‘A major shaper of public opinion‚ and thus vital to any understanding of modern politics’. Discuss the validity of this claim about the mass media. Mass media can be described as forms of communication that allow a message to be sent through a medium to a large audience. But what does it exactly mean to shape public opinion; does it mean changing people’s opinions on events or just to persuade people about an issue on a matter they know nothing about? Gerry Stoker believes ‘our understanding
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Compare and Contrast Marxist‚ Elite and Democratic Pluralist Theories of Power. Classical Elite theories were developed by Pareto and Mosca‚ to some extent as a critical response to Marxism‚ but have also been very significantly modified by theorists such as C.W. Mills. Marx’s theory of the ruling class states that‚ basically‚ the Bourgeoisie are an economically dominant class in that their ownership of the means of production in capitalist society gives them power over decisions affecting production
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OPEN ACCESS ISSN 2280-4056 E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES Volume 3‚ No. 2 May-June 2014 E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES ADAPT International School of Higher Education in Labour and Industrial Relations Scientific Directors Lauren Appelbaum (USA)‚ Greg Bamber (Australia)‚ Stuart M. Basefsky‚ (United States)‚ Daria V. Chernyaeva (Russia)‚ Richard Croucher (United Kingdom)‚ Maurizio del Conte (Italy)‚ Tomas Davulis (Lithuania)‚
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Scotland‚ Wales and Northern Ireland. As the UK is a unitary state‚ the main power is centralised at Westminster. However‚ since 1997‚ power has been devolved to five different areas; the Scottish Parliament‚ the Welsh Assembly‚ the Northern Ireland Assembly‚ the Greater London Assembly and elected mayors in a number of cities‚ such as London. There are also several levels of local government‚ such as county and district councils and unitary authorities. Devolution is the transfer of power from
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but the various strands within feminism offer different overviews on gender inequality in media representations. For example‚ liberal feminists tend to be more optimistic about the possibility of change in media representations of gender; whereas radical feminists see little change and would persist that stereotypes of women are ever-present; and Marxist feminists would always link media representations of gender with both capitalism and patriarchy. We shall also note that it is hard to fit individual
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interaction of various factors both within anorganization and outside it. Based on these orientations‚ severalapproaches have been developed to explain the dynamics of IR. UNITARY APPROACH In unitarism‚ the organization is perceived as an integrated and harmonious system viewed as one happy family. A core assumption of unitary approach is that management and staff‚ and all members of the organization share the same objectives‚ interests and purposes; thus working together‚ hand-in-hand‚ towards the
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Is power central to our understanding of politics? In what way does Foucault’s concept of power alter conventional understanding of politics? The notion of power had a time honoured status in the history of political science. The concept of power has gained prominence in the recent times especially with emergence of Behaviouralism as a method of studying politics. It focuses on the study of politics as a process or activity with an interdisciplinary approach. The debate on the centrality of the
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Culture is a term that is used in workplaces discussions but it is taken for granted that we understand what it means. In their publication In Search of Excellence‚ Peters and Waterman (1982) drew a lot of attention to the importance of culture to achieve high levels of organisational effectiveness. They made use of over 100 years of theory and research in cultural anthropology and folklore studies to inspire and legitimise their efforts. This generated many subsequent publications on how to manage
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The yield expected from successful human resource management (HRM) or development (HRD) differs greatly depending on where the organisation is based‚ its’ culture‚ resources‚ size and socio-economic climate. Therefore‚ it is imperative that the development and delivery of improved human capital via HRM is rooted in the needs of the organisation rather than opting for an ‘off the shelf’ closed option such as ‘Best Practise’ or high performance work practices. Theorists have yet to settle on a definitive
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writes that “A key idea for making sense of the subsequent controversy is to focus on the subsequent criticisms of Galileo and to see how he has been‚ or can be‚ defended from them” (3). 2. The radical Reformation (the Anabaptist portion of the Reformation) Williams‚ George Huntston. "Studies in the Radical Reformation (1517-1618) : a bibliographical survey of research since 1939." Church History 27‚ no. 2 (June 1‚ 1958): 124-160. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials‚ EBSCOhost (accessed March
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