The Effects Of Socioeconomic Modernity And Civic Community

Another view is how small companies are being hurt by monopolies. Small businesses and bigger companies should be existing together. Each company, big or small, has different ways of doing things. For example, if someone gets home and tries to find something to eat. In a monopoly, only one choice is provided. Say the food is pizza and the pizza is great. It may be good for a while but after time one may find a taste in it that a person may not like. If there are many businesses then a person can have pizza, lasagna, mac-n-cheese, and other foods. In the market it is nice to have more choices so that one can find their favorite. Also, information received from Financiers of Small Businesses Receive Tax Breaks (2014), that small businesses have finally been earning money to put towards their stores and savings. Since money has been invested into these new companies, it has been working. This is causing these people to be able to make a living in owning a small company. Less small businesses are failing to support themselves and are able to make their businesses better. This just goes to show that even the government wants to keep small stores alive in America. If some of the most important and educated people think this is a good idea, shouldn’t others believe the same thing? Great people thought that monopolies were a bad thing then and they still are. Making a person’s own company gives people another job choice. The dream of being a small business owner is kept alive due to the government providing money to these companies and also keeps monopolies from taking these people with small companies, and crushing them so they can make more money. As explained in an article from Pugsley and Hurst (2011), “most small business have no intention of growing into a big company.” These companies just want to make

Why has our sense of community weakened? And who or what is to blame? My intent is to answer these questions, and determine what can be done to fix the issue at hand. The above-mentioned communal crisis has affected our ability to connect with others, as well as our means to be self-sufficient. The concept of The American Dream is at fault for the decline of our social state, particularly the basis of individualism and consumerism, both at which reinforce economic inequality. The American Dream is seen as the opportunity to succeed and achieve upward-mobility, but in reality this dream has become a nightmare. The appearance of community has shifted more towards a manifestation of social class, and with all things considered, we are indebted

If you examine a vehicle, you may agree that it is greater than the sum its parts. Individually, the engine, battery, tires, steering wheel, and steel body can’t haul a teen to school or an associate to work like they can when they are all working together as a cohesive unit. Just like any vehicle, the common wealth of a community is greater than the needs of the individuals that make up the community. When the individuals of a community entangle themselves in a web of wants and selfish desires, they tend to loose sight of the well being of the people who surround them, the environment in which they thrive off of, and, in the long-run, themselves. In conjunction, author Scott Russell Sanders’ article titled “Defending Our Common Wealth” highlights these points as well as emphasizes creating a new vision of wealth, encouraging community over consumption and consumerism to his audience.

In the last several years, as we have seen some of the major financial conglomerates collapse, when Wall Street carries some negative connotation, investors’ attention turns to the companies who work primarily with Main Street, specifically those folks who create capital and own assets. A lot of these businessess would not strike you as super wealthy, yet it is the small businesses that proved to be the most resilient during the hard economic times.

As the essay advocates for small businesses, it fails to take notice that the existence of such small businesses can not reduce the American’s desire to buy affordable goods (Mitchell,

Small business are said to be the backbone of the United States economy. It said that small businesses contribute to growth and vitality in the specific area of the United States economic development. Small businesses play a huge role in how the business world is shaped. Entrepreneurs are smart, creative and innovative however, those same entrepreneurs need to have some knowledge that the study of microeconomics focuses on. With the study of microeconomics, their product or future business will succeed in an economic view point.

The process of law making is shadowed in comparison to the process of getting reelected (Kettl). I deem that in modern democracy the Jacksonian idea is completely abolished by today’s government. The Jacksonian democracy expanded voter participation and gave light to the political era of the common citizen (Ginsberg). The idea that the President or even Congress serves the people over themselves is completely non-existent in today’s democracy. As a result, the relationship of government to economic and political power is becoming deeper. Money has always played a role in the democracy of the United States, but in modern democracy money is the key to reelection and power (Ginsberg); which gives little meaning to the idea of democracy. Money can provide a gateway for a candidate who may not even be fully competent to hold an office in Congress or the Presidency, but money is so powerful that people will still see them as a viable candidate and ultimately vote for them because their campaign is

Money has always been a major part of American politics. That red, white and blue our politicians wear could easily be embroidered with that paper green that we know so well. Over the last decade the cost of winning a political election has increased dramatically. In 2002 the cost of winning a senate seat was roughly four and a half million dollars, by 2012 that figure rose to an excess of ten million (David A Graham). In a matter of 12 years spending increased by over 250%. There has never been more money circulating through our political systems then there is today – and there have never been fewer hands involved. The inequality gap is only expanding. The economic elite continue to control a larger portion of our nation’s wealth, and the average worker’s portion continues to get smaller and smaller. It has become more apparent than ever, that our political system has begun developing into a plutocracy that no longer favors the masses, but rather the 1% that have the necessary funds to support our elections.

