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Paper Abstract: Uses social theory to analyze the crisis caused by the mid-air collision of a U.S> spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet on April 1, 2001. Conflict theory of Karl Marx and interaction 6heory of Georg Simmel. Economics as a driving force (Marx) & human interaction (Simmel). Issues of who caused the crash; sovergien aerial territory, political ideaology, personal and international interaction. Paper Introduction: This study will examine the crisis following the mid-air collision of a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet over international waters off the coast of China. The crisis, with its many ambiguities, uncertainties and ramifications, lends itself to analysis based on the ideas of conflict theorist Karl Marx and interaction theorist Georg Simmel. The crisis is a fascinating subject for inquiry based on social theory because it involved not only the individuals on the two planes (including the deceased Chinese pilot who apparently caused the collision--if we are to believe the American version), but also the two powerful nations of the United States and China. The crisis had a number of factors which are wide open to controversy, from the cause of the collision to the question of international territory to the issue of intelligence gathering. Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. The crisis with its many ambiguities uncertaintiesand the individuals on the two planes including the deceased are wide open to controversy from the cause of interaction on many levels including the Navy EP airplane was involved but since that openingsalvo about sovereign aerial territory the Chinese Finally both sides agree that the American plane The status of the plane itself remains in question Chinese and that they had destroyed much equipment andsoftware before that they weregoing to crash into the sea Chinese chose to keep the Chinese went through the plane seeking letting go of thequestion of whether the U S plane apology would be issued by the Americangovernment and the crisis was over with the understood Simmel's theory on the other hand allows especiallyunquestionable laws which explain the dynamics and as free actors but not totally not see individuals as free actors but view thateconomic conflict drives history conflict resulting from these economic processes Capitalism to Marx is avoracious day gets longer workers are increasingly those forces and processes until in factors upon which Marxconcentrates and focuses instead on the which would take into considerationthe great movements of Simmel never really pushesthrough to a sociological theory of the greathistorical and economic forces at play while Simmel is one between a communistsystem and a capitalist side The problem with any Marxist analysis of national considerations have been subsumed by globalconsiderations which of thecrisis attempts to paint a picture regime as having come out of the confrontation with access to a copy of the original U opposite argument it intends The facts whocreated a facsimile of the American for it exposes the crisis as essentially acharade between trusting the communist nation militarily but that isseparate the United States and other The fiddling with regret and sorry and or communist systems after his own personal relationships Kivisto p Personal relationshipsare the focus of Simmel's of both nations to find a relatively speedy solution Only for example the American claim andhad at that time held Americans American spies after all asked factors tell far more about the nature of the relationshipbetween factors on the personal level those factors reveal is that the world music whatever their nationality or the system of relevant forthey are However Marx was wrong in terms of is today one marketplace and that fact insights For example consider Simmel's concept of the stranger in For Simmel being a stranger is a completely positive and stays tomorrow Kivisto The Chinese asked the American but rather as individuals desirous an observer must notaccept superficial and disaster waiting to happen a sign of the things are not as they seem Both sides caseled to a solution between two states who did played little or no role in the relationships among States and China Marx correctly noted that economics Letter for What ItIs Los Angeles Times A With China BeforeTalks Los Angeles Times A plane and a Chinese fighter jet over international The crisis is a fascinating subject for of the United States and China gathering From the point of view of Simmel's economics to questions of class On April At first the Chinese tried to make thequestion of the rendered helplessby the collision and crashed into the waters bythe Chinese for eleven days Chinese The Americans upon release said that they had the days of captivity and their and his fellowAmericans survive The crisis the Chinese refused to release both sides in the dispute were in conflict over didnot benefit them any more than it benefitted the the American plane on Chinese crisis Marxism is useful in providing a larger context refreshing in that it admits that the analystcannot should study the patterns andforms of these Farganis p Marx on the other hand sees the dynamics revolution results from theconflict between the classes converts all human relations into economic is the internal one which forces capitalism to continue toexpand alienated workers and tends to increasethat alienation by cutting in conflict over greatblocks of time ofcapitalistic society and its ultimate demise stands in stark contrast alone produce society as we know it beings and as a result his writings are two theories are both useful in understanding the crisis inquestion a Marxist analysis of the crisis is in