Max Planck

1) What relationships of power are featured in “Virginian Luxuries” (Document 1)? How is unequal power relationships reflected in Tocqueville’s distinctions between the three races (Document 2)? What future does Tocqueville predict for these groups of people and why? Based on your own knowledge, how accurate do you believe Tocqueville’s observations and predictions were? 1) In the portrait, Virginian Luxuries (Unknown, 1800), it is possible to detect and define the roles of those two-man…

In The Secularization Paradigm, Steve Bruce explains secularism in the West and how multiple factors lead to the coming of secularization. Bruce defines secularism as the depletion of the role of religion in society, rather than the classical view of the separation of church and state. In addition, Bruce focuses on secularism as a process, slowly developing over time, due to multiple extraneous and intrinsic factors. Furthermore, he builds a physical paradigm detailing the reasons behind…

In the novel, the division into groups or the organization into classes is too remarkable. Society (or in this case men) is divided into a hierarchical way. But how can we perceive this? What is the aim of Conan Doyle? What the author tries to do is to build a link between one of the most important characters of the story and the topic I am talking about, the imperialism itself. This character is the Professor Challenger, essential to understand at least a half of the story. it must be said…

The piece that I have chosen to do research on for this project is “Sonatine, No. 2, "Mouvement de Menuet"” by Maurice Ravel. Firstly, Maurice Ravel was born on 1875 and passed away on 1937. He was a French composer, pianist and conductor of classical music whose most well-known works are Bolero and Daphnis et Chloé. Shortly after his birth, his family moved away to Paris, where he received his first piano lessons in 1882. Maurice Ravel faced many failures in his music career before being…

Karl Marx and Max weber are two of the many great theorists in the history of sociology, economy as well as philosophy. A focus on at least four theoretical aspects concerning their different and similar approach to the analysis of class in the modern society is the sole base of this essay. Illustrative examples are used to substantiate our answer. Karl Marx and Max weber both analysed similar ideas or concepts in the 19th century but came to different conclusions. \\ Karl Marx (1818-1883) was…

Florence Rockwood Kluckhohn was a lecturer on Sociology in the laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard University in 1953. Kluckhohn was interested in identifying specific patterns of behavior that are influenced by culture. She was also interested in the study of values, not as good or bad but in terms of how beliefs shape and define our world. The Value Orientation Method (VOM) proposes that all human societies must answer a limited number of universal problems, that the value-based…

Manifest and Latent Functions After the origin of structural functionalism, over time many sociologists were able to add their two cents to the paradigm. One such functionalist, Robert Merton, extended the theory by describing two possible outcomes of functionalism, these being manifest functions and latent functions. Manifest functions are simply the “intended functions of a social structure”, while latent functions are “the less obvious, perhaps unintended functions of a social structure”…

Question 1: Foucault versus Durkheim According to Durkheim, sociological knowledge discovers the laws of social formations to liberate man into conformity with his social being. Similarly, Foucault, genealogical critique unmasks the limits of knowledge for the purpose of exploring alternative, not- totalizing, ways of being. On the one hand, Durkheim’s cultural criticism anchors in piety. Durkheim believes that the excesses of modern individualism can only subdue within an integrated social…

C Wright Mills begins his essay “The Sociology Imagination” by looking at the contrast that exists between the “everyday worlds’” that common people are aware of, and where there are visions and their powers limited by the close-up scenes of job, neighborhood, family, and structure of continent-wide societies’. Mills defines the rare abilities that some have to see themselves in relation to the larger social processes and devices. People seem to be in a series of traps, and they cannot overcome…

Erving Goffman is considered as “one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable practitioners of social science” (Smith, 2006:1), and is known worldwide for his works, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”. This publication pioneered his perspective on social interaction and the concept of self, and throughout these works, he aimed to outline the way that he believed social life works and essentially how it is made up. Moreover, these works presented ideas in which had not been previously…