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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY
Through this essay, I will be detailing scholarly understandings, critiques, and analyses of the New Social Movement theory. To begin with I’d like to lay out the differences between collective action from a Classical Marxist perspective, and New Social Movement theory. After which I detail features of New Social Movements. This will be followed by…
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Changing Family Roles in the Workspace – 1700 Words Research Essay
The Changing Dynamics of Work and Family Over the last decade, family roles have consistently played an important role in determining the structure and functioning of the workspace. Reduction in gender-typed positions has led to a rapid spate of women struggling to maintain a work-life balance. It has also resulted in women taking up significant…
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Social Realism in Cinema
Realism is the accurate, detailed and unembellished depiction of nature or contemporary life. It rejected imaginative idealization to instead focuses on a close observation of nature and the closest possible replication of it. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations. The term was used to talk about…
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk – Veil and Doule Consciousness
In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, explain how his use of the concepts of ‘veil’ and ‘double consciousness’ help to explain that race and the marginalization of African Americans is a socially constructed narrative? (7.5 marks, 800-900 words) The Souls of Black Folk, is a seminal work by African-American Sociologist…
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Annihilation of Caste, how does he address the idea of radical societal overhaul from a caste perspective?
Looking at B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste, how does he address the idea of radical societal overhaul from a caste perspective? Explain this in terms of his countering of the predominant political and economic reform narrative of his time. (7.5 marks, 800-900 words) Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, in his most popular writing entitled “The Annihilation…
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RESPONSE TO BLADE RUNNER (1982)
Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott, is a science fiction film that is set in a dystopian future world (Los Angeles) that is overridden with Urban Density artificiality and has seen human colonisation beyond the planet Earth. It’s loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. Genetic and Bioengineering is…