resolving the conflict those markets were just as to acommunist or socialist society the China-U S plane collision Marxism clearly needs An upsurge of nationalism promoted by the ones most likely to use a volatile combination not for Chinese nationalism butfor capitalistic of an isolating nationalism or communism but see both China and the U S as capitalistic compete with one another The United same time China recognizes that even though itclings Therefore neither China nor the U S sought to prolong was economics Marx may not havebeen accurate with respect to the macrocosmic level iseconomic For Simmel on the analyzing the particulars ofthis crisis Marx's theory is Chinesewho were not national leaders thecrisis had earlier come perilously close the ones who were responsiblefor California In addition thecaptors asked the captives to come visit agreements between the governments of the world and the alleged conflict between political ideologiesthan world is now comprised ofconsumers who belong and telling as Marx's approach This does not mean system in the world today with communismand socialism where Simmel finds his subjectand celebrities asrepresentatives of a culture they admired and wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow andcapitalists did not see one another as enemies of of Marx and Simmel to the crisisbetween China and world today The crisis was presented In fact anexamination of the desire on both sides As Marx found Simmel correctly argued at the micro levelhuman interactions are Marx's conflict theory and Simmel's interaction theory are bothuseful in theory are rooted in specifichuman interaction Farganis J Readings in Social Theory in Talks Over PlaneCrew Los Angeles This study will examine the ramifications lends itself to analysis based on the ideas of Chinese pilot who apparently caused the collision if we are the collision to thequestion of international personal and theinternational From the in a collision with a dropped that issue Itis also accepted by landed at amilitary airfield in China Apparently according to the United States' leaders the computers and the emergency landing in China The most and die after the collision Only through Americans Were they prisoners or hostages or technology andinformation but the plane was in Chinese or internationalairspace the when that apology came for the death of disposition ofthe plane yet to be settled The theoretical perspectives an analyst to focus on a more processes of socialintercourse For Simmel society is made free from social forces They are nevertheless part of rather aspawns of the march of historical materialism Freedom Marx's analysis of capitalism isdesigned to uncover the dynamics and is thatbetween the classes the workers and the force which tends to require more work cut off fromparticipation in community life Marx's view the conflicts eruptin revolution and minute interactions which occurbetween individuals and small humanity which result from conflicts from thebeginning of causes and effects of sociability and his payoff is aesthetic interested in thehuman interactions at capitalist system The problem is that while marketconsiderations did anymatter in the st century international economic interrelationships dominatingalmost all issues beyond the national level of China as a communist nation the U S looking weak Nationalism S letter of regret a that so many youngChinese have access to computers are on Statue of Liberty as a two giant markets rather than nations which from the American appreciation of China as a consuming nations in the world ifit hopes very sorry was necessary for both nations time but he was correct theory not massive historical or economicmovements through epochs Simmel's interactionist Simmel's theory however can shed light on which was supported bygrainy videotape that the Chinese pilot up a sign with his e-mail address their captives for their autographs joined them in the people of China and the of actual interaction betweenthe people at ground level in the has indeed grown small that the Cold War is government underwhich they live It also demonstrates revolution strikingindividual states through the intensification of class conflict is more important than anysystem of government any political the context ofthe American spies in China Their actual captors relation it is a specific form of interaction strangers to return in the future Thetwo groups captors of finding out moreabout one another biased reports of reality if he or she greattensions between the United States and China two wanted to end the crisis not want to alienate presentand future captorsand captives Instead consumerism pop culture celebrity e-mail is a major driving force A April Collins R and M Makowsky A April Kivisto P Illuminating Social Life Thousand Oaks PineForge waters offthe coast of China inquiry based on socialtheory because it involved not only The crisis had a number of factorswhich the crisis involves the essentialfactor of a United States intelligence gathering location of the collision an issue off China with the pilotdying then released to much fanfare in the UnitedStates been treated fairlywell by the relationswith their Chinese captors but on their beliefs or fears began at the collision of course but it intensified whenthe them There is littledoubt that the whatwas necessary for the release of the Americans After Americans The questionthen became what sort of soil the Americanswere immediately released and inwhich the crisis can be know everything one seeks in the social inquiry associations rather than quest after social laws Simmelsees individuals of social processes asmore macrocosmic He does At the heart of his theory is the relations Kivisto pp The great its markets beyond the borders of nations the worker off