Bobo asks how we can have milestone decisions like Brown V. Board, pass a civil rights act, a voting act, fair housing acts, and numerous acts of enforcement and amendments, including the pursuit of affirmative action policies and still continue to face a significant racial divide in America. Bobo offers these thoughts on the subject. In America we are witnessing the crystallization of a new racial ideology Bobo refers to as laissez-faire racism. Furthermore race and racism remain powerful levers in American national politics. Additionally social science has played a peculiar role in the problem of race according to Bobo.
Karl Marx was a late 19th Century thinker. He saw class as being the central category for analysing social relation and social struggles. This is because he believed that class struggles drive the social changes in our societies ‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’. (Marx, Engels, 1848, pg.8) He viewed class objectively, defining it by the ownership of property. The class struggle’s which Marx refers to above is that of the Bourgeoisie, who own the means of production and the proletariat, who sell their labour.
To create this, writer Bruce Norris created a play with only two acts. The first act is based in the late 1950’s and early 60’s right after the war. The second act is based in the same house fifty years apart in the year 2009. By doing this Bruce Norris shows how race is still an important factor in many people’s lives even though racism has supposedly been abolished. Racism is one of the key factors that play a major role in the play “Clybourne Park”.
Through a feminist critique of Othello, it is possible to examine the influences of sexism in the society by inspecting the construction of the patriarchy, the idea that gender is not the same as sex, and lastly, the construction of femininity within the play. Feminism, is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary to be “the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes”, and as A. Balu Vijayaraghavan said, by applying feminist criticism, one could “investigate how Shakespeare’s plays relate to the codes and conventions of the gender system specific to the early modern period”, as well as having an understanding of “how thoroughly Shakespeare shared the gender assumptions of his own time and the ways in which his plays must have disrupted these assumptions”. The
Social Darwinism During the Progressive Era The effects of social Darwinism during the Progressive era were numerous especially in education, science, medicine, and the problem of ignorance. Social injustice and in efficiency in politics are secondary prime examples for the struggle to exist. This is followed by instinct, and geographical distribution playing a part in the ‘survival of the fittest,’ occurrences in this time period. The effects are intertwined within ignorance and its tie to the struggle existence socially; and the connection that is shared with instinct and social efficiency. Needless to say, the concepts Darwin created have evolved to include social situations as well as physical ones.
Emma Essay The values that shape the form and meaning of any text are reflections of their respective contexts. This notion is explored through the comparison of Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) and Amy Heckerling’s appropriation, Clueless (1995). While distinct parallels may be drawn between Clueless and Emma, Regency values of class, social mobility and courtship are altered in Clueless to reflect the liberal nature of 1990’s America. Austen’s Emma reflects the rigidity of social hierarchy with stringent notions of class determined by lineage and inheritance, which limits social mobility of individuals in Regency England. The contextual value of class as inherited status and wealth portrayed by the juxtaposition of the cumulative listing of the
the challenges | | |FEMINISM | |THE CHALLENGES OF FEMINISM IN A TRADITIONALLY PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY – THE CASE OF GUYANA | | | |DENZIL CARMICHAEL 12/0839/0550 | |11/21/2012 | |THIS RESEARCH ON FEMINISM TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE SOCIOLOGICAL | THE CHALLENGES OF FEMINISM IN A TRADITIONALLY PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY –THE CASE OF GUYANA Feminism as a sociological concept began to gain prominence among European and Anglo-American women during the end of the nineteenth century. The initial aim of the movement had been female suffrage, reforms to the laws governing marriage and greater access to education by women. The initial proponents were called suffragettes. Contemporary feminists who pursue similar goals are called liberal feminists because; their theories and approaches are principally concerned with widely accepted ideas in contemporary western society. Barbara Smith, contributor to the seminal work by coloured feminists “This Bridge called my Back”, writes that Native American and other non-White women “were involved in autonomous organization at the same time that
Question: Russell uses comedy to explore the clash of class and culture in Educating Rita. How do you respond to this view? Class and culture play a huge role on any society, prehistoric and contemporary. Class refers to a system of divisions where people are judged on their social and economic status whilst culture refers to the ideas, customs and beliefs of a particular people or society. Willy Russell’s Educating Rita place a key importance on class and culture and the clash of the two, with the two characters of the play contrasting their supposed class and culture.
Despite her antithetical ideologies, Haywood remains centuries ahead while incorporating the very themes of contemporary pop culture: Woman Power. The novel’s opening section establishes a socially inverted, female-oriented paradigm through the novel’s architecture, Fantomina’s authorial perspective and her gender-based assumptions. By deliberately situating Fantomina above the male aristocracy, through her box location, Haywood spatially partitions the PlayHouse a la the Panopticon where Fantomina serves as judging Syndic above the pit-seated male audience. Haywood’s syntax iteratively casts men as naïve tools subject to Fantomina’s scrutinizing eye. Fantomina articulates her ‘contempt’ of the men while labeling them as ‘depraved’ (227).
Robert Irvine’s introductory essay is in part about the social mobility, and alterations of social dynamics presented in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and during 19th century England (the era un which Jane Austen wrote the novel). Within the essay Irvine argues that Austen’s novel “is in part a novel about the possibility and implications of mobility between status groups” (p.10), and alongside some of its eye-opening revelations about the details of Pride and Prejudice it also implies a lot about the way the characters in the novel react to the social changes during the 19th century. The way in which these characters react to the social changes of class dynamic speaks multitudes of the characters as well and in some ways explains why they behave and perceive things the way they do. Essentially, much of the characters presented in Austen’s novel are the way they are due to how they are all adapting to a current wave of social change and Irvine’s essay supports this. During 19th century England and the era of social change, people of different social rank were beginning to socialize with one another, and social mobility was on the rise – something that was foreign to the time.