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    important themes in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is the nature of authority and people who abuse it. In the story‚ authority is determined by the religious status one has in the community and often education plays a role. Nowadays‚ authority is noted by the place you have in society and is also based on education and sometimes wealth. It seems that whenever there is a figure of authority‚ there is always someone abusing the power designated to them. Back in the Puritan times‚ religious leaders like

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    these characteristic of flow strengthens the impression that everyday life is determined by natural force. The flow like nature of everyday life is a given in ethnographically are include theoretical and epistemological implications. Two step flow theory is focused on change

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    Does power or authority make order? Thomas Hobbes‚ in writing the Leviathan‚ proposes an answer to the question. However‚ there must first be a definition of the terms powerauthority‚ and order. Hobbes classifies power in two categories: natural powers‚ which are basic powers of the body and mind such as physical strength and prudence‚ and instrumental powers‚ which are powers that are means and instruments to acquire more powers such as riches‚ reputation‚ and friends. These powers‚ together‚

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    degree of obedience to authority‚ as the alternative would be anarchy leading to total chaos. Hence‚ we find some sort of a hierarchy in both the most underdeveloped and the most civilized societies where certain individuals exercise authority over others. Almost everyone will agree that some degree of authority in certain individuals or groups (and their obedience by other groups) is desirable for the proper functioning of a society. The problem arises when the obedience to authority is taken to extremes

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    Obedience to Authority No human social organization can function without some degree of obedience to authority‚ as the alternative would be anarchy leading to total chaos. Hence we find some sort of a hierarchy in both the most underdeveloped and the most civilized societies where certain individuals exercise authority over others. Almost everyone will agree that some degree of authority in certain individuals or groups (and their obedience by other groups) is desirable for the proper

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    three main sociologist writers Karl Marx‚ Max Weber and Emile Durkheim offer different perspectives on religion and how important it is to society. Some of the theorists chose to have a positive view whilst others argue the unimportance of religion. This essay attempts to discover which theorist has the most accurate perspective of religion in modern times. This is done by firstly explaining the basic ideas regarding to religion put forward by Marx‚ Weber and Durkheim. Then both Marx’s and Durkheim’s

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    (Johnson‚ 1971:210). From this we gather that versehen was Weber’s way of understanding social action. For weber social action was an action which an individual undertakes and carries out to which a person attached a meaning (Haralambos & Holborn‚ 2004:953). Weber identifies two types of understanding‚ aktuelles verstehen and erklarendes verstehen (Haralambos & Holborn‚ 2004:953). According to Weber‚ versehen is an empirical sociology of the understanding of meaning (Kalse1979:176). Aktuelles vestehen

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    individuals or groups within society. How these social classes have been determined has been a common topic among social scientists throughout time. Two individuals who have headed this long standing debate are Karl Marx and Max Weber. In this paper I will be summarizing Marx and Weber’s theories on social class; how they are determined‚ their interests‚ and problems that may exist among groups. I will then provide my own critiques of their arguments. Marx first sets up his arguments on class by referring

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    Moral power stems from tradition and a feeling of obligation to one’s fellow community members. Durkheim describes it by writing “When a native is asked why he follows his rites‚ he replies that ancestors have always done so and that he must follow their example

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    many other theories. Each would analyze two cultural artifacts of Western Civilization: Grand Illusion (1937) by Jean Renoir‚ and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1999) by Mike Myers differently. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery has several discrete messages and references. Austin Power’s has to adapt to the changes in society that occurred since he was frozen in 1967 to when he was unfrozen in 1997. Austin has to overcome the

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