what is order and what is disorder?” To answer the essay question about disorder in contemporary UK‚ I think that the concept of social order needs to be tackled first. I will do so by comparing and contrasting the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault‚ two social scientists that attempted to explain how order is created in society and where it comes from. I will then compare and contrast the work
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agenda’s‚ truth is sometimes ignored or becomes irrelevant. The question is if truth has become so twisted that it doesn’t really exist in its original meaning anymore? If truth has been lost there must be a substitute‚ this is where post-truth originated. Post-truth is when decisions are based upon emotions rather than facts‚ this is dangerous because each person feels a different way and therefore can justify melding a subject to fit their own liking. Post-truth has caused all truths to be called
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they cannot serve as an "objective" view of what really happened. <br> <br>There are many monologues by many different people‚ often with opposing ideas and beliefs. Together the novel is a collection of half-truths‚ with each set of events shaped by what the current narrator believes is truth. To each individual what they say and think‚ they consider reality‚ however it is merely their perception of reality and consequently it is subjective. An instance of how an objective view cannot be formed from
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Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)‚ Karl Popper suggests that no scientific theory can be classified as truth. The only thing that can be done is to attempt to falsify the theory over and over again reject the theory repeatedly in different situations. Each failed attempt will strengthen the theory and bring it closer to the truth. Hence‚ Popper claimed that the truth of a hypothesis can never be confirmed. A hypothesis is an “if-then” statement‚ which that is an assumption of causality
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In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body
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behavior.” Foucault depicts the panopticon as a way of exercising power over a mass; this idea can also be taken from the works of John Berger‚ Susan Bordo‚ and Laura Kipnis. Foucault begins by introducing the plague and the actions of society that resulted when the epidemic struck. The plague brought order. Houses were routinely checked‚ quarantined‚ registered‚ etc. Those who were infected were separated from the rest of society in order to establish an uncontaminated community. Foucault states‚
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“Space and Subjectivity”‚ written by Ann Cooper Albright was an article about how the connection of female bodily uses space and force to a women’s social status. Subjectivity is a “philosophical term that articulates the self in terms of the perceptions‚ feelings‚ and experiences from the point of view of an individual person” (Gieseking‚ J.J.‚ W. Mangold‚ C. Katz‚ S. Low‚ & S. Saegert). Albright was interested in examining relationships between dancing bodies and space. Feminist philosopher Iris
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feelings and how they react to something. A large portion of non-fiction stories or texts are mainly objective because they have more facts than opinions. The article‚ At the Holocaust Museum by: David Oliver Relin states more objectivity than subjectivity because it is being compared to the real life event and is factual. The information stated in the article is laid out
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To what extent is truth different in mathematics‚ the arts and ethics? Truth – in its ambiguity – is a concept that many philosophers‚ over thousands of years‚ sought deeply to define. We struggle to find truth solely because it holds no generalization of its concept and is defined according to specific areas of knowledge. Areas such as mathematics‚ the arts and ethics are all differing storehouses of truth. Each‚ in their own system‚ defines truth very differently because these areas
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Although controversial to categorize as a system of thought‚ postmodernism does have an overall fixation on efficiency’s crucial role in shaping society and our beliefs. Two thinkers who focus on this issue are Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault; this essay will analyze how efficiency is a crucial element in their philosophies. Lyotard’s initial conception of efficiency is as one of many language-games. Lyotard borrows from Wittgenstein by formulating that various linguistic utterances
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