Utopian socialism

Daniel Timi Professor Weber Beauty/Ugliness 8/5/17-Saturday CTP: Public vs. Private Spheres The nineteenth century guided strong turbulence to the western community. The industrial revolution and democratic ideals swept throughout Europe and changed the daily lives of…

optimistic about becoming a good worker and participating in the economy, being productive, and belonging, which Berlant recognizes as an affective state of citizenship (Berlant 282). The desire for security and aspiration to be normal become nearly utopian as her only possible desire is narrowed down to a job, where an informal and exploitative waffle shop is enough to rest her anxiety. Precarity has created a spirit of needing and wanting to be worker, even to the point where Rosetta feels…

Adam Smith, a world renowned economist born in 1723, laid out a strategy for capitalist trade through his book, “The Wealth of Nations.” The “invisible hand” is vital to our society; when a person pursues their “self-love,” the society indirectly benefits. Famous economist Adam Smith introduced the “invisible hand in his world renowned economic novel “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith explains the “invisible hand” as ‘the subtle market force that helps the supply and demand of products in a free…

Capitalist theory and communist theory have significant opposing views on two major issues; overtime for employees and the scope of government regulation. The etiological foundation of capitalist theory is centered on the free market and personal economic liberties. Capitalism embraces the amassing of revenue, free enterprise, and rivalry; giving the business owner more power and ownership. Communist theory fixates on the awareness of the contributions and influence of the working lower class…

Humans live and act depending on their moral codes. These beliefs dictate what is important in life. So to understand a person’s priorities, one must reach the root of a person’s belief. One thing that often affects a person’s beliefs is society. Specifically, people who live in places like Imperial Russia. Those people’s beliefs were highly affected by the strict class system that was based on wealth and encouraged by Russia. The people, like nobles who had the most money usually held the most…

One day Alice Goffman receives a letter from an undergrad at Temple University describing how difficult the job market is for them. Goffman then thinks about if middle class students are having a hard time finding a job in 2015, then those with no college education/degree may also be suffering financially in the working class. Another negative aspect of society Goffman focuses on that follows her train of thought with economic inequality/hardship, is the current state of mass incarceration,…

The study of human behavior is constantly being analyzed in order to understand the structure of society. Sociologists study the changes of society by looking at different perspectives that focus on specific small events and larger social patterns. They determine how people can ultimately influence and change society over time. Sociologists base their theories by using various theoretical perspectives that set the framework for their observations. One theoretical perspective is known as the…

A Discourse on Social Matters Political theorist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, has shared many of his wise understandings of society in his work, “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”. Rousseau is viewed as one of the most renowned French philosophers of the 18th century. In this work, he focuses on the state of nature of man and brilliantly compares the savage man to the civil man. He also mentions pity and how the human race would be chaotic without it. I agree with these ideas of Rousseau, and…

Whenever someone hears the term culture, many things will come to their mind. If you even “Google” the definiton of culture, you will get many different definitions of just this one word. Growing up, I just thought is was the mix of everyone’s beliefs, all of their traditions, and whatever else made them who they were, and that everyone had a different culture. After reading this chapter, I didn’t realize how much could come from such a small word. In the book, Conley breaks culture into many…

Communist Manifesto In the beginning it states a theme that is going to be throughout the chapter, that is the class struggles or social class. It shows the struggles of middle class workers and how society was splitting into two different classes, dividing everyone the way they set in the social class or by money. It is then seen that there are impacts between the two classes of society. Then in the next part of the reading it goes on to talk about capitalism. In the reading Marx relates…