Simmel, Marx, and Mead

After reading the specified changeover 8, pages 101-108, I sit down back and estimation average ab protrude who and what we do studied this semester. The information in the passage connected with three of the five major(ip) sociological minds that we remove studied Simmel, Marx, and Mead. The beginning of the passage talks most immigrants starting a new life in a new place, and what we a Americans have in mind about it, which reminds me of Georg Simmel. A serving of the passage talks about how screen out and jobs relate to one an otherwise, which made me think of Karl Marx.One part of the passage discusses what Barbie is for little girls, which reminds of George Herbert Mead. I think that it is clear that these three sociological minds influenced part of this section of Barbie Culture. Rogers gives the Statue of Liberty as an example of an icon. She talks about what it represents for Americans. To us it represents political freedom and mass democracy (independence), this same icon has occasion a harbinger of a parlia handstary law supposedly open to hum masses of needy, if not desperate, immigrants (dependence).Rogers goes on to say that Americans see foreign-born newcomers as threats to their society. Fearful of the alien lifeways and multiple tongues of these international migrants, such Americans commonly levy sen judgment of convictionnts seemingly incompatible with this cherished icon (Rogers 101-102). Pampel talks a lot about how Simmel mat up about the way he and other Judaic pack were treated when they moved to Germany and into its big cities, and how most Germans tried to have got them from gaining any power or status.One example that Pampel gives is universities placed limits on the number of Jewish professors they would promote although about 12 percent of lecturers came from Jewish backgrounds, only about three percent reached he position of upgrade professor (Pampel 131). Simmel was held back at almost everywhere he taught. mo re or less everyone that heard his lectures like him and what he thought about things and how he bust things up and made sense out of them. He should have been upgrade way before he finally was, but because of racist views of him he was not, no matter how brilliant he was.Pampel writes a lot about Marx and what he thought about the inhumane working conditions. Pampel tells us how Marxs view on why things were the way they were. Mattels hierarchy grows wider as one descends the ladder (Rogers 102). Marx knew that there were a lot more lying-in (workers) than there were bourgeoisie (owners of the capital). Everyone wanted as much money as they could get. Nobody really c bed how the workers that were actually making the products lived or even felt. Marx felt that the key concept to all of that is social class.Society is both enabling and constraining. It enables few people to make a lot of money and the major decisions that affect everyone and constrains most people to just do as t hey are told. The workers had to work with low pay and in bad working conditions just to make enough money to survive. They really had no choice. Marxs situation is called dispute theory, and classes are always going to be in conflict with one another. Last but not least, Rogers talks about how or why Barbie came to be.Ruth and Elliot private instructor were on vacation in Switzerland with their son, Ken, and their daughter, Barbara. They were out shopping when they came across the Lilli doll, which was a German doll that came from a sketch strip and that was mostly marketed to men as a sex symbol. Barbara Handler was fascinated with the doll, and Ruth Handler claims to have seen it as a attitude plaything for girls past the baby-doll stage (Rogers 103). Ruth must have thought that girls noneffervescent needed a doll to play with so that they still had a sort of learning tool, even though they had out self-aggrandizing baby-dolls.Mead thought that toys/dolls could be used for role-playing, which really helped in the process of congruous ones social self. Children could adopt the roles and attitudes of the doll. They act out and shine the roles of others in their imaginations. This role-playing helps children incur a better sense of the meanings and attitudes held by other people (Pampel 194). Once children learn these things they can start forming their own opinions about things and really become and individual. Simmel taught us that the world is not fair.Even though he was a brilliant man and had a lot to assign the world, he was not able to because of racism and stupid people. Marx thought that society could be a great thing, but at the same time it could hold people back and make a lot of people miserable. Mead said that dolls play an important part in becoming a functioning member of society by helping children learn to develop their own attitudes and opinions as well as respect the attitudes and opinions of others. These three men contributed a lot to form the great sociological world that we have today.