After later reading the chapters on cultural relativism and ethnocentrism, it became clear; morality is relative. ... Should I consider the treatment of the Untouchables "ok" because of the relativity of morality? ... But until generations of Indians grow up with these new laws, I believe tradition will override change. ... Though honor killing is not legal, the culture has an unwritten law of silence for men who are guilty of killing a female family member. ... Not if you consider the relativity of morality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The working class were expected to work long hours; nothing could be done to rectify this, as there were no laws protecting workers from unfair labour. ... They also asserted morality and respectability in society. ... The contradiction to the above, in my opinion, is: how can 'morality' disregard the needs of woman and narrow down her options in life to marriage and only marriage? ... They applied morality and respectability only when it suited them and did not acknowledge that there was a possibility that the prostitution and crime was a result of their attitude towards the poor. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests." ... Law and other government functions would reflect the interests of capitalists, not workers. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's generalization that " history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (Howard: 10) Marx describes the classes in terms of binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. The complex and multi-member clas...

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In achieving this goal, the proletariat will destroy all remnants of bourgeoisie culture including family, religion, and morality. ... The proletariat wanted to retain capitalism, but install laws protecting workers' rights, allowing them more social equality in their fight against the bourgeoisie. ... This social change introduced laws prohibiting the bourgeoisie from forcing the proletariat class to work in such poor conditions as during the Industrial Revolution. ... Such legislation allowed unions to exist, provided fair labor laws for working-class Americans, and provided financial a...

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Marx vs. Weber Karl Marx and Max Weber, both social scientists, devoted much of their work to the defining of capitalism through understanding its creation, causes, workings, and destiny. In their evaluations of capitalism they arrive at two distinct conclusion caused by similar and distinctly dif...

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Lack of morality about racism and culture is caused by class structure, and relationship between the upper class and the lower class becomes unfair. ... General Taheri, Amir's father-in-law, said "I have to deal with the community's perception of our family () They [other Pashtun immigrants] will want to know why there is a Hazara boy living with our daughter [Amir's wife]".(360) General Taheri hesitated to live with a Hazara as family even though the boy was Amir's half nephew and the hierarchical relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras had no meaning outside A...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate