Rationalization

The Garden of Motivation In difficult situations, people attempt to rationalize harsh tasks before completing them. In Jorge Luis Borges's fictional short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a Chinese man named Yu Tsun is forced to spy against the British during World War I for Germany. His mission is to reveal the location of the city named Albert, a task he completes by murdering Stephen Albert, a man with the same last name. It is clear from the story that Yu Tsun has reservations about…

Montresor’s blood lust can be explained through another of Freud’s theories. Freud’s “id” theory is driven by pleasure and an imbalance, which could suggest a mental illness and explains his aggressive behavior. Montresor’s pleasure coincides with an obsession of obtaining revenge and when someone is obsessed with something they tend to adopt a more aggressive nature. This aggressive attitude is obvious at the beginning of the story before he runs into Fortunato and he is plotting his downfall:…

Despite numerous efforts by various contingents, rape culture has maintained its place in the status quo. Rape culture refers to the collective ignorance, disparagement, normalization and comedic trivialization of sexual violence by society. Perhaps stemming from a history of patriarchal dominance as well as anti-feministic and misogynistic view of women as instruments of pleasure for the opposite sex. Unfortunately, this stagnancy in the curtailment or even eradication of this culture can be…

John Bowen ethnography, Muslims through Discourse, takes a deep look at the Islam Religion in the Gayo highlands located in Indonesia. Although he desires to investigate the social structure and history, through his field work he examines the local forms of Islam. Bowen constructs two categories to define the ideologies of Islam represented, which are traditionalist (stemming from rural communities) and modernist (rooted in urban society). Each have distinctive histories that influence and shape…

nonprofit organizations. They argue that the expansion of higher education has not only paved the way for professionalized work environments, but also the organizational rationalization of the of the nonprofit sector. Consequently, they provide empircal evidence that there has been a shift towards professioanlization and rationalization based on creditialism which conflicts the participatory and democratic ethos of the nonprofit sector. Furthermore, Skocpol (2003) argues that professionally…

instantly when the majority of people would see a colored person they would think of them as some type of criminal or more able to commit a wrong doing. Also, they can be seen as most likely to be poor and people tend to display victim-blaming rationalization. They may believe that it is their own fault that they are seen that way and if they were to just work harder and commit less crime they would be able to get out of poverty and be seen more superior. This also goes hand with foreigners…

Professor Jiang Buddhist Philosophy 5 May 2017 In David L. McMahan’s The Making of Buddhist Modernism, McMahan explores the relatively new phenomena of Modern Buddhism. He shows that modern Buddhism is not a monolith, but a complex spectrum of different beliefs. McMahan unpacks modernism to help the reader understand what modernism is and how it works. He describes modernism as a force of change and how this force interacts with Buddhism. He compares the traditional beliefs against modern…

What is the purpose of government? Is there an ideal organizational structure that a country could employ to ensure that a government serves its people to the best of its ability? Karl Marx and Max Weber, like others before and after them, both strove to help answer these questions. Although one could argue that we may never find a “perfect” system of government, both men presented new ways of thinking that continue to influence society today. Before one can begin analyzing the details of…

World War II was undoubtedly a period where many countries showed the cruel, ruthless horrors their inhabitants were capable of accomplishing, the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor being two memorable examples set by Germany and Japan. Many Americans, when asked about the worst incidents of World War II, are typically reminded of the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor, which are both undeniably grisly World War II events, but sadly, events like the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are generally overlooked. However,…

Edwin H. Sutherland’s theory of Differential Association, nine components are below (Edwin Sutherland's Differential Association Theory Explained 2017): 1. All criminal behavior is considered to be a learned behavior. I agree with this theory, I don’t think that criminals are born with the knowledge of how to justify or commit a crime. 2. Criminal behaviors are learned through the interactions that one person has with others through variable communication processes. I agree with this component…