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with aging. Late adulthood can be a cruel experience for some people because they may be victims of ageism in more than one aspect of their life. Ageism Ageism‚ according to Berger‚ (2008) is a prejudice in which people are categorized and judged solely based on their age. During late adulthood senses and motor functions have deteriorated much more than in middle adulthood‚ which may lead to stereotypes. For example‚ one was
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Madness and Civilization In Madness and Civilization‚ Michel Foucault discuses the history of insanity in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He begins his analysis with the treatment of the lepers and criminals concluding with the treatment of the insane. As "madness" became part of everyday life‚ people of the time were though to be threatened by "madness". This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the "mad" in early day asylum or "mad house"‚ whose conditions were inhumane
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In Foucault’s example‚ we see that young prisoners were not tortured‚ they were put in a punitive working with the rights of eating‚ praying and going to school (Foucault‚ 1995‚ pp. 6-7). There seems a great difference between two instances but neither the first instance nor the second one are unrepresentative. These centuries witnessed to fundamental changes in punishment. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries
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the premise of expressionism is valid. But the meaninglessness‚ and subsequent futility‚ of Sontagist camp which is a central theme of Stone’s Heaven and Earth emerges again in Platoon. “Truth is fundamentally unattainable‚” says Baudrillard. Foucault uses the term ‘precapitalist narrative’ to denote the absurdity‚ and eventually the futility‚ of neocapitalist society. Therefore‚ the subject is contextualised into a that includes language as a whole. The main theme of de Selby’s[1] analysis
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sociological knowledge. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann both argue that reality is socially constructed by the knowledge of the people for social reality is produced and communicated amongst others. They emphasize on the fact that human is a part of a product of society and vice versa: society is a product of human. Berger and Luckmann follow the Schutz’s concept of viewing the reality of everyday life as an “intersubjective world”- a world shared with many others. Berger and Luckmann begin with emphasizing
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“A third pole of opposition is between individual/social paranoia – is the paranoia that of an idiosyncratic individual or that of a group‚ neighbourhood‚ nation or transnational organisation?”(Harper 2008 p11) Even so why do we feel socially paranoid? Could social paranoia be caused by surveillance? One could argue that we are unaware of our surveillance. Additionally‚ there are rhetorical strategies that suggest a social strategy of paranoia. An ex-Prime minister for UK armed forces made allegations
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on the study of politics as a process or activity with an interdisciplinary approach. The debate on the centrality of the concept of power for understanding the politics is the interaction with the different space and time. And the intervention of Foucault comes in this way as a breakthrough from the conventional notions of power. The Power: Meaning‚ Nature‚ Significance and Characteristics The English noun power derives from the Latin ‘petere’‚ which means “to be able”. At the simplest level‚ power
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E D W A R D W. S A I D : T R U T H ‚ J U S T I C E A N D N AT I O N A L I S M Jan Selby University of Sussex‚ UK ................ Said Foucault Chomsky nationalism Palestine ................ Within post-colonial debates‚ Edward Said has tended to be viewed by critics and admirers alike through a predominantly postmodern lens: as an (albeit inconsistent) Foucauldian genealogist of the relations between western truths and oriental subjugation‚ and as an opponent of cultural
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Report of the Committee of Inquiry into labour market programs: overview of the report and recommendations (The Kirby Report). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Cooke‚ A Downing‚ L. (2008). The Cambridge introduction to Michel Foucault. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Driver‚ S.‚ & Martell‚ L. (1997). New Labour’s communitarianisms. Critical Social Policy‚ 17 (52) 27-46. Duyvendak‚ J.W.‚ Knijn‚ T.‚ & Kremer‚ M. (Eds.). (2006). Policy‚ people and the new professional: de-professionalisation
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