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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Structuralism is the thoughtful and focused application of technology in order to reveal the world’s cultural structures. Foucault used the term “Scientificity” to define the act to represent facts without any relevant structure or discourse‚ thus he did not
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Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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The concept of sexuality‚ what is socially accepted‚ what is ’natural ’‚ what is prescribed by religion‚ what is deemed deviant has been a form of social analysis‚ controversy‚ political debate and a measure of human progress. For what was considered the least talked about issue in society‚ sexuality was in many ways what defined the individual‚ their society‚ culture and the legal and moral laws that presided within it. The controllers of power were white‚ middle class‚ heterosexual men. If one
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West Side Story. In West Side Story the protagonist is the former leader of the Jets‚ Tony‚ who falls in love with Maria‚ who is one of the Puerto Ricans; their love is forbidden‚ just like in Romeo and Juliet. In this essay post-colonial theory‚ structuralism‚ semiotics and feminism will be discussed. As the film is set in the mid-1950s this
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LITERARY DEVICES AND THEIR USE IN POETRY The task set out in this essay is to examine the listed devices (accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and creation of relationship) of syntactic foregrounding‚ using examples from poems as illustration. The word ‘foregrounding’ when used in a literary context means to ‘make strange’. In other words poets use various literary and poetic devices in order to highlight a particular unit within a poem‚ in order
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“Of Grammatology” Summary and Illustration According to Rivkin and Ryan “Deconstruction” is another name for Post-structuralism; a name that is associated with Jacques Derrida (257). Derrida is arguably the most influential critic in the movement. His work expands on the work of the Structuralism‚ but at the same time significantly deviates from it into its own critical movement. According to M. A. Beedham‚ Derrida was born a Jew in a French-occupied Algiers.
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Module 1 Definition of Psychology What do phycologist study? Psychology The systematic‚ scientific study of behaviors and mental processes Behaviors Observable actions or responses in both human and animals Mental Processes Not directly observable; refer to a world wide range of complex mental processes‚ such as thinking‚ imagining‚ studying‚ and dreaming Goals of Psychology Describe First goal of psychology is to describe the different ways that organisms behave Explain Second goal
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Patterson Foundations of Psychology The study of psychology is fundamental to understanding mental processes and human behaviors. In the earlier years of psychology‚ there were two schools of thought that dominated: structuralism and functionalism. Structuralism focused on the structure and content of consciousness while functionalism focused on the function of psychological processes (Kowalski and Weston‚ 2011). Over time‚ psychology developed from different perspectives‚ each with their
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The Early Stages of Psychology Philip C. Allen PSY/310 May 3‚ 2012 Shruthi Vale The Early Stages of Psychology People have been searching for answers to life’s problems since the dawn of mankind. Humans would look to the stars for answers. They would look to nature for a cure. They even looked toward the heavens for gods to cure their ailments. Not until recently did we‚ as a race‚ begin to look toward
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