Capitalism affects everyone in a different way; it affects the quality of life one can have. Capitalism is morally deficient economic system in today’s society because it creates an unequal opportunity for citizens, causes a gap in the economic classes, has reversed the consumer- retailer relationship from a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’, leads to unfair free trading with other countries, and loses jobs for the hard working United States citizens. Capitalism creates an unequal opportunity for citizens to obtain an equal education, equal housing, and equal jobs opportunities in society. A symbolic analyst according to Robert B. Reich, in “Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer” is in support of higher education. People with a higher education are not only able to help save their country, but they are able to help save the world.
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the usefulness of sub-cultural theories in explaining sub-cultural crime and deviance in society today. Subcultures, such as the ones mentioned in item A consist of a group of people whom share the same norms and values together, yet oppose mainstream culture. Criminals are seen to become part of a subculture as their values are different to normal society. These criminal individuals have rejected society’s norms and invented their own as they feel that society has rejected them, which means they become materially deprived and blame society as it has not met their needs. However, the criminals resort to things such as burglary to maintain materialistic property.
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various characters to portray how social society’s obsession with class dilutes the foundations of humanity, because the high society essentially has nothing to work towards. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald shows how high society brings out the shallowness and inhumanity in people as it creates superior arrogance, ungratefulness and finally it impedes their moral values. Characters in The Great Gatsby who were born into wealth, are used to getting what they desire. This has misconstrued their outlook on interacting with people. With a sense of entitlement, characters like Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan talk down to other people.
The undeserving are people who don’t want to work and often it is assumed that all able-bodied unemployed people fit into that category. The undeserving such as vagrants and unmarried mothers were treated harshly. The underserving poor were those who were poor because of laziness or personal problem like drunkenness. . But the undeserving poor had earned their poverty not only by refusing to work, or to work hard enough, but also by rejecting the middle-class model.
In our society it is assumed we are all treated equally, but in fact many times this is not true. Minority individuals have a disadvantage in the criminal justice system because of the lack of money, and effective resources. This is very damaging to society and may be a root cause for so many disparity issues today. Factors of Racial Disparity Society cannot be run for the privileged and allow a substantial proportion of the population to be an allowance beyond what is needed. This impacts the quality of life for all of us if we have to “throw away people.”A justice system that tolerates injustice is doomed to collapse (The Sentencing Project, 2000).
Prejudice can be defined as “a negative attitude toward and entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority group”, and this film portrays this very well. The wealthy were prejudiced toward the poor, “slumdogs” and set standards for the poor people. The “slumdogs” had no say in their lives because the wealthy have already decided what they are capable of without giving them many chances. Prejudice from the wealthy is shown clearly in the opinion that someone from the slum could not possibly possess knowledge. The quizmaster – who himself has gone from rags to riches - presents this belief to the audience, and their response shows them to be in agreement with it.
The welfare state directly causes poverty as Murray points out that the generosity of the welfare state creates a dependency culture and a work shy underclass who are prepared just to live off benefits without ever working thus the welfare state undermines personal responsibility and self help. Also, the welfare state indirectly causes poverty. This is because the high amount of tax, which funds the welfare state, hinders entrepreneurs to create new jobs. However, the New Right view has been highly criticised because the welfare state and the minimum wage help to protect workers from employers exploiting them. Without the welfare state, there would be a large gap between the rich and poor.
Conclusion: Poverty Does Not Fosters Crime Many people believe that poverty is the main cause of crimes in a city or country. They believe that the only thing poor people do is steal, mug, or even assassin to get things instead of working like a normal people do. For example, I have seen very rich people claiming that poor people are a problem to society because they do not give anything good to it; how poor people are thrown away from certain places only because they “scare normal people”, now society excludes them because of fear. We have become so judgmental that when we see a black guy or some other man with not so good clothes or with a not so good appearance (or in any way that poor people look) walking down the street coming right at us, we immediately though that he is going to assault us and maybe kill us; but if we see a man in a business suit, well shaved, with a clean hair cut, and a nice smile we might think it is even a friends of ours that is coming to say hi. There is something society should know, the rate of crimes is increasing in wealthy countries; the man in the suit could have done a scam or he might me a hit man.
Marxism believed that crime and deviance is an outgrowth of an unequal capitalist system. Many poor people feel dispossessed and alienated from society, simply because they cannot gain adequate access to commodities and services. This then means that they are often driven to commit crimes such as burglary, muggings and even vandalism. The media and popular culture tend to focus on street crime. This then diverts the attention away from the white collar