to the decay of the rational-critical discourse and causing the decline of the public sphere. Political public spheres include social movements, media that monitor and criticize the state, and groups that take political action. In recent times have seen an explosion of debate, blogging, theorising and hype around the role of the internet in today’s social movements. Social media -internet applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which facilitate the creation and exchange of user-created
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how spatial organization is especially key to understanding the different components that construct Wall Street’s culture. In anthropology social and spatial organization is an act of separated people into groups based on their socially significant characteristics such as gender, race, educational background, etc. In this sense, spatial organization is the way in which power is reaffirmed and Wall Streeters distinguish who are the money makers and front-officers compared to those who work in the
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which was twenty- two years ago. This magazine gave the idea of occupying the Wall Street. Also, the magazine contained an article about lower New York that many police officers had messed in Zuccotti Park at one AM. The park later became a dangerous place for the Police Department. At night Mr. Lase checked his email and found a message from Mr. Micah White, Abdusters. The protesters were trying to protest the Wall Street in New York City. Their goal was to gain financial equality between rich people
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change. While he doesn’t outright use the term slacktivism, he postulates that social media creates weak ties between people and therefore will only be effective if they don’t ask too much of people. Gladwell holds up the activism of the Civil Rights movement as the only model to follow. He cites the life and death dangers that the Civil Rights activists faced and uses that to prove that since online activists don’t face death or assaults, then they are not real activists. However, I think media, to a
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Class Unconsciousness: Stop Using “Middle Class― to Depict the Labor Movement Nelson Lichtenstein New Labor Forum, Volume 21, Issue 2, Spring 2012, pp. 10-13 (Article) Published by The Murphy Institute/City University of New York DOI: 10.1353/nlf.2012.0040 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nlf/summary/v021/21.2.lichtenstein.html Access Provided by University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign at 07/04/12 3:07PM GMT By Nelson Lichtenstein
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During the period when Mantsios wrote “Class in America,” the topic of socioeconomic inequality was a significant focus. His work emphasizes the need for recognizing economic distinctions or class divisions, which is often overlooked in American society. He discusses the myths and realities about socioeconomic class in America and how they affect American lives. It’s important to recognize that there has been a persistent, unequal divide throughout history. Mantsios argues that Americans, in general
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Leah Foote Sociology 111 Dan Hall Proletariats and Bourgeoisie’s The simple difference between the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat) is that the ruling class consists of people who work for others, while the ruling class has people work for them. As is then obvious, this means that the majority of Americans are working class. Because the working class out-numbers the ruling class, the working class actual holds the
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Section 1: Introduction Process Consultation (PC) is the creation of a relationship that allows the client to perceive, understand, and act on the process events that occur within an organization in order to improve the situation as defined by the client (Cummings & Worley, pg. 253). In the case involving Ben and Jerry’s a consultant was brought in to work with the founders, board of directors, managers, and employees in order to undertake organizational development and also to bring the people
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attention on Greece, returns again and again in the analyses as a formative moment, which brought to the fore the malaise and anger of Greek youth (the “generation of 700…600…500 Euro…”) and inaugurated new forms of political action now prominent in the movement of Greek indignants (aganaktismenoi) that began in May 2011 (i.e., networking through social media, a
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people because it continues to fail at helping them. The ideas of trickledown economics are just so contrary to the reality, that a small group of elites has been able to concentrate huge amounts of wealth, that people have had enough. Movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter are a response to this. As the state moves further away from the social welfare, people are pushed to take radical stances. Hedges predicts that if corporate power continues to dominate political institutions,
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