Differences And Inequalities Persist Over Time

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This essay asks to discuss some of the ways in which differences and inequalities persist over time, suggesting that they are not static, continuing to be made and remade by the actions of people and society. With Inequality being defined as ‘‘The unequal distribution of valued social resources within society or between societies including money, housing, power, health and education”. whilst Differences is defined as “contrasts between groupings of people such as those based on gender, class, age, sexuality and race, including things people value and the variations between them including their physical, behavioural, attitudes and preferences”. (Blakeley and Staples, 2014 p 25). However, it is noted not all differences will lead to inequalities, …show more content…

Bauman, Z, (1988) cited in Hetherington K, and Harvard C.(eds) (2014, pg.126,142). He further claims, “This is the characteristic pattern of inequality in our contemporary consumer society one that contrasts with the lines of class and occupational status that characterised the major cleavages in Industrial society”. Bauman, Z, (1988) cited in Alan, J. (2014 pg. 275). Moreover, consumerism encourages people to consume creating their own identities, replacing Identities centred on production and work. Furthermore, Hayek in the ‘Ordering Lives Strand’ claims “The market should be free of political intervention allowing individuals to be free to pursue their own interests” Hayek, F.A. (1976). cited in Clarke, J. (2014 pg.380). However, Allen. claims “The ability to ‘buy into’ a particular lifestyle actively excludes others from it on the basis of lack of income and those unable to do so will be seen as unworthy or inadequate” (Allen, J. 2014 P. 278). Thus constraints can be seen placed on people through lack of income, turning differences into inequalities with evidence indicating that ‘People’s values, beliefs and status are now shaped by ‘Consuming’ rather than as in Industrial times by work, politics and religion’, (The Open University, 2016). Therefore, differences which turn into inequalities are as predominant in today’s consumer society as they were in our industrial

In this essay, the author

Explains that differences and inequalities are not static, continuing to be made and remade by the actions of people and society.
Argues that with the loss of manufacturing and production in this country, we have seen the rise of the ‘consumer society’ with people now being identified not as in the past by what job they do or what they produced.
Argues that consumerism encourages people to consume creating their own identities, replacing identities centred on production and work.

Explains that differences and inequalities are not static, continuing to be made and remade by the actions of people and society.
Argues that with the loss of manufacturing and production in this country, we have seen the rise of the ‘consumer society’ with people now being identified not as in the past by what job they do or what they produced.
Argues that consumerism encourages people to consume creating their own identities, replacing identities centred on production and work.
Explains that with 'market freedoms' now allowing people to choose their individual lifestyles it can also constrain them creating differences, whereby obvious inequalities in income and wealth will be seen between people who can and cannot consume.

