SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Inequality, Unemployment Benefits, Social Capital
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Writers and lmmakers sometimes tell stories about shipwrecks and their survivors to make a point about social inequality. Shipwreck is a literary decay that allow steam to sweep away all traces of privilege and social convention. Remains are human beings stripped to their essentials, guinea pigs in an imaginary laboratory for the study of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, esteem, disrespect. Defoe was one of the rst writers to portray capitalism favourably. Believe that people get rich if they posses the virtues of good businesspeople and stay poor if they don"t. However, sometimes in some movie they show a rich beautiful woman abusing her crew members and then a ship wreck happens and only her and handsome man live. She then puts him back into his normal role as a deckhand once they were rescued. It is possible to be rich without working hards because a person can inherit wealth. People can work hard without becoming rich.
