Structuralism

literature review A-Historical background of Teaching English language and literature in Algeria. In 1971, Algerian government adopted Arabization policy. The latter accounts for generalizing the Arabic language in all the government sectors including education. The aims of this strategy were to establish an efficient educational system and maintain the national identity. Nevertheless, this strategy has not escaped criticism from educationist and scholars who believe that the fundamental…

Giddens conceptualises structure as rules and resources used by interaction. Rules are generalisable procedures and methodologies that reflexive agents possess in their implicit stocks of knowledge and that they use as methods for action in social systems. These rules of structure disclose a number of important properties: they are implicitly known; informal; widely sanctioned; frequently invoked and used in conversations, interaction rituals, and daily routines. Structure also involves the use…

Which dramaturgical ideas and techniques introduced in the course are you most keen to appropriate, adapt, and explore in your own creative work? Why? What might this work look like? When, where and how will it be realized? The durational text-based performances of Forced Entertainment create an actor-audience relationship that is described by Tim Etchells as “a struggle against the idea of the audience as a passive consumer of spectacle” (CITATION HERE). The idea of their durational…

And the extracts and essays, ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s, focused mainly on psychological analysis, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism, gender analysis and cultural analysis. Even the analysis of conflicts among different social classes and the analysis of racial problem can be found in this book. Besides these pieces of critiques, there are a great number…

I- Theoretical Part : Anger in Literature 1- Definitions of Anger: a- The outer expression of anger can be identified in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and in public acts of aggression. b- Anger is equally a matter of politics as well as biology. c- Anger functions as a pressure cooker; that we cannot control our anger for so long before it explodes. 2- Origins Of Anger : a- Anger was first to exist in supernatural myths, stories and religious beliefs; like angry…

Desmond and Emirbayer’s article attempts to elucidate the configuration of race and racial dominance through the lenses of recent theoretical innovations. As oppose to the then predominant perspective on race that portraits it as a natural phenomenon, these authors describe race as a dynamic, and symbolic social construct that evolves and changes historically. These transformation to be understood must be informed by the influence of other social constructs such as ethnicity and nationhood.…

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…

method meeting the five basic requirements of the science. Although Wundt s method was not completely fair and scientific, he has proven that psychology and the interactions in the human brain can be studied scientifically. Furthermore, after structuralism many others schools of thought started using the scientific method to prove their…

The myth of Agamemnon and his son Orestes has impacted many different customs and actions of today’s society and culture. The main points of the story have connected through Ritual theories that are used today, the structural world and how it has changed from ancient times to modern times, and the allegories that are associated with the stories in this myth and how they relate to the comparisons that are used today. During the first play, Agamemnon returns back from the Trojan War and his wife…

Race and Racism in IR A race is a group of people sharing a similar genetic makeup which enable them to be differentiated from others by biological aspects. Racism is the show of hostility or discriminating someone on the basis of their race. Other opinions outline racism as a belief of the inequality of races and that treatment of people should be according to their origin. Therefore, a racist is one believing in the superiority of their race over that of others. On the same note, racism may be…