scholarly journals Sociological Analysis of the Important Characters in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Made Rai Suarniti
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research is about the sociological problems of five important characters in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asian. Rachel Chu is the main character in this story comes from the middle class society. She has a relationships with Nicholas Young who comes from the upper class society. They face a lot of problems especially from Nicholas’s family who doesn’t agree with their relationships. Different society influences the character of someone. That’s why this research is aimed to find out the types of social class and the influence of social class on the character that showed in the story. The data were collected by reading the novel thoroughly then using the note-taking technique before being identified based on the topic. The collected data were descriptively analyzed by using qualitative-descriptive method to classify the types of social class and the influence of social class on the character that found in this novel. Based on the result of the research, it is found that there are three kinds of social class in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asian, those are: Upper class, Middle class and Working class. Rachel Chu who comes from the middle class society has a simple personality. She prefers to save her money for food though she is a lecturer in university rather than her boy friend, Nicholas Young who comes from the worthy family. Nick’s family are also live glamor in Singapore. They spend a lot of money for fashion and jewelry. It much different with Rachel’s mom ( Kerry Chu) who originally comes from  working or lower class society. She fulfills her daughter alone and becomes a single parent because she has divorced with her husband when Rachel still child. This condition make Eleanor Young doesn’t agree with the relationships however the power of love between Nick and Rachel defeated everything. Finally, they become a couple.

scholarly journals The Act of Slavery in 20th Century as Reflected in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Nur Fadillah ◽  
Burhanuddin Arafah ◽  
Herawaty Abbas
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to analyze the act of slavery that happened in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The characters that are involved are Pozzo as the master and Lucky as his slave. By analyzing how Pozzo oppresses Lucky, it reflects the act of slavery that also happened in reality in the 20th century when the story was written. This study is a qualitative descriptive method using the sociology of literature approach to reveal the connection between the situations in the play with the situations of the world in the 20th century. The data of this research are collected from the utterances and dialogues of the characters in the text play Waiting for Godot. The result showed that the act of slavery acted by Pozzo and Lucky also happened in the 20th century before, during, and after World War II in the 1940s. An upper-class society would enslave and oppress a lower-class society at the time because they had power and money.

scholarly journals EKSPRESI HONORIFIK DAN STATUS SOSIAL DALAM MASYARAKAT JAWA

tuahtalino ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dwi Atmawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Society

Various titles and honorifics expressions in Javanese society has become particular interest for writer to analyze. The honorific expressions described in this paper include the title of nobility and greeting word in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. The research uses equality method to review particular lingual unit using determiner tools beyond language. Based on the data and analysis it is known that titles of the nobles are rara, gusti raden ajeng, gusti raden ayu, kanjeng pangeran harya, gusti bendara raden mas, gusti bendara raden ajeng, gusti bendara raden ayu, bendara raden mas, bendara kanjeng pangeran, bendara raden ajeng, bendara raden ayu. Where greeting word based on social class, the writer classifies it into three, upper, middle, and lower class. The greeting word on upper class society are such as papi, mami, papa/papah, mama/mamah, daddy, mom, tante, om, oma, opa, eyang, jeng. The greeting word on middle class society are such as ayah, ibu, bapak, bunda, abi, ummi, paman, bibi, mas, mbak. The greeting word on lower class society are such as pak/bapak, mbok/embok/simbok, biyung, mbakyu, pakdhe, mbokdhe, paklik, bulik. The greeting word are decreasing in number are embok/mbok/simbok dan biyung. Defining the greeting word is tightly associated to social status of the speakers.

scholarly journals Middle Class Women Role in the 19th Century as Reflected in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-218
Author(s):  
Desy Nur Indrasari ◽  
Fathu Rahman ◽  
Herawaty Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this research is to describe middle class women role in the 19th century in Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and induce a deeper understanding of effect each role on two characters in society. This research is a qualitative descriptive method using sociological approach. By using sociology of literature, a literary work is seen as a document of social. The data of this research collected from the descriptions and utterances of the characters and narrator in the novel. The result in this research shows that the role of women from the middle class were represented by the characters of the novel known as Catherine Earnshaw Linton, the main female protagonist and the motherless child and also Catherine (Cathy) Linton, daughter of Catherine Earnshaw Linton.