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analytical essay
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analytical essay
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comparative essay
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- Explains that social inequality is a situation in which you can find differences between individual groups in the society from the perspective of their social groups, social clubs or social status.
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- Explains that social mobility in the long term is the ability of an individual or group to move from one social status to another.
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analytical essay
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- Analyzes how the picture, holiday shopping, taken on black friday by charlie riedel, embodies the need for consumption as a higher priority to american shoppers than their biological needs for sleep and their family values.
- Analyzes how riedel's strategic placement enhances the idea that this woman’s family values have been compromised by using one vector of the shelf holding the computers to create separation.
- Analyzes how riedel strategically instills the usage of lighting and placement of shot for viewers to develop a more detailed inference of the happenings in this photograph.
- Analyzes how the picture, holiday shopping, taken on black friday by charlie riedel, embodies the need for consumption as a higher priority to american shoppers than their biological needs for sleep and their family values.
- Analyzes how riedel's strategic placement enhances the idea that this woman’s family values have been compromised by using one vector of the shelf holding the computers to create separation.
- Analyzes how riedel strategically instills the usage of lighting and placement of shot for viewers to develop a more detailed inference of the happenings in this photograph.
- Analyzes how jonathan crary's book, "24/7: late capitalism and the ends of sleep," argues that consumerism is becoming more important than our biological need of sleep.
- Analyzes how black friday embodies the controversy surrounding american's growing obsession with consumption. stores open and close at unorthodox times, disrupting sleep in both consumers and overworked employees.
- Argues that while many would argue that black friday exists solely as a capitalist driven holiday, there is an argument that this day is not entirely corporate ruse.
- Compares crary's argument of a 24/7 consuming lifestyle with american capitalism and the negative impact it has on sleep.
- Analyzes how hamilton's article argues that wealthy citizens self-identity is now coinciding with the amount and direct value of their obsessive commodity consumption.
- Analyzes how hamilton's photograph represents the death-like grip and manipulative manner of new-age capitalism, intertwining consumerist values and family life.
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fight club
analytical essay
At first, the narrator conforms to the uneventful and dull capitalist society. He fines success in his work at an automobile manufacture, has obtained a large portion of his Ikea catalog, and has an expansive wardrobe. He is defined by his possessions and has no identity outside his furniture, which he remarks, “I wasn’t the only slave of my nesting instincts” (Palahniuk, 43) and “I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things.” (Palahniuk, 146) For the narrator, there is no fine line between the consumer [narrator] and the product. His life at the moment is a cycle of earning a wage, purchasing products, and representing himself through his purchases. “When objects and persons exist as equivalent to the same system, one loses the idea of other, and with it, any conception of self or privacy.” (Article, 2) The narrator loses sight of his own identity; he has all these material goods, but lacks the qu...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how paul palahniuk's fight club is about the issues of masculinity in our modern capitalist society.
- Analyzes how the narrator conforms to the uneventful and dull capitalist society. he is defined by his possessions and lacks the qualities of a manly life.
- Analyzes how tyler introduces the narrator to fight club where he realizes that life under capitalism is unbearable and alienating.
- Analyzes how paul palahniuk's fight club is about the issues of masculinity in our modern capitalist society.
- Analyzes how the narrator conforms to the uneventful and dull capitalist society. he is defined by his possessions and lacks the qualities of a manly life.
- Analyzes how tyler introduces the narrator to fight club where he realizes that life under capitalism is unbearable and alienating.
- Analyzes how the narrator struggles to reach society's expectations of masculinity since he has no real identity as a male. marla, who attends support groups, doesn't let him be his true self.
- Analyzes how the narrator sees fight club as a chance to redeem the traditional values of masculinity that modern society has gone away with.
- Analyzes how the narrator and tyler face challenges and conflicts concerning their masculinity and their identity through the novel fight club.
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analytical essay
The world has modernized considerably since the early 1900s, society is more accepting and understanding. Society still have a lot of room for improvement though, individuals still get judged due to the color of their skin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and economic class. The inequalities among people are very real and exist even though people deny or are ignorant about these inequalities. A sociological imagination can interpret, analyze, and sort out the reasons for these inequalities and
In this essay, the author
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- Argues that sociological imagination can interpret, analyze, and sort out the reasons for these inequalities and make diverse perspectives on the matter.
- Analyzes how society influences a person's thoughts, likes and dislikes, ambition, and opinions. a sociological imagination would have allowed the individual to understand the truth and reasons why she was taught that way.
- Explains that a sociological imagination is when one considers everyday life from the perspective of the sociologist.
- Argues that sociological imagination can interpret, analyze, and sort out the reasons for these inequalities and make diverse perspectives on the matter.
- Analyzes how society influences a person's thoughts, likes and dislikes, ambition, and opinions. a sociological imagination would have allowed the individual to understand the truth and reasons why she was taught that way.
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analytical essay
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In this essay, the author
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- Explains that working class individuals are disadvantaged in terms of their income, wealth and health.
- Analyzes how giddens identifies two groups of the ‘super rich’ upper class: ‘jet set or pop aristocracy’, such as cheryl cole, and ‘entrepreneurial rich,’ like richard branson.
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- Explains that working class individuals are disadvantaged in terms of their income, wealth and health.
- Analyzes how giddens identifies two groups of the ‘super rich’ upper class: ‘jet set or pop aristocracy’, such as cheryl cole, and ‘entrepreneurial rich,’ like richard branson.
- Argues that feminists believe that females are disadvantaged in terms of life chances. oakley believes that girls are socialised into limited roles by canalisation, manipulation, verbal appellations, and different activities.
- Argues that changes in society have meant that males can also suffer inequality and attitudes are changing to allow women to suffer less inequality.
- Explains that older people suffer more inequality in terms of life chances, such as being portrayed negatively in the media. featherstone and wernick believe that birthday cards point out the distaste towards the ageing population.
- Argues that the media amplifies youth deviance and creates moral panics about young people.
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- Argues that despite ethnic minorities suffering from a concrete ceiling, individuals can overcome it and succeed. dale et al believe that there is evidence of change across the generations.
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analytical essay
Lorber, J. (2003). The social construction of difference and inequality . Boston : McGraw Hill.
In this essay, the author
