This essay shall primarily focus on the claims: 1) that there is a 'dominant class' which remains accessible only to those lucky enough to be born into it (a 'hereditary' ruling class); 2) that this class uses the state as a 'device' with which to maintain this dominance; 3) that this class acts in a 'dominating and subjugating' way to maintain its grip on power and money; and 4) that big businesses and wealthy individuals have a detrimental effect upon the majority of the working masses. It will predominantly focus on the second chapter, Economics a...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In C.B Macpherson's article, Hobbes' "Bourgeois Man," he argues that Hobbes' commonwealth puts an extreme emphasis on pride, or vainglory being among the most basic of individual drives that we hold has humans, and further dives into the idea that Hobbes' Commonwealth is a society that is based upon Commodity Fetishism or a society in which social relationships between citizens are solely based on production of the commodities and money created and exchanged in market trade, these are not relationships that are based on an actual person but the length to which a singl...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In the case study, the assignment will be looking at the notion of equality and diversity in contemporary society. The study will focus on the topic of poverty and how it affects the emotional, social and educational experiences of a child, positively and negatively. Relevant literature, as well as up to date legislation and policy involving equality and human rights will be used to look at the issue critically, by identifying the inequalities related to class and how it can have an impact upon the social, personal and educational experience of the child within school as well as parent and tea...

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• Grade Level: Graduate