Explain how and why the Functional Perspective is the legitimating rationale (explanation or justification) for a Capitalist economy‚ and give examples of this justification through race‚ religion‚ class‚ gender‚ and educational level. Then‚ critique the Functionalist ideology from the Conflict Perspective and describe how the stratification system produces deviants (not criminals‚ but rather those who fall outside the expectations in actions‚ thoughts‚ appearance‚ credit-score‚ etc) and the result
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American Capitalism is not like the typical pure capitalist economy. It is actually a mixed economy. The economy is mixed with Socialism and Capitalism. The general meaning of Socialism is “a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production‚ distribution‚ and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.” Capitalism is “an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for
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How the central problems are solved in a capitalist economy? A capitalist economy has no central planning authority to decide as to what‚ how and for whom to produce and in the absence of any central authority; it looks like a miracle as to how such an economy functions. There can be confusion and chaos in the country when the producers choose to produce cloth and workers choose to work for the furniture industry‚ while the consumers are in need of cars. In order to solve the central problems
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Brief review and explanation of Effort Justification Effort Justification is a theory of social psychology stemming from Festinger ’s (1957) theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Effort justification theory states that people have tendency to attribute a greater value to an outcome they had to put effort into obtaining. Cognitive Dissonance theory attempts to explain people ’s change of attitudes or beliefs when they face a dissonance between contradicting cognitions. Effort Justification theory is only
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In a capitalist economy‚ all the central problems are solved with the help of price mechanism. In such an economy‚ no individual or a firm deliberately tries to solve the central problems; all economic activities operate automatically and there is no conflict anywhere. The basic reason for all this is that price mechanism brings about co-ordination in various sectors of economy and in various economic activities. The important characteristic of such a system is that it is automatic and there
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Russia: Transition from Centralized Economy to Capitalist Economy After the fall of Soviet Union in 1991‚ the transition of its centrally planned economy to capitalist economy was hindered with several difficulties. Before the collapse of Soviet Union‚ it was practicing a command economy wherein state planners assigned the production of particular manufactures to particular places. All factories‚ farms and energy providers were state controlled. After the collapse‚ the new leadership decided
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diploma that’s why those people make more. At its heart Capitalism is the best way because it allows people to grow and have better lives and make more money at there own will not because of the government. With capitalism as the form of economics it is more efficient for a stable economy because it allows people to gain wealth and allow people to buy what they want not what is forced upon them. Let’s take Walmart for example‚ founded by Sam Walton in AR in a capitalist economy Mr. Walton
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From a socialist economy to a capitalist economy: The transition of SOEs in Russia The privatization reform in Russia – a recipe for economic success? Sixty nine years of Soviet Union (USSR) existence ended in 1991‚ when USSR disintegrated into fifteen independent states including Russia Federation as the largest‚ Estonia‚ Lithuania‚ Latvia‚ Ukraine‚ Belarus and Uzbekistan‚ just to name a few. In the newly established Russia Federation‚ the former leader Mikhail Gorbachev was replaced by
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Course title and number: Economics 1 BUS 121 Graded project Number: 05047700 When over looking the behavior of the economy through a macroeconomic perspective‚ the viewer is looking at the economy as a whole rather than taking apart and observing the individual pieces. Of course there are hundreds of factors that attribute to the economy for example emerging markets that influence the overall health of the economy. Consequently with emerging markets
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this chapter is to investigate financial systems from both a functional and a structural perspective. We set out a taxonomy of financial intermediaries‚ securities and financial markets‚ and give an overview of the peculiarities of national financial systems. Learning outcomes By the end of this chapter‚ and having completed the essential readings and activities‚ you will be able to: • explain why financial systems exist (i.e. explain the functions of financial systems) • outline the structure
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