... knows that a reality is "out there" to be defined and categorized.The hard sciences from the time of Newton and Decartes have traditionally relied on the positivistic approach.The positivist hopes to be able to approximate "reality" in a detailed generalization or theory on how reality operates.The theories of a positivist generallytake the form of cause and effect laws describing the outside reality.Robert Merton defined these theorems as "clear verifiable statements of the relationships between specified variables." 2.Epistemology. Positivism relies onan objective epistemology.The observer remains distant and does not interact with the observation or ex ...
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... viewed as objects. They were given only the skills essential to making them more pleasing to others instead of the skills necessary to contend with the other sex. In An Academy for Women by Daniel Defoe, he suggests the draft of a school which would give ladies every opportunity to achieve a higher standard of life. He concludes that by studying history, learning how to read and write, and having knowledge of other cultures is vital to molding a well rounded woman. Wollstonecraft views are also similar to Defoe’s. She believes that because women lack much of the education men receive, they have a tendency to become the stereotypical female of that period. If give ...
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... India are doing something about this situation. The average record of the last decade though is still very disturbing. According to a newspaper in New Delhi, every 6 minutes, a crime is committed against women. Every 7 minutes a woman is raped, every 45 minutes a woman is kidnapped or abducted. 335 of women are subjected to cruelty. 17 dowry deaths are reported every day. In the reading done this semester it is shown that the treatment of women in India is not often understood. "The Shroud", written by Prem Chand, is a perfect example on how women are disrespected by their husbands. The women in the story dies during childbirth and her husband is worried too ...
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... while Latino and Asian children are much less likely to see their race represented. “In one study, it showed that white males accounted for over fifty percent of the people of the “main” characters in each program.” (Media Awareness Network). Despite the few shows shown as colored people as the central characters there is still a long way to go. There also has been a distinct increase in the number of minority and aboriginal newscasters, both as reporters, editors and producers. “Also, in 1989 study on billboard advertising in Montreal subway stations, the researchers found that minorities were featured on only one billboard from a total of 163 on di ...
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... and going to war are a man's work, men from minority groups have often been accepted more readily in the military than the women. Women have been viewed as outsiders in a male environment. Discrimination and harassment occurs for women because we are entering an all male dominated area. Some areas are still restricted because of it. For example: serving in direct combat capacities such as armor, infantry, and special forces-branches from which much of the senior leadership is drawn. "In 1994, the annual Navywide Personnel Survey included questions on women's role for the first time. Some 65 percent of officers and almost 50 percent of enlisted respondents s ...
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... outside more freely. In fact, all of the parents are scared of their children having accidents. However, most of the parents in the United States prefer their children to have more outside activities than just stay at home. In addition, most of the children in Hong Kong have no human rights than the children who are raised in the United States. Traditionally, many parents in Hong Kong punish their children by hitting when they make some mistakes. Because of there are no formal laws to protect the children from getting hit, some parents even hit their children without any reasons. On the other hand, the parents in the United States do not hit their children ea ...
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... (which means harlot, prostitute or female captive) and graphos (which means description of). True to the root meaning of the word, pornographic material depicts women as articles purchased or captured. Pornography dehumanizes women. The material often focuses only on certain body parts such as the breast or legs, suggesting that a woman does not exist as a whole person but rather she consists of many pieces that a man can pick and choose from. Some pornographic material more blatantly portrays women as enslaved objects, showing their bodies in chains and bondage, down on all fours for a conquering male figure or pretending to enjoy pain. Even pornography that d ...
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... but by subconscious inputs from their surroundings. My views of this may differ from others, but this is my knowledge and understanding from first hand experience. Growing up as a child, I experienced this first hand. It didn't have as dramatic an effect as it may have on other children. There are three general ways in which a child may be affected, but are a wide variety of situations. I can't predict the future so I cannot tell which one I will fall into, but I am hoping it is the second way. Firstly, the child may take on the psychological effect that it is OK to do since one has seen their mother or father commit the acts. Children may do this cause t ...
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... During the middle ages women still has almost no rights. They still didn't have the right to voice there opinion and were still viewed as property. If they disobeyed there male role model they were punished. The art of the Renaissance gave women some freedom to voice there opinion about the arts and social issues as long as there opinions weren't very radical. However women were only the objects in the arts. They were the models and not the creators. They were not allowed to express themselves but only to be expressed by others. This lead into the period of the Reformation, women were still viewed as property and the homemakers. They did not really get there place i ...
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... of things to worry about when it comes to their children: if they smoke, if they’re hanging out with the wrong crowd, or if they are getting good enough grades. With all these worries, it seems nonsensical to throw one more worry on the already large pile of worries parents have to deal with. “My kids are home-schooled,” complains mother Tiana Hutchinson, “I shouldn’t have to worry about them getting arrested every time I send them outside to play.” (“Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” 4). Parents aren’t the only ones upset with this problem-causing ordinance. In 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of thousands of law-abiding you ...
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