Unit 1 Assignment 2: Ethics Statement Jeremy Robinson A fundamental decision in communication ethics concerns how absolute or relative your ethical standards will be. Will you use the same absolute standards for every communication interaction or will your ethical choices be relative and depend on each situation? Absolute ethical standards mean exactly what they sound like and represent an absolute or unchanging standard for ethics in every situation. Telling the absolute truth in every situation
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Foucault and the New Historicism Author(s): Geoffrey Galt Harpham Source: American Literary History, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 360-375 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/490057 . Accessed: 18/10/2011 05:25 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover
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www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Empire and Excess: Kipling and the Critique of Said’s Orientalism Sourit Bhattacharya Edward Said’s Orientalism remains one of the most influential books of the last quarter of twentieth century. In an informative manner, Said locates the seeds of Orientalism right in the medieval European imagination that solidifies itself in the nineteenth century. It is through knowledge, power, reason, scientific
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RELACIONES ENTRE PODER Y MUCHEDUMBRE EN El Gran Burundún Burundà ha muerto DE JORGE ZALAMEA Introducción Esta investigación nace de una reflexión sobre la responsabilidad de los individuos en la construcción de una dictadura a partir de la constatación del envolvimiento total de los súbditos en el texto El Gran Burundún Burundá ha muerto, escrito por Jorge Zalamea. El dictador protagonista del texto es inspirado por las figuras autoritarias que caracterizan la época del autor en America Latina
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1. After exploring the sociological literature on death and dying, explore and argue for or against one of the following statements: b. Death and dying are subjected to and defined by the clinical gaze. Euphemism and grandiloquence are core mechanisms employed in the theoretical and authoritative discourses surrounding the issues and definitions of death, as seen with the propositions put forward by the British Medical Association (BMA 2003). The BMA’s ideas allude to a suggestion that death
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Michel Foucault (Pronunciación francesa: [miʃɛl fuko]), nacido como Paul-Michel Foucault (Poitiers, 15 de octubre de 1926 – París, 25 de junio de 1984) fue un historiador de las ideas, teórico social, psicólogo y filósofo francés. Fue profesor en varias universidades francesas y estadounidenses y catedrático de Historia de los sistemas de pensamiento en el Collège de France (1970-1984), en reemplazo de la cátedra de «Historia del pensamiento filosófico» que ocupó hasta su muerte Jean Hyppolite. El
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Panopticism Summary Foucault begins with a description of measures to be taken against the plague in the seventeenth century: partitioning of space and closing off houses, constant inspection and registration. Processes of quarantine and purification operate. The plague is met by order. Lepers were also separated from society, but the aim behind this was to create a pure community. The plague measures aim at a disciplined community. The plague stands as an image against which the idea of discipline
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security system it makes the job of an investigator easier when we have the action on video. Therefore, sending a higher power signal. We are being watched no matter where we are, in hopes that actions we might be doing will come to a halt. Michel Foucault seeks through his work, “Panopticisim”, to analyze how contemporary society is differently structured from the society that preceded us and to explain the experiments executed on the human mind through panoptic powers. The structure of Panopticon
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Postmodernity can explain the changing society and how we can apply it to our project in terms of understanding how the Nigerian society has responded to different periods of change, also how these women feel in these societies. “Foucault and Young, 1981, M. Foucault, The order of discourse, R. Young (Ed.), Untying the text: A post-structuralist reader, Routledge, London (1981), pp. 48–79.” I have chosen the reference above as my group project will use Foucault’s discourse. We intend on using discourse
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® Acodemy of Management Heview 1993, Vol. 18, No. 3. 518-545. FOUCAULT. POWER/KNOWLEDGE. AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BARBARA TOWNLEY The University of Alberta Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault. I argue that human resource management (HRM) may be best understood as a discourse and set of practices that attempt to reduce the indeterminacy involved in the employment contract. Here I reread HRM practices from a Foucauldian power-knowledge perspective and suggest that this
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