SEARCH RESULTS

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

feeding, clothing, housing, educating and medicinally caring for their suffering masses. "The ruling ideas of each age have ever ...

attitude. In trying to evaluate society with a myriad of insights, several culturalists can help to provide these. They too look a...

is based on his account of history that "it is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, the...

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

predominating fact peculiar to these ages is equality of conditions, and the chief passion which stirs men at such times"(2002). ...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

anyone can do given a reasonable amount of training. Reich uses the example of AT&T and its phone assemblers. The company had a ...

its paid wage- labourers" (p.21). One can see that this idea is timeless. Even in contemporary society, doctors have been reduced ...

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

cashier or general store worker. It is an alienation that has seemingly persisted throughout the ages in a variety of settings. W...

higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich-will ma...

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

is dead, at least as a philosophy, in the sense that it can never be implemented. While there is much lip service given to democra...

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have ...

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

The left wing, also known as Young Hegelians, emphasized the analysis of contradictions (Kamenka, 1983). The left looked at cont...

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

argue that such public officials will do good things once they get the money, but the ultimate goal is for fame and fortune. The n...

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

that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...

such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...

in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the femin...

ignored. Suddenly, the Industrial Revolution swept over Europe and America, and Western societies were never quite the same. Wom...