Christmas is an annual festival celebrated in remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ. In this essay I will be attempting my own Sociological analysis of Christmas Day‚ through the gender perspective. First part of the essay will be looking at the ‘traditional’ Christmas through gender roles. By that I can then move on to my own experience on the festive season. Through out the essay I will be trying to link the work up with bodies of theory and how Christmas has changed through out the years.
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The Knights Tale Religion and philosophy play a vital role in the Knight’s Tale. The story is told in such a way that is improbable. The story line creates characters that exist to move from one point to the other. The main characters are set free to appease the story‚ as well as fall in love at first sight. The idea of fate and destiny is an overwhelming theme in the story. Palamon blames his fate on Venus and Saturn for falling in love. Throughout the story the characters would go to the gods seeking
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Sociology 2303 5 December 2012 Critical Sociological Analysis of the Movie ’Motherhood ’. A number of recent Hollywood movies depict family issues that are of interest to sociology researchers. These issues range from family relationships‚ sexuality‚ identity‚ socialization‚ all the way to parenthood and the diverse types of families that exist in society today. The family as an institution has changed and is continuously changing over the years. This institution serves as a source of reproduction
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Tales of the Transamazonian: Hopes and Disillusions on a Route of Ecological Migrations Tales of ecologically driven migrations populate Brazilian culture since the existence of writings about national identity and history. Whether describing the extension of the agricultural ‘frontier’ or the ‘adventurous’ search for precious natural resources‚ they make up the myth of a country realizing itself through a march from the coast to the interior. This article studies the impact of the environmental
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In the Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ The Reeve’s Tale describes how two college boys met the Miller and decide to set him straight. In the prologue of the tale‚ the Reeve‚ named Oswald‚ reflects on the Miller’s tale. Oswald seems to be the only person who was not amused my the Miller’s tale‚ and therefore in his tale‚ decides to expand on these feelings in his tale. The tale starts with the introduction of two college boys‚ Alan and John in the town on Trumpington near Cambridge
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through social and physical contact. Frank began to rely on the help of a robot because his robot accommodated all of his needs. In addition‚ Frank lived a much simpler and easier life due to the many capabilities of the robot. However‚ one main sociological issue that the film raises is how human interactions may be easily replaced by technologies‚ which can negatively affect the social structure of our society. Frank slowly attached himself to the robot because the robot helped
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January The Merchant’s Tale He is a wealthy‚ elderly knight and marries May. Poor old january longs for a young wife to fulfill God’s wish that man and woman marry‚ and to produce an heir to inherit his estates. After covering with his friends‚ January decides to marry a young girl named May. January is very contempt with their marriage even after his old age warrants him to become blind. He doesn’t let May out of his reach and they continue to live (as he thought) a faithful life. One day
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It is expressed in the Man of Laws tale through the lawyer’s interjections into the narrative as he paints a stereotypical picture of the brutal and barbaric Saracen‚ thus expressing his power in shaping the opinions and sentiments of western readers. However‚ in the Squires Tale‚ an attempt at controlling the ‘other’ is situated in the domestication of the narrative through providing a western framework which is dismantled‚ as the inability to describe the ‘other’‚ results in western submission
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Chaucer’s Critique of Medieval Society As The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer progresses‚ the tales often critique one’s sexual past while judging how they act through the tales‚ along with their gender. As karma and greed also have an extremely strong presence in the “Reeve’s and Pardoner’s tales” they both value money over the people that are important in their lives. The Wife of Bath critiques every aspect of male superiority as she is an extremely enthusiastic "feminist"‚ that defends her
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The Canterbury Tales can be applied to the present society. The Wife of Bath‚ the Oxford Clerk‚ and the Pardoner present universal views that are depicted in society today. The moral and ethical views portrayed by the prologues and tales in The Canterbury Tales‚ by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ are still sometimes valid today. People covet sovereignty over their spouse; people desire loyalty above all; and people use religion as a mean of gaining wealth. Primarily‚ the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” reveals that
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