French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault‚ once said “ When there is power‚ there is resistance.” This quote is proven true in the book The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. The invaders come to the town and take control over the townspeople. However‚ throughout the novel‚ the townspeople resist in many different ways to try and get their normal lives back. The two most important types of resistance that the townspeople displayed are Violent resistance‚ which is resisting violently‚ and Quite
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Deconstruction is a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language that emphasizes the internal working of language and conceptual systems‚ the relational quality of meaning‚ and the assumptions implicit in forms of expression. Deconstruction focuses on text as such rather than as an expression of the author’s intension‚ stressing the limitless of interpretation and rejection the western philosophical tradition of seeking certainty through reasoning by privileging certain types
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(1) Franz Uri Boas: Born July 9‚ 1858‚ died December 21‚ 1942 was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the Father of American Anthropology. He contributed in one of the most popular ideologies of scientific racism‚ the idea that race is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics which he aground breaking studies of skeletal anatomy he showed that cranial shape and size was
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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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Althusser‚ Ideology and Interpellation The French philosopher‚ Louis Althusser‚ first popularized the word in his seminal essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (Althusser‚ 1972). In the essay‚ Althusser explores the relationship between the state‚ modes of (re)producing power and ideology from a Marxist perspective‚ defining ideology as “the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” (Althusser 1972: 162). In his definition
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The indigenous society of Australia has been estimated to be around for tens of thousands of years. The contrast between non-indigenous and Indigenous society across all aspects of social and economical structures has been widely debated‚ reported‚ monitored and theorized. Indigenous Australians are significantly more disadvantaged then non-indigenous people in various social aspects such as health‚ education‚ employment‚ and income. This case study looks at the Indigenous disadvantages from both
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and 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". Totalitarian
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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
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structuralism was initially presumed to be the heir apparent to existentialism. However‚ by the late 1960s‚ many of structuralism’s basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault‚ the philosopher and social commentatorJacques Derrida‚ the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser‚ and the literary critic Roland Barthes.[2] Though elements of their work necessarily relate to
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