Lecture 3: Structural functionalism Structural functionalism – Radcliffe-Brown Anthropology is a natural science Radcliffe-Brown was one of the main figures of the structural functionalist school of British anthropology. He viewed anthropology as a natural science‚ similar in essence to the physical and biological sciences. The object of natural science was to investigate the structure of the universe. Social phenomena constitute a distinct class of natural phenomena‚ and social structures
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India has emerged from the very background of people living in southeast asia. It is a perfect blend of some of the largest religions in the world. Having held the position of the largest democracy in the world for over 65 years is a difficult task and we need to give credit to our great thinkers of the time. Today we cherish‚ we are happy‚ we play‚ we enjoy in India due to 2 reasons: 1) The struggles by our forefathers and 2) The power of democratic principles which hold us today. Our ancestors
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Cosmopolitanism The era of globalization has brought about a new wave of integration and interaction on a global scale. Contrary to common belief‚ globalization is not a new phenomenon as examined by Karl Marx. For thousands of years people across the globe have been doing business‚ similar to Central Asia’s Silk Road‚ which connected Europe and China. Contemporary globalization however encompasses a technological infrastructure through the use of the Internet and other modern devices. This sophisticated
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Ransom Begins: The sea has many voices. ….man is first in pre-existence‚ rocked and comforted‚ and then is born into an earthly world. “Man is a fighter and when not fighting he is a farmer‚ earth is his element” One day he will return to grains. But first his life is full of shifting forms. Achilles: “He was 5‚ 6 when her (mother? or spirit???) voice whispered on his skin‚ Do you hear me? I am still with you for a time when you call” and then she was a “faint far-off echo to his senses
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Kevin Chen Vy100 Professor Thrope 12.13.2014 What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stranger I used to be a great superhero fan in my childhood. I had a huge collection of superhero comics and remembered details of all of them by heart. From my view‚ superheros were born to fight for justice while villains were created evil. Therefore I was once quite confused with a silly question: why were people so foolish that they allowed villains to grow up since they were born to ruin the world? I took
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The “Threepenny Opera”: Brecht’s Verfremdung through Representation and Expression In the first scene of Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera”‚ it is clear to the audience that something is disturbingly off about the world in which the action takes place. The audience clearly sees it as a world based on super-capitalist structure. Peachum‚ the leader of the beggars in London‚ argues with a man named Filch about acquiring a position as a beggar in London. Filch was beaten for begging without a license
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The Eighteenth Amendment‚ or better known as the Prohibition Amendment‚ was the change to the Constitution that made the‚ "manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors within‚ the importation thereof into‚ or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purpose is hereby prohibited" (209). In other words‚ associating one ’s self with anything alcoholic‚ with the exception of medicinally‚ was illegal. This seemingly
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1. Define the term Agricultural Revolutions and explain how it impacted the world. (Chapter 1‚ pp. 7-8 and p.11 two paragraphs before the subsection “Life in Neolithic communities”) 2. What was the most important result/benefit of the development of settled agricultural communities? (Chapter 1‚ p. 11) 3. Who were the earliest settled people in Mesopotamia and what kind of writing system did they use? (Chapter 2‚ section “Mesopotamia”) 4. Why did the status of women decline with
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SOVIET MONTAGE Soviet Montage The Soviet filmmakers who emerged in the aftermath of the 1917 October revolution in Russia were part of an artistic avantgarde committed to innovation and experimentation and the creation of new artistic practices. Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V. I. Podovkin were part of the formalist tradition in film history. These Russian directors believed that editing was the foundation of film art and they set out to shatter the illusionistic storytelling and
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The Political Economy of Globalization The process of globalization had already begun in the late nineteenth century. Before World War I‚ trade and foreign investment were fairly globalized. Because of low political obstacles to international migration‚ labor markets actually were more globalized at the beginning of the twentieth century than at its end. The two world wars and the Great Depression between them interrupted the process of global market integration for about half a century. Thereafter
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