Essays on Egalitarian

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

Question 1: Demographic Changes in US families

The households in America are undergoing unprecedented changes that can affect the well-being and health of the country. Rapid and crucial variations in the family structures, work, and immigration have taken place. Family trajectories and living arrangements are increasingly complex and varied in the nation. The age of entering into marriage is at its all-time high with cohabitation being the first union option in American society. Due to the rise in the numbers of females in the workforce, many women have resorted to remain unmarried in the US. Also, the rates of remarriages and divorce have risen (Changing Families, ...

The origin of the state is a problem that worried (and continues to worry) the whole mankind for few centuries already. During all this time many theories about the origin of the state were invented. Today the most common division is the one suggested by Elman Roger Service, according to which society can be divided into band, tribe, chiefdom and state (Farooq). All these stages have its own characteristics and features and with the development of the society one transformed in another. This paper discusses the main characteristics of the chiefdom society with the comparison of it with the ...

Parenting strategies need to change depending on the social, political, and economic circumstances so that children can one day live as adults according to the demands of contemporary circumstantial factors. However, parents face three significant parenting challenges in the modern world, and those challenges include changes in parenting strategies over time, the evolution of family structures, and conflicts with their children during adolescence. Although some of those challenges could be interpreted as consequences of changes in social attitudes, parents need to develop parenting abilities and self-confidence in their abilities to raise children. If those two criteria are met, contemporary ...

Performing household chores and taking care of children were traditionally the roles of women in the family because men were involved in jobs outside of the household so that they can earn money for the whole family. The distribution of roles between men and women was effective and reasonable in early America because women who became pregnant and gave birth to children were responsible for providing nurture and were unable to leave their children unattended to perform work outside of their homes. Although women are still more involved in performing family work such as household tasks or caretaking for ...

According to Gerson (2015), the current generation of young adults “grew up with mothers who joined the workplace and parents whose relationships often departed from traditional marriage” (p. 593). As a consequence of growing up in changing families, most men and women prefer a relationship that combines the commitment of traditional marriages and the flexibility required by the modern job market. Although the aspirations of men and women in relationships are similar, men and women have different fallback plans because previous gender roles and social expectations determine their perceptions of romantic relationships and decision-making in that regard. Both men ...

Introduction

Many philosophers have identified various branches of egalitarianism. One such branch is the luck egalitarianism philosophy, which recognizes distinctive interpretations and critiques. Elizabeth Anderson formulates a distinctive branch of egalitarianism that opposes luck egalitarianism, namely the democratic equality philosophy. This essay will first delineate the main points of Anderson’s opposition to luck egalitarianism and democratic equality. After this review, there will be applied an insightful analysis of the presented principles, which will be opposed. For a balanced presentation, there will also be provided a response to the identified objections.

Section 1

Elizabeth Anderson is one of the major critics of ...

Abstract

Social attitudes have a considerable impact on how people behave towards gender. During the growing up years of children, their attitude towards gender are shaped largely by how parents relate to them. By mere assigning household chores, young boys and girls learn to associate the meaning of their gender with their roles. It was through the modelling and encouragement of parents and other members of the family that young people learn to act according to their gender. Accordingly, the stereotypical attitude towards gender have a detrimental effect in the development of both girls and boys. Girls tend to abide ...

“The land ethic,” which is found in the work of Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, is a theoretical philosophical framework. In it, Leopold tries to confront the weaknesses which he say encompass common environmental conservation. Leopold, a trained forester, and hunter, cherished and recognized the benefits of nature (Leopold, 2014). Having lived through the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, he witnessed fertile top soil in southwestern Wisconsin blown away by the wind and eventually sip into the sea. These he observed were as a result of human activities and wondered how, despite the profit motives of man ...

The class system is a form of social stratification predicated on the nexus between “ownership and control of resources and the type of work that people do” (Kendall, 2015, p. 225). Karl Marx advanced the class theory through which he posited that the history of the society is predicated on a legacy of struggles among classes. Accordingly, since its primitive inception stage, the society has emerged and evolved with fundamental stratifications (Andersen & Taylor, 2008, p. 216). In pursuit of conflicting class interests, the said classes have never ceased to clash. In the world of capitalism characterized by the pursuit ...

Most families today are dual-earner, as many women have entered the workforce, either because of financial needs, or because of their wish to pursue a career and to be financially independent. While the gender gap is closing on the labour market, at home, the patriarchal ideology is reaffirmed by means of the division of household chores. Whereas men had to assume a share of the household chores, in most families, women continue to perform most of the chores which have been traditionally assigned to them. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the current gender division of ...

Introduction

The increasing convergence of global businesses across geographies has made human capital and service exchanges commonplace. By moving across physical and virtual (i.e. web) boundaries, cross-cultural encounters become increasingly a necessary requirement for effective work experiences locally and globally. This emphasis on cross-cultural competence in current business ecosystem is made more necessary in financial service industry. Indeed, of all cross-border services, financial activities are probably one most sensitive to global influence. Notably, by exchanging services via banking-based and non-banking financial systems, influence of not only provided services but also of people offering such services is well embedded in day-to-day ...

Question 1

Cultural leveling describes how people from different cultures approach each other and try to reach common grounds regarding communication and interaction. This process is evident in Lee’s ethnographic fieldwork. Coming from white society, the researcher exhibited arrogance and considered himself superior, both intellectually and culturally, to the !Kung bushmen. He did this by extending to or cutting off the supply of tobacco from the Bushmen since he was the only source of the commodity in 1000 square miles (Lee). Besides, he neither shared his food with the Bushmen nor participated in their food-gathering activities. For this reason, the ...