The Hunger Games By Max Weber

The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology defines inequality as ‘the unequal distribution of opportunities, rewards, and power among and between individuals, households and groups’(1). It goes on to say that ‘the subfield of social stratification has as its main task the description and analysis of inequalities, or the makeup of the stratification system of any given society’.(1) From this one definition, we can already begin to see the strong links that lie between inequalities and social stratification. As we delve deeper into the topics, we can begin to see both the inevitability and the functionality of stratification

The relevance of social class in Australia has been disputed as to whether it still exists. There are a lot of arguments and opinions on this issue but class inequality is evidently still in force in twenty first Australia. Contemporary Australian society discriminates the difference of social classes through economic status, education and geographic location. The power struggle in social class is analyzed in theorist Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” where the Bourgeois (ruling class) and the Proletarians (working class) are discussed as to how classes are shaped in societies which can then be applied in twenty first century

The social stratification of people can be affected by many things. In most cases people are affected by economic factors. In class we watched documentaries that shows different economic struggles and other structural inequalities. The documentaries were Violence Next Door: Growing up in the Favelas and The Other Side of Immigration. They both showed different economic factors from different places.

Social Stratification is inequality in the system that we see every day in a society clearly divided by power, status and wealth.

“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone,” said by the political economist Henry George. The meaning of this quote is that things work better when there is equality, and this relates to The Hunger Games theme of inequality between the poor and the rich. As seen in The Hunger Games, anyone who didn 't live in the capital was living in poverty. The only way to get out of poverty was to win The Hunger Games.

There is also a large number of the Australian population that believes Australia is a class-less society. It has been thought the theme classifying social classes is the social advantages, often having certain possessions reflecting the values of each different class. These advantages create a clear distinction between the social divisions (Emmison, 2003). Question 3 asks the participants to explain what they believe are the determinants of the different social classes, this question is important as it allows an understanding to be formed of why the participants identify with a certain class and what needs to be achieved to become a particular class. This questionnaire is intended to help with the understanding of what participants believe to be the defining factors between each social

Survive Survival The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is a novel based around 24 Tributes having to survive through the Games by killing each other. The book’s main character is Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old sharp shooting girl from District 12 who volunteered to be a tribute alongside a baker’s son, Peeta Mellark to participate in the Games. One theme in the book is Survival, Survival is about how someone can use their individual strengths or intelligence to help them survive and the importance of alliances to survival. One reason why Survival is the most significant theme is because the point of the Hunger Games is to survive.

Do you like reading books about survival? Do you enjoy reading about children having to murder one another in order to survive? If so then the book “ Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is the book for you. The Hunger Games is mainly about survival because Katniss has to find her own water, kill or gather her own food, and make her own shelter.

Suzanne Collin’s “Hunger Games” seems to be about a dystopian society struggle to become a utopia. However, when the readers read further in to the book or watches the movie one can see that is about all the characters that make use human.

Critically evaluate both Karl Marx’s and Max Weber’s theories of social class. How do these theories contribute, if at all, to an understanding of the class structure of Australian society?

In his novel Between Hell and Reason, Albert Camus states, “Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.” Evidently, utopias are nonexistent in actuality, but visions of a perfect society may distance an individual from reality. However, concepts of ideal societies cannot be visualized without first analyzing the errors and weaknesses presented within dystopias. These defects, including the restriction of independent thought, lack of freedom, and constant surveillance and control, are presented through the real world, films, and literature. In the works The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, and World War Z by Max Brooks, authors create dystopias in which ethical issues are presented to fuel one’s imagination regarding what qualities a utopia may possess.

Social stratification implies social inequality. Social stratification has to do with inequality and the way inequality categorizes

Individuals in today’s society are separated by many different factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and economic status. Another form of separation is that of stratification. There are four major systems of stratification slavery, caste, estate, and class. “Social stratification means the differentiation of a given population into hierarchically superposed classes.”(Sorokin, 1964, p. 11) Stratification can either be in the form of an open or closed system. The closed system is one that allows minimal to no movement within the system. The open system is just the opposite it allows for varying degrees of movement throughout the system. There are many ways to break down the social stratification of

Social stratification creates a hierarchy system in a society and represents the sort of people in this hierarchy. Furthermore, in this hierarchy, assets, assets allocations and opportunities do not reach to people equally. This unequal conditions lead to social inequalities and social divisions in the society.

In the United states, social classes is a controversial issue in terms of defining the actual nature of the classes themselves. Many individuals have categorized the society into three elementary groups that is the “poor”, “middle class” and the “rich”. Additionally, a more complex system of social classes is derived from the three elementary classes. In this regard, a four-class system includes “the capitalist/upper class”, “the middle class”, “the working class” and “the lower class” (Thompson, 2005). Moreover, sociologists have expanded the for-class system into a six class system includes “the capitalist or upper class”, “the upper-middle class”, “the middle class”, “the working class”, “the lower-working class” and “the lower class”.