themselves as individuals and to show self-expression‚ as well as identifying themselves as being part of a particular social group. This idea is part of the sociologist Thorstein Veblen theory of ‘conspicuous consumption’ . The social scientist Zygmunt Bauman ( Material lives ‚2009 ‚p.25) defines people in a consumer society as either ‘ seduced ‘ or ‘ repressed ‘. Those in the ‘seduced’ category are seen as been able to participate effectively in a consumer society‚ and therefore are considered ‘winners’
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The ideal relation between two companion species‚ a term that Haraway describes for “bodies that matter” or equal species in a mutualistic relationship‚ prominently relies on the notion where neither species is a whole or a part (Haraway 6). To Zygmunt Bauman‚ a sociologist known for his work of Modernity and the Holocaust‚ this will never be achieved unless the species barrier‚ a “non-universal universe of moral obligations based on the putative human need to draw boundary lines and become involved
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Self-Destruction. As the years pass by‚ human being started to behave sometimes against the laws of nature. People started to act in a self-destructive way‚ such as an abuse relationship‚ suicide and social suicide. “In human context‚ self-destructive behavior is a widely used phrase that conceptualizes certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self. It also has the property that it characterizes certain kinds of self-inflicted acts as destructive. The term comes from objective psychology
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Can the World Resolve the Problem of Genocide? Genocide is a human choice. It is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide is the result of hate‚ prejudices‚ hate language and the individuals or society’s choice to do nothing. After the devastating horrors of the Holocaust were exposed‚ the slogan of the time by the United Nations became “never again” (document B).The knowledge of the atrocities done to the Jewish people
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Sztuka jako komunikat o interpretacji sztuki w kontekście uwarunkowań kulturowych Pomysł pojawił się podczas dyskusji‚ która miała miejsce podczas mojej podróży do Izraela. Bardzo popularny wówczas film izraelskiego reżysera Walc z Bashirem (Vals im Bashir 2008) pretendował do Nagrody Akademii Filmowej i budził wiele emocji. Nie chciałabym jednak skupiać się na oczywistej kwestii krytyki izraelskiego rządu i wydarzeń z Libanu w 1982 r. Moja uwagę zwróciła natomiast forma filmu‚ która wywołała
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Secularisation is the process whereby religious thinking‚ practices and institutions lose social significance. Marx predicted that with the move to communism‚ religion would completely die away as people would simply have no need for it‚ whereas Durkheim saw the future of religion as a diminishing one‚ although he did concede it might ‘ebb and flow’. He saw education as partly taking over the role of religion‚ for example‚ in the promotion of the collective conscience. Rationalisation ‚ such as Darwin’s
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE: The New Realities of Slavery and Consumerism Guy Kirby Letts “Wipe the sleep of slavery from your eyes.”—Tecumseh A barrage of new studies have recently come out showing that slave‚ indentured‚ and child labour have not been so widespread since the turn of the 20th century. It is estimated that some 27 million people today are currently enslaved‚ and even though slavery is illegal in every country‚ it is a rapidly growing practice throughout the world. Whether we are speaking
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Authority Authority‚ power and legitimacy are perceived as fundamental elements of contemporary society for the sole reason that these are the defining features of a culture with political and social organisations and hierarchies. The term ‘authority’ is commonly misused by academics as a synonym for ‘power’ or ‘legitimacy’ which has led to confusion regarding the entire concept of authority. Authority is generally defined as a person (or group of people) who has the power or right to give orders
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power on the high street and beyond. Power of the supermarkets in the UK and worldwide is growing more due to consumer society. The biggest four supermarkets account for around ¾ of the market in the United Kingdom. I will be discussing ideas from Zygmunt Bauman‚ Peter Jackson‚ Dennis Wrong and the developments throughout the United Kingdom. In addition I will be explaining the idea of seduced and repressed‚ as well as zero-sum game and
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English Dictionary: The science or study of the origin‚ history and constitution of human society. Seeing the strange in the familiar. As Peter Berger says in his book‚ ‘the first wisdom of sociology is this: thing are not what they seem’. Or as Zygmunt Bauman says in his book‚ we need to ‘defamiliarise the familiar’. For instance‚ observing sociologically
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