Global poverty continues to evolve from the help of the political and economic system. Between the high income and low income there were modern factors that influenced inequalities. The French Revolution blossomed into the Industrial revolution historically developing the dominating countries, but also destroying other countries while power was taking root. The higher class forced the people of the lands to mine for the resources and run the machinery. This process caused major social conflict between the high class and the lower class. Specific students wanted help change the world so they began to study and write about human behaviors and interaction. Society became unfair with their politics and economics. Wallerstein, the Frankfurt School, …show more content…
The more goods the worker produced the more the workers felt as an alien to his own product. Workers efforts and labor did not belong to him, but belong to the owner of the company that hired him. Workers labor came from within as a natural act but also exists outside of him from what was produce and means a loss of his self. Work is a critical source of identity and life purpose of a human being. Marx wrote the “Manifesto of Class Struggle” which is between the upper class and the lower class. Lower class was known as the proletariat and their labor through the means of production. Higher class is known as the bourgeoisie they are the dominant class that deprived the lower class of their lively hood. Political institutions shaped the society according to their own happiness. The world expanded through industrialization, means of production and exchange and capitalism. In the labour-power and capital it that the commodities are objects that promise human needs and wants. Exchange-value allows a commodity traded in equal value to another commodity. The value of a commodity was determined by Marx on how long it takes for the product completed and how many times it can be …show more content…
As long as the system is running global poverty will continue to develop. People in poverty-stricken place only want the necessities to live and give to their families. Higher income countries need people from the lower class to work for them, but continue to oppress them gaining more profit for themselves. Social conflict theory shows difference between powerful people and lower class people. Inequalities continue to influence people and organizaton to gain more money. People who are in poverty do not have the means of production but do have the power of labor. These sociologist developed articles on the world around them. They helped influenced the changes and spoke of the inequalities that separated the poor and the
Although poverty has minimized, it is still significant poverty which is characterized by a numerous amount of things. There are two types of poverty case and insular. “Case poverty is the farm family with the junk-filled yard and the dirty children playing in the bare dirt” (Galbraith 236)Case poverty is not irretraceable and usually caused if someone in the household experiences “ mental deficiency, bad health, inability to adapt to the discipline of industrial life, uncontrollable procreation, alcohol, some educational handicap unrelated to community shortcomings” (Galbraith 236).Case poverty is often blamed on the people for their shortcomings but on some levels can be to pinpoint one person's shortcomings that caused this poverty. Most modern poverty is insular and is caused by things people in this community cannot control. “The most important characteristic of insular poverty is forces, common to all members of the community, that restrain or prevent participation in economic life and increase rates of return.
In chapter three Isbister explains that social scientists wrestled to justify conditions in the third world, as a result, a mixture of indefinite theories developed. A point often overlooked, by social scientists is that the struggle and growth of Asia, Africa, and Latin America cannot be measured “in statistics, nor in treatises of social scientists and historians.” After reading the chapter, an obvious conclusion stood out poverty is tangible for most of the world’s people and nations. Why is this and who is to blame? Are the poor people to be blamed for their own poverty? The answers are arranged into three different groups: mod¬ernization, dependency, and Marxism.
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) and Max Weber (1864 - 1920) both recognised that economic categories played a large part in social class structure. Nineteenth Century history plays an important part in understanding how class influenced identities. The Industrial revolution was changing the structure of the communities, the rich or landowners having a far better standard of living with better education, health care, property ownership and power than the poor. The working class would have a daily struggle to survive. The change in Trade Unions meant that the working class had a voice, helping to push their needs forward, looking for better standards of living and working conditions. Marx's concept of class was based around the production of goods. The emerging owners of these goods, or capital, were known as the ruling class. Marxism would define only two classes, the ruling class and the working class. The influence on identity of these two class structures would be very relevant in those days. The working class would earn a wage from the production of the goods but the ruling class would sell these for a profit and exploit the workers. The two classes were on two different levels of wealth, property ownership and social standing and they would struggle to mix, they were dependent on each other but the rewards would be unevenly matched.
