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ANNA JULIA COOPER 

Class, Race, Power, and Sex

          Anna Julia Cooper, was a very devoted to education. She was also very devoted to social change and how society had impacted race, sex, class, and power. Power had a great deal of influence in Cooper's sociological concept and theory. Copper looks at many different things within society and how that might shape one individual.  

“As the whole is sum of all its parts, so the character of the parts will determine the characteristics of the whole” (Lemert, 2013).

  Meaning that no one person can determine how a whole group is looked at within society.

 

       ““But when a great burly six feet of masculinity with sloping shoulders and unkempt beard swaggers in, and, throwing a roll of tobacco into hone corner of his jaw, growls out out at me (Anna Cooper) over the paper I am reading, “Here gurl, you better git out 'n dis kyar 'fyer don't, I'll put yer out,”-- my mental annotation is Here's an American citizen who ha been badly trained”” (Lemert, 2013).

Meaning that Cooper contributes bad attitudes, dis-respectfulness, and failures not because of ones own ideas or thinking but to the society. The society has failed them in the sense of how to interact or do the right thing. That when something goes wrong the blame does not go onto yourself but onto the society that you have been raised in. Overall meaning that people are products of the society so society is the one to blame. 

         Cooper also looks at power and how that interacts and is with in society. Power, is defined as the ability or right to control people or things (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2013). Cooper believes that power is the root of society and comes through in race, sex, and class. Power is often linked to majority within a society. Meaning that if you hold the majority of a certain characteristic or property you in essence have the power. With every majority group comes a minority group. A minority group is a group with fewer members than the leading group (majority). Copper gives four ways a society can deal with minority groups. 

1. Pluralism 

Pluralism is a situation in which people of different social class, religion, race, etc., are together in a society but continue to have their different traditions and interest (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2013).A taco consists of meat, cheese, lettuce, and together they make up a taco. If you where to break them apart they would still be something and not just a taco. Lettuce would be lettuce, cheese would be cheese and so on. Each individual ingredient still has its own identity within the taco. 

2. Assimilation

Assimilation is conformity. It is when one person or group conforms to what the majority is doing. Assimilation is somewhat like peer pressure in that when someone gives into something they originally didn't wan to do. 




    3. Segregation
    4. Genocide


Overall, I picked these picture because they have helped me understand Anna Julia Cooper's concepts in a way that I understand. 

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Women and Economics. 

Gilman's main focus with women and economics is the relationship having to deal with man and women and or husband and wife. Can a women be economically independent? Meaning having all the financial burden or weight on yourself.

Gilman says : “ From the day laborer to the millionaire, the wife's worn dress or flashing jewels, her low roof or her lordly one, her weary feet or her rich equipage,--these speak of the economic ability of the husband... when the woman, left alone with no man to “support” her tries to meet her own economic necessities, the difficulties which confront her prove conclusively what the general economic status of the women is...that the economic status of women generally depends upon that of men individually, those to whom they are related.”

“Trophy Wife.” is what comes to mind. A man provides for his wife all the necessities and or luxuries that his economic standing can bring in. As if he is getting judge or looked at by how his wife is maintaining herself and the household.

Gilman looks deeper into to the relationship between husband and wife or marriage and finds that there are two different ways to look at it. 

1. Business
2. Partnership

Looking at from point one is that if a man were to loss his wife his “economic” standing would most likely not change or be effected, but looking at it as a partnership would be the opposite. The husbands or mans “economic” standing may not change but the flow of the household would.

“all living things ate economically dependent upon others-- the animals upon the vegetables, and man upon both.” Meaning that everyone is still dependent on each other in someway or will be at some point in life.

Example: If you are experiencing car problems and you are a doctor and not a mechanic you will then have to seek out a mechanic to help fix your car. 

Gilman concludes that women or wives may not have the means to make money on their own to be able to give things to others in return for something but they do play a critically role in the husbands or mans way of life. She helps the man become who is is economically be helping out is different way—the main way is within the household. (They are the car goofy in the exam above-the husband is the arrow and the mechanic is the outcome.) 

This concept does not seem to be as strong in today’s society because of the evolution of woman’s rights and opportunities, but still can be found in some household.  

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 Early Women Social Thinker

Harriet Martineau

““The great ends of human association” aim above all “to the grand one. The only general one,-- human happiness.”” Harriet “law” of life was “human happiness.” What is human happiness to be exact? That's a good question. According to the Webster Merriam dictionary “happiness” is the state of being happy. Well whats being “happy” mean? Webster Merriam dictionary says “happy” is feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Contentment is happiness. In essence contentment is security and being secure is happiness. Harriet believes that each and everyone's goal is to try and achieve happiness in life but life or society may not allow that to happen. She gives three basic terms to explain this outline for life.

• Morals: shared norms
• Manners: actions based on norms
• Anomaly: disruption between morals and norms.

Example: war, social class, race, gender inequality.  

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This image shows disruption in a heart beat and I believe helps understand the concept of morals, norms, and anomaly. Disruption is going to occur in most peoples life's in many different ways. It is almost what you make out of it in having the end result being happiness. As if what you put into it is what you are going to get out of it. Happiness is something that everyone whats in life. Everyone whats to be happy. What does it look like? That is up to each and every individual to decides what happiness is to them. Many talk about the “American Dream.” What is that to be exact?  

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This image shows the “American Dream.” This can mean many things, in changes from time to time and from place to place. Most people describe the “American Dream” is having a successful life. Meaning having a job, house, kids, wife, family. Overall the “American Dream” can be different for everyone and can be influenced by many different things. One thing that I would think is apart of everyone's “American Dream” is contentment or security.  

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Max Weber- The Bureaucratization and Rationalization of Modern Society

Bureaucracy. This word can often be confusing and hard to understand. I have found myself struggling to understand the concept of Bureaucratization and Rationalization in general and from Max Weber's point of view. What I get out of it is that you need rationalization to get a bureaucratization and with a bureaucratization comes authority. 

Rationalization is or can be broken down into six characteristics:

• Calculability
• Efficiency
• Predictability
• Replacement of human technology with nonhuman technology.
• Control
• Irrational Consequences
  Rationalization is the process in which brings out bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy according to Max Weber represents the pure ideal-type of legal-rational authority. Bureaucracy is organized on a hierarchical and rational basis. In other words a bureaucracy has a set of rules and regulation that is followed hoping for a good turn out. This maybe stated with a goal or certain outcome in mind. A bureaucracy is made up of a ladder type of environment-meaning there is a chain of commands and or roles and positions that are in order of power or authority.

Authority is a type of power-legitimate domination. Weber breaks it down into three types:

• Rational (law)
• Traditional (passed down from generation to generation)
• Charismatic

Overall bureaucracy is still confusing but I think that Weber does a great job of breaking things down and concluding what bureaucracy is. Bureaucracy is common and is something that we run into a lot throughout our life time and may not even know it.

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This image shows bureaucracy because it shows the chain of commands in the military. I pick this image because it shows how a bureaucracy works and how there are different roles inside a bureaucracy type of environment.