In his essay‚ Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses‚ Louis Althusser demonstrates that in order to exist‚ a social formation is required to essentially‚ continuously and perpetually reproduce the productive forces (labour-power)‚ the conditions of production and the relations of production. The reproduction of productive forces is ensured by the wage system which pays a minimum amount to the workers so that they appear to work day after day‚ thereby limiting their vertical mobility. The reproduction
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Running head: Crime Organized Crime Cleervette A Leslie Southern New Hampshire University Abstract Organized crime is a national or local grouping of an highly Cooperated group of criminals‚ who intend to engage in illegal activity‚ most commonly for monetary profit other criminal organizations‚ such as terrorist‚ are politically motivated. Sometimes people are force to do business with gangs Example: when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for so-called "protection". Gangs may become disciplined
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He is a Sister: The Monstrous (De)Construction of the Sex/Gender Binary in Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory Vikki Winkler English 498: Honours Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jodey Castricano March 31‚ 2008 If it is appropriate to define “ideology” as that which constitutes social‚ cultural‚ and political order‚ then perhaps it can be said that as a genre‚ the Gothic paradoxically both challenges and reinforces the stability of these seemingly “fixed” structures and‚ similarly‚ that it both disturbs and
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Police and racial Profiling Ronald Cotton was twice charged for sexual assault on two white women. He is accused for burglary and rape‚ crimes that he didn’t commit. Despite his innocence‚ Ronald Cotton was sentenced to life. Come to think of it‚ the race has played a tremendous role to Ronald imprisonment. The fact that he has little resemblances with the true assailant‚ Bobby Pool‚ was unfortunately the perfect occasion for the jury to condemn him and end any further investigations. Some will
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Introduction Over the years‚ Swiss products and services enjoy excellent popularity all over the world. Switzerland’s first-ranking performance among twenty-five best country brands in the 2012-13 Country Brand Index has no doubt proved that Swiss brand is a renowned one. To customers‚ goods designated “made in Switzerland” are associated with exclusivity and tradition‚ and is a guarantee of impeccably high quality. In an increasingly competitive business world‚ the reputation of Swiss products
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such as magazines‚ commercials‚ billboards‚ movies and television shows‚ one can find evidence of ideological messages. According to theologist Louis Althusser‚ ideology places individuals into a certain position in society by a process called interpellation‚ where a specific subject (or group of people) is called out‚ or hailed. Althusser claims that ideology does this in order to “help people to live their own conditions of existence‚ to perform their assigned tasks‚ but also to ‘bear’ their conditions
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Cliona Walshe 10705263 Q1. ‘there is no ideology‚ except by the subject for the subjects’ (Louis Althusser). Interpret Althusser’s statement in relation to the Marxist understanding of the relationship between subjectivity and ideology. You should refer in detail to the Althusser essay‚ as well as other relevant extracts concerning Marxism and ideology in the Norton Anthology. Louis Althusser advances Karl Marx’s account of the relationship between subjectivity and ideology in his essay Ideology
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EFFECTIVE PARLIAMENT; Parliaments organize themselves effectively to carry out their key functions. Although ‘effectiveness’ may not at first sight seem a distinctively democratic value‚ it becomes so where the functions performed are those necessary to the working of the democratic process: law making‚ oversight of the executive‚ financial control‚ and so on. Electorates are not well served if parliaments do not have sufficient resources to carry out these functions‚ or are wasteful or ineffective
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I am not the only one thinking that our global climate change debate has gone wrong. Too many solutions are made in short term policies and our long term investing in a better and easier future is too little considered which jeopardizes our future economy. We have disturbed the climate‚ and accelerated temperatures faster than naturally. To adapt to these changes it is going to bring‚ we need collective action. The responsibility lies in the hands on the developed countries but it is not them who
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Ans-1) Communication theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan had once said: “We are not sure who discovered the water‚ but we are pretty sure it wasn’t a fish”. The fish‚ as we know‚ is always immersed in water and has no anti-environment to help it judge the element it lives in. It thus becomes the last to discover water. The case of the fish is metaphorical and can be applied in the context of contemporary media landscape where ideas of ideology and hegemony act as filters in shaping news. Human
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