From humble beginnings as a small village republic‚ Rome grew into a massive empire through military dominance. However‚ the power Rome gained eventually lead to its fall‚ as citizens quickly became accustomed to the leisure that comes with being a hegemony‚ and in 410 AD‚ Rome itself was sacked by a primitive tribe of barbarians‚ the Visigoths. Just as Rome suffered a surprising and shocking defeat in 410‚ another great empire was attacked by a group of “barbarians” in 2001. After Rome was routed‚
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servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. The philosophy behind the EU is a strange mixture of Capitalism and Communism - a form of Euro Marxism which owes much of its dogma to the Pre-World War II Italian Marxist Philosopher‚ Antonio Gramsci. The nearest ideology to that practiced by the EU is something called Communitarianism‚ or what Tony Blair [Former UK Prime Minister] 1997 - 2007] called the ’Third
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Unipolar is a system with only a single major actor‚ which is usually a single state that dominates all the other smaller states in the global political system. In other words to discuss the idea of Unipolar in the contemporary International system‚ I would briefly trace the advert of modern International system in the view of polarization. The advert of the modern international system could be traced back to the peace of Westphalia in 1648‚ which signify the end of the 30 years war in
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determining effect on the cultural superstructure. He speaks of two interruptions that the trajectories of cultural studies faced namely feminism and racism. But what is stable in cultural studies is the conjunctional knowledge based on the idea of Gramsci. It means knowledge situated in and applicable to‚ specific and immediate political/historical circumstances. In addition‚ the awareness that the structure of representations which forms culture’s alphabet and grammar are instruments of social power
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Week 3 Tutorial questions 1. What is modernity? What is modernisation? It is used to describe complex range of phenomena associated with changes that separated contemporary society from earliar societies. Modernisation is processes that lead to modernity. It is the key characteristics of modernity there are ten dimensions of modernity‚ five associated with structures and five that reflect changing relationships. Characteristic 1: the rise of rationality Characteristic 2: a belief in science
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HIV/AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and an Agenda for Action Horizons Program HIV/AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and an Agenda for Action Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton with Kathy Attawell‚ Julie Pulerwitz‚ and Lisanne Brown Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the contribution of Anne Malcolm (Sydney‚ Australia) and Miriam Maluwa (UNAIDS‚ Geneva) to our thinking about these issues. Anne undertook one of the
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Introduction- I would say that the perspective linking US strategic and economic interests to so-called ‘humanitarian interventions’ is a correct one. Following the Cold War‚ the US still maintained its designs for global hegemony. It had economic interests in many regions of the globe. The health of these interests mainly depended on accessibility and security for US investment in resource-rich areas. More importantly‚ in order to preserve the existence of NATO(which the US counted on in order
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Media and collective memory Introduction The essay is about the relation between collective memory and media. The focus of the essay is on the mechanism that is followed by media to shape collective memory. In addition to how media used to have powerful control on collective memory and how is their control is contested after the introduction of alternative media and social media. The domination of collective memory is harder with democratization
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of security is primary factor influencing great powers’ behavior‚ and in turn makes great powers quickly recognize that the best way to survive without protection is to perpetually expand actual military capability until reach the ultimate aim - hegemony. Great powers can never be certain about other states’ intentions‚ which makes them fear each other‚ and view each other as potential enemies who always have the capability and motive to attack them. To guarantee their own survival‚ great powers
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García-Canclin interrogates how could be possible that popular cultures have been excluded from research on hegemony and state‚ social change‚ and development in a continent in which masses have been decisive in revolutions. Two crisis have lead to study popular cultures: first‚ the crisis of hegemony and the epistemological crisis. “The exhaustion of economistic paradigms that fail to account for the cultural bases of power‚ and the non-economic necessities that mobilize peoples” (p. 467). García-Canclini
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