2651683 The Function of Ideology‚ According to Marx In developing a novel conception of history in The German Ideology‚ Karl Marx proceeds “from earth to heaven” (The Marx-Engels Reader‚ p. 154). That is‚ he begins with a focus on the everyday life of human beings and from these observations exposes the function of the prevailing social mores and ideologies of the day. He posits that the dominant ideology of any time period is in fact designed with the sole purpose of representing and protecting
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langue and parole. The production and circulation of the message are thus fueled by the rules of the language (langue) as well as the actual discourse (parole) in an entire system of interconnected parts. Furthermore‚ in alluding to Marx’s base/superstructure model‚ he posits that the economic base produces a symbolic form in which the message is circulated among different audiences. However‚ if meaning is not derived from the message‚ the audience will not be able to translate/consume the message
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E-Government "Government’s foremost job is to focus society on achieving the public interest." "Governance is a way of describing the links between government and its broader environment - political‚ social and administrative." GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE superstructure functionality decisions processes rules goals rules performance implementation coordination outputs outcomes e-Government e-Governance electronic service delivery electronic consultation electronic workflow electronic controllership
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) provide the avenue for student in Engineering‚ Natural Science‚ Environment Studies etc. to know much about the course they are studying and give them the grace to know/see possible challenges they are to encounter after graduation. The attachment provides the opportunity for student in Polytechnic for at least four (4) month while student in University for at least (6) month industrial attachment which partially fulfils
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Political Theory and Gatsby In his article "’A New World‚ Material Without Being Real’: Fitzgerald’s Critique of Capitalism in The Great Gatsby‚" Ross Posnock establishes Fitzgerald’s interest in Marxism by placing him as a Nietzschean Marxist and contemporizing him with Georg Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness‚ printed in 1923‚ and with Marx’s theories by extension‚ attempting to "demonstrate how deeply Marx’s critique is assimilated into the novel’s imaginative life‚" although he is careful
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Romanticism and Rationalism Romanticism began in the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century. The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature; the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. Romanticism as a movement declined in the late
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Introduction: A deep foundation is a type of foundation distinguished from shallow foundations by the depth they are embedded into the ground. There are many reasons a geotechnical engineer would recommend a deep foundation over a shallow foundation‚ but some of the common reasons are very large design loads‚ a poor soil at shallow depth‚ or site constraints (like property lines). There are different terms used to describe different types of deep foundations including the pile (which is analogous
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Assess the sociological explanations of the role of culture in contemporary society Culture is the behaviour‚ beliefs and characteristics of a particular group of people. Age groups‚ ethnic groups and social groups etc… are all examples of groups of people that possess their own unique culture. The people within a culture are expected to follow the norms and values that are passed down through generation to generation. Over the past 30 years‚ different cultures have gradually intermingled due
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taking the capitalist road‚ to criticize and repudiate the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities’ and the ideology of the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes and to transform education‚ literature and art and all other parts of the superstructure not in correspondence with the socialist economic base‚ so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system." Fifteen years after the success of the Revolution‚ Mao saw his new society as troubled‚ he had destroyed the
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Anne Norton’s work on representation demonstrates the importance of an attunement to the contexts in which political ideas circulate. She translates key tenets of American liberalism into everyday practices like eating‚ dressing‚ and shopping. Such practices enact assumptions that freedom means choice and that people represent themselves and exercise authority when they choose freely. By contexualizing liberalism in quotidian activities‚ moreover‚ Norton draws out the way these activities challenge
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