What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean? Corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company 's effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. The term generally applies to company efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups. Corporate social responsibility may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the
dominance of the concepts and beliefs that became the foundation for the ecological perspective. The environmental perspective
longitudinal data sheds remarkable light on the "problem" of statutory rape, identifying for us key markers, as well as key actors, in the history of the law's enforcement and helping us to understand their roles in constructing the meaning of this crime over successive generations. ... The statutory rape codes have been used at various times to reinforce fathers' interests in their daughters' marriageability, to protect young women's chastity from seductive men, to control promiscuous or disease-laden
violence, and historically Established states have been the major perpetrators of both. Martain shaw The concept of genocide and the United Nations Genocide Convention are well-known, but the inventor of both the word and the landmark instrument of international law, Raphael Lemkin, is a figure, which has been eclipsed and over-shadowed by contemporaries. Raphael
my implementing democratic principles. He introduced the concepts of perestroika, which means to reconstruct, and glasnost, which means openness. Glasnost allowed for increased freedom of the press, while perestroika allowed for governmental reform. One of these reforms included marketplace changes in the economy. Gorbachev wanted to de-monopolize businesses and eliminate price controls. In addition, political reforms introduced contested elections in which multiple candidates were allowed to speak
more. The reasoning behind this is deviance. Deviance can be either positive (over conforming) or negative (under conforming). When applying the subject of crime to a type of deviance, it falls under the negative category because those who under conform in society have a tendency to reach their goals with non-accepted means. Considering the crime of drunk driving, many factors add up to develop a reason why so many people do it. Merton’s strain theory perspective explains the deviance behind drunk
Discuss the principles of tragedy as defined in Aristotle’s Poetics. Illustrate these principles by examining Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King, in order to establish the link between the theory and practise of tragedy. Analyse the genre of tragedy as one that reveals dilemma and paradox. The advent of modern theater as we know it today began with the worship of Dionysus: the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theater and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology
Modern culture commonly exceeds the boundaries of individual nation states through processes such as globalisation, improvement in technologies and the rise in free trade; leading to the concept of transnationalism (Waldinger, 2013). Transnationalism involves interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of many nation-states (Crang et al, 2003). Transnationalism is intrinsically linked to mobility; mobility is the ongoing and continuous cross-border movements in which people develop
What is Crime? Definition of crime The SAGE dictionary of criminology- “Crime is not a self-evident and unitary concept. Its constitution is diverse, historically relative and continually contested. As a result an answer to the question ‘what is crime?’ depends upon which of its multiple constitutive elements is emphasized. This in turn depends upon the theoretical position taken by those defining crime”. Oxford English Dictionary- An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is
criminally prosecuted and face up to five years of imprisonment if she interrupted her pregnancy. The prohibition was settled by the military dictatorship just right before it left the government, by 1989, and ended up six decades in which a broad concept of therapeutic abortion was legally an option in the country. Since the recovery of democracy in March 1990, there has been no attempt to reverse this situation, ignoring women that still in need of interrupting an unwanted pregnancy and they still