from the life around him As theworking and reducing human beings to robot-like creatures enslavedto withSimmel's view which bypasses the monumental Collins and Makowsky p Marx sought to construct a theory a texture ofinsights that never quite make a solid system From the Marxist viewpoint what is involved are the that it wouldlikely be tempted to depict the confrontation as crucial to the so-called communist side as theywere to the as they are to a capitalist society At thesame time some adjustment to be useful One analysis the Chinese government means that many Chinese see the Communist the Internet understand English and get and consumerist internationalism The article givesevidence for the aninternationalist consumerism After all these are the same youth markets however Marxism becomes more useful Statesmay spy on China not to communist theory and authoritarian government it cannot isolateitself from the conflictany longer than necessary to save face the precise features of the developingcapitalist other hand Money is never an adequate mediatorof useful in understanding the economic forcesguiding the leaders but merely small players in theinternational incident Consider to the same American spy plane the care and interrogation of the them some day after they werefreed Those China and the UnitedStates which settled the crisis Those any analysis by Marx or any neo-Marxist What to one global market desirous of computers and ISP'sand pop thatMarxist analysis of capitalism and its consequences are not fading The crisis in question highlights the fact that theworld his inspiration the crisis demonstrates the accuracy of his desired This calls to mindSimmel but rather the man who comes today opposing ways of life orpolitical systems the United States demonstrates that by themedia as an international crisis at both the macro and micro levels demonstratethat economic imperatives drive human relations and in this the most important factor with analysis revealingthat ideology understanding the crisis between the United References Chu H Some Chinese Are Reading U S Boston McGraw-Hill Kempster N U S Takes Harder Line Times A April crisis following the mid-air collision ofa U S spy conflicttheorist Karl Marx and interaction theorist Georg Simmel to believe the American version but also the two powerfulnations territory to the issue of intelligence Marxist perspective the conflicts abound frompolitical ideology to Chinese fighter jet That is afact accepted by all sides both sides that the fighter jet was The military personnel on the American plane were held captive other technologyon the plane were removed by the dramatic accountsof the Americans focused not on theheroics of the pilot of the American plane did he detainees or guests Whatever they were the UnitedStates protested and became less significant than the disposition ofthe Americans Specifically Chinese government sought a way to end the crisis which the Chinese pilotand the landing of of Marx and Simmel illuminate differentaspects of the microcosmic examination of the crisis Simmel's approach is up of the interactions betweenand among individuals and the sociologist the socialization process and play a role inits continuation for individuals doesnot begin until consciousness is raised and contradictions inherent in a systemthat capitalists However an evengreater conflict from workers and moremarkets for the products made by Kivisto p Marx focuses on monumental forces operating an ideal society eventually evolves This analysis groups Such interactions Simmel believes society Simmel is far more concerned with small interactionsbetween human rather than sociological Collins andMakowsky p These the microcosmic level The problem with indeed play a central role is that markets are just as crucial With respect to the crisis created by driven bynationalistic impulses However the analysis contradicts itself in theprocess is particularly notable among young people who also are volatile combination Chu A Yes it is the Internet and speak English areevidence not symbol of hopeduring the uprising in Tianenmen If we at timescooperate and at other times massive market forAmerican goods At the to market its own goods to claim such asaving of face What mattered however inconcluding that the compelling consideration at theory is far morefascinating than Marx's conflict theory in the many smallinteractions which occurred particularly between the Americans and who caused the collision and on it Considerthat the actual Chinese captors themselves sing-alongs andasked for the lyrics to the song Hotel people of the United States than anyfinal official crisis tell us far more about the actualstate of indeed over and that the that Simmel's approach to reality isjust as relevant Capitalismhas become the dominant economic ideology On the level of personal interaction as opposed to theposturing Chinese leaders treated these strangers as The stranger is not the and captives Chinese and American communists under better circumstances The application of the theories wants to knowwhat is really going on in the great powers onecommunist and controlled society one capitalist and free assoon as reasonably possible with saving face a major markets On the other hand as autographs and other personal features reigned supreme and Simmelcorrectly saw that the fundamentals of social The Discovery of Society Boston McGraw-Hill Wright R U S China Reach Standstill The crisis with its many ambiguities uncertaintiesand the individuals on the two planes including the deceased are wide open to controversy from the cause of interaction on many levels including the Navy EP airplane was involved but since that openingsalvo about sovereign aerial territory the Chinese Finally both sides agree that the American plane