Commodification

the paradoxical role of gender is always questioned by the normative values of society. The representation of women within mass media has been constructed on the ideology of a patriarchal society. Women are undermined and scrutinized due to commodification of their physical appearance and traditional role they are proposed to lead. However where do these representations of women originate, and how are they established into mainstream society? More importantly, how are these negative ideals of…

Comprehension: 1. Trask: Describe the pre-haole (pre-foreigner, European, white colonialism) political system in Hawai’i as an interdependent system, using incentive instead of oppression as a means of gaining status. Trask writes, “ … an interdependence was created where by the maka’ainana (people of land) were free to move with their ‘ohana (extended families) to live under an alibi of their choosing … the result was an incentive for the society’s leader to provide for all their…

Name- MAYANK MANGAL ID No.- 2014A4PS459H Assignment: Personal Response Essay Immanuel Kant : An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment is an essay which was written by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in the year of 1784, the greatest modern philosopher of all times is deeply inspired by Rousseau from where he adopts the novelties of freedom as autonomy or itself legislation. The essay addresses the causes of lack of enlightenment and the…

the situation is risky. The sin of usury involves exploiting someone in their poverty, like loan sharks do, and doesn’t describe business loans. Many Christians think of “capitalism” and think “bad.” They assume that capitalism leads to the “commodification of everything,” This means applying value of things to market value. This isn’t really what capitalism is but this due to consumerism. This problem is due to the materialistic view of the world today. Consumption is part of every human life…

Fraying the Fringes of the Female form: Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and the commodification of the designer vagina. The number of women undertaking Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (referred to as FGCS) surgery in Australia, and worldwide, is increasing. Irrespective of the wide-ranging variation in the female genitalia, a certain ‘kind’ of female genitalia has gathered a much envied identifier as being more aesthetically pleasing. It is such a shame that many women compare their own bodies…

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69) was a Jewish German who was a neo-Marxist, with the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany and living in the modernised Age of Enlightenment, criticized how humanity has become stagnant and the ideas of his era would rather conform than to think out of the societal box. (The European Graduate School, n.d.) In Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer, 1944), Adorno, alongside Max Horkheimer mentioned about the culture industry. Adorno’s idea of fetishizing…

Arne Kalland’s thesis in “Culture in Japanese Nature” is that Japan is not a country that loves nature despite the image of Japan that many Western countries have. He theorizes that the Japanese love of nature in literature is metaphorical, rather than literal, and argues that “the Japanese try to control nature, or ‘conquer’ it by the process of taming (Kalland 243),” and that “only by idealization, or ‘taming’… does nature become palatable (Kalland 246).” However, he presents his argument as…

Work Live or Live to Work?: Arlie Hochschild’s Theories on Labor With the job market becoming increasingly competitive, the interactions between an employee and their customers, clients, or colleagues continue to have a substantial impact on how successful they will be in their field of work. As the role of the employee changes, workers will be required to complete certain tasks that they may not have initially expected. Arlie Hochschild, one of the major sociologists associated with…

Courtney McTaggart Annotated Bibliography COMM 455 Carmen, Rachael, Guitar, Amanda, and Dillon, Haley. (2012). Ultimate Answers to Proximate Questions: The Evolutionary Motivations behind Tattoos, and Body Piercings in Popular Culture. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232565700_Ultimate_Answers_to_Proximate_Questions_The_Evolutionary_Motivations_Behind_Tattoos_and_Body_Piercings_in_Popular_Culture This article is about piercings in popular culture. It states that this…

Why did Americans in California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engage in unsustainable relationships with the natural world? Americans and other immigrant’s to California were driven by the pursuit of gold and wealth which led to unsustainable relationships which they maintained with their natural environment. Having little knowledge of the natural world, they were all out to exploit the resources: Gold without any sense of its availability and implications of mining to…