The organizational settlement was conceptualised by Clarke, Cochrane and Mc Laughlin (eds, 1994, quoted in Hughes 1998). ... The New Right undermined the post-war social democratic political consensus by mobilising popular resentment to union power, state bureaucracy and professional power. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s a series of employment acts were introduced to curb the power of trade unions. ... These measures were aimed at strengthening the power of central government to form and implement policy. ... In the political settlement the doctors were given a high degree of autonomous po...

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The power of this community is then set up as 'right' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as 'brute force'" (Freud 494). Freud is suggesting in this quote that when a group of people come together with a common belief, they will ultimately have more power than any one individual thus creating a bigger impact for the community's development. ... This separation of people has existed throughout mankind as one can see in an additional quote from the readings of Civilization and Its Discontents when Sigmund Freud argued, "It does not seem...

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Cite the excerpts, quotes and pages to show how they support or refute the paradigms and concepts from the text. ... This is what Weber focused on status, wealth, and power. ... She obviously is not wealthy, and as a minority she has limited power. If your looking at Ehrerichs situation from a social conflict point of view, you find power and hierarchy come in to play. Ehrerich being female is in a minority group limiting her power against a somewhat patriarchal ownership. ...

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Portia 'may neither choose whom she would nor refuse whom she dislikes', which she quoted while expressing her opinion on her father's will in Act 1, scene 2. She challenges the patriarchy placed upon her by her dead father, mainly through his power and control over her, as she feels it's unfair that 'the will of a living daughter is curbed by the will of a dead father'. The blunt, straightforward tone Portia uses, emphasises her anger on the inequality she must experience.These quotes demonstrate how women had no choice over their future and the idea of freedom ...

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But all individuals are faced with harder decisions, Moral decisions that are backed by ethical beliefs and consequently posses the power to alter an individuals" life. ... The outcomes both Santiago and Steffen choose have the power to shape their lives. ... He Aikens 4 fails to re-incorporate his initial thesis statement thus leaving the reader hanging at the end using a quote from his aunt which deals with segregation not between blacks and Puerto R...

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The quote, "I do perceive here a devoted duty so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord", eloquently portrays her profound submissive love for the Moor. ... The humiliating squirt of sauce over the doll's gaudy dress denotes his exertion of power, and also the power held by men in Elizabethan times. ... Thus, it is apparent that white men held the supreme power during Elizabethan times, and in some cases, still do to this day....

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I've put the word "state" in quotes, because a state cannot exist without law. ... A good example to such a situation is the Soviet film How to Kill Dragon. this film shows after the disappearance of strong totalitarian power, a laissez faire state of organization propelled the people into absolute anarchy. ...

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This illustrates the power Lady Catherine de Bourgh upholds, due to her fortune and position in the society she is able to control and retain her power against others, and make those below her obey and perform her demands. ... Lady Catherine de Bourgh has enough power to maintain the respects of gentlemen from a lower class. ... In this quote, Lady Catherine de Bourgh has restricted Mr. ... Living in the middle class also meant less power, in comparison to class, middle class men were less superior. ... Upper class men and women were generally privileged due to their money, which gave them p...

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People at the top were considered an "elite" group of people with the most privileges and the most power in the society. ... Candide reflects Voltaire's lifelong hatred towards Christian regimes of power and the arrogance of nobility. ... The monarch used their power to ensure this protection. ... From this particular quote, we can see that Voltaire is trying to attack the aristocratic people who became poorer than before but still richer than most of the people. ... So, in these examples, corruption is most rampant within those groups of people with the highest social status and most pow...

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As the quote highlights, the term gender is a person's private sense of their own gender. ... The second is Conflict theory, this theory argues and encourages change in society's distribution of resources, power and inequality. ... Conflict theory holds that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. According to conflict theory, those with wealth and power try to hold on to it by any means possible, mainly by suppressing the poor and powerless. As stated in source 8, "men as the dominate gender, subordinate women in order to mainta...

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The play shows a tale of and aristocratic family that loses power as the other characters fall in between. ... (Pg. 489) This quote shows us that even a mere slave can advance in the economic world and gain bigger and better things. ...

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Then there was a time when a capitalist middle class, a bourgeoisie as the French call it, arose with equally unavoidable necessity, struggled against the territorial aristocracy, broke its political power, and in its turn became economically and politically predominant. ... The book quotes that if your parents are poor and you are brought up in poverty more than likely the child is doomed to be poor also. ... The Conflict model tells the readers that social stratification reflects the distribution of power, white males are the doctors and blacks work in the gas sta...

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If we turn to Durkheim now, we can see that he believed that it is possible for social facts to become visible to the sociologist, as they exist "independent of the individual forms" and can be "recognised by the power of external coercion it exercises over individuals (Sydie, page 43). ...

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IS THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID? 'Social stratification' is the term used to describe systematic structures of inequality. In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. Aristotle stated that 'by nature' there were fre...

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The quote shown above gives an example of her negative but protected attitude. ... Cornudet is a feared and disrespected man among much of the higher class because he manipulated people to earn positions of power while blowing money that his wealthy father left for him. ...

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As quoted by Terry Eagleton in "Marxism and Literary Criticism:" "superstructure" are certain forms of law and politics, a certain kind of state, whose essential function is to legitimate the power of the social class which owns the means of economic production, it also consists of certain "definite forms of social consciousness" which is what Marxism designates as ideology. ...

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It set in motion political forces that brought French Socialists to power, in 1981. ... To quote Harvey: Despite the defeat, despite the failures of policy and analysis, despite the hostility often expressed towards them by the Communist Party (quite apart from the hostility of the Gaullists), certain positive aspects of the student May movement -their memorable inventiveness- must be noted. ...

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Literature itself has no defined meaning. In the beginning introduction of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton states numerous definitions of literature to prove the point that there has yet to be one specific definition. Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in...

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It can also be seen as a legal procedure, a form of social control and power, an instrument in class domination, an expression of the collective, a moral action or a ritualized event that has engraved itself into the processes of society. ... All the aspects of penalty are interrelated with smaller and larger facets of social power and society in general. ... But it is also, as we have seen, an expression of state power, a statement of collective morality, a vehicle for emotional expression, an economically conditioned social policy, an embodiment of current sensibilities, and a set of symbols...

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Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody was an autobiography that gave a jolting account of what life was like for each of them growing up. Through the eyes of the child in the midst of growing up, Moody told stories about what it meant to be growing up as Black girl in a world dominated by whites In an earlier paper, I had mentioned the notion that "once a child is born, it has no control or say about the world that it inherits and that is why it is important to realize that the dimensions which shape and define that world are rooted in the social reality of the environment that surround...

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Many people who live in modern society today have benefited from social improvements which have changed the overall quality of life for the better. We are now living in an age of increased life expectancy, better access to health care, social services, technology, mobility, and far more human right...

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