Book review Soviet Fates and Lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen As Stephen Cohen states in the introduction‚ Soviet Fates and lost alternatives was written out of a personal fascination for alternative roads that ’could have been’ the path of history. Cohen’s approach is indeed personal as he tries to show that the communist party consisted (and always has consisted) of people‚ and not out of a fixed idea. People shape history‚ not economical- political- or other crises. And to every person
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Albert Cohen ’s thesis is that class based status frustration is the origin of subcultures. Crime culture existed in certain social groups and the individuals learned the value of the delinquent subculture through participation in gangs. Delinquent subcultures have values that are in opposition to those of the dominant culture. The strain is rooted by low economical conditions‚ poor parental relations‚ and low school standards‚ with no chance of succeeding in the future. The anti social structure
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Jessica gouws HET Essay 3 ------------------------------------------------- Discuss Marx’s concept of exploitation with reference to the work of Wolff‚ Roemer and Cohen. In the context of Marxian Economics exploitation refers to “the subjection of producers (the proletariat) to work for passive owners (bourgeoisie) for less compensation than is equivalent to the actual amount of work done”. (REF SOURCE 1) This essentially means that the producer puts in all the labour time and creates the goods
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Monsters: some theses (J. J. Cohen) • “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body”: monstrum (>monere‚ to warn‚ to hint at smth else): a sign of smth else • “The Monster always Escapes” (taking different shapes‚ in different ages) • “The Monster is the Harbinger of Category Crisis”: refusing categorization‚ hybrid and multiple‚ questioning binary thinking and introducing a crisis • “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference”: the embodiment of the ‘Other’ (cultural‚ political‚ racial‚ sexual)
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Synthesis Tom Regan‚ Carl Cohen‚ Peter Singer Animal rights are one of the most controversial issues today. There has been endless debate about whether or not animals have rights. Philosophers attempt to come up with the moral conclusions by taking in account the many different standpoints and presenting their related arguments. In his essay “The case of animal rights”‚ Tom Regan‚ a professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University‚ defends his view that the center of our moral concern
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Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan are considered and accepted as legends in the field of literature. Their themes are universal but they talk about their own land its beauty and pain. Leonard Cohen was born on 1934 in Canada; Dylan was born on 1941 in America. Their entry into the literary world is almost same and moreover‚ they have faced the effects and impact of Second World War. In economical condition‚ both Canada and America started to flourish with the concepts of capitalism. From the article “American
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and understanding that can then be applied‚ whether studying or at work. To find out more about our business products‚ you can visit us at www.ft-ph.com. The Bible of Options Strategies The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies Guy Cohen An imprint of Pearson Education Upper Saddle River‚ NJ • Boston • Indianapolis • San Francisco • New York • Toronto • Montreal • London • Munich • Paris • Madrid • Capetown • Sydney Tokyo • Singapore • Mexico City • Library of Congress Number:
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Compare and contrast the approaches of Cohen and Hall et al. to the role of the media in relation to social disorder. Media is a form of communication through which information is represented and shared with society via a number of ways. Social issues such as disorderly conduct within society have been reported on and highlighted through newspapers‚ radio stations‚ television programs and the Internet. Cohen and Hall et al look at how the media report on and exaggerate violent and anti-social
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A Comparative Analysis of Business Models utilized in The Heart of Change by Cohen and Kotter‚ to Organizational and Behavioral Management by Ivancevich‚ Konopaske‚ & Matteson A Comparative Analysis of Business Models utilized in The Heart of Change by Cohen and Kotter‚ to Organizational and Behavioral Management by Ivancevich‚ Konopaske‚ & Matteson Introduction What is change? Change is ironically one of the very few consistencies in life. Yet we regard change as an aberration
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Aggression is defined as “behaviour directed towards another individual carried out with immediate intent to cause harm.” {Anderson and Huesman‚ 2003} Explanations for aggressive behaviour fall under two main categories: the biological and social explanation. The biological explanations have three main approaches: psychodynamic theory‚ ethology and evolutionary social psychology. In contrast‚ the social explanations include: frustration-aggression hypothesis‚ excitation transfer model and social
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