Traditionalism

Within contemporary American society there is in menarche a movement away from notions of embeddedness within tradition. Instead, traditionalism is “replaced” with the medicalization of menarche, this medialization is seen as progress from the previous primitive notions of anatomy and practices surrounding menarche. The primitive ways of “others” and the old country are abandoned in favor…

Chadha presents culture through her cinematography to enhance the fact that Jess is caught between her passion for soccer and the traditionalism of her culture and the predicaments she faces trying to get her traditional Indian parents to accept her life long dream to become a professional soccer player. Jess, being trapped between her desire for soccer and the traditionalism of her Indian culture is shown through many techniques throughout the film such as symbolism, camera angles and this is…

When conducting social research sociologists know that observing a social phenomenon means studying a group of individuals’ personal attitudes and beliefs which are reflected through social behavior. With this understanding, it is possible to say that people in any given society are ultimately responsible for building social norms (Festinger, 1954). A very personal yet social aspect in society is sexuality. There is ample amount of research done on the topic, but when looking at it through a…

author uses two sociological theories to address this topic, Modernization theory and Neo-traditionalism. The article produces valid points to prove the estimates of both theories . The modern view on arranged marriage is that parents still play a crucial role in the relationship but are focusing more on education and occupation of the significant other, rather than caste system and reputation. While Neo-traditionalism is still present it is diminishing, premarital virginity is…

Weber contributed to the study of religion by attempting to analyse how theology and religious practice contributed to the emergence of secular capitalist modernity. Unlike Durkheim, Weber did not treat religion an essence and his task to uncover it, but rather was concerned with the relationships between religious factors and economic and political processes. Furthermore, he had a distaste for general concepts, preferring to conduct historical analysis to find origin of ideas. Weber’s primary…

who has decided to not follow the traditional characteristics of her family. Bharati Mukherjee develops Pam as an interesting character by giving her contrasting traits. She has contrasting traits in by being westernized woman versus acting in traditionalism. To display her westernized traits it is done by her actions and appearance. “She dates Canadian boys and hangs out in the mall, shopping for tight sweaters” (Mukherjee 419). Pam does not wear traditional garb as her mother nor does she…

society (Bendix, 56). The Protestant ethic of Weber ties to Taylor’s methods with the efficiency and time management in the factory. Both have the same concept that hard work brings economic gain. The “spirit of capitalism” is contrasted with traditionalism. This economic activity strives to work less and at the same time make more output; they were workers who looked for comfort at their working hours, and minimum exertion. They could alternate between leisure time and work time, as well as…

cultures influenced capitalism because of Protestants and Catholic nations moving toward more rational ideas and away from traditionalism to better understand how capitalism revolved around the interests of an individual and others (Weber, 76-77). Protestantism related to ideas of capitalism because of their mutual beliefs in asceticism and level of livelihood. Traditionalism hinders capitalism from igniting quicker because many labors do not like change and simply want to work as much as they…

Even if the current study is directed to the Macroeconomics Principle, it inevitably involves political connotations, governments or certain government agencies having a duty to involve in conducting monetary policy toward a financial stimulus of the economy. Basically, the politics is a very delicate and very complicated subject, but at the same time I suspect it is very simple as long as the political issues and issues are debated by all the social categories of the population, which is why I…

Raskolnikov only finds redemption when time slows down and gives him opportunities to reflect on his guilt. When Raskolnikov travels to Sonya’s house to hear her reading of Lazarus from the Bible, “the candle-end had long been burning out… casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book” (Dostoevsky 328). Dostoevsky employs the candlestick to freeze the passage of time because of the ambiguous state of the…