One of Polanyi's key theories is a "double movement" that arises out of a trend to push towards free market deregulation of the economy. ... Polanyi builds his argument by defining the foundation for free market economies. ... This facilitates the freeing up market economies with greater allowance for competitive forces to determine prices. ... In reality, he theorizes there will fail to exist a market economy that consists of a completely self-regulating markets in which prices are completely free to be determined by competitive forces of supply and demand, and is free from any social in...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relati...

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Hence, these two very important statements which emphasizes on the inherent complications faced in the realm of sociology will work as the fundamental idea in detecting the contributions and criticism of critical theory, which is the aim of this essay. In the first section of the essay I will identify the contributions of critical theory and then move on to the critics in the second section, and in the last section I will aim to conclude the essay with a well-balanced conclusion for the essay question. ...

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In this essay, I shall explain why I believe that the government should not be responsible for growing civil society, but instead should be responsible for providing an environment that allows civil society to grow independently. ... If the government were to be responsible for growing civil society, the very nature of its inherent rigid structure would run counter to the free form structure of civil society. ...

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In this essay I will be critically evaluating the contributions of social theory in the understanding of society. ... Marxism focuses on the financial aspect of society, believing the family unit has a sole purpose of creating the next generation of workers for free; to eventually participate in cheap labour, benefiting the Bourgeoisie in a Capitalist society. ... This however links with the Marxist conflict view that the family is nothing but a deception, encouraging the working class to fall into false-class consciousness whilst never breaking free from cheap labour and poverty, benefiting t...

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The main focus of this essay will be on cyber communities that offer a different dimension of human interaction from traditional geographically bound communities. ... This is supported by the research of Nakamura (2002, p.5), which discovered that in cross-racial impersonation in cyber communities, when members are free to choose their own race, all members were assumed to be caucasian and many who adopted identities of a non-caucasian character were found to be " masquerading as exotic samurais and horny geishas" (p.5). ...

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She lives with a mother who is single is very poor and can't afford to by cool clothes, a mobile phone or an iPod like most of her classmates, she is also in receipt of free school meals. ... This essay will look at the ways in which social class can affect the child in terms of educational attainment and school experience. ...

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