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State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Knowledge as a Construct of Society

In seven pages this research paper applies the philosophies of Karl Popper, Emile Durkheim, and Michel Foucault to an examination ...

Calvinism Genesis of Capitalism

The entitled topic represents one part of this paper, which discusses four philosophers. Weber proved his point that Calvinism pla...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Feminism and Michel Foucault

In ten pages this paper discusses how Michel Foucault is largely responsible for postmodern and poststructural concepts of women w...

Two Classical Era Ethical Theorists on Animal Experimentation

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

Emile Durkheim, Auguste Comte, and Collectivist Theory

In seven pages collectivist theory is considered through a comparison and contrast of Emile Durkheim's and Auguste Comte's views. ...

Multiculturalism and Charles Taylor

In five pages Taylor's multiculturalism theories are discussed and then compared with those of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber with s...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Foucault and Orwell

atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...

Michel Foucault on Knowledge, Power, and Video Art

In six pages this paper examines how human interaction study can apply Michel Foucault's philosophies of knowledge and power as il...

Knowledge and Sexuality According to German and French Critical Theory

In twelve pages Michel Foucault's philosophies are featured in a discussion of critical theory pertaining to the French and German...

'Newness' Concept of Salman Rushdie Applied to Foucault and Winterson

In five pages this report applies Rushdie's newness concept to gender stereotypes with an examination of Michel Foucault's The His...

Michael Foucault vs. Frantz Fanon on Minorities

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the Theories of Michel Foucault

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Social Control and the Concepts of Michel Foucault

seems to be the primary tool, at least figuratively. It is used in the well known Panopticon paradigm as well. The Panopticon is ...

Panopticon Model and Public Schools' Essay by John Devine

proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Worldwide Prison System Ineffectiveness

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

Emile Durkheim's Suicide and the Response of Anthony Giddens

which are used to record suicides are in themselves a distinct phenomenon which can be used to examine societies. Furthermore, Dur...

Literature Review on Sexual Orientation and Risk of Suicide

may also contribute to the high suicide rate (Riddle, 1996). While this may be considered a landmark study, other studies have sho...

Sociological Perspective of 911

the rich, United States does not do enough to help the poor, but rather advocates for multinationals. Globalization has seemingly ...

Suicide by Emile Durkheim and its Relevance

the field of psychology has changed quite a bit and so, to speak of insanity in those terms is somewhat antiquated. Today, there a...

New Zealand's Working Women

is the only one who bears children and can feed them from her own body. She can be raped. She can do or endure all of these things...

Sociological Views on the Divination Function in 1 Samuel 28

I bring up unto thee? And he said, bring me up Samuel" (1 Samuel 28:11). Samuel does appear, but warns Saul of his upcoming ruin d...

Substance Abuse and Emile Durkheim's Social Theories

a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...

Functionalist Perspective on Gender Wage Discrimination

to increase opportunities for women (Turner, 2003). The work has involved reducing some of the barriers faced by women in the work...

Durkheim and the Concept of Anomie

the same group-oriented goals" (Durkheims anomie). However, when societies become more complex, work also becomes more complex; pe...

Social Solidarity and Emile Durkheim

In three pages this essay defines the concept of social solidarity as glimpsed from Emile Durkheim's perspective and then applied ...