Book
The book I'm reading is called "Inequality: Opposing Viewpoints in Social Problems". It's basically social issues in the modern society, and the divisions that come with it. The first chapter is about social class. (Upper Class. Middle Class, Working Class, and all the inbetweens.) The first paragraph is the arguments of a woman named Sheila Collins, a political science professor at William Paterson College about Capitalism (as our country is a capitalist country) and what it needs to survive. She says, "Capitalism needs inequality in order to function and continually reproduces inequalities as a part of its normal operation." Anyways. I chose to read this because I'm interested in social orders and issues. I believe there are more problems with America that the government and news let on, and this books seems to have them all. Well, feel free to comment if you want... I'll post again soon.
posted by Comet the Microraptor at
7:54 PM
4 Comments:
This sounds like an interesting book! It's so weird how people organize theirselves into different social groups automatically. I think the classifications are sometimes very unimportant, while other times they are very important. I hope you like you're book as you continue reading it! What are some examples of other social classes and groups?
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Okay so I was reading about your book, sounds interesting. I love your background by the way. : )
So I think my book relates to your because social issues and drugs, I believe can go hand in hand. I think sometimes these drugs effect income which can be a huge social issue.
You have alot of catching up wittle dinosawer. Any way, Your book sounds interesting. But who are being treated unfairly? Who are un-equals? Answer me!!!!!!!
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I read recently that some social structure is based on your environment. Okay, after that little piece of wisdom you're probably rolling your eyes, but really:
People in a society more prone to deiseases are more likely to form tightly kniw groups, while those freer of diseases are more likely to form individualist-based societies. Evidence: America vs. Africa. Communities in Africa are smaller and more tightly-knit, a little more suspicious of strangers, while in America we all have our own bedrooms and iPods to shut out other people.
Also, if you show a picture of a monkey, a zebra and a banana to certain groups and ask them to identify those that go together, you get interesting results; Caucasians will point to the monkey and the zebra because they are mammals, but Asians will point to the monkey and the banana because they have a functional relationship.
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