Social stratification

theoretical tendencies on social change are most aligned with critical theory. This is not because I am overly critical of all aspects of society, however, I am most often critical of the structural systems in place that appear to work as machines of oppression and interest groups rather than social justice and equality. This personal predisposition supports an approach that is congruent with structural social work theory. Structural social work critiques existing social, economic, and political…

Can social class affect the outcome of how a person will be in the future? In “Discontent” Michael McGerr focuses on the differences between the upper-ten, the middle class, and the working-class in order to see the differences between each. Wealth is the determinant of how a person is raised and how they will live the rest of their lives. First, the wealthiest class was the upper ten. McGerr writes, “The ‘upper ten’ were no more than a tiny minority, a mere sliver of the nation. Wealthy…

Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, depicts a society in the Regency era in which the sole importance of young women is in the acquisition of a husband in order to be regarded as a respectable woman by the society. The story itself begins with the sentence “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”(Austen, 1995). In chapter 1 clearly that shows the importance of marriage for men with wealth and for women to…

interactions that occur inside of a family and how the family as a social institution contributes to the structure of society. There are three main theories that are used to investigate the influence of society on families at the micro and macro levels, these paradigms are the structural functional…

The Silk Road was a network of trading routes, involving the passing of goods to people from city to city. Between 200 BCE to 1450 CE the Silk Road had experienced important transitions that would alter societies, including major religions, the social hierarchies, and the rise and fall of empires. With these changes, some of the ideas of society stayed consistent like the desire for luxury goods by the upper class. The Silk Roads played a major role in the spread of multiple religions. The…

The Social Contract The purpose of the social contract is to bring people together in a society, and then to decide the positions of people in their society. They do this by transferring their rights to another person through a social contract. Once a person leaves the state of nature and is brought into a society, a social contract is the only way for the individual to benefit from what a commonwealth and partnership can bring but also have some sort of obligation to contribute to that society…

inequality within British society using the participants as samples of different classes within the social hierarchy. Through 28 up we see that participants’ life trajectories are determined by their social class and the education they have received. However the participants do not alway see that their life course has been determined by the the opportunities and constraints they have had based on their social social standing. Rather they see it as their own actions and choices that have led them…

In this novel the element of geography is more dominant. Fitzgerald combines real and fictional places to create an ideal setting for the story. Through the main protagonists of this novel which live in a places divided by a bay according to their social class we can see four main places in the novel. 1.West Egg- represents the newly rich people. It is a place that represents the mood of the 1920s. Is where Nick moves to when he finds a job in New York and where he meets his neighbor Mr.…

Marxist Criticism Analysis in Doll’s House Play Karl Marx produced an exceeding complex theory consisting of at least three inter-related elements: a theory of economics, a theory of social class, and a theory of history. The working class that Marx called proletariat is paid too little to buy all the products the workers have made. The basic idea of Marxism is the Human thought is the product of the socio-economic condition (Letterbie 1259). Although this idea shows how the upper class is…

According to Bernstein (2004), the two main types of pedagogies- traditional and progressive are not neutral but based on the social class assumptions and interest. Firstly I will discuss the difference between the two modes of visible and invisible pedagogies. Secondly I will discuss the social assumptions of visible and invisible pedagogies. Lastly I will discuss the implications of the visible and invisible pedagogies for education practice. According to Bernstein (2004), visible pedagogy is…