Class, Race, and Gender Structured Inequalities Class, race, and gender organize society as a whole and create a variety of contexts for family living through their unequal distribution of social opportunities. They are forms of stratification that foster group-based inequalities. They distribute social resources and opportunities differently. Life chances They are relational systems of power and subordination. They are interconnected systems of inequality.
In the excerpt from Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, she informatively and descriptively describes the social issues and differences between upper and lower classes by using elements such as point of view, selection of detail, dialogue, and characterization to make a social commentary. She shows the way servants and the lower class are treated and compares them to the higher society and the upper class to show the injustices of society at that time. Gaskell informs rather than reforms; she explicates not industrial conditions but about people living in those conditions. The reader does not know any of the character developments and changes rather than those of George Wilson. Gaskell writes in third person omniscient limited; through this, we learn of George Wilson’s thoughts and feelings.
In class we have discussed many theories that relate to the Craig Price (aka Warwick Slasher) story. Social Disorganization Theory can relate because his delinquency tied to socioeconomic conditions. Cultural Deviance Theory could also be related to his story because he came from a lower class. Socialization can have an effect on delinquency as well. I believe the theory that would be the most applicable to the case is the developmental theory.
In both essays, the idea of social class fueling thoughts and perceptions of either the “Other” or “poor white class” in today’s society is drawn upon multiple times. In Prices particular argument, she targets many factors as reason to why racial dispute has still been a corruption in today’s society. Price focuses on the fact that the public media controls how the poor white class is viewed. The reader can draw from the essay that the media is controlled by the middle to upper class whites. An example of this is when Price explains that through things like movies, TV shows, and even public figures, the media dictates how the public feels about the poor whites.
Gender or sex refers to the socially constructed categories of feminine and masculine which are the cultural identies and values that prescribe how men and women should behave. The social power relations based on those categories are distinct from the categories of biological sex (male or female) (Germov, 2009, p. 131). Gender refers to the social aspects of differences and hierarchies between male and female. (Macionis, 2008, p. 367). Gender is understood as a system of relations, a social product constantly negotiated and redefined that both constrains and provides opportunity for action.
Because of racism's place in society, and the way that it has woven itself through politics, and displays of social queue alike, it is understandable how one might compare it to a drama or even just one big angry monologue between an antagonist and protagonist. In the United States, and likely all over the world, it is evident that social status plays a huge role in society. Social status can be determined by your job, the amount of things you own, the car your drive, how beautiful you are, or sadly - by your skin color. Typically, when people are of a certain social status or are wishing to become a member of a social status, they feel obligated to treat other people a certain way to maintain or create their status and a sense of approval and acceptance among peers. Such behavioral patterns can be labeled as social scripts because society gives you a role, and you are expected to act it out to keep things how they are "supposed to be", much like in a drama on stage.
Everyone in the world has a distinct and personal perception of what is in their world and how they relate to it. Many people in society see themselves as being very separate to everything else and ones perception of things, acts, events and circumstances gives them a unique view and opinion of such things. Society tends to band together due to having like minded opinions and views as to how one should act and how one should interact in a given society, those who break the norms are considered different. Society has formed stereotypes to describe how a group of people chooses to live their lives in many different specific ways. People judge other people due to their dress, their skin color, the way they talk, their hair style or the music they listen to and gather these individuals into a view called a stereotype.
A chance to fulfill arête, through competition with others. According to Aristotle, the best of the tragic hero would be art that should imitate life, in that people should be able to identify with the hero’s character in a play. People, as well as the gods, should be excited by either fear or pity. Aristotle did not feel that a true tragic hero was neither all good nor all bad; he felt that the average citizen had to be able to see themselves in such a person in order to be able to identify with them. Plato’s
He lectures them on ethics and morals uses these speeches to not only influence the characters, but to also influence the audience’s perceptions on society. We see from the reactions of the characters in the play, a spectrum of different reactions that will often parallel to that of the attitudes in upper class societies of the time. These notions of a community being interconnected and the effect of responsibility are commonly reflected in powerful lessons taught by the inspector. These statements include “We do not live alone… We are responsible for each other”. Also in this play the idea of responsibility is often questioned.
Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice 2600.001 Social Construction is a norm that is created by society to persuade females and males into what occupations, groups, accessories, and ways of lifestyle that are accepted and what is not accepted by society making them outcasts. There are also standard implications for racial groups that divide race into perspective groups as well. Another contributing factor is class, people from a certain class level stay within their group and it is difficult to overcome the social norm and ascend the ladder of the classes. Our analysis of diversity issues created by the social norm of the people was in the aspects of the clothing, media, occupations, athletics and literature. There is an implied social