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    selfless concern for the well­being of  others.    Utilitarianism: the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a  majority.    Biopower: is a term coined by French scholar‚ historian‚ and social theorist Michel  Foucault. It relates to the practice of modern nation states and their regulation of their  subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the  subjugations of bodies and the control of populations".    Totalitarianism:

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    Marxists view the audience to the mass media as passive and this then allows the hypodemic syringe idea to come into play. Marxists believe the mass media is a instrument of the ruling class and through the media the ruling class ideology is ’injected’ into our heads. This is able to happen as the ruling class own the means of production so have control over society‚ e.g Rupert Murdoch who owns sky‚ the sun newspaper‚ the times newspaper‚ sunday times and much more Right wing buisnesses. Lukes would

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    “In many of his female-centered stories‚ Hawthorne shows the need to control woman’s sexuality or to insist upon her purity with a type of morality play whose sexual dynamics correspond to the theories of nineteenth-century sexuality that Foucault has set forth (Howard). Both stories generally deal with same topic: the ingenious scientist seeking to expand the boundaries of his practice by conducting an unorthodox experiment on a live human test subject‚ the test subject being the woman who

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    This is a big factor for the nature and nurture debate. There is many theories as to whether your sexual ordination is a biological or social factor and these theories go all the way back to the ancient Greek times. David Halpern and Jean Foucault are two social theorists that believe the environment an individual grows up in and their upbringing can contribute to them being homosexual as they believe that the love and the sexual desire an individual has to another individual from the same

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    Sociological Theories A sociological theory is a set of ideas that provides an explanation for human society. Theories are selective in terms of their priorities and perspectives and the data they define as significant. As a result they provide a particular and partial view of reality. Sociological theories can be grouped together according to a variety of criteria. The most important of these is the distinction between Structural and Social action theories. Structural‚ or macro perspectives

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    “Three key exemplars are the sociological analysis of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)‚ the Marxian tradition‚ and the genealogical method of Nietzsche and Michel Foucault (1926–1984)” (Science Encyclopedia). Even though there were differences in the opinions of each‚ there were also some important likenesses. All three of the theorists did not think that punishment was not important‚ but they looked at it as a change

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    purpose is to possible impose pattern on history. * Relativism… is a fact of life. * History is one of a series of discourses about the world. H. White – postmodernist An historical text is in essence nothing more than a literary text… M. Foucault – postmodernist Truth is linked… with systems of power which produce and sustain it… E.H. Carr – relativist * The facts only speak when the

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    Self-Efficacy Motivation

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    929779 Submission Title: Self-efficacy‚ Motivation and Employee Engagement: Empowering Workers Using Forum Theatre Author: Richard Carter MGSM‚ Macquarie University Word Count: Title Footnote: Richard Carter‚ Doctoral Student MGSM‚ Macquarie University‚ New South Wales 2109 Australia 1 929779 Self-efficacy‚ Motivation and Employee Engagement: Empowering Workers Using Forum Theatre Self-efficacy is a social psychological construct that is conceptualized from an agentic perspective

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    Emile Durkheim The Sociology of knowledge The sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises‚ and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. It is not a specialized area of sociology but instead deals with broad fundamental questions about the extent and limits of social influences on individual ’s lives and the social-cultural basics of our knowledge about the world.[1] Complementary to the sociology of knowledge

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    Introduction As being developed by poststructuralism‚ feminism‚ lesbian & gay studies and even American pragmatist theory (Parker‚2001; Seidman‚1997)‚ queer theory has become one of the most important theories‚ which contributes to the research of sociology‚ arts and organizations. On the one hand‚ queer theory has been used to study the relations between the sexuality‚ gender and workplace. On the other hand‚ by utilizing denaturalized‚ deconstructive and performative methods to queer the

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