SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This study analyzes Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party using Marxist literary criticism, especially Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ idea of class struggle from The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Georg Lukács’s perspective of reflectionism. The purpose of this research is to show how the play represents social disparity through its characters and conflicts. Stanley is portrayed as a powerless and marginalized in…

Book · DOAB

Asakawa, Hashimoto and Hirahara explores the widening inequality and its social consequences in Tokyo Metropolitan area by using two approaches, one from social class and social stratification theory and the other from urban sociology. The book uses social atlases to visualize the socio-spatial structure of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world using the analysis from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Nation…

Image · DPLA

12 pages.