Sociology Essays

For the past three decades or so, Japanese anime has offered an array of opportunities for analyzing social structures and gender politics, in particular in relation to the changes and trends occurring one after the other in postmodern Japan. Gender roles are often seen as explicit or underlying themes portrayed …

The nuclear family unit is in the minority with only around 39% of households being made up of a heterosexual couple with dependent children. This is obviously changing all the time as single parent families, cohabiting couples and those that are married evolve into, or evolve from, the nuclear unit. …

In society women are still percieved as unequal to thier counterparts men. This can be shown in a number of ways such as unequal pay, resticted roles and relationships in the work place and with partners and sexual harresment. Although with the equal rights of employment women still experience a …

Human history has undoubtedly been male dominated. As a result, our literature too has tended to be male orientated, and while obviously I do not discount the great women writers of the last few hundred years, it is common knowledge that many struggled to publish because of their gender. Writers …

In a ‘Conversation with my father’ Paley vividly presents a tragic scene of a dying father engaging with his son or daughter at his bedside and his wish to be told a story “just once more”. Paley makes great use of varying narrative strategies to develop the representation of the …

The question asks for a distinction between Gender Agenda and Women’s Agenda. It must first be noted that these two concepts cannot be the same, for the mere fact that they address two separate spheres of human existential reality. Gender is a learned process; hence one learns masculine or feminine …

Globalization is a disputed issue, with arguments for and against it. Even the term causes friction, and there exists differing theories that surround it. There is a contention over the focus of globalization, with various theorists choosing to concentrate on separate specific areas within globalization. This essay will firstly provide …

In order to analyse any slasher movie, we must first consider: what is a slasher? The “slasher is not easily defined… It is a rogue genre, and like the films it encompasses it is tough, problematic and fiercely individualistic. However, there are some distinctive and consistent elements which are prevalent …

The portrayal of OFW’s in Filipino movies neither fully supports nor opposes stereotypes in the same way that it doesn’t totally represent nor debunk reality; rather, the film industry defines a fine line between this typecasting and the status quo. The advent of Filipinos leaving the country in search of …

Throughout this essay I will attempt to address issues raised by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) regarding the mind/body dualism along with critique proposed by Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976). Using historical examples I will explore the relationship between what is termed as the ‘exterior’ and ‘interior’, and how Michael Foucault (1926-1984) in his …