rediscovery of struggles‚ an attack on the tyranny of what he calls ¡¦totalizing discourses¡¦ and a rediscovery of fragmented‚ subjugated‚ local and specific knowledge. It is directed against great truths and grand theories.¡]p.80¡^ (¡° vs. Lyotard’s grand narrative/small narrative) ¡P Foucault rejects the Hegelian teleological model‚ in favour of Nietzschean tactic of critique through the presentation of difference. The gap between the past and the present underlines the principle of difference at the
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Isaac Kramnick’s “Discourse of Politics in 1787” deals with the paradigm of homo civicus (civic humanism) and liberalism in the Constitution‚ the Federalist and Antifederalist papers along with political positions used to address the concepts of virtue and power. The historical background of 1787 establishes the United States as a country incapable of defending its sovereignty as an independent nation and‚ in the same time‚ a confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government. This
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Machiavelli & The Common Good In Discourses on Livy‚ Machiavelli argues that the purpose of politics is to promote a “common good.” This statement holds true in Machiavelli’s The Prince‚ albeit differently than one might expect. It is evident in The Prince that Machiavelli believes ensuring the common good of the community should hold high priority; therefore a primary duty of the Prince to fulfill. Machiavelli’s view on how this should be obtained‚ however‚ drastically opposes the opinions
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He describes that a discourse includes all the ways of “being in the word” in which individuals share values‚ words‚ acts‚ beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and social identities (1989). John Swales is another scholar who has defined the concept of the discourse community. He focuses his work on distinguishing speech community from Discourse community. He describes speech communities as groups that share linguistic goals while discourse communities are those groups that have the six
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Power and influence tend to have a negative connotation to some people that have perhaps encountered negative situations. Machiavelli suggested for those in power to do whatever it would take to maintain that power‚ in order to extend that power (McManus‚ 2006). Additionally‚ Machiavelli suggested that power has nothing to do with right or wrong‚ nor the welfare of the people (McManus‚ 2006). Furthermore‚ Machiavelli suggests for a leader to do everything in their power to maintain that power‚ even
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Social Power and Education Social Power/Education The focus of this essay is to expand on the concept of social power and education. The phrase "social power" has been used by political scientist and philosophers to refer to the power that is exercised by individuals or groups within a society. The question of power in the educational context has troubled educators‚ off and on‚ for years. Ambitious students have attempted to change the landscape of education by injecting the power of the student
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Different sociological theories advance different arguments about the way in which particular forms of social power (political‚ economic‚ cultural & technological)‚ shape distinctive characteristics of modern societies and the consequent changes in previous forms of such power. Debates about power necessarily involve different understandings of both the nature of social reality (ontology)‚ and how we best go about acquiring knowledge of that reality (epistemology). An important issue in this debate
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Chapter I: Background Study One of the greatest events that challenged the entire Filipino society was the EDSA People power revolution happened on the 25th day of February 1986‚ a history that put the power on the hands of the Filipino people‚ considered to be the moment of the great emancipation from coercion. It was an ideal decision that freed the people and won the freedom of right politics. Based on the historical data gathered‚ the regime of Marcos‚ although
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Research Paper Identify and discuss professional issues in education evident in a film or a piece of young people ’s literature in which a teacher plays a fairly cental role. This essay will critically analyse the discourses‚ positions and relationships‚ as well as certain individuals habitus ’ (after Bourdieu and Wacquant‚ 1992‚ cited in Gale & Densmore‚ 2000)‚ which influence the classroom of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Potier) in the film To Sir with Love (Clavell‚ 1966). Via this analysis‚ I
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On Discourse Analysis‚ looking at a sample of spoken discourse from Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Conference Presentation. In this paper I aim to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language. I have chosen to transcribe a speech given by the First Lady of the United States‚ Michelle Obama. Firstly‚ to briefly outline the context‚ the speech was given during the Democratic National Convention in September 2012‚ in the run up to the presidential
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