Information Technology And The World Wide Web Creating New Bases For Power And Domination

This shows relation to the ‘conflict theory’, because different social groups are not treated equally.

Privilege and oppression provides a framework for understanding how institutional structures and ideologies shapes individual experiences. Privilege and oppression also explains “how power operates in society” which led to the formation of “a dominant group and a marginalized group” (Launius and Hassel, Threshold Concepts, 72-73). “Oppression can be defined as prejudice and discrimination directed toward a group and perpetuated by the ideologies and practices of multiple social institutions” (Launius and Hassel, Threshold Concepts, 73). While, privilege refers to the “benefits, advantages, and power that accrue to members of a dominant group as a result of the oppression of marginalized group”,

3. ____ refers to the degree to which cultures will encourage less powerful members of groups to accept that power is distributed unequally.

In many dystopian novels, technology is viewed as a benefit for a society. Today many people believe it has benefitted us but it has controlled our lives. People no longer have face to face conversations or make phone calls. The use social media to get in contact with their loved ones or simply send a text message. You walk out onto the

Throughout history, society has made it easy to place people in groups. We organize them by race, gender, age, and sometimes even income. People do this because they feel like everyone has to fall under a certain category. Power ties in with group dynamics because it is common to see individuals get punished for the category they fall under. It is easier to point the finger to a group of people than to individuals. Power can get out of control if it gets into the wrong hands, and can get taken advantage of for selfish interests.

In the section of the domains of power the reading states that “When it comes to the organization of power, different people find themselves encountering different treatment regarding which rules apply to them and how those roles are implanted (pg 9).” People do receive different treatment depending on the authority that is over them. In my life, I have experienced this kind of treatment, where someone would make me feel like I was inferior to someone else. It was like I couldn't compare to this person. It wasn't the fact

However, many of the group-based stereotypes are incorrect and generalizing and it promotes further misunderstandings and prejudice. Prejudice is having a false attitude toward an out-group in comparison to one’s in-group. Prejudiced individuals are prejudging without knowing any information about the “Others” (Rogers and Steinfatt).

A world of system designed to keep people in unjust and unequal positions is held in place by several interrelated expression of "power over": political power, economic power, physical force, and ideological power (Bishop, 1994: 36). So, we can say power is defined as a possession of control, authority or influence over others. In terms of power of dominant groups over subordinate groups, we define power as domination of one group of people over another in major important spheres of life. Power inequities have been in existence throughout the history of humanity and the ways of manifestation evolved from extreme overt oppression to subtle, covert oppression. Three major forms of power inequalities discussed in this paper are

This is done deliberately through representations of the other by the dominant group, as they have the power to mark, assign and classify (Hall, 2001), to justify the subordination of these groups (Lorber, 1994). It is through these subordinate characteristics (stereotypes) assigned to the subordinate groups that they become the way in which the group is defined and hierarchically stratified on the basis of race, class, sexuality or gender and then become naturalised through discourse (Hall, 2001). For example black people are hyper-sexualised and characteristics such as barbaric and savage are associated with them (Hall, 2001). This then becomes the reason why black people are seen as inferior and in need of being subordinated, oppressed and marginalised. This is then articulated through discourse and by doing this the dominant group maintains power as it is connected with knowledge; knowledge that dominant groups aim to replace their own specialized thought so as to produce internalised oppression in subordinate groups (Collins, 1990).

In examining the relationship between those who hold power and those who have status, when one holds power but doesn’t have the status to go with it, there is often negative behavior that follows. “Across

The narrators of the documentary suggest that wars, the mentality to conquer will continue to cause famine and most likely death and more global deaths. It is also suggested and demanded that Americans and people globally need to questions why we have systems in place that serve the rich. How can we reform is one question that is asked. Currently these systems serve the interest of a select few. The film stated that Tim Berners-Lee (Links to an external site.)created the World Wide Web and in doing so he inadvertently supplied all of the major financial institution more power to grow because information was available more quickly on new conquest. This paper will explore what the film calls the four horsemen and how they are wreaking

Sociologists view power as a system of stratification that is based its ability to direct another person’s behavior, honor and prestige, which most of the times leads to patterns of social inequality. From this perspective, inequality means who gets what, how they get whatever they need, and why they need it in the first place (Diez, 2013). Power can either lead to social equality or inequality. In order to explain this in detail, the author of this paper explains two incidences, the first one in which the author was in power and the second one in which the author was a perpetrator of discrimination.

Society is a structured hierarchical system of classes. The higher class you hold, the higher power often associated to you. With this construction of society one-group claims dominance over another doing so with “power over” (Bishop, 2015). Power over others can be visible through physical strength, wealth, resources, and access to opportunities, etc. These dominate groups not only spread ideas, but often are in charge of the creation of ideas, their importance, and the norms and roles for society and classes labeling groups different than their own as inferior.

Since I often find myself paralysed in thought, I decided it would be better to hurl these ramblings out into the maelstrom of the internet than retain them within my own head. Then, like a warped father figure, I could watch them struggle to survive, stumbling on thin, wavering legs, before falling underneath the onslaught of memes and photoshopped cat pictures, the undisputed overlords of the world wide web. I presume everyone has those days where instead of actually moving from their bed, or their room, or even in some cases their own mind, they instead wonder about the nature of reality and the world around us. I find myself doing this around 90% of the time, and so I 'd expect that if I was thinking anything useful I would long ago have uncovered the truth of the life, unfurled the fabric of reality, and would long since have escaped this paltry existence to spend my eternal life sprawled between this universe and the next watching all of you foolish mortals struggle to survive. Unfortunately this hasn 't happened, and I 'm beginning to suspect it never will. Instead, I thought I 'd trick you all into reading my pointless drivel, and if this has now turned you off the idea, then haha! the joke 's on you, since you already put my hit counter up one. My most common preoccupation is with the notion of death and life ending, the sort of area most commonly monopolised by religion or the depressed. It 's a subject I 've found inherently fascinating since I was a child,

The general thought with respect to this evaluation is that digitalisation has assumed control over the world and getting by in such