SOC-S 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Class Consciousness
21 Feb 2017
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Possible essay questions: discuss the relationship between science, religion, and political power in the world. When the director gives his new students a tour of the hatchery at the beginning of brave new world, it is made immediately clear that the students are all boys. This is the first of many hints that women occupy positions of inferior power and status in the world state. Another clue comes soon after, when we learn that in order to retain the state"s control over reproduction, many of the female fetuses are sterilized but none of the male fetuses are. The malthusian belt, containing regulation contraceptives, is another example of the burden placed on women to avoid pregnancies. In sexual relations, men and women seem to be equally promiscuous and equally free to initiate contact. Lenina is just as ready as bernard to capitalize on the fame brought through association with john by spending time with as many partners as possible.