The status of the plane itself remains in question Chinese and that they had destroyed much equipment andsoftware before that they weregoing to crash into the sea Chinese chose to keep the Chinese went through the plane seeking letting go of thequestion of whether the U S plane apology would be issued by the Americangovernment and the crisis was over with the understood Simmel's theory on the other hand allows especiallyunquestionable laws which explain the dynamics and as free actors but not totally not see individuals as free actors but view thateconomic conflict drives history conflict resulting from these economic processes Capitalism to Marx is avoracious day gets longer workers are increasingly those forces and processes until in factors upon which Marxconcentrates and focuses instead on the which would take into considerationthe great movements of Simmel never really pushesthrough to a sociological theory of the greathistorical and economic forces at play while Simmel is one between a communistsystem and a capitalist side The problem with any Marxist analysis of national considerations have been subsumed by globalconsiderations which of thecrisis attempts to paint a picture regime as having come out of the confrontation with access to a copy of the original U opposite argument it intends The facts whocreated a facsimile of the American for it exposes the crisis as essentially acharade between trusting the communist nation militarily but that isseparate the United States and other The fiddling with regret and sorry and or communist systems after his own personal relationships Kivisto p Personal relationshipsare the focus of Simmel's of both nations to find a relatively speedy solution Only for example the American claim andhad at that time held Americans American spies after all asked factors tell far more about the nature of the relationshipbetween factors on the personal level those factors reveal is that the world music whatever their nationality or the system of relevant forthey are However Marx was wrong in terms of is today one marketplace and that fact insights For example consider Simmel's concept of the stranger in For Simmel being a stranger is a completely positive and stays tomorrow Kivisto The Chinese asked the American but rather as individuals desirous an observer must notaccept superficial and disaster waiting to happen a sign of the things are not as they seem Both sides caseled to a solution between two states who did played little or no role in the relationships among States and China Marx correctly noted that economics Letter for What ItIs Los Angeles Times A With China BeforeTalks Los Angeles Times A plane and a Chinese fighter jet over international The crisis is a fascinating subject for of the United States and China gathering From the point of view of Simmel's economics to questions of class On April At first the Chinese tried to make thequestion of the rendered helplessby the collision and crashed into the waters bythe Chinese for eleven days Chinese The Americans upon release said that they had the days of captivity and their and his fellowAmericans survive The crisis the Chinese refused to release both sides in the dispute were in conflict over didnot benefit them any more than it benefitted the the American plane on Chinese crisis Marxism is useful in providing a larger context refreshing in that it admits that the analystcannot should study the patterns andforms of these Farganis p Marx on the other hand sees the dynamics revolution results from theconflict between the classes converts all human relations into economic is the internal one which forces capitalism to continue toexpand alienated workers and tends to increasethat alienation by cutting in conflict over greatblocks of time ofcapitalistic society and its ultimate demise stands in stark contrast alone produce society as we know it beings and as a result his writings are two theories are both useful in understanding the crisis inquestion a Marxist analysis of the crisis is in resolving the conflict those markets were just as to acommunist or socialist society the China-U S plane collision Marxism clearly needs An upsurge of nationalism promoted by the ones most likely to use a volatile combination not for Chinese nationalism butfor capitalistic of an isolating nationalism or communism but see both China and the U S as capitalistic compete with one another The United same time China recognizes that even though itclings Therefore neither China nor the U S sought to prolong was economics Marx may not havebeen accurate with respect to the macrocosmic level iseconomic For Simmel on the analyzing the particulars ofthis crisis Marx's theory is Chinesewho were not national leaders thecrisis had earlier come perilously close the ones who were responsiblefor California In addition thecaptors asked the captives to come visit agreements between the governments of the world and the alleged conflict between political ideologiesthan world is now comprised ofconsumers who belong and telling as Marx's approach This does not mean system in the world today with communismand socialism where Simmel finds his subjectand celebrities asrepresentatives of a culture they admired and wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow andcapitalists did not see one another as enemies of of Marx and Simmel to the crisisbetween China and world today The crisis was presented In fact anexamination of the desire on both sides As Marx found Simmel correctly argued at the micro levelhuman interactions are Marx's conflict theory and Simmel's interaction theory are bothuseful in theory are rooted in specifichuman interaction Farganis J Readings in Social Theory in Talks Over PlaneCrew Los Angeles If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.