working class

First off let me say that the connection between Barack Obama is a stretch. Their relationship amounts to time spent serving on a board together, and Ayers is a professor at The University of Chicago, so plenty of Chicago politicians, regardless of their political affiliations, are probably going to have some connection to him.  Read More »

With the upcoming election, we hear a lot about the middle class. It's been a mantra of the presidential candidates during the primaries, ad now you often hear it during the general election process, more often by one side than the other. But, from my understanding, there are morethan jsut the uber-wealthy and the middle class in America, what about the working poor?  Read More »

I find it funny that Hillary Clinton has been trying to use Sen. Obama's comments against him. If you have not heard the full quote, Obama said:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. ...  Read More »

Socoioeconomic status is a difference in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Originally understood as the difference between capitalists (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proliteriat), “socioeconomic stratification is not a cultural universal; it arose with the earliest states… which first appeared in Mesopotamia, according to anthropologist Morton Fried.  Read More »

I think many people have a different view of the origin of religion (and I do not mean to offend anyone and their personal religious views) and I am sure many of you have heard of or read about the "Mandate of Heaven" or "Divine Right"; many rulers have used these in order to gain and maintain power—they claimed that they are meant to rule because a greater being or God has granted them this rig  Read More »