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    Structure‚ Agency‚ and Social Reality in Blumerian Symbolic Interactionism: The Influence of Georg Simmel Author(s): Jacqueline Low Source: Symbolic Interaction‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 3 (Summer 2008)‚ pp. 325-343 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.2008.31.3.325 . Accessed: 31/03/2015 20:24 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor

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    In life when people have treated us wrongly in any circumstance‚ it’s very hard to forgive them‚ because you have a hard time letting go. Amy Tan did with her mother‚ after saying “I hate you I wish I were dead”. Which lead her mom to almost committing suicide‚ and treating Amy like she wasn’t her child. I remember being treated by someone I and my mother use to live with for nearly a year‚ he was a drunk and got on

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    Each of the four classical theorists Marx‚ Weber‚ Durkheim‚ and Simmel had different theories of the relationship between society and the individual. It is the objective of this paper to critically evaluate the sociological approaches of each theory to come to a better understanding of how each theorist perceived such a relationship and what it means for the nature of social reality. Karl Marx noted that society was highly stratified in that most of the individuals in society‚ those who worked

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    Technophobia or Reality In Tezuka’s Metropolis and Asimov’s‚ I‚ Robot‚ the role of the robots are to serve humans. In both worlds‚ humans have come to rely on computers and robots to do everyday tasks to manual labor. In Metropolis‚ the robots are utilized for all labor and are treated only as machines. Over the years‚ the use of robots has eliminated most jobs for humans. Without these jobs‚ the humans became impoverished and forced to live in the slums. The plutocratic government controls everything

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    and worst of human nature‚ and through the study of the underlying political commentary in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (BNW) and Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi film Metropolis‚ these motivations are demonstrated. Reflecting and critiquing the oppressive social and political values of their time‚ Brave New World and Metropolis each serve as a medium of exerting their composers beliefs. These dystopian texts serves as a catalyst for criticising the inability for a perfect society to eliminate revolution

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    The conflict between the individual and the state is perpetuated in Metropolis‚ and it is in its plot that the modernists fears of the machine age are evident.
 Robot Maria is used as a narrative device in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to orchestrate chaos and disunity in the city‚ perpetuating the conflict between the Head and the Hands. Rotwang creates her as the antithesis of Maria and the personification of vice‚ so Joh Fredersen can use her to “…sow discord between them and her!” It is in the visual

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    Examination of Metropolis and 1984 reveal that dictators utilise scientific knowledge to satisfy the public’s desire for either instability or stability and in an effort to acquire and maintain control. Both texts present differing perspectives due to the respective periods in which they were produced. Lang extrapolates Germany’s craving for a changing world as a result of infrastructure and negative psychological effects experienced from the nation’s strong involvement in World War 1‚ and forms

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    what it was like back then. These two show the global nature of this occurrence by contrasting the two. One is located in the Mediterranean and the other is in Mesoamerica so they are basically worlds apart. They also experience two different kinds of life. These two were also chosen to be compared because many of the Europeans went to these places and made their own accountable comparisons on what they had thought. Each city had its own dominant physical characteristics. Constantinople had St. Sophia

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    social/cultural influence and key principles. Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) both provide dystopic projections about a future where the corruption of power and the exploitation of technology create significant threats to humanity. The context of the two texts has obvious influence on the key concepts and values presented. The Weimar Republic (Germany) context of Lang’s Metropolis creates his fear of society’s growing corruption and mechanisation

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    Shortly after‚ In November 2000‚ D.Wayne Osgood of Pennsylvania State University and Jeff M Chambers of University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ held a study named Social Disorganization Outside The Metropolis: An Analysis Of Rural Youth Violence which discusses the Social Disorganization theory of crime that has been developed in urban communities. In the study‚ there were no research questions posed. However‚ there were numerous hypotheses that were posed‚ (1). Rates of juvenile violence will be positively

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