Sociology - Book Report/Review Example

ited, but those who are paid less than what is necessary for even the survival are super-exploited.  Super-exploitation is synonymous to racism which requires ideological justification.  In other words, it means if you are going to colonize a group, you have to come up with reasoning.  The ideology of racism is, in fact based on that reasoning (Rosenthal, 2007). This concept of race was developed centuries back but the word racism did not catch fire until the 20th century.  Racism was developed to promote and justify enslavement, annihilation, and colonial conquest and it is still the base of the system of modern capitalism.

The war in Afghanistan and Iraq reflects the fatal racist core of the modern capitalist system.  The ruling class used the 9/11 attacks as a smokescreen to carry out imperialist oil wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The global war on terror is just a fancy name given to the super exploitation of these nations. The wars as they have been portrayed are not waged to spread democracy in the Middle East or fight against terrorism. The deserts of Iraq holds as much as 783 billion barrels of oil and any nation seeking to dominate the world would go after it (Behan, 2007).

These wars have been conceived and planned for a long time and they are undertaken to control petroleum resources. They also paint a perfect picture of modern day capitalism. Select a sub-culture (preferably one you have had experience with) and describe example of ethnocentrism within the group; then use the relativist approach to give a more objective assessment of the values and practices of this group.  America has been regarded as the most ethnocentric nation with only 3 percent of people going abroad to study (Bezvushko, 2006).

The biggest case of ethnocentrism that America has experienced in the past is the time of the second civil war. Ethnocentrism is the only major factor that has come between the white and black habitants of America for centuries. The existence of