Levi Strauss

In Media Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something…

Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to sociologist, Janet Abu-Lughod and the late Palestinian academic and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. Abu-Lughod studied at Carleton College (1974) and Harvard University (1984) and is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Studies at Columbia University (Institute for Middle East Understanding 2015). She is married to Timothy Mitchell, a political theorist and historian who also works at Columbia University. According to her biography on the…

The manifest destination during the nineteenth century was the beliefs of an expansion of the American power. The acquisition of other national territories or lands brought some several factors involving the expansion of economic growth that would lead the United States to become one of the most powerful countries in the world. One of the most significant events during the period of manifest destination was when California, which once it had been a territory of Mexico, became a state of the…

cultural female devaluation. Additionally, she uses this article as a platform to suggest political change which would enhance equality between women and men. This structuralist perspective of binary opposition was first formulated drawing on Levi-Strauss and de Beauvoir, but has since been criticized for being simplistic and ethnocentric. I will delineate Ortner’s argument and…

which is how standards of professionalism can be discovered. However, if enough employees lose track of their moral purpose, situations such as Enron can arise. Therefore, I learned about the importance to having a “soul.” One case example was Levi Strauss, which became the first American company to develop a set of working conditions standards abroad in China. Furthermore, they ended up paying for the tuition of child laborers in Bangladesh. For the petrochemical industry, it is even more…

Social media makes it possible for companies to get close to the consumers and listen to their conversations. Companies can be a part of the storytelling that happens between the consumers in daily life. Therefore, the brand has an opportunity to become a cultural brand, thereby descending the identity of a product or a company and take on the subcultures reflecting the identity of consumers. Myths represent the common stories binding the community to the brand. Some very clear opportunities the…

Literary theory consists of various principles, beliefs and underlying ideas that are used to understand and analyze different pieces of texts in literature. An interesting way to view literary theory is by considering theories as tools. Critics take these tool and apply it to a text in an attempt to look at it from a different perspective. It grants them the ability to examine a particular aspect of a text, which they regard of significant importance. When these theories are passed onto readers…

who would follow it strictly. Therefore, to preserve a sense of social relevance, many people would refuse to discuss their genealogies with them (Chagnon 1992: 7). This taboo of revealing kinship networks aligns with the definition provided by Levi-Strauss, where the Yanomamö society tries to contain their set of kinship customs from unwelcome outsiders and to breach the trust of the community would be considered breaking the social…

Myths became eminently popular in Greece, as it was intricately connected to religion in ancient Greece. They were told to explain the origins of the world and gave advice on how to lead a happy life. Accordingly, these poems intertwined with the culture and history of Greece. This essay will examine the poem, Pandora from Hesiod’s Theogony (Theogony 573 – 620, translated in Trzaskoma et al., 2004), and the many hidden meanings and messages within. The two theories that will be referred to…

3.2. Critiques focused on the methodology of Suicide As Dukrheim’s general approach to study of social facts was described only in theory in the Rules of sociological method, in this part of essay which is focusing on methodological critiques, I will describe only methodological criticisms of Durkheim’s study of suicide that is based on actual research. Probably to most prominent criticism focused on Durkheim’s methodology is that while analysing data, he made so called ‘ecological fallacy’…