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for the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The a...

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

and social degradation which is consuming certain segments of our society could be considered to in some ways actually escalate th...

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...

4). It becomes, in essence, the opposite of what its adherents want it to be-it becomes a social antimovement. In order to examin...

truly speak to hear themselves talk, as the saying goes. Some people see conversation as a means to show others how grand and impo...

a gay rights movement today which accentuates homosexual activity. Yet, through history homosexuality has always been with society...

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

seems to be the primary tool, at least figuratively. It is used in the well known Panopticon paradigm as well. The Panopticon is ...

proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...