Introduction Stanley Cohen has become famous due to his brilliant works on sociology‚ criminology and human rights. His talent allowed him to depict human fears and concerns‚ conflicts between different social groups and human sufferings which resulted from these conflicts. Stanley Cohen’s career started to move in the upward direction with the publication of his first serious research in 1972. The book called “Folk Devils and Moral Panics” was devoted to the issues relevant to the British society
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Book review Soviet Fates and Lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen As Stephen Cohen states in the introduction‚ Soviet Fates and lost alternatives was written out of a personal fascination for alternative roads that ’could have been’ the path of history. Cohen’s approach is indeed personal as he tries to show that the communist party consisted (and always has consisted) of people‚ and not out of a fixed idea. People shape history‚ not economical- political- or other crises. And to every person
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To be or not to be? Morality is something that leaves every human being with a concern with what’s right or wrong. I think about my perception on the behavior that will follow my choices. Choosing what morality is determined by‚ may be the problem in its own-self. Great men have contemplated where morality really lies‚ though many of them have took another’s work to serve as the guide to strive for their own progression. Through the progression of these studies one can conclude that happiness
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In the poem “Driftwood‚” by R. Stanley Peterson‚ the poet makes an analogy between the four different types of wood to four different types of people. The first type of “wood is straight… it reached tall in the forest‚” (line 1-5) is someone who is very successful in their life. Therefore‚ they are growing up with all the support from others‚ they never had any problems in their life‚ and they never experienced any hardship because they are showing as “close-grown”. However‚ “A knot to mar the texture
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SUMMARY OF UNCHOPPING A TREE by William Stanley Merwin Merwin’s Unchopping a Tree is a procedural essay as we can infer from the title alone. Here‚ Merwin describes what it takes for one to put together again a tree that has been cut down. Note that the author is very accurate in his steps so as to ensure that the tree will be exactly what it was when the rebuilding is done. According to Merwin‚ we have to start with the leave sand all others that belong to the tree’s crowning glory. They
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John Stuart Mill’s foundation of Morality and his basis for Utilitarianism are based on the Greatest Happiness Principle. In his essay titled Utilitarianism he states that morality should be governed by pleasure and freedom from unhappiness which are the only alluring ends to this life. Everything in life that is pleasurable is sought after because of the desires they fulfill or how they reduce pain. Early on in the essay he clearly distinguishes between the mental and physical pleasure. Despite
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist whose research has been justified because of the knowledge psychologists have gained about why people obey. One of his most famous studies was conducted in 1963 on obedience. Obedience is compliance with an order‚ request‚ or law or submission to another’s authority. Milgram wanted to investigate why the German soldiers were very obedient to their authority figures and superiors and if that is an explanation for their mass killings in World War
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When you look at torture and the idea of torture you also have to look at what both a just and unjust act is. Both Aristotle and Mill discuss justice and injustice along with just and unjust acts. So in order to determine if it is ever permissible to torture another person according to Mill and Aristotle‚ you have to first look at both of their definitions of justice and if the act is just or unjust. In Aristotle’s Book II of Nicomachean Ethics‚ he explains that virtue of character is the mean to
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Denham died. As a result‚ Steuart was forced to take the name Denham in order to inherit Sir Archibold’s estate and to become Baronet of Coltness. After this‚ Steuart went by Sir James Steuart Denham. Steuart later died on November 26‚ 1780 (“James Stuart (economist)”). In the middle of his life‚ the Jacobites started a rebellion in Scotland in 1745. Steuart supported the Jacobites during this rebellion which led to his exile from Scotland until 1763 (“Sir James Steuart Denham”). During his exile
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such as existence‚ liberty and especially property. In the work “The Second Treatise of Civil Government” written by John Locke‚ mankind’s natural rights are critically examined one by one. This essay aims to discuss whether John Stuart Mill’s harm principle that he mentions in “On Liberty” can be exercised while not violating the natural rights of mankind or not. First of all‚ in order to find out the consistency of Mill’s harm principle with Locke’s
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