1. Pride and prejudice
JAPAN: A SOCIETY DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF THE WESTERN WORLD? In present day, Japanese society and its culture embodies many of the same concepts on which the Western world has been built. Democratization, globalization, industrialization and ongoing modernization are fundamental concepts that have...
Throughout the myriad of cultures on our planet, we find different and sometimes opposing beliefs defining the values of an ideal citizen. Among these beliefs it is difficult to isolate a single set and deem them to be superior to another. The reason for this is that they vary based on cultural trad...
Equality: Why We Can't Get There Racial and economic equality in the United States is impossible. Starting with slavery, moving to Jim Crow and culminating with hate crimes and racial profiling, there has been a continuous stream of factors preventing the realization of an equal American societ...
Suicide and Cosmic Factors It was believed that individual inclinations when combined with cosmic factors, or "cosmos factors" meaning changes in climate or season were capable of activating dormant potential natural aptitudes of certain persons for suicide. ... Therefore the different inclination of people to suicide mustn't be linked with climatic conditions but must be linked to the civilizations and their distribution in these countries also to shared common beliefs and ideas In case of Italy, it's capital shifted to the centre with the conquest of Rome in 1870 leading to a shift...
Introduction Although technology has its obvious benefits, such as easy access to information and the development of new tools, it also produces detrimental effects on society. Since technology is both scarce and valuable, its presence causes innate feelings of jealousy, stress, and violence; furth...
Humans are either seen to have a powerful inclination towards sociable, gregarious and cooperative behavior, being capable of maintaining order through collective effort alone, or to be basically self-interested but rationally enlightened. ...
At first reading, Jean Rousseau's "The Social Contract" and Ayn Rand's "Anthem" seem to contain two different philosophies, including completely different views on how a society should be run. While one is free, another is bound by rules. However the goal of both social doctrines is the achievement ...
Endings play a very important role in reinforcing or challenging certain values depicted in a text. The outcome of the characters and events which occur during the novel tell us much about the values informing the novel. In Isabel Allende's postcolonial novel Eva Luna, the ending both reinforces a...
The level of influence that religion has on an individual's life has always been in question. People always wonder how much of their actions are the result of their own independent thoughts and how much is the result of external influence from social interactions. This essay discusses the level of i...
The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke have provided a pivotal influence on societal values. This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. The reality of contemporary liberalism, as it is inspir...
To Georg Simmel, the stranger is "an element of the group itself whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it."# As a man with a Jewish background living in Nazi-Germany, he could certainly understand what it meant to be a stranger. While Simmel did in fact have great influence on the field of sociology, he also produced major works that may be classified as philosophy of history, ethics, general philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of contemporary civilization and metaphysics.# Even within the field of sociology, he cannot really be placed into ...