scholarly journals Social Class Conflict Presented In “The Kite Runner” Novel Based On Marxism Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Yohanes Eko Rubiyanto ◽  
Restu Arini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The writer conducts the research related to class conflict which is presented in Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner” novel. This qualitative research is written to analyze the conflicts that happen in Afghan society which is mainly caused by difference of social class. The research is conducted by using library research. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method as the data are described in the form of sentences. The steps of collecting the data in this research are reading both the novel and the supporting theories related, analyzing, organizing and displaying the data to allow conclusions to be drawn. The results show that the society in the twentieth is fundamentally separated by two large groups namely Pashtun and Hazara. They are inhabit Afghanistan as told in The Kite Runner. The Pashtuns act as the dominant upper class and the Hazaras fill the society of the lower class which fits the theory of Marxism.

scholarly journals LOVE IN ILANA TAN’S NOVEL AUTUMN IN PARIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Rizki Nurhidayah Sitompul ◽  
M. Manugeren ◽  
Purwarno Purwarno
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Three Components

The research is concerned with types of love faced by Tara Dupont, the main character of the novel Autumn in Paris, written by Ilana Tan.  The types of love: friendship, infatuated love, romantic love and consummate love are the main focus of the study.  The objective is to find out how Tara Dupont implements the types of love in relationship with people around her. One of the theories used in the research is Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love  which states that love has three components:  intimacy, passion and commitment  and these three components are to be applied to obtain or run real love.  Qualitative descriptive method is applied for the whole analysis.  The finding shows that types of love are found in the novel Autumn in Paris. Friendship appears in a relationship between Tara, Sebastien and Tatsuya. Romantic love and infatuated love are the dominant types of love and consummate love is the rarest. 

scholarly journals The Struggle for Freedom as Illustrated in Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in Relation to Social Welfare

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-466
Author(s):  
Mutmainnah Magfirah
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Huckleberry Finn

This study aims to describe the struggles experienced by the two main characters in the novel in getting their freedom and also to elaborate the important of freedom for the main characters as human rights. The research method used was a qualitative descriptive method with the sociology of literature approach. The primary data were collected from descriptions and utterances of the main characters and narrators in the novel. The supporting data were obtained from the library, internet, journals, and articles. The results of this research indicate that there is struggle of the main characters in obtaining their freedom as a human in this novel. Huckleberry Finn as the main character fought for his freedom from a drunk and abusive father, while Jim, as the second main character fought for his freedom from slavery. The two figures then met and made an adventure together to get their own freedom.

scholarly journals International Migration, Livelihood Strategy, and Poverty Cycle

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Martua Sihaloho ◽  
Ekawati Sri Wahyuni ◽  
Rilus A. Kinseng ◽  
Sediono M.P. Tjondronegoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Social Climbing

Poverty drove Indonesian poor households (e.g. their family members) to find other livelihoods. One popular choice is becoming an international migrant. This paper describes and analyzes the change in agrarian structure which causes dynamics in agrarian poverty. The study uses qualitative approach and constructivism paradigm. Research results showed that even if migration was dominated by farmer households from lower social class; it also served as livelihood strategy for middle and upper social classes. Improved economics brought dynamics on social reality. The dynamic accesses to agrarian resources consist of (1) horizontal social mobility (means that they stay in their previous social class); (2) vertical social mobility in the form of social climbing; low to middle class, low to upper class, and middle class to upper class; and, (3) vertical social mobility in the form of social sinking: upper class to middle class, upper class to lower class, and middle class to lower class. The dynamic in social classes indicates the presence of agrarian poverty cycle, they are social climbing and sinking.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CLASS CONFLICT REFLECTED IN “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD” NOVEL BY THOMAS HARDY

