This statement clearly states that critical theory is rather interested in the micro than the macro understanding of society. ... The contribution seen here by the critical theorist or critical theory is that they have disregard status quos to move the contemporary society forward by undermining the theorized social structures by being critical and pessimistic. ... For example, through critical thinking of social justice (or dogma) critical theory has opposed social structures that oppress women in general through heteronormative codes. ... In this section I will be assessing the criticism tha...

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Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni are very structuralist in nature, when it comes to thinking of film critically. ... They speak of where this occurs, the films, and the critical function of those films. ... Comolli and Narboni then lead into the critical function of these films within their ideologies and come up with four different functions: show what they're blind to, show how films operate on the level of signified and signifiers, show how signified is weakened and harmless, and point out the gap produced between film and ideology by the way the film works and show how they work (...

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Functionalist perspective on education Critically evaluate the functionalist perspective on education The key ideas of the functionalist perspective is that society is made up of parts which support the system as a whole and that changes in one part of society (such as the family) changes other parts of society (such as education). ... This is because it takes a pro-society stance. ... Durkheim was critical of the role of comprehensive schools as he believed that putting the emphasis on the individual could lead to a sub-culture within education which was against school due to lack of ...

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.; 2) what the others know about the individual's history; and 3) the stances the individual takes towards the groups that others assume he or she belongs to" (Brooke 142). ... Social interactionism is a great critical lense to apply to Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird....

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After extensively and critically analyzing both the patterns, Bourdieu tried to bridge the gap between the two extremes. To best understand Bourdieu's intellectual stance on bridging this gap we must understand two concepts forwarded by him – habitus and practice. ...

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His stance is that the effect on women of their childhood gender socialization is constrained by the biological processes that produce "natural" behavior predispositions. ... Cerroni-Long's stance on the issue of sexual dimorphism is that it is based on the structure of society, and what is feminine or masculine is based on roles in society and the structure of the culture itself. ...

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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 ...

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