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- Explains that gender is constructed by society and therefore, it is constantly changing over time. gender roles are often expected soon after a child is born.
- Analyzes how the concept of gender is carried out in dirty dancing. baby is depicted as an outlier who wants to change the world and be a doctor like her dad.
- Analyzes how the main characters in the movie dirty dancing are frances houseman, 17, and johnny castle, a supposedly twenty-five-year-old dance instructor.
- Explains that gender is constructed by society and therefore, it is constantly changing over time. gender roles are often expected soon after a child is born.
- Analyzes how the concept of gender is carried out in dirty dancing. baby is depicted as an outlier who wants to change the world and be a doctor like her dad.
- Analyzes how the movie depicts what it may have been like for a young woman in the 1960s. the gender message for males is to not give up and stand up for what you believe in.
- Explains that the meaning behind things in movies is not always clear and therefore, it is up to the viewer to determine what the actual meaning is.
- Analyzes how the movie dirty dancing reflects on a time period set about twenty years prior to the release of the film. the movie showcases typical gender construction and meaning for the 1960's.
- Cites ardolino, gottileb, and phillips on the social construction of difference and inequality.
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Personal Narrative: Field Experience
explanatory essay
I empathized deeply with these groups and gained a broader perspective on global struggles with inequality. When I returned to my home university, my mentor and professor, Dr. Hopkins, encouraged me to explore the issues I had learned about abroad in greater depth. Before I left to study abroad, I had developed a questionnaire to assess the perceptions of inequality in each country I visited. Now that I have returned to my university, I have begun mining my data to answer four primary questions: To what extent are people conscious of inequalities? To what do people attribute inequality? To what extent does inequality affect the quality of life in a given country? Does skin tone/color correlate to inequality
In this essay, the author
- Describes how they were engulfed by lu paul, a native hawaiian advocate, who told them how native hawaiians lost their rights. they began to broaden their perspective of inequality and minority rights, along with other field experiences.
- Describes how they received the hbcu scholarship to attend the semester at sea program and gained a far-reaching global education through intensive study and meaningful field programs.
- Explains that their field programs in morocco, china, myanmar, and south africa provided opportunities for them to interact meaningfully with members of the country's indigenous and minority populations.
- Describes how they were engulfed by lu paul, a native hawaiian advocate, who told them how native hawaiians lost their rights. they began to broaden their perspective of inequality and minority rights, along with other field experiences.
- Describes how they received the hbcu scholarship to attend the semester at sea program and gained a far-reaching global education through intensive study and meaningful field programs.
- Explains that their field programs in morocco, china, myanmar, and south africa provided opportunities for them to interact meaningfully with members of the country's indigenous and minority populations.
- Describes how semester at sea provided a global lens through which to consider issues they have been intimately aware of their entire life.
- Describes how their lament transformed into a mission when they enrolled in local college courses through an advanced placement program. through scholarship and research, they began to identify the causes of statistics that had once weighed so heavily on them.
- Describes how they were invited to campus connections, a group founded by community leader mr. baucom to encourage students from underrepresented racial groups to attend college.
- Describes how they became involved with the predominately african-american and low-income community of petersburg, va, in response to a sudden increase in hiv rates.
- Describes how they decided to expand their experience with community development through a fellowship program. they are currently teaching high school equivalency course to adults aiming to earn their diploma.
- Opines that their ultimate goal is to pursue a law degree at uc berkeley so that they may address these issues through legislation and advocacy.
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Economic Incimality: The Problem Of Economic Inequality
explanatory essay
Economic Inequality is an issue one has been fighting against for some time now. It comes from the conflict theory, which states that there are finite resources, which creates competition. Those who are known as the have not are the lower class the ones who don’t have the resources. In class we looked at inequality as a bell curve starting with the have not lower class, the middle class, and the upper class. In the bell curve explanation it describes how the upper class wants to maintain power and in doing so they act in ways which harm both the middle and lower class. We also talked about the experience of being poor, middle class, or rich with some exercises and videos. We also discussed how Americans make sense of inequality. In this essay I will be discussing Royce’s book Poverty & Inequality: The Problem of Structural Inequality where he explains that to understand poverty and inequality there are some theories, individual and structural. The main focus of this essay will be the individual theory, and how the person who I interviewed made me
In this essay, the author
- Explains that economic inequality is an issue one has been fighting against for some time. they will discuss royce's book poverty & inequality: the problem of structural
- Explains that the individual explanation is based on the idea that poverty is caused by each individual's actions and decisions.
- Narrates how their interviewee, born in guatemala, decided to come to america at the age of twenty. she studied hard to get accepted into the nursing program of college of marin. after becoming a registered nurse, she started her auto repair business.
- Explains that economic inequality is an issue one has been fighting against for some time. they will discuss royce's book poverty & inequality: the problem of structural
- Explains that the individual explanation is based on the idea that poverty is caused by each individual's actions and decisions.
- Narrates how their interviewee, born in guatemala, decided to come to america at the age of twenty. she studied hard to get accepted into the nursing program of college of marin. after becoming a registered nurse, she started her auto repair business.
- Narrates how their experience made them see economic inequality as an individual’s fault.
- Explains the human capital theory, which states that poor people are poor because they lack education, work experience, and skills.
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Effects Of Inequality On Health
argumentative essay
In a book called ‘The spirit level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger’, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett provide an overview based on medical and socio-logical research that links inequality to poor outcomes not only in health, but also in other social determinants such as education, crime rates and violence, social mobility. [2]
In this essay, the author
- Concludes richard wilkinson's talk that we should explore more the reasons for the big gap within the society and the variation, both at cross-cultural and individual level.
- Explains that the corrosive effects of inequality on health are strongly associated with poorer outcomes.
- Explains that integration between social life, individual values, social morality contributes towards the growth of a social capital, which promotes care and discourages anti-social aggression.
- Concludes richard wilkinson's talk that we should explore more the reasons for the big gap within the society and the variation, both at cross-cultural and individual level.
- Explains that the corrosive effects of inequality on health are strongly associated with poorer outcomes.
- Explains that integration between social life, individual values, social morality contributes towards the growth of a social capital, which promotes care and discourages anti-social aggression.
- Analyzes the relationship between income inequality and social dysfunction in more and less equal societies.
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