Distinction

The dominant idea is that there are two genders, male and female, which are based on the biological notion of sex. It is important to make a distinction between sex and gender. Sex ‘refers to the biological differences between male and female’ and is defined ‘in terms of chromosomes, gonads and genital’ (Oakley cited in Delphy 1993: 2). Gender however is about psychological attributes and behaviours that are developed as a result of what society expects of us as males and females and is based on…

In The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process, Maurice Bloch talks about the economic and political development of South Asia and Polynesia, and he addresses the main issue of relationship between symbolic ‘rank’ and ‘power’ in the society. He examines how the production of rank through ritual and its importance in the evolution of political systems in Madagascar. Bloch’s ideas on disconnection relates to his argument that spiritual realm or sacred authority involving the particular…

The distinction of gender from sex was an important step in the fields of psychology and sociology. It allowed researchers, academics and practitioners to separate the social aspects of gender from the biology of sex (Muehlenhard & Peterson 2011, p. 793). It is generally accepted that the distinctive male or female genitals that a person is born with, and the release of male or female hormones determine sex, while gender is the combination of traits and characteristics culturally considered…

Descarte begins by making two very clear distinctions between the body and the mind. The mind is a nonmaterial essence that can exist without the body and will last forever. In contrast the essence of material things like the body are extend things that are void of the capacity to think. He defines the body as a mode of himself. He upholds that all he knows for sure is that he is a thinking thing and that thinking is the only thing that makes him exist. So nothing else can be identified with him…

Social Sciences (1) Unit 1 Introduction to Sociology The Distinction between Sociological understanding and Common Sense understanding (1.1) Sociology and common-sense are very different. Sociology requires research and evidence. However, common-sense is based on our own personal experiences. Each individual person, has their own personal view that they believe to be fact, although it is not based on research, just personal opinion. Common-sense requires no research or evidence, whereas…

of suffering ceases to exist. This makes the process of killing oneself counter-productive as the suffering that one is trying to escape from does not hold any significance once the life is over. 3. The Moral Distinction between Passive and Active Euthanasia At the center of the distinction between killing (active euthanasia) and allowing to die, (passive euthanasia) is the difference between physical causality and moral culpability. On the one hand, to bring the life of another to an end by…

Working off the initial framework of taste developed by Pierre Bourdieu in his Distinction, that “art and cultural consumption are predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfil a social function of legitimating social differences.” (Bourdieu 6) Holt explains that one’s taste in art and aesthetics is largely an extension of the cultural capital they have accumulated. In Holt’s example, the person singing the praises of Milos Forman to a friend over dinner is flaunting their…

facilitates to the other the outcome of a court case or trial. In this body of work, several aspects of this will be discussed: whether or not the conviction of an alleged perpetrator is feasible if acutus reus is present and not mens rea, the distinction between diplomatic immunity and legislative immunity and the support that diplomatic immunity overseas is necessary for Americans abroad, the argument that defendants with questionable competency should not be held to the standard…

Children create imaginary friends for many different reasons. Jacqueline D. Woolley, a researcher of Psychology at the University of Texas, created a review The Fantasy/Reality Distinction Revisited: The Case of Imaginary Companions to discuss different aspects of imaginary friends, one being the reason behind children's creations. In fact, she celebrates the fact that children create imaginary friends for fun and companionship. They…

most of the kids these days know how to work on computer more than their parents. Some of the middle and high school students are even introduced to the 3D modeling and gaming software, video and picture editing tools. The authors of the article “Distinctions Between Computer Self-Efficacy Of Pupils And Teachers In Elementary School." call the kids born into this technology digital natives, and the teachers – digital immigrants. It is also a fact that because of this knowledge of how to use…