Limitations of the research:
Limitations of this research project are noted in the deficits only by honing in focus on sugar babies. Even within the focus solely on sugar babies it can be identified that the research does not cover their interpretation of why they believe men enter into these types of relationships. The body of the research is more emic/etic perspective. It is solely focus on the sugar babies interpretations of her relationships with sugar daddies rather than them stepping out to understand the sugar daddy.
Another limitation of this research project is the lack of examination of the sugar daddy or sugar mamma life style. The research project does not seek and examine a sugar daddies interpretation and motivations of entering
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Through the course of this research it has become evident that there is little research exploring the other side of the sugar industry, particularly the sugar daddy point of view. This research project exclusively examines how sugar babies interact and view the sugar industry. Due to the fact that no sugar daddies were sought for this research project it leaves a rich field of information yet explored. Exploring ideas of masculities and motivations that drives men to become sugar daddies would be two such ways as to explore this …show more content…
I think because being a sugar baby is so stigmatised in the media people don’t come to understand it as deeply as they could. There is more to a sugar relationship than an old man and a young women. There is affection, trust and honesty. It is not a lifestyle choice for everyone. We tend to judge what we do not understand and I hope that with this piece of literature I will be able to help shed a little bit more light on an industry that is shrouded in shadows by society.
“For the general public looking in on this I would say there is a warped stigma and irrational ideologies around it. You have women in the public who may choose to marry a man much older than her and she might be referred to as a gold digger, but its easy to presume this from the outside peaking in, when the reality might be she truly loves him and he loves her. Why should one be discriminated against for a personal preference? It’s no different for a Sugar baby. With time that stigma will change and become more excepting. “
Kit-kats, Hershey bars, Skittles, and Jolly Ranchers. The reason these sweets, and many other products, are so popular is because of their sugar content. It’s hard to imagine that something used in nearly every food today was practically nonexistent at one point. But this is true- sugar wasn’t introduced globally until the 1500’s. Following this introduction, the trade that sprung up would come to be one of the most successful and profitable in the world. The Sugar Trade’s success was driven by many factors. Out of those several factors, the ones that promised success were high consumer demand, willing investors with a lot of capital, and the usage of slave labor.
In document 7a, it tells when sugar got attention worldwide rich people started moving to the West Indies to grow because everyone wanted sugar and sugar makes you a lot of money. The more you consume sugar, the more you will start to
The book Sugar in the Blood was written by Andrea Stuart recalling the migration of her family from Britain to Barbados and their establishment as owners of their sugar cane plantation. Early on in the book, when recalling her most distant maternal relative, George Ashby’s, departure from his life as a blacksmith in England to the unknown “New World” Stuart states, “The why of George Ashby’s departure is something I will never know;” (10). She then goes on to make an inference based on prior research that he may have been lured by the “positive pull of the opportunities represented by the New World” (10). This paragraph is a great example of how the overall book is constructed. It is generally made up of research on Stuart’s genealogy and then
Employing the method of content analysis, I examine the important exchange of power between the female groups and answer the question, “How do these females negotiate power and manage conflict?” The content analysis revealed three ways the mothers tried (usually unsuccessfully) to negotiate power with Abby: claiming motherhood, accentuating their gender, and using money. The first two of these ways relate to gender and the second relates to class both of which I theorize in depth.
This societal need for opulence is brought to the reader's attention through the juxtaposition of the mother's selfless actions and few possessions. When examined from a Marxist lens, the struggle between the classes, based on wealth, authority and race, is prevalent throughout the essay. The society of the American South in the twentieth century was full of racism and poverty. Walker recalls the
Through her choice of name, McFadden is placing value on sex worker’s bodies, professions, and themselves as people. McFadden raises the idea at several points in the novel that Sugar’s line of work may be her own choice, but readers are more directly led to believe that Sugar doesn’t have any real options outside of her sex work. The sugar trade also has a brutal history, mainly through the infamous Middle Passage. Goods were traded to Africa for slaves who in turn, were sent to the Caribbean which produced sugar and rum for England. Slaves working in the sugar plantations lived in miserable conditions with high mortality rates. The danger and vicious cycle of the slave trade can be compared to the dangerous life that sex workers lead. Sugar didn’t have a direct “master” or owner, however she did face many abusive men such as the one that left her with the gash before she returned to the Bedford house and Lappy at the end of the
Just as girls are pushed into societal standards, a newly invented standard has been introduced for males in society, known as the “child-man” ethic. “Child Man in the Promised Land”, written by Kay S. Hymowitz, is an argument in which the author states that the “child-man” ethic is prevalent and harmful to society. Hymowitz explains this ethic using a variety of supporting evidences, and explains both the implications of the “child-man” ethic, as well as its effects on the next generation. The “child-man” ethic has many social and cultural implications, since this ethic has changed social implications from just 20-30 years ago. Back then, in a man’s late 20s, he was “married… met your wife in high school…you’ve already got one kid, with another
Parsons and Bales believed sincerely that the modern family and the male-breadwinner family was the ideal family structure for society and would continue to be as time went on. However, their lack of consideration for societal change and adjustments within the American economy, made them ignorant of the burdens placed on mothers because of the patriarchal social norms they heavily supported. Thankfully their work did lead to the further development of studying the family lifestyle by not only Coontz and Hochschild but other sociologists as well. However, the gender norms they constructed must be recognized as public issues society must improve as a whole in order to ease the adjustment of both fathers and mothers earning jobs while maintaining a family.