Community is built of two main elements. First, community requires communal caring. Members need to put themselves in positions where they are able to relate to other members and does everything “within reasonable limits of self-sacrifice” (65). The second is communal reciprocity. Individuals will serve other members of the community, not for exchange of goods, but to provide generosity and support. These elements of community appear in the lives of all individuals, even the most capitalist ones. Humans are entirely capable of these.

More than a handful of people might argue that what was a small businesses in the past is a distinctively well known corporation now, and that the American Dream’s existence was what gave the people the hope that they could like the other enterprises make it. Every business is in fact born from a small shop or something along those lines, and any big corporation now will appear in the same way. The problem is however that the government is in a literal sense killing small companies with either excessive taxes or over-regulation. Excessive taxes are one of the main causes of why small businesses are being closed. This is because with excessive taxes, come with having to waste more money, and with wasting money means no supplies to continue the shops with and no money to pay the workers. As mentioned previously over regulation is another crucial

Community life and civic engagement are a huge responsibility of citizens, although it is not required by citizens, it is an important aspect of a proper citizen. Residents of a community have the constant responsibility of making the society around them reflect an advance in the eminence of lives in the community. The simple duty of any citizen is to give to the common good. Civic responsibilities are achieved by volunteering and choice. Volunteering, involving in positive organizations and aids, or tutoring people in certain subjects, are all ways that people can subsidize to the good of the community. Small deeds that seem to prosper someone in some way or the other is still a way of helping. To learn something from the assistance that one does to another, the deed does not have to be big, as long as the person providing the assistance is doing it with a good heart they can always acknowledge a lesson. Compassion and love is necessary in helping others. When people have the opportunity to help others they may not always get a gift in return, sometimes they may not even get a reply back. This is when the person has to realize that the purpose of helping someone is not for the thank you or the gift, but is for the satisfaction of their soul, betterment of the other, and the ability to learn a lesson. Assisting people needs to be done in a thoughtful and effective way for it to create a lasting impact on his/her self and on society itself.

American civic participation has changed in the 20th century. The first way civic participation has changed is social liberation. Since the 1960s or so, exclusions on the basis of race and gender have been breached. In the past, women and ethnic minorities were not allowed to join organizations as members, so they joined partner organizations. However, some organizations were unable to cope with change after the Civil Rights Movement happened and ideals changed and lost membership. Another change is the decline in American patriotism. Skocpol writes, “Patriotism, brotherhood, and sacrifice were values celebrated by all fraternal groups, and military service was touted as the surest

In this two-page paper, I challenge the “median voter model” advanced by Anthony Downs’s An Economic Theory of Democracy. In his work, Downs argues that, in a plurality election, two political parties converge in policy such that their behavior will best satisfy society’s “median voter.” Here, I consider experimentally demonstrable factors that Downs’s model disregards. These factors support a completely different theory: that political parties are better off setting their policies to satisfy big-money donors than setting them to truly satisfy the median voter.

Civic entrepreneurs are helping communities cooperate to compete in the information age coming from all experiences of life and a new gener¬ation of leaders who forge new, powerfully productive connections at the center of business, government, education, and community. These entrepreneurs have much to teach us about building vital and strong economic communities in raging times and in the process, restoring civil so¬ciety from the very roots. They help communities to collaborate, organize and develop their economic assets and to build productive, tough relationships across the public, private, and civil divisions that misrepresent the ties that bind economy and community for their shared benefits. The provision of the continuity of work on tough issues and continue working overtime is a trait of a civic entrepreneur.

A big chain, like Wal-Mart, can ravage local business and financially destroy local business owners. I know Wal-Mart is seen as a mega job creator, but it is also the small business devourer. Small business owners can’t keep up with the convenience of a store that sells just about everything you could need, like a Wal-Mart. Another thing that consumers enjoy, but small business hate is Wal-Mart’s ability to lower their prices. Small business can’t match them because they’ll lose money instead of making it. Even though these practices seem great to the customer, these types of practices are actually monopolistic, and allows Wal-Mart, a finically stable corporation, to easily run small, locally owned businesses out of business.