Underclass

feral underclass, the white working class, the underserving poor and the selfish baby boomers’ (Biressi and Nunn, 2013). The overall aim of the book is to therefore deconstruct cultural aspects of society in order to fully understand the varying social aspects. Immediately, the title suggests that the authors will be examining a wide range of social issues relating to British culture and class, with chapters focusing specifically on social mobility and aspiration, the revolting underclass,…

The lives of American Americans have been shaped in many ways especially the community. In American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton and The African American Urban Experience: Perspective from the Colonial Period to the Present by Joe Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter used several scholars and data to understand urban poverty and segregation experienced by African Americans. However, both readings explore the different…

This article discussed the Chav as a new underclass, their social exclusion, their consumption and their presence in the media. The two main points were, Chav culture beside the etymology of the use of ‘Chav’, instead of underclass, in the popular English lexicon which explains the marginality reconfiguration after the substitution. Moreover, the discussion covered Chav stereotype either socially or in the Media. Afterwards, the critical commentary will assess this essay with reference to other…

Despite being considered one of the most prosperous countries in the world, the United States are not exempted from the common social issue: poverty. According to the Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013, a report made by the U.S. Census Bureau, the official poverty rate was 14.5 percent, down from 15.0 percent in 2012 (12). However, the poverty rate declining this little is no success since a large amount of people still has to live under the poverty line nevertheless the United…

made by a sociologist named Gilbert Kahn. According to Gilbert (2011) there was a total of six classes that explained the different jobs and incomes a person within the specific class category would make. The different classes were the following “underclass: unemployed or part time workers, the working poor: lowest paid manual workers, the working class: retail workers, middle class: semiprofessionals, upper middle class: upper managers, and the…

recipient, more specifically, the unemployed, working-age, able-bodied welfare recipient as a certain type of poor. The term could almost be synonymous with ‘undesirables’ as he identified the underclass as “people at the margins of society, unsocialised and often violent. The chronic criminal is part of the underclass, especially the violent chronic criminal.” (Sunday Times, 2014) He also detailed how these people come from families that relied on the state for generations. However, this is…

African Americans. This is a very good book for sociology majors to read. It is also a considerable reading for anyone interested in the causes of urban poverty. This book could be used to find out facts about segregation and the making of the underclass during the 20th century. This book has a lot of relevance to potential leaders, especially political, liberal, or conservative leaders. In my opinion, there should be no improvements, because this book is very well written, and…

Martin’s zombies are forced to toil on after ‘death’ for their overseers or controllers. They are not truly dead, but rather are created through medical and technological means rather than magical means as the zombies of Haitian origin. These poor souls have their brains removed and replaced by a synthetic substitute resulting in a shell with no soul to drive it. That function is fulfilled by their fully living human controllers (Martin, 2008). In this regard, the story is more of a tale of…

achieve this level of success, however barely 1% of them do. Henslin (2014) went on to depict that the highest percentage (34%) of American’s fall into the lower middle class and that roughly 5% of American’s are at the bottom of tier called the underclass (p.…

Everyone has qualities that are known to him when others recognize them. When two people meet, each other is quite certain of themselves but not the other. When the two consciences clash in a struggle of prestige each seeks to have other bow before him and admit its value without disputing. It is in this prestige struggle that we see the winner and the defeated one. The winner becomes the master and the defeated the slave. It is in such a situation that Hegel mentioned his famous assertion of…