The Russians thought of Karl Marx, who worked coperatively with Friedrich Engels, as the founding father of dialectical materialism. ... By founding dialectical materialism, Marx bridged the gap of the Hegelian dialectic to the current theory on materialism . ... Marx feels that happiness is the goal of man and that material happinness can be found though organized collectivism. ... But he played this part very well and was a founding father of Marxism. ... Once he found that certain types of suicide could be caused by anomie, he could then use anomic suicide as an index for unmeasurable deg...

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In media representations, young people, especially young men and boys, easily attract and are readily ascribed offender status yet have to work hard to achieve any kind of victim status (Brown, 1998; Munice, 2004). ... Madeleine has never been found and no one has yet been held accountable. ... Interpersonal crimes, for example sex and violence, can easily be portrayed as dramatic and titillating than non-violent crimes, especially if children can be added to this increasingly toxic mix of news values. ...

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One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ... As can easily be seen, the slave of the father would become the scapegoat for the society. ... As gérs , belonging to the same level as the prince, the latter found nothing dishonorable or debasing in pillaging their goods, however small they might be. ...

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1. ABSTRACT For a group to function effectively, the norms and values along which lines the group is going to function need to be clearly established and clarified to all concerned. These help to determine the status, roles and responsibilities of the members, in order for them to work together a...

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Consequently, entrepreneurial activity has always borne a pronounced responsibility for social development and Corporate Social Responsibility provides an intelligent way to combine economically viable development, social responsibility and conservation of natural resources1 There is no universally acceptable definition for CSR since there are many elaborated variants nevertheless, it can be described in several ways and some of the concepts I found more accurate are the followings: "What companies have embrace in order to achieve competitiveness while addressing societal issues and cost...

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Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." It was further found that this was not wholly due to the use of the masculine pronoun as a generic: "97 percent of the uses of "he" referred male humans or animals, or to persons presumed to be male" (the examples he cites are sailors and farmers). ... Silveira also found that both men and women tend to visualise male figures when they read the masculine "generic" or hea...

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Commonly regarded as a realist writer in her accurate portrayal of everyday, Regency era life, Austen was moreover "one of the great formative and founding influences on how we think about 'England' and 'Englishness,' as well as class, ideology and gender issues.... Examining the popularity of Pride and Prejudice today, it is clear that the ideas Austen raised then are, though found in different contexts, still greatly relevant to the modern world. ... While an unmarried man may be unhappy, he could easily survive financially. ... As Hazel Jones notes, there were m...

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These expressions can be found both in spoken (usually in a formal context) and written Porteño Spanish. ... That is why these expressions are so easily identifiable for anyone who has even a limited knowledge of English. ...

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1. Introduction The living conditions of the lower class in Victorian England, under the effects of industrialization, is one of the most frequently depicted issues in nineteenth century British literature. Elizabeth Gaskell, a prominent novelist from that era wrote about these conditions and was a ...

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It was found that those nations that were least influenced by the Germans were the ones were suicide was most prominent although Germans (according to the study of race) were believed to be the ones who commit most number of suicides. ... Also, he says that if it was hereditary, then it should influence both sexes but from the examples given, it was found that only male members of the family seemed to be committing suicide and not the females. ... Religious Group Durkheim compared the influence of religion on suicidal tendency and found that Protestant dominated countries had higher number of...

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Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. ... Or have we found angles in the forms of kings to govern him? ...

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The movie "Empire" is a dramatization of the life in the shoes of one of four heroin dealers in the New York City area known as South Bronx. It is a story told by Victor Rosa, the main character referred to by many as Vic, as the viewer follows him around the city. The movie begins by naming all the...

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After consulting a criminological text such as The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds, one comes to find that common criminal theories are not only evident in criminal society but also tie closely with criminal beliefs and values. The main focus of this particular case study, Sam Goodman, is a prime example to use when illustrating these theories" role in the criminal world. Discussions of his experiences in the criminal, and also non-criminal world help to shed light on how Sam has exhibited these theories throughout his life, sometimes unknowingly, because they had just been worked into h...

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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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Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of programs or problems alone, however, is to miss a larger and more enduring element. Chatterjee (1985) observed that social welfare is concerned with the right order of relationships in society; that is, it is some ideal of the way in which some society works and fits together to form a suitable pl...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive an...

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