Because of the different views of the time, one would expect a variety of opinions reflected in the writing of the time, however because the canon is primarily white males it is limited to a small portion of the population. ... The fact that the canon only has books older than a hundred years included in it mean that modern works are sometimes ignored, so the canon also makes people consider the view of older times and we are constantly looking back. Many of the views of other times are outdated in the modern society, but because they are part of the literary canon and often taught in school, ...

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Marx also shared the same views as Feuerbach with regards to religion. ... Engels was known for his writings on the dialectical materialism, which is involved with the non-human aspects of the universe where as Marx studied more on Historical materialism, human aspects of the universe. ... Using statistical data, Durkheim shows in modern societies that the high rates of suicide among the military personal cannot be explained by the low quality of military life suffered by the lower ranks, because the suicide rate happens to be higher for officers than for the lower ranks. ...

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Support your view with readings and productions. ... Elizabethans held strong beliefs in the Wheel of Fortune, with each element in the universe having its own natural order. ... The play was a modern parable about the dangers of industrial greed and need for absolute power, with the setting being a microcosm of 1980s Europe. ... The set of a decaying factory satisfied modern agendas as it focused on the proletarian society, conveying how Lear' s possession of power lead to corruption as he felt he could divide his industrial power. ... Edmond's mockery stresses the gulf between t...

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However, today witches are much of a myth and as a result, modern viewers would question just how evil these witches are. ... The universe was thought to be in certain order such that the earth stood the centre and planets revolved around it. ... Elizabethan society would have accepted this as being normal, however a modern audience would interpret it as sexist and unnatural. ... If we acknowledge the beliefs and social contexts of Shakespeare's times, we can appreciate what gender was like in his era and understand and reason with the story in a view that could previously not have been t...

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In modern times we have become increasingly obsessed with the artifacts and material objects that surround us then the people that surround us. ... Human existence is not singular but multidimensional; the universe does not revolve around the self and we are only an infinitesimal part of something greater than each of us. ... So in this our modern time we have focused more on having than being and this growing focus on having, which has created a sort of neurosis called "the terror of the reversible". ... In this modern world there has become a growing struggle between love and fastidiousness,...

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Thus, it is going to be discussed why feminists view as problematic the "scientific" approach that permeates and influences traditional explanations of the social world. ... Smith (1987) states Sociology has been based upon men's social universe. ... Sydie also discusses Weber and Durkheim ideas in relation to the issue of "objectivity" in the social sciences, as their ideas still hold an eminent position in modern social theory. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! ... (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 80) 62% of those in the higher streams of Hargreves secondary modern boys" school were of a non-manual or skilled manual labour heritage, in comparison to 16% from unskilled manual families. ...

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