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    Introduction: In the essay the discussion will be based on the social groups of the upper class and the lower class in the city of Hanoi in Vietnam and how the social groups have different meanings and values to the urban places.in the last thirty years Hanoi has developed from one of the poorest county in Asia and is now thriving amongst the richest countries and the population has grown dramatically ‘overnight expansion of the city’s population from approximately 3.5 to 6.23 million inhabitants’

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    more progressive and efficient society. The constant development of technology in today’s world correlates to Vonnegut’s Player Piano when discussing social class and unemployment, the devouring of industrial and day-to-day jobs carried out by human beings, and the dehumanization of society. In Vonnegut’s novel a separation of social and economic classes becomes formidable. The setting in which the story takes place consists of managers and engineers considered to be the upper class, and then everyone

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    however progressed promote markers that were additionally critical in deciding a person's social position and power. (Andrews et al., 2012) The key contrasts amongst Marx and Weber get from their distinctive strategies. Weber imagined a photo of class from individual and social particularities. Weber's record of class is substantially more classificatory, and less structuralist seeing the detectable social world as the genius of an inward unique. Another key distinction amongst Marx and Weber is

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    The film shows various classes and the societal views of each. After the ship has hit the iceberg and is sinking, the lower class individuals are locked into the lower deck. With the limited number of lifeboats, killing off the poor allows the rich more chances at survival. The rich, it can be implied, are more deserving of life than the poor. A second illustrator of differences in class is the fact that Rose is of upper class and Jack is poor. Their relationship is short lived and not approved by

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    William Graham Sumner is a social Darwinist who claimed that people who work hard are rich, while people who do not work as hard are poor. In his article of “What the Social Classes Owe Each Other,” he discusses the distinction between the lower and upper class. The upper class consists of all the determined hard workers, while the lower class consists of lazy workers. He believed that every man is given a chance to work for their success, but not everyone is able to grasp their opportunity and most

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    Society: The difference of classes in societal structure can be derived from the goods that were buried in their graves. It is clear that there was a strong, ruling class and a lower group containing mostly the common people. The political hierarchy consisted of the 'The Wanax' (or King), at the top, who was the political and religious leader. Below him were the local chiefs and controllers who looked after administrative duties. The safety of the state was the responsibility of the Lawagetas, the

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    assets and prestige in the world. Many people in higher social classes have different ways in raising their children than people in lower classes. The reason behind this inequality is due to social classes that exist. Social classes are groups of people with different statuses. Social classes are important because it helps determine the way a child will be raised. In addition, it is shown to significantly affect a child’s future. Furthermore, social class is shown to affect people’s families such as with

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    Hinduism reinforces the caste system, which is a "division of society into social classes that are created by birth or occupation" and it is a "prevalent social system of Hinduism" (Molloy 90). Thus, class and race are both elements affected by the caste system. There are different castes, or social classes, and there are also subcastes. Despite the caste being permanent for one's life, it's not to say that those in lower castes cannot move up to a higher caste. This is where the concept of rebirth

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    Radley was isolated by most of Maycomb, for example. In the novel, Scout met people in different social classes such as: Robert E. Lee “Bob” Ewell, Tom Robinson, Calpurnia, and Atticus Finch. Through the use of complications, imageries, and characters, Lee implies stereotypes and how a person’s development can be impacted by social classes. Complications Lee used displays how different types of social classes are treated differently. In Maycomb, white people—even if extremely poor—such as Bob Ewell

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    very different from the origin of the word in Victorian England which implied a high set of social standards. In Victorian England, social classes were determined by a person's economic status, whereas being a gentleman was determined by a man’s social status and required a certain amount of chivalry, resulting in , strict social classes with an extremely poor quality of life for subjects of the lower classes. Gentlemanship was something that was not taken lightly, and highly sought after in Victorian

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