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A 12 page discussion of the phenomena of social stratification (particularly in the United States) as it continues to exist even in the days of globalization. The author turns to the writings of theorists Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charles Horton Cooley for an explanation. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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The works of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber can be related to a number of contemporary issues revolving around globalization. It seems that no matter how hard
we collectively try to become one world we continue to split into more and more definable factions. This continuing tendency to split can be attributed to a number of
factors addressed in the work of these social philosophers. The purpose of this paper will be to address the tendency of groups to cling to group identification and to
label those that are not members of their group as deviant or somehow inferior. It sometimes seems, in fact, that there is an inability to interblend. This inability
has been observed by numerous generations of theorist, not just those generations embraced by Marx, Durkheim, and Weber or even those embraced by theorists William James, W.E.B. Du Bois,
and Charles Horton Cooley to whom this paper also encompasses. Although the same phenomena can be observed, in fact, across all time periods and across all cultures, to add
some sense of cohesion an emphasis will be placed in this paper on contemporary American society and the fractionation which can be observed between blacks and mainstream society.
What we are observing in modern day society in regard to the refusal of certain groups to blend into one large global identification is not
a new development. Indeed, it is a very old one. Throughout the existence of mankind, in fact, we have thrived on our precisely defined group identities. Each
of the theorists noted above recognize this fact but each approach it from slightly different angles of explanation. Consider, for example, the ever growing chasm between what is considered
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