INTRO: There are a lot of Historical Monuments in the United States‚ like the white house and the Washington monument but there is one that caught my eye. The statue of liberty in New York is an iconic figure that symbolizes the importance of freedom in America and plays a significant role in the history of the United States. SYMBOLISM: The statue is truly the enduring symbol of America and in many ways one of the important‚ symbols of the world. The Statue represents Liberty‚ the triumph for
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education system and the family perform socialization functions. The functionalist theory though developed from the ideas of theorists such as Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim‚ can trace its origins as far back as the founding father of sociology‚ Auguste Comte. Stratification refers to the system where society ranks categories of people in a
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which society consists of different but related parts‚ each of which serves a particular purpose. According to functionalism‚ sociologists can explain social structures and social behaviour in terms of the components of a society and their functions. Auguste Comte helped develop functionalism in the 19th century‚ and functionalist Emile Durkheim later compared society to the human body. Just as the body consists of different‚ interrelated organs that enable it to survive‚ society consists of different
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Evolutionary Theory Evolutionary theories are based on the assumption that societies gradually change from simple beginnings into even more complex forms. Early sociologists beginning with Auguste Comte believed that human societies evolve in a unilinear way- that is in one line of development. According to them social change meant progress toward something better. They saw change as positive and beneficial. To them the evolutionary process implied that societies would necessarily reach new and
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Everybody loves a good horror story. Millions of dollars are earned each year by books and films sold in this genre. Horror movies are always available in the movie theaters‚ and usually more than one is playing at a time. Many sleepovers and camping trips are not considered complete until a scary story is told at night. People love the fear‚ alarm‚ and unease they feel while experiencing a horror story. Scary stories have been an important part of entertainment in America for a long time‚ but where
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its own design of a political system * Adam Smith and other 18th century Scottish thinkers attempted to incorporate economic theories and issues to explain the nature of society 19th Century Sociology - Auguste Comte coined the term “sociology”; considered as the “father of sociology” - at this point in time‚ social thinkers successfully separated social issues (sociology) and issues of the state (political science) - other well known social
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serious study of art. However‚ he spent most of his time in a cafe which was visited often by many other artists. . In 1862‚ after an interval of military service‚ he returned to Paris and entered the studio of Charles Gleyre. There he met Pierre Auguste Renoir‚ Alfred Sisley‚ and Jean-Frédéric Bazille. Soon‚ however‚ the four left Gleyre‚ and Monet led them on an expedition to the Fontainebleau Forest‚ where he introduced them to open-air painting. After gaining acceptance into the Salons of 1865
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and moral principles of classical Rome. Therefore‚ neoclassical artists were commissioned to create paintings and sculptures that depicted inspirational scenes from Roman history. Some famous artists of this stylistic era include David‚ and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Beginning with the late 18th to the mid
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French Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the late 19th C. ©Werner Hammerstingl‚1998‚1999 Before the emergence of Impressionism we can see a major political and social transition in central Europe which has demonstrable artistic and literary consequences. The major aspects of this change include: The 19C industrial expansion which took away opportunities of individual farming and craft practice and replaced them with paid labour in factories. Governments across Europe are exploring
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of the nineteenth century and many of his classmates would go on to become major figures in France’s history. At the ENS‚ Durkheim studied with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges a classicist with a social scientific outlook. At the same time‚ he read Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. This made Durkheim interested in a scientific approach to society very early on in his career. Durkheim finished second to last in his graduating class. After spending a year studying sociology in Germany he traveled to
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