Essentialism

Often when you see something in a culture that is so starkly different from your own you often shudder at the thought or the actions. But often when it involves things that we notice as part of our own culture we are left even wondering more about it than if it was something of its own. This is seen a lot with religious things since we often think that everyone should completely submit to our way of thinking and our ideals. So when we see those same ideals mixed with people’s original ideals we…

together to adjust to the ever-changing world, the team and we have concluded that there are many changes to the Miamifield schools system that we would like to propose, specifically focusing on the high school. Although we agree with parts of the Essentialism and and Perennialism, we made our policy recommendations based on our beloved professor, Justice Dewey, and his ideas of progressivism. After discussing with my team, I chose to focus on the issues of gender and intersectionality that the…

Mainstream psychology is often considered to be factual and objective however it is argued by critical psychologists that research is often influenced by its social, cultural, historical and political context. Critical psychologists have disputed the notion of objective psychology and have identified different levels at which values can be seen to operate within mainstream psychology. In this essay I will critically discuss the extent to which mainstream research has benefited more powerful…

Guanine, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine are the four nucleotide bases of DNA. The clever title, of the futuristic movie revolving around genetic engineering, “Gattaca”, is a DNA sequence. The symbolism, as within the title, continues throughout the thought provoking film. DNA is like the instructions used to develop life. However, in the film, DNA is also a prime determinate of social class. Vincent Freeman is a baby of faith, conceived by means of natural reproduction. His parent’s decision, to…

Black Citizen Racism can scream—segregation, Jim Crow laws, hate crimes, and discrimination—but racism can also whisper. Claiming instead the private, personal space as its territory, microaggressions describe the various ways in which racism infiltrates everyday interactions in a minimized, rather than maximal, form. These manifest as subtly charged statements, impulsive reactions generated towards one’s race before realizing the implications and apologizing. While the apology may be received,…

Patriarchy has been defined in a variety of ways, initially set out as a concept by Millett in 1970 (cited in Bryson, 1999), and later fully developed by Walby in Theorizing Patriarchy (1990). However, the concept was widely critiqued, and fell into dis-use, although it has been the subject of attempts to re-position it as an academic concept (e.g. Hunnicutt, 2009). This essay aims to discuss the prevalent accepted definition of patriarchy, and the criticisms made of it, before analysing more…

The movie Crash is directed by Paul Haggis. This movie has won an Oscar and many other successes in the past 12 years. Great actors such as Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and Thandie Newton have worked in this film exceptionally. They have presented their characters audaciously. This movie depicted a very strong meaning through the intertwining of many lives over a period of thirty six hours. The Several connected stories are about race, class, family and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of…

There is a multitude of stereotypes associated with individuals’ biology/ sex. When a woman gives birth, she is usually asked for the binary sex of the baby, whether the individual is a male or a female. Since birth, society has placed labels on individuals that grow with them throughout life. Society expects certain norms if one is a female or a male biologically that include the toys that one plays with, to a larger problem of stereotyping women as weak and men as powerful. As discussed in…

2.2 The social constructedness of gender As pointed out before, gender is at the centre of feminist IR scholarship. Gender is also a term with varying definitions especially when considering positivist and postpositivist studies. A positivist approach considers gender as the natural division between men and women, focusing on biological differences. On the other hand, a postpositivist approach recognises gender as socially constructed, meaning that gender is learned, disseminated and created…

Women Incarcerated. The Facts, Theories and Solutions Women over the course of history have been inconspicuous in the eyes of the criminal justice system in the United States. Today, women have begun to double the incarceration rate according, to the FBI’s Unified Crime Report. To understand this phenomenon, one would start by utilizing scholars and various methods of crime reports to compile a list of facts and evidence to understand the why’s and how’s, however this type of information…