There are many examples of how the Capitol controls the people of Panem such as the Hunger Games, Reality TV, and control of food. The Hunger Game is where children are forced to fight to death in the arena for entertainment. One girl and one boy aged 12-18 are chosen from each of the 12 districts. Katniss the protagonist of the novel sacrifices herself and volunteers for her sister who was picked as tribute at only the age of 12. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx and Engels 1848). Social class, therefore, is based upon economic criteria and conflict occurs between those who own the means of production (bourgeoisie) and the wage-labourers (proletariat). As well as having economic control over the proletariat, the bourgeoisie also have the power to determine the superstructure; the ruling class can distort perceptions of the world and hide the true nature of social relationships and the exploitation of the proletariat and, above all, promote bourgeoisie interests. Marx defines production as workers selling their labour for wages in order to exchange money for commodities that will meet their most basic needs. As Marx
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. Marx believed that the two classes are based on a contradiction, this ascends from the fact that the workers who make the commodities do not get the profit that is made. Instead the profit goes to the Bourgeoisie, over time
Manufacturing was at an all time high, and people had a lot of money to invest and spend. A social factor was the rise of the family unit and the need for restaurants that were family friendly. 3. How is the 'American world view' embodied in the fast food industry? The “American world view” is embodied as the fast food industry is probably one of the greatest examples of capitalism, which is what America is most known for.
A particular Marxist view of the relationship between crime and social class is known as criminogenic capitalism. For Marxists, crime is inevitable in capitalism because capitalism is criminogenic. Capitalism is based on the exploitation of the working class – that is, on using them as a means to and end (profit), whatever the human cost of doing so. It is therefore particularly damaging to the working class and this may give rise to crime. Firstly Marxists believe that poverty may mean that crime is the only way the working class can survive therefore this results in the form of a relationship between crime and social class.
At the reaping, the mayor explains the origin of the Hunger Games. As a result of the rebellion of the Districts against the Capitol, formally named the Dark Days, the Hunger Games were invented; they made it clear to the citizens of the Districts that the Capitol had complete control. In the Games the tributes must fight to the death; this is a horrific blood sport for the entertainment of the Capitol, and to keep the Districts under control. Every year in Katniss’s home in District 12, preteens and teens between the ages of 12-18 must gather at the square for the reaping; this includes 16 year old Katniss, and her 12 year old sister Prim. This year, the odds were entirely in Prim’s favor, since she did not sign up for tesserae.
But if the humans have the willpower, they have the potential to overcome any challenge and that will only prepare them for other challenges later in life. In The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, where a sixteen year old girl named Katniss Everdeen has to face a nearly impossible task. Katniss and her family live poverty. Her country is being abused by the power of the totalitarian government called the Capitol. The innocent children are taken from their homes and are subjected to killing each other in an arena.
Outline and evaluate marxist explanations of crime (45) The Marxist theory in general splits society in half, the rich and the poor. With the poor being exploited by the rich. This theory appears to be the basis for all Marxist perspective including the Marxist explanations of crime and deviance. Karl Marx stated that crime was the product of poverty and the traditional Marxist view regarding the cause of crime amongst the working classes is competition and the desire to become wealthy and live a middle class life. The working class want the ‘things’ that they see the middle classes with but they can't afford them so they resort to crimes such as stealing as a means of getting what they want.
Karl Marx was a theorist from Germany, who developed the theory of communism. In their book Sociology The Core, Hughes, and Kroehler explained that Marx “believed that society is divided into those who own the means of producing wealth (the bourgeoisie) and those who do not (proletariat), which gives rise to class conflict” (p. 10). Marx claims that the proletariats are being exploited by the capitalists, because the capitalist is earning more capital on the back of the workers, “surplus labor”, in other words the worker is being payed a subsistence wage (Marx,1848) . From his perspective of history, he believes that there will be a revolution of the workers, and
In fact, since Marx adopted the theory of conflict, the capitalist exploiter in society is experiencing at the extreme, the proletarian consciousness of the triggers and the fall of the capitalist society and the coming of communism. The Marxist perspective also tries to apply this conflicting