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This 3 page paper looks at a Newsweek article and evaluates it from a conflict perspective. No additional sources cited.
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in baseball, but the congressional inquiry into whether legendary pitcher Roger Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs has morphed into a bizarre bipartisan slugfest between politicians" (Hosenball, 2008, p.7). The article goes
on to say that before the hearing, which is the subject of the article, the inquiry was just about finding out how Clemens was purportedly smeared by media (Hosenball, 2008).
The reason why there ended up to be a bipartisan nature to the hearings seems to be related to the fact that Clemens is a Republican (Hosenball, 2008).
In the article, there is a suggestion that perhaps Clemens received special treatment, or softball answers, by the Republicans sitting on the committee simply because he is a member of
the party. The article focuses on one event, but it this is certainly a sign of the times. Today, as the presidential race heats up, there is a stark difference
between Democrats and Republicans. The two party system in America is quite divisive. In exploring the issue sociologically, it appears that one might want to look at it through conflict
theory. Conflict theories see society as being in conflict in some manner and often pits one group against another. For Marx, for instance, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie were the
groups that were at odds with one another. In some way, because Republicans are characterized as either wealthy or religious, and Democrats as either socially liberal or young, there seems
to be a divide that may be related to social stratification. The idea that society is broken down into segments is no surprise. In the article at hand however, there
is a notion that the belongingness to the group-or the Republican Party-to some extent, supersedes the politicians desire to be fair. Again, this is just an implication. The article is
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