Sphere

Entry 1: Today we discussed the public sphere. In summary, we discussed the emergence of the “mass audience”, the low/high culture binary, and determining where the idea of “the public” comes from. We have a conception of the public sphere from the bourgeois class. The set ideal is that of a private (civil society) and the public (state-mediates crises). This public sphere is formed and operated through the norms of publicity. There are five norms that make up publicity: status as person is ignored, discussion of common concern/import, inclusiveness of all views, equality of admission, and the emotion bracketed in favor of reason. The discussion of common concern/import essentially means that everyone has a stake in the topic of discussion.…

Throughout The Structural Change of the Public Sphere, Habermas talks about how the bourgeois public sphere transformed. He defines the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community which does not necessarily exist in any recognizable space. In its ideal form, the public sphere is "made up of private people gathered together as a public and expressing the needs of society with the state. Throughout the book Habermas asserts that the bourgeois public sphere is premised on the incorrect…

into her song, Parmenides would have been in total agreement with Maria. The principle of “ex nihilo nihil” is quite important to his argument about the perfection of the world. It is impossible that the world could be created from nothing, since, according to Parmenides, “what is not” cannot exist. From this premise, he argues that since there is nothing that can be called what-is-not the world cannot have any deficiencies, since deficiency would imply the existence of “what-is-not. While…

the chemical reaction, the borax is the ingredient that bonds the two polymers together, and keeps them together during impact. Hypothesis If the ball bounces higher when more cornstarch is added, then the polymer bonds are stronger because the cornstarch is what makes the polymer bonds that give the ball its elasticity. Materials Glue Borax Cornstarch Scale Beaker Plastic Spoon Procedure Measured approximately 3 spoons of glue, add them all to the beaker Measured 4 grams of Borax…

The formation of a public sphere in societies allowed these to tear down existing feudalism, and build up democracies in its place. German sociologist and philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, explains how the construction of a bourgeois public sphere enables democratic power to be shaped in a civilisation in his book “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” written in German in 1962, and translated to English in 1989. The former thesis became pivotal in the subject area as the media plays…

WWII caused many problems surrounding the Japanese and and American relations therefore, causing tension between the once mutualistic relationship. The Japanese wished to expand their power and influence by dominating the Asian world consequently, this is known as the “Sphere of Influence”. The Japanese would raze the technology stagnant Chinese and rule over many islands to fuel the growing demand for natural resources. The U.S was against Japanese imperialism and therefore they put sanctions…

“SEPARATE SPHERES” AND THEIR EXISTENCE TODAY Tomas Kirklin HIST 120 Women in U.S. History November 3, 2016 In the early to mid nineteenth-century, the ideology of “separate spheres” came into existence and polarized the places of women and her sphere comprised of home and family, essentially the private home life, and men who’s “sphere” comprised of work and politics, essentially the public aspect of life. Women were to embody the virtues of domesticity, piety, purity, and…

as the defenders of morality created a system in which men and women operated in disparate spheres. This notion of the genders existing in separate spheres is the topic of our final and most current article, “Separated By Their Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World”, written by Mary Beth Norton and published in 2011. Unlike the other articles discussed herein which have focused on New England society, Norton takes a transatlantic perspective by examining how English culture…

Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place to discover because when you do, you start to understand why we have national parks at all. There are three spheres of interaction in the park and they are: nature-and-nature, human-and-nature, and human-and-human. The spheres that stand out are the human-and-nature and nature-and-nature. Tourist-and-wolves interact within the human-and-nature sphere, and the effects of their interaction are a complicated and long relationship within the history of…

Habermas, Jürgen, et al. “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964).” New German Critique, no. 3, 1974, pp. 49–55. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/487737. The “Encyclopedia Article” by Habermas provides the foundations/ transformation for the public sphere, as a concept, its history, the liberal model, and in the social welfare state mass democracy. The overall thesis for the article by Habermas is to provide a basic, foundational understanding of the public sphere. Habermas…