THE POLITICS OF CONSENSUS BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE PROVISION OF BOREHOLE WATER FOR ASAMANG COMMUNITY IN SEKYERE SOUTH DISTRICT A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE‚ UNIVERSITY OF GHANA‚ LEGON‚ IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE MAY‚ 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ... ... ... ... ... ... ... iii List of Tables ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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THE HOLOCAUST The Holocaust was the systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis‚ who came to power in Germany in January 1933‚ believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews‚ deemed "inferior‚" were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust‚ German authorities
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Religion (Emile Durkheim) Religion is one of the things that humans never forget. We have different beliefs because we have varied culture and traditions. Merely‚ we always fight for our belief try to prove it and be faithful. We have the right to Religion because we have the freedom to choose who we will worship or to not worship. Emile Durkheim discuss about the totem or the natural things like tree‚ animals etc that people worship and became the center of their rituals. We people are always
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Macrosociological crime theory examines how the organization or structure of a society can generate an environment conducive to crime (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011‚ p. 69). Furthermore‚ Emile Durkheim rejected the notion that crime can be explained by an individual’s biological or psychological factors‚ and he theorized that crime was a normal occurrence in society‚ which he labeled as a social fact (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011). Therefore‚ Durkheim influenced macrosociological theory by providing insight on the
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Assess the usefulness of Durkheim’s study of suicide in modern industrial society (40 marks) Durkheim proposed this definition of suicide: "the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself‚ which he knows will produce this result". It has long been seen as deviant and so has been studied by sociologists. For example‚ Durkheim did a study of suicide. But how useful is Durkheim’s study of suicide in modern industrial
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Suicide The topic I chose is suicide‚ and the way I chose to explore it is by the prospect of Emile Durkheim. According to Durkheim‚ suicide is "all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act‚ executed by the victim herself‚ and she knew she should produce this result." For him each group‚ society is predisposed to provide a certain contingent of voluntary deaths‚ and what interests sociology about suicide is the analysis of the whole social process‚ social factors
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“Without a basic minimum of consensus‚ no politics is possible”. Discuss the relationship between conflict and consensus in determining the nature of politics. This research paper aims at finding a concise definition for the terms‚ ‘conflict and consensus”‚ comparing the both terms‚ stating some Sociologists’ perspectives on the theories and then discussing how these terms help in determining the nature of politics. Conflict Theory by Karl Marx According to Wahl (1985)‚ “Conflict can be described
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Conflict vs. Consensus Within the study of human sociology‚ sociologists look through different lenses to view society. These lenses‚ or sociological paradigms‚ set a basis for the questions sociologists ask and provide different perspectives sociologists can take when attempting to explain humans and their societies. To display the diversity in which we may critique society‚ you can compare the two primary ways we approach sociology: social consensus and social conflict.
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Devin Young Marx‚ Durkheim‚ and Weber: Understanding Modernity’s Implications on the Evolution of Labor The nature of modernity is grounded in the exploration of social change by Karl Marx‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber. Each theorist discovered a distinct link between history and society‚ creating separate theories based on their unique situations in the face of the emerging modern‚ capitalistic world. Their concepts of Alienation‚ Anomie‚ and Rationalization find the division of labor a key component
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academic job‚ but he had already fallen in with too radical a group of thinkers and there was no real prospect. Turning to journalism‚ Marx rapidly became involved in political and social issues‚ and soon found himself having to consider communist theory. Of his many early writings‚ four‚ in particular‚ stand out. ‘Contribution to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right‚ Introduction’‚ and ‘On The Jewish Question’‚ were both written in 1843 and published in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. The
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