Expressivism in Marxist Theories
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5 pages in length. Marxist theories regarding expressivism overflow into social and political theory and philosophy. While expressivism can be considered a freedom that we can all choose to enjoy, that expressivism can overrun its boundaries and turn into something negative, as though it had a life of its own. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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FDR's "Splendid Deception" and its Motivations
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A 6 page paper discussing FDR's efforts in hiding his paralysis from the American public in relation to Charles Smith's views of public and private behavior argued in Critique of Sociological Reasoning. Smith holds that all human behavior, including that resulting from the experience of disability, can be categorized into three levels. The experience of Franklin D. Roosevelt is used here to illustrate those levels and then proclaim that while FDR operated from all three levels, it was Level 3, the most altruistic, that could most frequently describe his behavior as related to his disability. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Foucault and Marx on the Organization
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of each theorist's belief regarding the organization. Class and power struggles are discussed. Views of the authors are compared and contrasted . Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Fredrick R. Lynch/ "The Diversity Machine"
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A 7 page summation and analysis of Fredrick Lynch's "The Diversity Machine." This book offers an exhaustive study of this relatively new trend in political correctness, diversity management-- its purposes, applications and effectiveness. No additional sources cited.
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Freud and Human Nature.
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(5 pp) according to Freud (1930) human nature is "the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization may therefore be described as the struggle for life of the human species. He adds that the sense of guilt is the most important problem in the development of civilization? and that ?the price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt? Personal responses to this statement are given. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Functionalism and the Case of Amadou Diallo
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A 7 page paper discussing the case of the shooting of Amadou Diallo in 1999 and the subsequent 2000 acquittal of all four police officers involved. It is difficult to see that there can be any good or moral reason for Diallo's death. From the functionalist perspective however, reasons for the police officers' action can be seen. The functionalist view is unlikely to bear scrutiny in court, and that too is a good thing. Though the police officers can be seen to have acted from the influence of pressures in other circumstances, they still need to be held accountable for their own actions. Includes an outline; bibliography lists 6 sources.
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G. Bingham Powell / Social Fragmentation & Political Hostility
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A 5 page paper in which the writer provides a chapter by chapter overview of Powell's book on the impacts of social fragmentation and the repercussions. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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Gays At Work: A Sociological Perspective
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The homosexual in the workplace is found to be in a position where they are discriminated against as well as finding themselves in a state of fear. This 11 page paper argues that Georg Simmel's theory of dyad to triad interactions is applicable within the microcosm of the office culture, while Emile Durkheim's theory on the division of labor helps to understand why instances of discrimination and hate exist. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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