There are many issues within our society that can be analyzed through a Marxian and Durkheim’s perspective. Both are necessary with most issues and in the case of poverty, it definitely is. Within the United States, there is a high concentrated of poverty that is caused by a lot of factors. Poverty is just one of the issues that we don’t think we really play a direct role with, but I think everyone plays an indirect role in influencing and contributing to poverty. The high concentration of poverty can be both analyzed through the Marxian’s framework of the economic system and through the Durkheim’s framework of the collective representations and social norms. Marx’s economic system explains the existence of poverty through the mode and relation
Poverty is not wished upon, but area such the least industrialized nations there is more of it. There are many ways to analyze poverty. Functionalists believe that poverty is good for the economic and the workforce. Symbolic interactionists believe that it has a purpose but for what reason. While, conflict theorists believe that the system of poverty is flawed. That statement is more believable because calling someone poor is just using a label. It does not look at their family history, medical history or even their education.
Most people of the society still blame the poor for their own predicament. They believe that "if there is a will there is a way". However, they do not think about their government that might had made bad decisions and policies that could actually harm successful development. This causes of poverty and inequality are usually less discussed and often neglected. We must recognize the effects poverty could have on the society and seek ways to create better understanding and resolve the issue before it is too late.
In Marx’s opinion, the cause of poverty has always been due to the struggle between social classes, with one class keeping its power by suppressing the other classes. He claims the opposing forces of the Industrial Age are the bourgeois and the proletarians. Marx describes the bourgeois as a middle class drunk on power. The bourgeois are the controllers of industrialization, the owners of the factories that abuse their workers and strip all human dignity away from them for pennies. Industry, Marx says, has made the proletariat working class only a tool for increasing the wealth of the bourgeoisie. Because the aim of the bourgeoisie is to increase their trade and wealth, it is necessary to exploit the worker to maximize profit. This, according to Marx, is why the labor of the proletariat continued to steadily increase while the wages of the proletariat continued to steadily decrease.
According to Marx class is determined by property associations not by revenue or status. It is determined by allocation and utilization, which represent the production and power relations of class. Marx’s differentiate one class from another rooted on two criteria: possession of the means of production and control of the labor power of others. The major class groups are the capitalist also known as bourgeoisie and the workers or proletariat. The capitalist own the means of production and purchase the labor power of others. Proletariat is the laboring lower class. They are the ones who sell their own labor power. Class conflict to possess power over the means of production is the powerful force behind social growth.
The 2008 documentary The End of Poverty? is a film that focuses around global poverty and how it became the tragedy that it is today. Poverty was created by acts of military conquest, slavery and colonization that led to the confiscation of individual’s property and forced labor. However, today the problem remains because wealthy countries who take advantage of developing third world countries. The film interviews several activists who discuss how the issues became and several ways in which they could be eliminated, as well as interviews from individuals who are experiencing it firsthand.
Karl Marx noted that society was highly stratified in that most of the individuals in society, those who worked the hardest, were also the ones who received the least from the benefits of their labor. In reaction to this observation, Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto where he described a new society, a more perfect society, a communist society. Marx envisioned a society, in which all property is held in common, that is a society in which one individual did not receive more than another, but in which all individuals shared in the benefits of collective labor (Marx #11, p. 262). In order to accomplish such a task Marx needed to find a relationship between the individual and society that accounted for social change. For Marx such relationship was from the historical mode of production, through the exploits of wage labor, and thus the individual’s relationship to the mode of production (Marx #11, p. 256).
The next term is conflict theory. This is a rather harsh subject for poverty. For instance, it describes how more powerful groups use their material and power to exploit the groups of less power. In the minds of many people, this would be seen as ‘unfair’, but nowadays people will do whatever it takes to gain power and status. This has occurred generation after generation. The more powerful groups deprive the lesser powerful of many benefits, which causes them to fall farther into poverty then they already
In the world today there is a lot of poverty. There is a great divide
Many thing can have an impact on poverty. Some of these thing help to continue poverty and create more problems within poverty. Social stratification creates social classes that helps to divide society. The economy, as well, helps to create these classes. These classes then can create inequality, which helps to continue poverty.
Marx explained how employers can exploit and alienate their workers; this is described in more detail and is known as ‘the labour’. theory of value’. Marx also goes on to explain how in a business. falling rate of profit can lead to an inevitable crisis, revolutions. can emerge and then finally lead to the socialist state.
At the end of the day poverty is a major cause of social tensions, which can divide a nation because of these issues.