Social solidarity

In “The Managed Hand”, occurrences of manicuring services framed complicated emotional and embodied interactions between different women. Two women sit across each other in a nail salon, but are differentiated by class and race. The manicurist is engaged in Kang’s analysis based on “body labor” which includes physical labor of managing the bodily appearance of the customer through touching, manicuring, and emotional labor of exhibiting feelings that encourage delightful feelings in the customers…

experiences and solidarities. A few examples of these identities were: African’s in the Congo, nobles, bourgeoisies, proletarians and the Jews. All of these different identities had a mixed effect on the European’s in the 1880’s through the mid twentieth century depending on their individual rights, their state of formation, their extension of social classes and how Social Darwinist thinking impacted the relations between these various collectives. Therefore, because of these things,…

1. In what sense was Gandhi an agent of nonviolent social change? To be an agent of nonviolent social change is to be an instrument of reconciliation in bringing together individuals and groups to resolve conflict in a nonviolent manner. Gandhi embodied these aspects through satyagraha, swadeshi, and sarvodaya. Through the implementation of these revolutionary, yet peaceful initiatives, Gandhi established himself as an agent of nonviolent social change. The first component is satyagraha,…

Social class is an important dimension of social organization and division. Yet different scholars have very distinct understandings of the meaning of social class, how it should be studied, and how it is related to the broader social order. Choose at least two scholars and analyze their conceptions of social class. What do their conceptions have in common? How are they different? Which understanding of social class is most useful for understanding the dynamics of stratification in contemporary…

well-being of human beings living together in so far as they are members of a concrete human society, family, association, business and State; it could stand for both the general good of an entire society and the special concrete well-being of specific social units” (10-11). In a similar way, Anozie in his book, Morality in the Society: A Theological Ethical Study, explains common good as a good which is required by all the members of the same society, and also a good of the society. It is a…

The Third Wave: 1915-1960 The Black Working Class Meets the Aristocracy As the century came to a close, the old black elite was losing their position due to the rapid economic and social changes in America. A newly developing black middle class that excelled based on economic and educational achievement began integrating with the previous black upper class. This new group still consisted of blacks that worked as businessmen, professionals and in white-collar jobs from the…

all examples of modern day social injustices. The Berkley Social Justice Symposium defines social justice as, “ a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action.” In other words, social justice is the state of…

various issues that we face throughout our society today, social movements have become a popular part of achieving change throughout the world. A social movement can be defined as “ not a marginal rejection of order, they are the central forces fighting…

The end of the 1st Reconstruction brought new laws of segregation and institutional racism that, to black outrage, would not be challenged until the civil rights movement of the mid-1900s. At first, African Americans relied on white leaders to take action on desegregation decisions including Brown v. Board of Education, but these decisions failed to gain momentum. Exasperated, black people started the process on their own with boycott movements, yet these actions were still reactive and passive…

role in understanding the injustices and atrocities of the Dalit people. Ambedkar's extensive writings and speeches on caste, religion, untouchability, Adivasis and tribes not only challenged the received norm that Brahmin remains at the top in the social hierarchy and is, naturally, entitled to power. But…