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.
This suggests that there was a considerably large amount of British citizens with racist opinions on immigrants and that even government officials were supportive of this racist attitude. Furthermore Immigrants were discriminated through various forms which included cases such as employment and accommodation. In the 1950s it was common for boarding houses to put up
RUNNING HEADER: Comparison and contrast of Social stratification Systems SS144-01 June 9, 2011 Comparison and contrast of Social stratification Systems Social stratification--the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, power and prestige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society or other group. People are broken down in to groups based on their privileges; every society stratifies its people, some societies have greater social inequalities than others do, which mean social stratification is universal. It does not matter where in the world a person lives, social stratification has more to do with property, power and prestige. There are three systems of social stratification: Slavery, caste and social class. Two of the three have their similarities and their differences, slavery and caste.
Since the beginning of civilizations there as always been social stratification or an arrangement in social classes. For instance, there would be the lower class, middle class and of course upper class. Then there is also social inequality. Based on documents from 1000 B.C.E through 465 B.C.E, I can analyze the causes of, and responses to, social inequality during the Classical Age, as well as explaining how one’s status within society influenced one’s perspective of events in that society. Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society.
This is society’s way of determining your civil rights and responsibility. Multiple pitfalls of this gap include stereotypes of your image, health and relationships with others (DeAngelis). For the most part, the higher your status the more power you possess. Furthermore, the government mostly follows the needs of high class individuals. Consequently, the needs of the minority low class citizens are left powerless and unheard (“Government”).
To what extent do social and economic Inequalities continue to exist in the UK? T he UK is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world and as a matter of fact the inequalities present in it still continue to exist today. However, Measures have been take to deal with this problem an example is the welfare state. This was set up to as a system provide for everyone from the cradle to the grave for all their needs, it had to be collectivist, universal, comprehensive and equal. The system worked to some extent in some areas despite this, there is still a range of deep inequalities continue to exist in areas relating to age, gender, ethnic group, region and social class.
Lee uses the code established by the society of Maycomb, both in the courthouse and in every day treatment of one another to reveal this unique perspective. Sadly, societies version of code of honor differs greatly from the individual and family codes of honor. This is because code of honor has the greatest power in society where it often undermines logic. Societal code of honor is based mostly upon social ranking. In the novel, each family has a specific place, the Finches being one of the more prestigious families, and the Ewells the lowest.
A new breed of middle and upper class where fighting their way into the limelight, and seeking to be social accepted. “Marxist Terry Eagleton posits a complex and contradictory relationship between the landed gentry and aristocracy, the traditional power-holders, and the capitalist, industrial middle classes, who were pushing for social acceptance and political power. Simultaneously with the struggle among these groups, an accommodation was developing based on economic interests”. Both writers came from middle class families although Charles Dickens did suffer hardship for a short period of time. Dickens and Bronte both have expressed their views on class segregation and the effect that it has on people.
Civil Rights in the Constitution Civil rights has been a deep issue in America. As the words “all men are created equal” were being written there were surely slaves that understood the irony. There are many decisions regarding the issue. Some filled people with hope while others destroyed hope. There have been a large amount of decisions made on this one issue.
Aulette describes in her “Changing American Families” reading how the stratification systems of class mold our society. “The stratification systems of class, race ethnicity, and gender constitute a major feature of the macro level of social organization in our society. They exist beyond the control of any individual and are so pervasive the sometimes become invisible. But they weave in and out of our lives, sometimes overlapping, and sometimes contradicting each other, but