Language and Power in English Texts Susana Murcia Bielsa‚ Mick O’Donnell Course overview: The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of how English language works to express power-relations and ideology in different kinds of text (both written and spoken). Through the study of different kinds of discourse‚ we will be looking at how particular linguistic features are used to persuade and manipulate‚ and convey social‚ racial or sexist ideologies. Chapter 1 Notions of Power ‘Power’ refers
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Multiple Choice STRATIFICATION – Module 3 1. Which Caribbean researcher asserts that the ascriptive particularistic value system that laid the basis for the social structure in the pre-1953 period in Trinidad and Tobago has given way to an open class system based upon meritocracy? (a) M.G Smith (b) Lloyd Braithwaite (c) Selwyn Ryan (d) Miller 2. Which of the following systems of stratification permit the least amount of mobility? (a) Slavery (b) Colonialism
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British Riots of 2011 This essay will consider the British Riots of 2011‚ relating the events specifically to the functionalist perspective of Emile Durkheim and others. It will offer definitions of key terms‚ identify key concepts and consider opposing arguments from opposing theoretical perspectives. It will apply these concepts to the 2011 Riots and argue that the killing of Mark Duggan by police was not‚ as many believed‚ the only reason behind the riots. Functionalist theory suggests society
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fetal stage‚ also known as prenatal development‚ is a stage of life that so much can occur. Humans begin life as a single cell. There are multiple stages that have to happen in order to become a "human." The first stage is known as the Germinal Stage. The Germinal Stage is from the conception to implantation which is from 0 to 2 weeks. This is the period when cell division occurs‚ the zygote reaches the uterus and begins to implant on the uterine wall. The process of implantation can take up to a
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Title: Correlation of Poverty and Health Name: George Saba Class Name: English 102 Instructor: Zeina Bou Malhab Date: Monday July 25‚ 2011 Abstract: Poverty affects individual’s physical health as well as his or her mental health. Poor parents suffer a great deal of social economic stress‚ which greatly impacts their relationship with their children‚ especially the adolescents. Troubled teenagers experience chronic stress and sometimes deep distress that leads to psychological issues and
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BOYS VS. GIRLS: THE GENDER ROLES By: Samantha Samsel Boys Vs. Girls: The Gender Roles “Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading‚ according to you‚ because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.” (McEwan‚1978)‚ Gender roles are the roles that each gender gets that shows people how they are supposed to act. Gender roles have been planted in
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that it is the custom of the Bushmen to talk as such to keep everyone humble. Bibliography: Natural History‚ December 1969. © 1969 by the American Collins Dictionary of Sociology‚ p405-6. Collins Dictionary of Sociology‚ p406 adapted from S. Lukes‚ Emile Durkheim: His life and Work (1973) London:Allen Lane Museum of Natural History
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manifest and the second latent. A manifest function is something that you recognize and know/accept the consequences of the action. While a latent function is an action that you don’t recognize or realize the consequences. We have Auguste Comte‚ Emile Durkheim‚ Herbert Spencer and Robert K. Merton to thank for this approach. Auguste Comte can be considered the “father” of sociology because he coined the term in 1838. Comte realized the need to understand society to keep it unified.
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take as we witness and observe social events Two (2) aspects of the sociological perspective (by Peter Berger) a. Sociology enables us to see the general in the particular – This means finding general patterns in particular events. Example: Emile Durkheim’s pioneering study on suicide revealed that there are categories of people who are more likely to commit suicide. The suicide rate was higher for the males‚ Protestants‚ wealthy and the unmarried compared
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development of the classical social theories. These theories were introduced mainly by three prominent sociologists‚ Émile Durkheim‚ Karl Marx and Max Weber‚ also known as the ‘central founders of sociology’ (Macionis & Plummer‚2008‚ p.32). In this essay‚ I will be giving a brief description of the Industrial Revolution leading to explaining two of the classical theories of work namely that of Émile Durkheim and that of Karl Marx in relation to their views on society‚ and then concluding by commenting on the
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