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New Zealand's Working Women

is the only one who bears children and can feed them from her own body. She can be raped. She can do or endure all of these things...

Substance Abuse and Emile Durkheim's Social Theories

a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...

Sociological Views on the Divination Function in 1 Samuel 28

I bring up unto thee? And he said, bring me up Samuel" (1 Samuel 28:11). Samuel does appear, but warns Saul of his upcoming ruin d...

Functionalist Perspective on Gender Wage Discrimination

to increase opportunities for women (Turner, 2003). The work has involved reducing some of the barriers faced by women in the work...

Social Solidarity and Emile Durkheim

In three pages this essay defines the concept of social solidarity as glimpsed from Emile Durkheim's perspective and then applied ...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

Durkheim and the Concept of Anomie

the same group-oriented goals" (Durkheims anomie). However, when societies become more complex, work also becomes more complex; pe...

Anomie Sociological Concept

In five pages Emile Durkheim's concept of anomie is examined through several examples, organic and mechanical solidarity is explai...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Contemporary Organization and Michel Foucault's Enhanced Panopticon Model

II. The Panopticon The Panopticon is an interesting model that had been created to foster the ideal setting for prison life. It ...

Theoretical Approaches to Capitalism and Power

The ideas of three theorists are explored in this 3 part paper. The first part of the paper explores the rise of capitalism, and ...

Emile Durkheim's Sociological Contributions

In six pages this research paper discusses the sociological contributions of theorist Emile Durkheim. Six sources are cited in th...

Emile Durkheim's Suicide and Sociology

In five pages this paper applies decision theory to the text Suicide by sociological theorist Emile Durkheim. Four sources are ...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Perspectives of Ideology, Postmodernism, and Existentialism

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

Society and the Individual

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

Foucault on the Vikings 'Sex Boat Scandal'

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

Structuralism v. Humanism

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

Children and the Impact of the Press

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

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

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

Totalizing Theories Replaced by Postmodern Theories

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

A Contemporary Feminist Critiquing of the Liberal Tradition

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...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts featured in Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ...

'Eye of Power' by Michel Foucault

In seven pages Michel Foucault addresses knowledge and power and the relationship that exists between them in his essay entitled '...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

with a rational sense of understanding crime and punishment this does not appear to be punishment as much as it appears to be an a...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

Pornography, Cosmetic Surgery and Sexual Ethics

This research paper analyzes the manner in which sexual ethics can be applied to issues pertaining to pornography and cosmetic sur...