So, oppressed people can not win the respect of oppressor. He believes in this way the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor because acquiescence is the easier way to encounter oppression, also it is not the moral way. In Dr. King’s opinion, the second way is resorting to physical violence and corroding hatred. He believes violence not only brings impermanent results, but also is impractical and immoral. According to King, it is impractical because it slows the process of ending the oppression for all, and it is immoral because it seeks humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding.
Rather than viewing the world through a single focus lens one is to view the world from another perspective. Additionally, interacting with people who are different from us definitely increases one’s knowledge base. Diversity can only increase a person’s perspective of the world. Finally, everyone has something that we can learn from other, then we appreciate that everyone really is unique. Diversity allows us to learn from the ideas and thoughts of others.
Many of these works were innovative and fresh. They were publicly engaging and accessible. Art was no longer something for the rich and powerful, but something that could be for all people. It was something that greatly represented the people as it chronicled people’s experiences and expressed a vision of social change. The combination of federal arts funding and the stimulation of social movements for civil rights, industrial unionism, and social reform created a new cultural environment, new forms of art, changed understandings of community and individual social roles, and a collapse of distinctions between art, culture and politics.
Ethnocentrism is the way an individual look at the world from his/her own beliefs in their culture. They feel that their culture, race, or ethnic group is more significant and that their culture is more superior than any other culture of other groups. In feeling this way the individuals will judge other groups, such as their behavior, the language in which they use, religion. How it could be detrimental to society is that it could lead to false speculation about the differences in cultures. It leads to society making premature judgments about other cultures, not knowing all the facts about another culture.
Goffman was another interactionist who used the labelling theory to describe how we think of ourselves as actors who need to give a ‘convincing’ performance to the audience, this is the dramaturgical analogy. Goffman believes that we are social actors who are performing for the rest of society to persuade and prove to them that we can fit into the role given to us. He states that we use language, tone of voice as well as props and settings to give a perfect impression to the audience, however he argues that we do not have a ‘tightly scripted role’ as the functionalist theory believes, but loosely scripted roles that allow us to change certain factors. For example, when a teacher is teaching they have a certain script they follow, such as the curriculum, they use certain props to assist them teaching. This gives the students an impression that the teacher is well-organised and confident, however outside the classroom the students do not know if the teacher is what students perceive him to be.
Empowerment of the individual may be either beneficial to society or threatening. How have your studied texts shaped your understanding of individuality and its place with the broader social discourse? The refusal of the individual to yield to the repressive values imposed on them by authority characterizes the insignificance of individuality within the broader social discourse. While the figure representative of authority refuses to ethically uphold its obligations of maintaining order, the individual renounces authority’s power and in doing so rejects their attempts to subdue individual freedom. Such is evident in the actions of messianic protagonist, McMurphy in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
Art tends to links human beings to each other, which gives us the ability to share other peoples perceptions, emotions, and experiences. In Easy A, the historical figure of the Scarlet Letter is tied together with Olive's actions. She decides to wear an A on her chest to make a social statement. Olive expresses herself in a creative way, having the attitude that if she's going to get called a slut, she might as well act/become the part, even if that's not really what she is. Relating back to Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature with the movie, it makes it clear that a person's self-dignity can very much be influenced by their own community and the impact of a society's codes and values upon its members create a life style that is “expected” by the public.
It is also my belief that by enabling people to share their concerns with the organizations vast number of members can empower someone who may feel they do not have much of a voice when it comes to change. I absolutely find that this is what our country needs more of because at times it is hard to for me to completely have faith that our elected officials really know and understand the trouble of the common man. I found this part of the site to be useful and I may even start a campaign or two here in my own state to get our representatives to be more involved in insuring every student has access to the arts and that they all
He states that ethnic diversity is a stepping-stone for varying perspectives and even more skillsets to a particular population. As a result of this collection of ranging views and skillsets, society is perceived to unify and bond over these ideals rather than segregate from one another. “Diversity might actually reduce both in-group and out-group solidarity….both bonding and bridging together of social capital” (Putnam, 2007). In other words, a more self-less, unified and society is formed due to tolerance and acceptance of others ideals, preferences and values amongst co-ethnics and non co-ethnics. This idea plays well in hand with the principle that cultures and ethnic identities are formed with shared values and preferences.
The power amid the two often leans toward one side, being monopolized and abused. My notion on oppression is that the mentality of one is manipulated by the unbalance of power in this subjugation. In certain cases oppression is necessary to keep peace; like the government and the people. If the government fails to oppress the public with the power of law, chaos would rain