Habitus

For my media selection, I chose the Netflix series, Chef’s Table. I like that this series was a bit more documentary styled and gave you a deeper look into the chef’s themselves and it wasn’t just a cooking show or a cook show T.V. game. Although the series is not very long and only consist of two short seasons it really is worth watching. The first episode I watched was on season one and was episode four. This episode focused on a female chef by the name of Niki Nakayama, who owns and operates…

Stigma Goffman’s Stigma (1963) outlines that if the stigmatised person actively and consciously realigns themselves with society, discredited identity is redeemed. Once Horsley learnt that rule breaking and deviant behaviour received attention (Shahrad 2010), he continued to engage in nonconformist acts to support his narcissistic identity. Horsley made failed attempts at rehabilitation, but was unable to go through the mortification of the self process that Goffman outlines (1961, 1963) because…

The theory of alienation is ‘the intellectual construct in which Marx displays the devastating effect of capitalist production on human beings, on their physical and mental states and on the social processes of which they are a part’ (Ollman, 1996). Marx’s theory is based on the observation that within the capitalist mode of production, workers invariably lose determination of their lives by being deprived of the right to regard themselves as the director of their actions. Alienation refers to…

Socio-economic class is an important factor that influences a child’s educational success. In spite of numerous policies to permit a child’s right to the highest quality of education, aspects such as social class, background and access to knowledge are extremely significant on a child’s development and educational achievement. In this paper, I will examine how social class, background, and access to knowledge influence a student’s achievement to show education is a complex issue. Socio-economic…

Radiation Exposure and Image Quality in Chest CT Examinations The lone conundrum that has stumped radiologists to physicists; from the individuals wielding a bachelor’s degree, to the geniuses that have made education their life occupation. How can radiation exposure be reduced to its absolute minimum without compromising image quality? Radiation is dangerous to the human body, and its variable effects are collective throughout our lives. This scientific concept forces an ethical responsibility…

Throughout the work, “White Fang” by Jack London, we find creatures coming against the edges of their world. They either succeed in surmounting the barriers in front of them, or they fail to enlarge their world and perish. Using the tools and ideas of Jacob von Uexkell, we will look at the gray-cub who becomes White Fang and see the necessary reworking of his reality as he grows and adapts. Like Uexkell’s tick, the gray cub is born blind, and only through “the necessity of learning and living…

(52.3%) compared to the general population (6.7%). (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 2010) There are several factors contributing to this high rate of depression within the disabled community. However, one that is often overlooked is our habitus concerning the disabled. This collection of perceptions, preferences, appreciations and actions; forms a way of perceiving the world and distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate activities. (Haywood et al, 2009) When it comes to…

¾ Term The link between Freud, Elias, and Goffman Freud, Elias, and Goffman all wrote books concerning the evolution of reflexive human behavior in modern society (1). Freud was intensely focused on proving his (at times erroneous or unprovable) assumptions about something as nebulous as human nature. Elias set out to provide historical context to the rise of civil discourse. Civil discourse, to Elias, would ultimately lead to the rise of the modern nation-state through providing an…

Marxism believed that our society was in a state of continual conflict between the working class and upper class, this essay will assess the Marxist approach on social class a theory stemmed from the works of Karl Marx, that believes our society to be in a state of constant struggle between the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat). Within society, according to social stratification people are placed in particular divisions based on a system of hierarchy. This has…

Critically analyze the star Tina Fey by considering the writing of Mean Girls: the movie, the musical, and the movie musical, which she originally adapted to a screenplay from the book Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman. The original movie, Mean Girls, from 2004 was adapted into a musical for the stage by Tina Fey, which premiered in Washington, DC, in 2017 and went to Broadway the following year. As well as most recently, twenty years after the original, the story was converted into a…