Max Aitken

The Castle The Castle, directed by Rob Sitch, is an Australian comedy, which delves into the lives of a stereotypical Australian family, the Kerrigans. The film touchs on issues close to home in a humourous way. The audience is introduced to the classic Aussie family, narrated in the viewpoint of the youngest of the Kerrigans, Dale. The setting is a lower class Melbourne suburb, adjacent to an airport. The head of the Kerrigan household, Darryl Kerrigan (Michael Caton), is simple, but a man

Chapter 1: Introduction to McDonaldization What is McDonaldization? McDonaldization: The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world What do we mean by the spatial, temporal, and vertical expansion of McDonaldization? Spatial expansion: franchises are growing rapidly; international success; other nations have developed their own variants on the McDonald’s chain McDonald’s long

Karl Marx v. Max Weber: Comparitive Analysis C. Wright Mills places both Weber and Marx in the great tradition of what he calls the "sociological imagination" a quality that "enables us to grasp both history biography and the relationship between the two within society". (Mills, 12) In other words both theorists were dealing with the individual and society not either one to the exclusion of the other. Mills further writes that both Marx and Weber are in that tradition of sociological theorizing

Religion plays an integral part in individuals lives, both personally and in societies as sociologists, such as Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, try to understand its impact through the beliefs and functions it holds. Religion is the very basis that some people may live their lives by which their everyday behaviours and actions are influenced. Beyond the behaviour and action, religion may help one find peace with them self and be able to make an identity as some people see their religion as who they

Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer were two renowned Jewish representatives of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory; they were particularly dominant during the early 20th century, approximately around the time of the 1920’s to 1960s. They took refuge in America after Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany. These to philosophers developed the ‘Culture Industry Theory’ in the 1940s, in light of the disturbed society they had seen during this time. They witnessed how Nazi Fascism used mass media such as

James MacGregor Burns the founder of Transformational leadership (Conger, n.d.) and Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber the founder of Charismatic leadership ("Transformational," n.d.). Over the course of time, movies have been made, demonstrating these theories, for example an old classic “The Lion King” ("Leadership Movies," 2008). This movie coveys both MacGregor Burns and Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber’s theories. On August 3, 1918 MacGregor Burns was born in Melrose, Massachusetts (“James MacGregor

HSE101 Principles of Exercise & Sport Science Practical Assignment – Submaximal Exercise Testing¬ Name: Renee Deverall Student Number: 215067741 1. Write a short paragraph that defines VO2max, explains what it measures and describes some of the most important ways that it can be used in health and sport. VO2max can be defined as the maximum oxygen uptake. This entails the maximum rate at which oxygen is readily available in the body to be taken up and used during aerobic exercise. (Fletcher et al

focuses on the relationship between religion and social change as proposed in the theories of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. It will be argued that religion will continue to evolve with society while providing coherent meaning for the progressions and successes in people’s everyday lives, and thus providing a metaphorical platform for social change, as theorised by Max Weber. Karl Marx however, interprets religion as an opiate for human suffering. Marx drew influence from Hegel and Feuerbach’s

of how the current criminal justice system operates. Evidently and unfortunately, it seems that parts of the criminal justice system practices were created to benefit somehow the powerful richer people. First of all, conflict theory is derived from Max Weber and Georg Simmel, German sociologists who initiated this idea of how the upper class affects in a negative way the lower class. In other words, conflict theory can be defined as the “inequality based on differences in wealth, status, ideas, religious

Referring to the movie “The Lion King” a young prince was born in the Pride Lands of Africa by the name of Simba, he was a curious little one, which led to numerous problems for himself, his father and the land. Simba was the son of a prodigious King named Mufasa and together they made a wonderful team, nevertheless all does not follow well for Simba and Mufasa. King Mufasa had perished in a massive stampede and Simba was left to believe that he was the reason for his father’s death, thanks to his