Habitus

I believe that is an important quality to have because it means that you are responsible and mature. Having accountability is important because in the context of a judge, you are dealing with sometimes habitus offenders or violent offenders and need to make correct judgments that will protect them under the law. You also will need to be able to uphold the constitution and provide a fair trial. Being mature with the situation, requires a lot of patients…

the following categories were identified: ideal practices and behavior; risk perception and cognitive illusions of restaurant workers; knowledge recognized through risk perception and cognitive illusions; identified risk, ignorance over the FSP and habitus. Each thematic content are presented and discussed. 3.1. Categories based on the thematic content analysis 3.1.1. Ideal practices and behavior In the ideal scenario, all workers are aware of the risk of FBD and act appropriately to…

In this paper I decided to interview my maternal Grandmother, Eva Hausner. Eva was born in 1933 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an only child that used to live in downtown Pest, right by the Danube in a two-story apartment. Eva told me that her father owned the jewelry store that had been part of his family for the past 3 generations. Eva remembers that there used to be 4 employees under her father, they managed the store when he was not around, we can infer by using Marx’s beliefs that Eva’s…

Symbolic capitalism is a theory developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According, to Bourdeiu each individual occupies a position they are not only defined by one class. There is cultural capital (cultural codes), economic capital (money) social capital (networks) these capitals are transformed into symbolic capitalism. It is resources accessible to an individual, which are honor, prestige and reputation. Symbolic capital is how a person is judged by their community. Additionally,…

Literature review The campaign for the Tour de Yorkshire and the public relations work included in it is situated within the broader topic of promotional culture. Promotional culture, according to Davis (2013) is a culture that is intertwined with the medium of promotion and its communication processes. He defines promotion as the combination of influences from the promotional industries that include public relations work as well as advertising, marketing and branding. All of these influences…

In 1968, the United States Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio decided that police may stop a person for questioning and frisk, without probable cause, if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in…

10.3. An evolutionary model of “bad charisma” In the discussion of “bad charisma” above (4.2.1), when charismatic leadership is used to antisocial ends, several different typologies were proposed. In contrast to identifying different types of charisma, the account below proposes a developmental/evolutionary model, wherein the different types form a continuum. The advantage of this over a typology is that it raises the awareness that “good” charisma can and will turn into “bad” charisma in…

The author of the novel The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights is Larry Nesper, an assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, as an understudy for Raymond Fogelson, a well-renown American Indian ethnographers. Nesper specializes in the Ojibwe or Chippewa tribes of Northern Wisconsin. As a result, the whole scope of his career is based on the social injustices and struggles that the Ojibwe face…

The way I’m expected to act and how I’m conditioned to present myself is mainly for the benefit of men. For instance, wearing makeup and acting ‘ladylike’ in order to be found attractive. Moi argues that “to produce a gender habitus requires an extremely elaborate process of education,” and an important part of that is the social power relations of the body (Moi, 1991). Thus, due to my gender identity society has conditioned me to behave in certain ways for the pleasure of men…

1. Karl Marx explains social inequalities through a society being stratified along economic lines and social class being defined solely on economic position. According to Marx, a person’s economic position is their relationship to means of production, which defines social class. Based on an industrial society, he defined social class by two classes; the capitalist class (Bourgeoisie) and the working class (Proletariat). Marx felt strongly against capitalism and believed that everyone should have…