Anyone taken sociology ? Conflict approach

[JPL]

I still have this casio calculator at home.. it still working, and it was fucking cool at the time (i.e I had my bachelor degree in 1988 !!)

[kathos]

Actually that would help Google, Microsoft wouldn't be affected that much. Apple fears Google so much that they switched the iPhone default search engine to Microsoft's "Bing" search engine.

Microsoft envisioned a world dominated by desktop computing and dominating that world. What we instead have is a world where phones, netbooks, tablets and even gaming consoles are the future.

(For example, I know some people who literally use their PS3 to use the internet and watch movies. It is increasingly common for people to use their phone for internet. Desktops are becoming the "land line phone" equivalent and Microsoft never invested in the emerging future while companies like Apple and Google have a strong lock on phones and portable devices.)

Interesting, wish I knew this before submitting the paper Baker!

Master, I'll post my paper when I'm home if you want to see what I wrote. Keep in mind, English is my 3rd language, thus you might find it funny how I phrase some of my ideas.

[dfsp_spirit]

I know the exam is already over but here's what I think. No need to believe me, I don't study sociology (but a few close friends do so and I know a few things).

Here's the question: The Stock Market is essentially a system that reflects society. Stocks move based on the perception of what could occur, fear, risk and greed. Take the conflict theory and discuss how a person using the conflict approach would understand how stocks change in price.

Any help is appreciated. The only thing I'm having issues with is linking the conflict approach as I don't fully understand the term, maybe if someone explained to me in simpler terms than what I found online it would help.

They want you to explain how the stock market works from the point of view of the Conflict Theory. They don't ask for your opinion but they want to see whether you can understand a theory and apply it to another problem.

This is rough, forgive me: Marx states that conflict exists in all kinds of societies and that it originates from the exploitation of one class by another: the powerful suppress the poor.

Applying this theory to the stock market would mean to say something about the relationship between single extremely rich shareholders who have lots of power on the market and the millions of people who each have just a very little investment.

I think the "conflict approach" is just an synonym of "a persons perception".

Never assume something like that in a scientific task.

[kathos]

I know the exam is already over but here's what I think. No need to believe me, I don't study sociology (but a few close friends do so and I know a few things).



They want you to explain how the stock market works from the point of view of the Conflict Theory. They don't ask for your opinion but they want to see whether you can understand a theory and apply it to another problem.

This is rough, forgive me: Marx states that conflict exists in all kinds of societies and that it originates from the exploitation of one class by another: the powerful suppress the poor.

Applying this theory to the stock market would mean to say something about the relationship between single extremely rich shareholders who have lots of power on the market and the millions of people who each have just a very little investment.




Never assume something like that in a scientific task.

The conflict theory states one party benefits from another party's loss. In most cases, the powerful benefit from the poor, as you stated in your post spirit. As written in my previous posts I used an example of Apple/Microsoft. Although Baker corrected me by saying Google would benefit from Apple's weakness, not Microsoft. I did link the conflict theory to this example by stating Microsoft would benefit from Apple's loss. One party gains from the loss of another.

Hopefully I won't be penalized too harshly for not exactly using a Rich vs. Poor.

[spooker]

oh there you go, bringing class into it again...

[MasterSplinter]

oh there you go, bringing class into it again...

we're an anarco-sydicalist commune.

[Baker]

This is rough, forgive me: Marx states that conflict exists in all kinds of societies and that it originates from the exploitation of one class by another: the powerful suppress the poor.

Applying this theory to the stock market would mean to say something about the relationship between single extremely rich shareholders who have lots of power on the market and the millions of people who each have just a very little investment.

Ironically, as someone very deep into market theory, philosophy and biology ... where biology is the ultimate market (think survival of the fittest, battle for natural resources, adaptive radiation) ...

The key to defeating "the rich" is freedom of information, public property and defacto "public property".

The most powerful force in nature is "the algorithm", the machinery that increases efficiency in a way no amount of "brute force" can match. Examples are calculus formulas and such where no amount of "labor" can produce results with the efficiency and low cost of having a formula.

The most powerful defacto "public property" is ...

*drum roll*

... Open Source because the "machinery" and the inner workings are maximally available.

It transforms a plutocracy into a meritocracy and feeds knowledge growth activity to the highest natural rate achievable.

This is why Apple fears Google. Google is going to stomp them in every market eventually.

Just watch.

/Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, is highly into information theory.

[metchsteekle]

So if we want to evolve... we need another war... cool

well there is bypasses of course

I still have this Casio calculator at home.. it still working, and it was fucking cool at the time (i.e I had my bachelor degree in 1988 !!)

is it one of those awesome calculator/synthesizer hybrids?

[JPL]

You know, when I said

So if we want to evolve... we need another war... cool

, it was very ironic...

Who would like to have an other world war ? If it happens (God please preserve us from a 3rd world war), the 4th world war will be done with stones and pieces of wood... and humanity would have cetainely disappeared

I hope each country's administration has enough good sense to not jump into such begaviour.... Like Sting was singing:

I hope the russians love their children too

This could be turned into "I hope human being love their children too"... though...

[MasterSplinter]

So if we want to evolve... we new another war... cool

Human's were not originally omnivores, but began eating meat thousands of years ago during times of famine. The consumption of meat, including everything from the very act of dominating/killing and eating the animal, to the hormonal, chemical and even spiritual changes that ensued became the platform from which war was born and nurtured. Obviously this is not to say that eating meat is the entire reason war exists, but instead it laid the fertile ground in our minds and bodies to conceive it.

That said, we are in a constant ebb and flow, fluctuating between our original whole perfect state, and the changes created by external forces.

...that last statement is more of a spiritual perspective, but rest assured there is scientific evidence as well.