1. Weber’s Three Types of Authority * Traditional authority-based in custom‚ hallmark of tribal groups. Custom dictates basic relationships. Birth dictates social level. * Rational Legal Authority-based on written rules. Refers to matters that have been agreed to by reasonable people and written into law(or regulation of some sort). May be as broad as a constitution for rights of all members of a society or as narrow as a contract between two people. Ruler’s word is subject to law
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Conflict theories are perspectives in social science that emphasize the social‚ political or material inequality of a social group‚ that critique the broad socio-political system‚ or that otherwise detract from structural functionalism and ideological conservativism. Conflict theories draw attention to power differentials‚ such as class conflict‚ and generally contrast historically dominant ideologies. It is therefore a macro level analysis of society. Karl Marx is the father of the social conflict
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Mohammad Abdullah Africa American History II Précis – Chapter 21 Marxism and the Negro Problem by W.E.B. Du Bois In this essay‚ W.E.B. Du Bois attempts to analyze Marxism and how it might be interpreted and applied as a solution to the problems facing Black people in the United States. Marxism‚ is basically an economic theory and philosophy that was put forward by Karl Marx in the late 19th century that explains the mechanisms of the system of capitalism as it relates to the different classes
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employment‚ eliminating discrimination‚ avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers. In fact they are--or would be if they or anyone else took them seriously--preaching pure and unadulterated socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades. The discussions of the "social responsibilities of business" are notable for their analytical
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for each other as individuals and as a country. This play has a moral message (like a fable‚ with a lesson to be learned at the end); that we should think of others and work together to ensure a fairer‚ more equal society‚ This idea is known as socialism; even now‚ the political party Labour to some extent follow this idea. When the play was first published‚ Labour had just taken over the country for the first time. Before Labour‚ the country was run by Capitalists; these people believed that each
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of reality. MSNBC Talk show host Lawarnce O Donnel has even called himself a Socialist It is possible that the recent events of this year will trigger the end of the American Regean Revoultion and hopefuly open up a new age of Progressivm and Socialism. NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE BAD NOT ALL AMERICANS POLITICANS ARE EVIL CAPTIALISTS Half of the United States is a Liberal/ Proggresive Society if not Socialist As for Bill Clintion and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell- He was only trying to cater to the
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allowed to work at night in machinery (Doc 4). It allowed the child under 18 to work less than 12 hours a day or less than 69 hours in any one-week. There was a ten hours act‚ which said that the women or children’s limit workdays are 10 hours. Socialism is one of the roles of government in the economy. Adam Smith‚ who is the father of capitalism‚ believes in laissez-faire‚ "hands off" the government. He believes all production should be sale at the best possible lowest price. (Doc 5) While Adam
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movements‚ Emma Goldman Suggested editorials: a woman seeking to ban alcohol‚ or prostitution‚ one from Emma Goldman Suggested Title: Le Munde or the Parisian Post Topics to be covered: labor union movement‚ workers and the political system‚ socialism and Karl Marx‚ nationalism and the realignment of borders‚ Bismark’s plan to unite Germany‚ problems in Britain‚ why nationalism failed in Austria and Russia‚ Tsar Alexander II Suggested editorials: one from Karl Marx and one from Bismark or Tsar
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The Age of Enlightenment & French/American Revolutions Enlightenment: * A philosophical movement in the 18th century characterized by the belief in the power of human reason and in the critical use of the intellect to reform society in accordance with rational principles. (Reason over tradition) William Blake * William Blake was a poet of the Romanticism movement concerned with the state of society. He challenged society and the prevailing modes of thought with his own unique and
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aggressive matters in order to take control of the upper class to allow the lower classes to be out of poverty. Overall Marx saw the Industrial Revolution as the start of the economic disputes that was necessary to order to develop a new theory based on Socialism which eventually evolved into Communism.
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