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    Public Good

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    As a child, I was taught that the Public Good is anything and almost everything that is beneficial not only to most of the members of our society, but especially to those who are among the weakest and the most vulnerable. Sometimes, in order to achieve a Public Good, sacrifices are necessary, but the line between Ethical and Good may sometimes become muddled. Nonetheless, my definition of the Public Good includes products or services provided by non-profit organizations, welfare programs, and information

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    Social justice historic Marxist classical writers believe that social justice is a historical category , historic , rather than an eternal category ; concept of a fair society is the relationship between the social production of the decision, the different ways in which social production fair concept is different. Engels pointed out : Fair is not a priori decide what economic relations , on the contrary, it is determined by economic relations , it is standard on fair economic relations with the changes

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    situations that are not what they are meant to be, or something wrong happens, also known as a dysfunction. A dysfunction is another term that means consequences of an activity that forbid a community or societies ability to survive as a community. This can happen as a whole society or just a part of a society. Emile Durkheim, a sociologist, started that social problems occur when people no longer can agree

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    today’s society. Remnants of patriarchal relations fundamentally enable the extent of class, exploitation, agency and power that drives this capitalist economy. While man-woman relations are conducive the process of capital accumulation, they are not mutually indispensible. That is, there is no infinite or explicit relationship between labour-wage gender inequality under capitalism. However, it is the inability to disaffirm the prevalence of gendered norms that define women’s place in society enables

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    and engage in discourse. As the public sphere is primarily a discursive arena located outside and between state bureaucracies on the one hand and economics and business on the other, it occupies a crucial role in the functioning of so-called free societies. The question to be explored here is what role theatre and performance in practice play in this realm and how performance and theatre theory can contribute to the debates.” (Balme

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    The only way to significantly reduce and eventually end poverty is thus to restructure society, so that social reproduction and economic production are no longer contradictory and are recognized as inter-dependent spheres. While poverty has numerous causes that create and reinforce it, the central cause of poverty is the contradiction between social reproduction and economic production. In capitalist society, economic production outweighs social reproduction, simply because economic production

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    The Fifth Element illustrates an advanced society that is characterized by sociocultural evolution, long-term social trends resulting from the interaction of continuity, innovation, and selection (Schaefer, 2013). The film is reflective of the society’s cultural advancements in technology, industry and media. Known for being a blockbuster action sci-fi, The Fifth Element contains several sociological concepts which include secularization, agents of socialization, conferral of status, and Marx’s “Power

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    social safety- net becomes unnecessary. However, no culture has been without religion in one form of another (myths, gods etc.) as a result of our biological craving to justify the unexplained. Nonetheless, religion arguably hinders growth of modern society by its tendency to ignore factual based findings and replacing doubt with a false, unsubstantiated surety. More than half the people under the age of 50 stated that religion was not important. Furthermore, recent findings demonstrate that the shift

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    Political-economist like Adam Smith and Karl Marx have investigated the capitalist system and both have demonstrated the links to exploitation, racism and

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    dominant mode of production, and capitalist markets were spreading rapidly. This became especially true in the United States of America, which was heavily influenced by the British in matters of economy. Since capitalism was born in England, the influence of capitalism bled over into America while they were still under British rule (Wolf et al. 2670). However, by 1820, the year that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published, the United States fully adopted the capitalist mode of production, along with

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