If I were to look up the word ‘sociology’ the dictionary would tell me that it’s the study of the development‚ structure‚ and functioning of human society. For some‚ sociology can be a hard word to define‚ considering it can mean so many different things based on how that particular person looks at it. Now if you were to ask me what I think sociology means‚ at first I couldn’t really tell you. Once I had time to think about it I would more than likely say it is the study of why people are the way
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old certainties about truth‚ justice and the good life no longer exist. That makes the “post”-traditions (especially‚ postmodernism and poststructuralism) skeptical of grand (or meta-) narratives as Marxism. The prefix “post” signifies that these newest traditions emerged after modernity‚ structuralism or colonialism and also as a protest‚ negation of and rupture with past traditions. Let us look upon the three major “post”-traditions ’’ postmodernism‚ poststructuralism and postcolonialism and compare
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ontology and methodology); empirical –analytical science (empiricism‚ positivism); historical hermeneutical science (behaviourism‚ phenomenology‚ existentialism‚ idealism and pragmatism); Critical science (Marxist approaches- marxism; realism‚ post modernism‚ post structuralism and feminism); Deductive and Inductive approaches‚ survival of hypotheses and paradigm shifts‚ theoretical influences on social research methods‚ social sciences and grounded theory. Which approach is best? 3. Role of theory
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Critical Theory Notes 8/27/2014 Practical Criticism → close reading I.A. Richards introduces Practical Criticism and centers on close analysis of the words that comprise each page of text William Empson was a pupil of Richard’s. He applies an assiduously strict‚ almost mathematical formula to textual analysis‚ the drawback of which is that the flexibility of language is largely discounted. F.R. Leavis‚ along with Q. D. Roth (whom he eventually marries)‚ takes the process of close reading to
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people become informed - or misinformed - and how the myths and ideologies that govern all our lives are created and sustained." (Bazalgette‚ 2000‚ pp.14). Thus‚ the focus of this essay will be on these aspects; how the theory of ideology and structuralism influence communication practices‚ and how media texts are interpreted in relation to how people come to think of their identity and subjectivity. In view of this‚ we will look at the methodology of interpreting media texts‚ which participate in
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FIELD DEFINITION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT KEY CONTRIBUTORS PRINCIPAL ISSUES Epistemology the theory of knowledge‚ is the branch of philosophy concerned with these questions a. Schools of thought and historical development 1) Skeptics a) Ancient (1) Pyrrho of Elis (2) Sextus Empiricus b) Medieval (1) St. Augustine 2) Rationalists a) Ancient (1) Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists
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A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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Postmodern dance * Postmodern feminism * Postmodernist film * Postmodern literature * Post-Marxism * Post-materialism * Postmodern music * Postmodern picture book * Postmodern philosophy * Postmodern psychology * Postmodern political science * Postpositivism * Post-postmodernism * Postmodernist school * Postmodern social construction of nature * Postmodern theatre * Post-structuralism * Criticism of postmodernism | * v * t * e | Postmodernism is in general the era
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Agsaoay‚ Jetherca Zel M. Sir Eugene Geminiano BSIT 1. Why do we need to study literature? * Literature is filled with ideas that need to be explored. * Literature helps us to see our world in new ways. It brings us to a deeper understanding of life. * It is important to study literature since when we begin the study of literature‚we find it has always two aspects‚one of the simple enjoyment and appreciation and the other of analysis and exact description. Usually what happen
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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