Forensic anthropology

Juvenile Justice Essay We are living in a society that thinks, acts and decides how they live - all in different ways. Each individual has the capacity to make their own choices. Around us we see many things happening. One of them is the juvenile violence that each day raises crimes rates, and makes the Supreme Court want to treat juveniles as adults when they commit a violent crime. In my opinion children who commit violent crimes such as murder should be treated as adults, because they…

Ideas of semiotics come from mainly two people- Charles Pierce and Ferdinand De Saussure. They often share the same thoughts. According to Johnathan Bignell (2002 p.5,6) “Semiotics or semiology, then, is the study of signs in society, and while the study of linguistic signs is one branch of it, it encompasses every use of a system where something (the sign) carries a meaning for someone”. Semiotics according to Ferdinand De Saussure refers to “The signs of life within society”. As said by…

Northrop Frye. In the beginning of 20th century, James George Frazer, the Scottish anthropologist, who first used the concept of archetype in description of myths and rituals. His masterpiece The Golden Bough in Frye’s eyes is not only a great work of anthropology but also a work of literary criticism (Frye, 2009: 109). To some degree, this book can be considered as a foundation of myth-archetypes criticism (Ye Shuxian, 2011: 4). In short, Frazer discovered the repeated phenomena as patterns of…

In our world there are so many aspects. All of the aspects are come from human life that has many contribute in this world. Those aspects are politics, economic, social, and culture. Culture is one part of the aspect that also has influence in human life. One thing that we should know about the aspect is, the aspect is so many influences in our life and other place. Not only our life, in government life, and in international life also. As well with culture, because of culture at the past some…

We often use national or regional identity to define and identify ourselves. We classify ourselves in one national or one region to prove who we are and why we are here. Like what Stuart Hall talked about identity in “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”, he mentioned two explanation of identity. The first one is about cultural identity, which shaped a person’s true self. And the other one is about questions of “what we really are” and “what we have become”. The first one is about the past, the…

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the…

Case Studies- Related Issues Consist of Social-Community-Culture The fading of social and cultural heritage is the other issues that rise after the dam construction. Based on the Brandt and Fekri Hassan (2000), cultural heritage is the community’s history that connect the society throughout times. It could be in any forms as long as it indicate the identity to certain community (Brandt & Fekri Hassan, 2000). There are two type of the cultural possession thatcould be lost due to the dam…

Culture of “Americans” America’s culture is different and distinctive. America’s society is made up a diversity of ethnic groups that have shaped American culture and values. People’s attitude and behavior are based on their values. America’s cultural was influenced by Native Americans, Latin American, Africans, and Asians. The United States has been influenced by many other cultures that led to the shaping of their values. Religion and language are an example of the influence of other culture…

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist. He was best known for his theories and the way he defined sociological imagination. Sociological Imagination is the vivid awareness of the relationships between personal experience and the wider society. When you think about the two words, “Sociological” you think of the study of humans social behavior and the way they react to different things around them. “Imagination” is thinking about things in your own point of view. So when you put the two…

A crowd gathers and cheers around the center of the stadium as to watch the violence and bloodshed take place in front of their eyes. Each fan rooting for the strongest contestant, as if they are for sure they have chosen the “man for the job”. The chaos and tension in the air rising as the loser falls to the ground and the winner triumphantly looks towards his fans for praise. With few descriptive words about what the event is, or who all is involved in the event, a violence-induced game is…