Underclass

Holstorm Changes” is a hip hop song by Tupac Shakur. The song was originally recorded during his tenure at Inters cope records in 1992. The song makes references to the war on drugs, the treatment of black people by the police, the difficulties of life in the ghetto, and the perpetuation of poverty and its accompanying vicious cycle value system in the urban American culture. “Changes” has remained one of Tupac’s most notable and popular songs in hip hop history. The late Tupac was an African…

Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it…

America.” The Mcgraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. Gilbert H. Muller, 12th ed., Mcgraw-Hill, 2014, pp. 195-197. In “What College Can Mean to the Other America,” Mike Rose discusses the issue of how America’s economy leaves the underclass without opportunities in postsecondary education. Rose seems to direct this issue towards an audience who can make a difference. At the end of his article, Rose states, “What kind of society do we want to become?” (p.197). By making this…

models used in criminological theory, they never account for racist or elitist tendencies to wield power in favor of like individuals. What would the theories of Shaw and McKay look like if it interpreted data from the perspective of an impoverished underclass? It is in my honest opinion that the theoretical models would not work properly within those parameters without providing a motivation for the constant individual cultivation of extreme wealth. The prison industrial complex has proven to…

under capitalism are not created because of the success or failure of those in the marketplace, but because of the fluctuations of pricing, obviously inflationary fluctuations being the most notable culprit. The U.S. had a far less % of poverty and underclass based upon population size before the inception of welfare than it has at any point since. The War on Poverty, begun in the 1970’s has seen the spending of trillions of wasted dollars to fix a problem it has only greatly exacerbated. Not…

Sociology theories can be viewed from all parts of life, including movies. In Time, a science-fiction film released in 2011 is a great example of not only sociological theories at play, but for specifically spotting themes that Karl Marx and Max Weber wrote about in their writings. To better understand the movie first, before diving into an analytical look at the film, I will give a small narration of the plot. The citizens in the movie including the main characters, Will Salas and Sylvia Weiss…

MLK fought against discrimination towards black people for over a decade. Laws were created in order to achieve racial equality, however black people are still being stereotyped. Majority of black people are seen as underclass, drug lords, homeless, unintelligent, murderers, thieves, etc. People continue to disregard laws that go against discrimination. The president of America, Barak Obama, is an African-American, yet people still believe that African-Americans are…

and it will able to determine the classes of people – valid or invalid. Even though Gattaca was set in a different time and place than our owns, society is still facing the discrimination issue – Genoism – it is called; Vincent belonged to a new underclass no longer determined by social status or skin colour, he was having discriminated down to a science. Gattaca is oppressive, the tiny individual has to versus the society which everyone is accepting and passive of their places – no one would…

few male writers like Victor Hugo. The situations and struggles of sex workers have not changed drastically since the 19th century, as portrayed by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables through the life of Fantine. Prostitution and the suffering of the underclass is something Hugo focused on a lot throughout the novel. He described the suffering of women and what drives them into the industry. It was described to be the last resort for suffering women, as demonstrated by the life of Fantine. She was…

The homeless are the “fallout” of our postindustrial economy (Henslin 275). Reading further led me to believe that they are part of a social class, known as the underclass. Welfare, food stamps, and food pantries are their main support. Later, there was a section that perfectly answers the question of homeless mothers entitled “The Feminization of Society”. I have learned many times during the course of the completion…