20th century continental philosophy embraced schools of thought such as phenomenology and existentialism. The major influences that this type of philosophy had were thinkers such as Martin Heidegger‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ Maurice Merleau-Ponty‚ Michael Foucault‚ and Jacques Derrida. (Continental philosophy‚ Britannica) Structuralism is defined as a method of analyzing phenomena mainly characterized by contrasting the elemental structures of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition. This is a school
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selfless concern for the wellbeing of others. Utilitarianism: the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. Biopower: is a term coined by French scholar‚ historian‚ and social theorist Michel Foucault. It relates to the practice of modern nation states and their regulation of their subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations". Totalitarianism:
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Marxists view the audience to the mass media as passive and this then allows the hypodemic syringe idea to come into play. Marxists believe the mass media is a instrument of the ruling class and through the media the ruling class ideology is ’injected’ into our heads. This is able to happen as the ruling class own the means of production so have control over society‚ e.g Rupert Murdoch who owns sky‚ the sun newspaper‚ the times newspaper‚ sunday times and much more Right wing buisnesses. Lukes would
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“In many of his female-centered stories‚ Hawthorne shows the need to control woman’s sexuality or to insist upon her purity with a type of morality play whose sexual dynamics correspond to the theories of nineteenth-century sexuality that Foucault has set forth (Howard). Both stories generally deal with same topic: the ingenious scientist seeking to expand the boundaries of his practice by conducting an unorthodox experiment on a live human test subject‚ the test subject being the woman who
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This is a big factor for the nature and nurture debate. There is many theories as to whether your sexual ordination is a biological or social factor and these theories go all the way back to the ancient Greek times. David Halpern and Jean Foucault are two social theorists that believe the environment an individual grows up in and their upbringing can contribute to them being homosexual as they believe that the love and the sexual desire an individual has to another individual from the same
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Sociological Theories A sociological theory is a set of ideas that provides an explanation for human society. Theories are selective in terms of their priorities and perspectives and the data they define as significant. As a result they provide a particular and partial view of reality. Sociological theories can be grouped together according to a variety of criteria. The most important of these is the distinction between Structural and Social action theories. Structural‚ or macro perspectives
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“Three key exemplars are the sociological analysis of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)‚ the Marxian tradition‚ and the genealogical method of Nietzsche and Michel Foucault (1926–1984)” (Science Encyclopedia). Even though there were differences in the opinions of each‚ there were also some important likenesses. All three of the theorists did not think that punishment was not important‚ but they looked at it as a change
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Introduction As being developed by poststructuralism‚ feminism‚ lesbian & gay studies and even American pragmatist theory (Parker‚2001; Seidman‚1997)‚ queer theory has become one of the most important theories‚ which contributes to the research of sociology‚ arts and organizations. On the one hand‚ queer theory has been used to study the relations between the sexuality‚ gender and workplace. On the other hand‚ by utilizing denaturalized‚ deconstructive and performative methods to queer the
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The concept of sexuality‚ what is socially accepted‚ what is ’natural ’‚ what is prescribed by religion‚ what is deemed deviant has been a form of social analysis‚ controversy‚ political debate and a measure of human progress. For what was considered the least talked about issue in society‚ sexuality was in many ways what defined the individual‚ their society‚ culture and the legal and moral laws that presided within it. The controllers of power were white‚ middle class‚ heterosexual men. If one
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HISTORICISM: - A critical practice that gives equal weighting to literary and non-literary texts. - It insists on the textualization of reality (from Derrida) and the premise that society is governed by the collusion between discourse and power (from Foucault). - It
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