all these reasons‚ if we want to understand how liberal democracies work‚ one must understand how a political party works. What is a political party? A political party is an organized association that brings together citizens united by a common ideology or philosophy‚ which she seeks fulfillment ‚ with the goal of conquest and exercise of power. This is an organization in the service of an idea. The political environment is not the same everywhere. It may give a different country to another characteristic
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are the traditional values of social order and morality‚ along with old-fashioned nationalism (Adams‚ 1993). “Religious fundamentalism may be heavily politicized and‚ conversely‚ it can adopt some of the characteristics of totalitarian ideologies” (Freeden‚ 2003). Fundamentalism is a main feature of the modern world. With it being a reaction to the secularization of the globe‚ as a moral protest to the modern values‚ it cannot be ignored. Several key characteristics of fundamentalism can
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Examine the different functions performed by the family for individuals and society Different groups of sociologists have devoted time in studying and analysing the family‚ however different types of sociologists share different views over the functions performed for individuals and society. Functionalist see society as an interrelated whole. To functionalists every institution in society performs one or more important functions or jobs and the sociologist has to determine what these functions
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The nation’s Socialist Left is hanging by their fingernails‚ and with the exception of the Obama personality cult they have been losing for years. The last thing they need to happen is an open discussion of their base ideology and how it’s been a failure everywhere it’s been tried. Leftist can’t even decide how to argue if they are Socialists or not. Some keep up the tired old “We’re not ideologues‚ we just want what is practical and what works”. While others have gone
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Knocked Up. However‚ as the audience is served its fill of laughter‚ issues are presented that rarely grace the silver screen. The director of this film‚ Judd Apatow‚ utilizes his dominion and influence over the audience to introduce the dominant ideology of Knocked Up. As seen in his previous film‚ The 40 Year Old Virgin‚ it is evident that the good guy can get the girl and in doing so may come along some unexpected complications. Apatow’s use of comedy in this media context to present such complications
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the maintenance of the power‚ i.e insure that people within accept the “status quo”: the RSA (Repressive state apparatuses) that enforce behaviour directly‚ such as police and criminal justice‚ and ISA (Ideological state apparatuses) that generate ideologies which individuals internalise and act according with. ISAs include schools‚ family‚ politics. Rather similar concept can be found in the work of the humanistic Marxist Gramsci. He took Marx’s basic division of society into an economic base and
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The piece of work which is being reviewed is authored by an eminent educationist Krishna Kumar. The title of the book is Prejudice and Pride which has been published by Penguin Books India Limited‚Viking in the year 2001. The subtitle of the book ‘School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan’ reflects major concern as well as the prime area of investigation in this book by the author. It is a comparative study between the school history textbooks of the neighboring countries India
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scripture.” I am here to prove that Sartre’s ideologies are crushed by the Islamic Monotheist perspective‚ and while it was neglected during his era‚ now the gradual success of his ideological planning prediction of “we shall have disposed of God as an out-of-date hypothesis which will die away quietly of itself” (Sartre)‚ and as this ideology stripped France from its Christian coating to a secular nationalistic one‚ the Islamic ideology crushes out the French ground with no control by its
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Gender stereotypes and the media: Today‚ we live in a world that is (stratified) divided into castes‚ classes‚ or other groups based on status‚ or be formed into such groups along lines of gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ age‚ disability‚ sexuality and location‚ and in which the privileges‚ disadvantages and exclusions associated with each categories are unfairly distributed. We also live in a world which is increasingly saturated by media and information and communication technologies. Why media
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How would you account for changes in political cleavage structures and how does this impact on party systems? The fundamental nature of this essay is to look at the different explanations of the emergence and development of political cleavage structures and its impact on party systems in Western Europe. The party systems of the Western European states reflect both common lines of development of Western European history and country-specific characteristics of the progress of state and nation
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