capitalism

Examples of capitalism in the following topics:

• Capitalism

  • Capitalism is generally considered by scholars to be an economic system that includes private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income, the accumulation of capital, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
  • Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.
  • Capitalism is generally viewed as encouraging economic growth.
  • The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a contentious area in theory and popular political movements.
  • Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy

• The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

  • Capitalism has been the subject of criticism from many perspectives during its history.
  • Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism.
  • In this sense they seek to abolish capital.
  • Capitalism is seen as just one stage in the evolution of the economic system.
  • Examine Karl Marx's view on capitalism and the criticisms of the capitalist system

• The Death Penality

  • Capital punishment is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
  • Capital punishment is often opposed on the grounds that innocent people will inevitably be executed.
  • Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as "capital crimes" or "capital offenses. " Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies.
  • In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offense.
  • Capital punishment is often opposed on the grounds that innocent people will inevitably be executed.

• Welfare State Capitalism

  • Google is an example of a modern company acting under welfare capitalism in that it provides services to its employees.
  • However, even at the peak of this form of welfare capitalism, not all workers enjoyed the same benefits.
  • Business-led welfare capitalism was only common in American industries that employed skilled labor.
  • This is an example of welfare capitalism in that it involves a business providing for its employees.
  • Discuss how welfare capitalism impacts the worker and the business, in terms of costs and benefits for both

• Capitalism, class, privilege, and oppression

  • Capitalism produces enormous amounts of wealth, in addition to increasing levels of inequality, both within the U.S. and around the world.
  • Capitalism is a system that produces cruel consequences.
  • Capitalism causes competition, stress, and anxiety among members of the working class and middle class, as people do not have any control over their work and whether they can keep their jobs.

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
  • On an individual level, academic capital influences and informs several important aspects of life.
  • In the most basic sense, academic capital is strongly tied to earning potential.
  • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality

• Economic Sociology

  • Sociology came of age in the late nineteenth century, at the same time as capitalism and modernity were taking root.
  • Max Weber's book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is the archetypical representation of the works of economic sociology's classical period .
  • Published in 1905, Weber argues that capitalism flourished in northern Europe because of a preexisting religious ethic that encouraged dedication and hard work in the course of proving oneself worthy of salvation.
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is representative of classical economic sociology in that it uses sociological data on religion to explain the economic phenomenon of northern Europe's embrace of capitalism.
  • This picture shows the cover to the 1934 edition of Max Weber's The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

• Capitalism, race and gender inequality

  • Capitalism also takes advantage of gender inequality.
  • Capitalism would no longer function if the mass of women stopped doing the shopping, cooking, cleaning, and caretaking.
  • For the most part, women raise the next generation of workers on which capitalism depends.

• Academic Skills and Knowledge

  • "Academic capital" is a term used by sociologists to represent how an individual's amount of education and other academic experience can be used to gain a place in society.
  • Much like other forms of capital, social capital, economic capital, and cultural capital, academic capital doesn't depend on one sole factor but instead is made up of many different factors, including the individual's academic transmission from his/her family, status of the academic institutions attended, and publications produced by the individual.
  • Numerous studies have been done involving the idea of academic capital, and scholars have disagreed on what counts as academic capital.
  • However, it seems that most references to academic capital point solely to professional teachers and researchers within higher education.
  • Examine the implications of academia in society, especially in terms of structure, qualifications and academic capital

• Capitalism

  • Capitalism is an economic and social system in which capital and the non-labor factors of production or the means of production are privately controlled; labor, goods and capital are traded in markets; profits are taken by owners or invested in technologies and industries; and wages are paid to labor.
  • Capitalism gradually spread throughout Europe and other parts of the world.
  • While some scholars see mercantilism as the earliest stage of modern capitalism, others argue that modern capitalism did not emerge until later.
  • For Weber, the 'spirit of capitalism' was, in general, that of ascetic Protestantism; this ideology was able to motivate extreme rationalization of daily life, a propensity to accumulate capital by a religious ethic to advance economically, and thus also the propensity to reinvest capital: this was sufficient, then, to create "self-mediating capital" as conceived by Marx.
  • They also purchase capital goods to convert them into consumer goods.