It is human nature to look for happiness. Some people find it in material possessions, some find it in money, but most of us find it in love. To find true love is a difficult task especially now in the times of cell phones and Jaguars. Money and power play a big role in today’s society, and some people would rather have those things than a love of another human being. In some rare cases it is not even a person’s decision who she (almost every time it’s a woman who is being given away) will marry. Although it does not happen very often, there are still cases where a woman is being married off to a man by an arrangement made by her parents, to insure stability and security of that woman. The standing in the community means a great deal, just like Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God illustrates.
Why would anyone feel the need to write an entire book on such a mundane topic such as sugar? Look around at some food products you might have and you will realize that many if not all of them contain sugar in some form or another. For example, a can of soda, which most people drink everyday, contains (depending on the brand) approximately 40 grams of sugars. Look further and you might find that even things such as cheese or chips or soup contain several grams of sugar in them. The wide diversification of products that contain sugar just goes to show you how widespread the use of sugar really is. This fact alone could be enough to convince someone to create a book solely about sugar. One passage that Mintz quotes on page 15 that really seems to capture our (Westerners) infatuation with sugar, and a strong reason the book at hand is as follows:
Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched, both the people who grew the commodity and those for whom it was grown. Suprisingly, for something so desireable knowledge of sugar cane spread vey slow. First found in Guinea and first farmed in India (sources vary on this), knowledge of it would only arrive in Europe thousands of years later. However, there is more to the history of sugar cane than a simple story of how something was adopted piecemeal into various cultures. Rather the history of sugar, with regards to this question, really only takes off with its introduction to Europe. First exposed to the delights of sugar cane during the crusades, Europeans quickly acquired a taste for this sweet substance. This essay is really a legacy of that introduction, as it is this event which foreshadowed the sugar related explosion of trade in slaves. Indeed Henry Hobhouse in `Seeds of Change' goes so far as to say that "Sugar was the first dependance upon which led Europeans to establish tropical mono cultures to satisfy their own addiction." I wish, then, to show the repurcussions of sugar's introduction into Europe and consequently into the New World, and outline especially that parallel between the suga...
Sugar plantations have a field where sugar cane stalks are cut and grown and then there are boiling house where sugar cane stalks are crushed and boiled which is all runned by slave labor. Because slaves planted the cane stalks, harvested sugar stalks, crushed them, and boiled the sugar stalks sugar was made(8). According to David richardson the slave Trade, Sugar, and British Economic growth, “An Average purchase price of adult male slave on west African coast in 1748 was 14£ and in 1768 was 16£”(9a).Because slaves were so cheap slave traders may profit by, selling adult male slaves to sugar plantation owners for twice as much as they bought them in Africa. John Campbell Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade describes the slaves as “so necessary Negro slaves purchased in Africa by English merchants”(11). Because africa trade slaves to English merchants Africans got things they did not
	Sweetness and Power is a strong study relating the evolution of sugar to societal growth as well as to economic change. Despite the flaws contained within the structure of the book and the lack of fieldwork, the book is an excellent collection of data regarding sugar, a topic that most people do not think of as being a major factor in the lives they live today. Mintz forces the "educated layperson" to look around the world today, and really think about what it would be like without the luxury of sugar.
Gender roles are extremely important to the functioning of families. The family is one of the most important institutions. It can be nurturing, empowering, and strong. Some families are still very traditional. The woman or mother of the family stays at home to take care of the children and household duties. The man or father figure goes to work so that he can provide for his family. Many people believe that this is the way that things should be. Gender determines the expectations for the family. This review will explain those expectations and how it affects the family.
Zahra, S. A., & Sharma, P. (2004). Family business research: A strategic reflection. Family Business Review, 17(4), 331-346.