interactions of people in a variety of scenarios as their learned behavior is applied to those certain situations. Their observations reveal how the social interactions of individuals create the social reality in which people live. Furthermore, they reveal that the basis of one’s social reality is…