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Wallerstein's Theory of World Systems

most developed are powerful and this allows them to determine the type of governance that fosters their continued power (Martin, 2...

Education, Religion, and Theories of Emile Durkheim and August Comte

forces replace supernatural beings as the explanation for "original causes and purposes of things in the world" (Ritzer 90). The...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

The Return of Depression Economics by Krugman

Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

Events and Characters in Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Equality and Liberty According to Such Social Theorists as Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

its female counterpart; while this mentality has been somewhat reversed in certain global communities, it still takes precedent in...

Comparison of the Theories of Herbert Spencer and Karl Marx

as much to the other areas of politically con, trolled social change) will be based on the insight that no social progress can suc...

Goddess and Motherhood Feminist Conceptual Comparisons

has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...

Capitalism Perspectives of the 19th Century

(2002) demonstrates what capitalism is all about as it portrays the rising form of government in this brilliant novel. The protago...

Thibaut and Kelley's Social Exchange Theory of Communication

to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...

Education According to James Banks and John Dewey

truth is that they sometimes support antiquated principles. While Dewey wrote in a time when the 9 to 5 job was a given, fast forw...

Psychoanalytic Theory and Marxism

dreamed. At the same time, there is much opposition. Dominant trends in feminism and postmodernism for example categorically rejec...

Management vs. Leadership

extend the list to five. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. In the past, managers ha...

Max Weber's Bureaucracy Theory and Hospital Structure

and generally run by fairly specific rules. This is necessary especially in a hospital -- for example, a surgeon just doesnt drag ...

Marx's and Plato's 'Just' Society

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

Needs Theories By Maslow And McClelland

founded on the belief that individuals are motivated when they experience a need that is not satisfied. Maslow explained it this w...

Deontological and Teleological Ethical Theories

even if the consequences of an action are good, if the motives behind the action were wrong, it will still be wrong (Some fundamen...

Change Models And Leadership

are very similar and one will find the same or very similar components and steps across models. 2. Theory E and Theory O Leaders...

Gardner and Sternberg: Theories of Intelligence

practical facet, which is how the individuals intelligence "adapts to their current environment," shapes that environment, or even...

Theories and School Violence

book the authors seek an understanding of violence in schools and they illustrate their particular model in their study and resear...

Nursing Theories Core Concepts

2005, p. 4). She incorporated the environment into the theory along with numerous other factors and variables, all of which would ...

Expectancy Violation Theory

actor, that individuals evaluation of the behavior of the person conducting the interview are also likely to be positive according...

Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Montessori, Piaget

experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...