What Is The Social Conflict In Chile

Before the Chilean War of Independence, Chile was colonized by Spain. The Spaniards colonized Chile in hopes of discovering another Peru, another country plentiful with precious metals. Finding none, the Spaniards began to focus on developing Chile agriculturally. Due to the poverty of the country, there were few slaves and the settlers had to often work the fields themselves. Not many settlers stayed due to the fact that they couldn’t profit from gold, but their influence was still strong. The citizens of Chile had to be under the rule of the Spanish crown, and a strong class structure developed in Chile

The inequality that is present between these two classes is unbelievable throughout the book that even parts of the wealthy class begin to realize the damage that their right wing government has caused to the lower division of Chile. Even Esteban Trueba’s immediate family senses the problems that the poor face. “[Clara] now took Blanca with her on her visits to the poor, weighed down with gifts and comfort. ‘This is to assuage our conscience, darling,’ she would explain to Blanca. ‘But it doesn 't help the poor. They don 't need charity, they need justice’” (136). Because of this unequal treatment of the classes and the resentment that the poor held for the wealthy, the two classes could not continue to co-exist. The incessant struggle that the lower class faced when the wealthy controlled everything forced them to begin a revolution so that they can finally take control of their own lives instead of living to please the wealthy.

As Marx’s states in his theory, when the working class becomes aware of their exploitation, this will result in a revolt lead by the proletariats. The major theories studied by Marx can be used to analyze the characters and situations presented in the film.

First, the movie demonstrates the different types of social interaction. Social interaction is defined as “what people do when they are in one another’s presence and includes communications at a distance” (Henslin, 2014). When Carlos and Luis interact, it appears that they have a caring and loving tone for one another, especially when Luis is afraid one night when his father does not return until the late hours of the night. In contrast, the director demonstrates a very violent social interaction between Luis and the man who stole his father’s truck (Weitz, 2011). In addition, the term social structure is heavily emphasized throughout the movie. Social structure is defined as “the framework of society that surrounds us; consists of the ways that people and groups are related to one another; this framework gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior”(Henslin, 2014). Throughout the movie, the director constantly oscillates between the life of the mostly white upper class and the mostly Hispanic lower class. Here, the director establishes the limits of luxury that each group can have. The upper class is living luxurious lifestyles, while the lower class is limited to what they can have because of their poor economical status (Weitz, 2011). This image of lower and upper classes also builds on the sociological ideas of social class. A social class is defined as “large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and

No matter where you go in the world people are divided. They can be divided by their wealth or state of living these are social classes. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton social classes a very apparent the rich and the poor. In The Outsiders, social classes create a divide in the community. The isolation of these two groups lead to the tension and violence that is seen in the book.

No matter where you go in the world, people are divided. They can be divided by their wealth or state of living these are social class. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton social classes a very apparent the rich and the poor. In The Outsiders, social classes create a divide in the community. The isolation of these two groups leads to the tension and violence that is seen in the book.

How does the film waver between middle-class values and street values? (Relate to excerpt from There Are No Children Here reading). How does one’s social class need to be a part of any discussion of law and inequality?

From the start the novel is laden with the pressures that the main characters are exposed to due to their social inequality, unlikeness in their heredity, dissimilarity in their most distinctive character traits, differences in their aspirations and inequality in their endowments, let alone the increasingly fierce opposition that the characters are facing from modern post-war bourgeois society.

In “Machuca”, we realize the extremities of differences between the different classes in the Chilean society, rooted mainly due to the lack of satisfaction of the two classes in the Socialist Unidad Popular Government. “The key to this interpretation is found in another important scene that takes place midway through the movie. There is a meeting at the school so that the parents of the students may have an opportunity to discuss the experiment of mixing children of different social classes. The discussion is mainly between liberals and conservatives – all of them middle or upper middle class – those who are in favour and those who are against the ‘experiment’. The parents of the poor students are standing at the back of the room (a chapel) and listen without taking part in the discussion, until the moment when Pedro’s mother dares to speak out. For a moment we can hear the subaltern’s voice, whose story is the history of primitive accumulation and of the worker’s continuous separation from the means of production, the history of pure and naked exploitation” (Martín-Cabrera & Voionmaa, 2007). She speaks about how the condition of the poorer sections of the

It all started when the students decided to organize and protest against the violence exerted by the riot police. During the previous months, Mexico City witnessed a series of student protests and rallies against repression and violence. (“Mexico 's 1968 Massacre”) for example on August 13, a large demonstration of around 150,000 participants gathered to protest, a protest that ended outside of the palace of governor. On 13 September the "march of silence ”took place, this was a protest of more than 250,000 people, where they all remained silent to prevent the police put the pretext of provocation by students (“Movimiento estudiantil de 1968”).

Throughout its history Mexico has had many revolutions. The most famous perhaps is the Mexican Revolution from 1910-1920. The people of Mexico were getting tired of the dictator rule of President Porfino Diaz. People of all classes were fighting in the revolution. The middle and upper classes were dissatisfied with the President’s ways. The lower and working class people had many factors such as poor working conditions, inflation, inferior housing, low wages, and deficient social services. Within the classes everyone was fighting; men, women, and children all contributed to the fight for freedom from Diaz (Baxman 2). This revolution proved to be the rise and fall of many leaders.

This film is related to Stratification, Class, and Inequality (Chapter 7) and Socialization, the Life Course, and Aging (Chapter 3) from the sociology textbook. Everyday individuals are affected by socialization and culture. Socialization is an important role in people’s lives. The term of socialization is related to the film because it shows how the Greasers and Socs are acting around each other. They are causing too much problems between them such as fights, dramas, violence, and actions.

Colombia is a Latin American country located in South America that has been ravaged by violence, starvation, and large-scale inequality between higher and lower classes. The chaos in Colombia has been between rebel forces and the government and has lasted for over fifty years. These rebel forces have fought to achieve their Liberalist lead goals of overthrowing the current democratic government of Colombia and replacing it with a communist government. La Violencia was the main contributor to the conflict between the resistance fighters of Colombia and the Colombian government that has brought on violence and terror from the violent actions between the Liberal and Conservative parties in the 1950’s. , which has directly brought on the violence and terror from the guerrilla groups.

The 1976 film Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scosese does a good job of telling the tale of a working class laborer. Since the working-class protagonist in Taxi Driver seems to fail in directing violence toward political ends, one might argue that the film Taxi Driver rejects the proletarian class as the revolutionary class. However, the film embraces several ideas from Marxist thought, specifically Marx's idea of separate classes; proletariat and bourgeoisie in society. For instance, the use of social structures and the idea of the lower class revolting. Taking this into account is important because it helps us to better understand how the film views the economic system that produces people like Travis. This paper argues that the film

It wanted to portray Pinochet supported by many rich people. It was going to be something good for them if Pinochet won Presidency. The YES campaign threatened people in the NO campaign showing the power Pinochet had over Chile. 2) How does the film portray the censorship of the press and the political oppression under Pinochet?