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Manuela Indriati Siahaan ◽  
Tomi Arianto
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social

This research aimed to analyze social class conflict reflected in novel of Far from the Madding Crowd by Tomas Hardy. This descriptive qualitative research focuses on the social class conflict in England which is reflected in this novel. This study uses a sociological approach and analyzes the distribution of social classes in this novel and the social class conflicts that occur in this novel. The method used in writing this thesis is a qualitative descriptive method, namely the author describes, memorizes, and analyzes existing data. Quotations from books in libraries and the internet related to this research. The theory used is the theory of sociology with experts Max Weber and Karl Max.. The theory proposed by Karl Marx is an explicit theory, based on Marx's description of the laws of historical development, capitalism and socialism. Theory of sociology is used to analyze the social class divisions that exist in this novel while Maxisme class theory analyzes the conflicts. The results are have featured three male characters who became the main characters are Mr. Boldwood, Mr. Troy and Mr. Oak coming from three different classes of lower classes, middle classes, and upper classes. The social that happen among of three male character are: First, Bribery are shown conflict between Mr. Boldwood and Mr. Troy are representation to Upper Class and Middle Class. Second, Arrogance are shown conflict between Mr. Boldwood and Mr. Troy are representation to Middle Class and Upper Class. Third, are shown conflict between Mr. Troy and Mr. Oak  are representation to Middle Class and Lower Class.

scholarly journals Anaysis Love and Belonging Needs in Novel “Persuasion” by Jane Austen: Psychological Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Apriset Wati Lumbantoruan ◽  
Winda Evyanto
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Action Sentence ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research aims to analyze the aspect of Love and Belonging needs. The Hierarchy of Needs theory is used to analyze what everyone needs in their lives and how to meet those needs. The Hierarchy of Needs consists of five levels consisting of basic needs, security needs, the need for love and ownership, the need for self-esteem, and the need for self-satisfaction. As considerations in this study using the theory of the Hierarchy of Needs from Abraham Maslow 1954 who analyzed the need for love and ownership of the main character in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen 1817. Anne as a figure in the Persuasion novel by Jane Austen 1817 is a girl who is trying to improve the hierarchy of Needs love and the interests of family and girls love. In analyzing this study, researchers used a qualitative descriptive method as a technique for collecting data. The data collected by researchers based on the object of this study are the needs of love and ownership of the main character in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen 1817. Data collected includes speech, action, sentence, and narration relating to the blindness of love and the main character in the story. Research is made for purposes that are useful for discussion and for other parties, and for this research purposes about humans that will meet the needs and effects of if these needs are not met.

scholarly journals KONFLIK KEJIWAAN TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL KORUPSI KARYA TAHAR BEN JELLEOUN (Psychological Conflict of The Main Character in Tahar Ben Jelleoun’s Novel, Korupsi)

Kandai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Nfn Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
Corruption Case ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Psychological Conflict ◽  
Novel Structures ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to describe main characters and psychological conflict experienced by the characters in “Korupsi” novel. The method used is qualitative descriptive method. Two issues are: (1) how the character of the character in “Korupsi” novel and (2) what psychological conflict  experienced by the main character will be studied by combining a structural approach and psychological literature. The structural approach is used to understand the characterization aspect as one of the novel structures that discusses character and main figure’s character. The psychological literature is employed to understand psychological conflict and psychological problems experienced by the main characters.  he results show that the main characters are easily tempted, inconsistent, impatient for having all his needs fulfilled. These characters makes him trapped in corruption case. The bribery money makes him in corruption trap in his office causes inevitable psychological conflicts. The main character decision to get involved in corruption case is inseparable from influence and pressure from family and his friends in his office. The action to neglect principle, integrity, and honesty that have been retained for many years causes him trapped in psychological conflicts. Psychological conflicts experienced by the main characters lead to psychological problem in the main characters, such as guilt, shame, negative hallucinations, nightmares, and desire to suicide.

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