The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

The Occupy Movement is an international activist movement that fosters social and economic change and originated from the actions of the Occupy Wall Street movement (source #7). The focus is on the Occupy Wall Street movement that was launched on September 17th 2011 and was catalysed by Adbusters activist Micah White. White created a web page about the corruption that was happening surrounding the financial crisis in the United States leading to the most recent recession. Large corporations based

patriarchy, there is a male dominance role in the interpersonal relation with a woman whereas in larger institutions, public patriarchy is seen. Colonial America and the Emerging Modern Family Gender Roles. In Colonial America, the godly family was seen as a "patriarchal institution ruled by the father" (Zinn, 2011: 37) and marriages were based on social and economic considerations, a more public patriarchy. We have discussed our observations in our class sessions that men were the sole authority figures

Foucault also notes a ‘broader change in the social order, (1997, pp. 216-217.) Mathiesen argued that, ‘the movement towards the panoptical form was not only a characteristic feature of the modern prison. A new kind of society was implied in the transformation’ (p. 217). The change in social order being exemplified by the

to spawn a critical debate in social influence. Inquisitively, de Tocqueville discerned that American citizens inherently gathered in public arenas to discuss important matters that had a direct importance on their community and its relation with those in neighboring areas (Ferragina 2013). For de Tocqueville, the civility and rationally displayed in these public forums were a phenomenon that he would later describe as “habits of heart”. A “habit of heart is where people watched out for each other

societies as well as the achievements of social and political philosophy and contemporary sciences. The civil society is most often determined as autonomous pluralism of private and public activities, beyond the state control, expressed in individual freedom, local and regional self rule, citizens’ participation in public affairs and social movements as well as in cultural autonomy and free trade unionism. In the former socialist countries the civil society was destroyed and repressed by state measures

1998). Carrying an objective to influence legislators or regulatory agencies, these political advocacy groups play a critical role in the operation of a healthy liberal democracy. In contemporary society, the notion of Same-sex marriage has polarized public opinion worldwide and is recognized as one of the most controversial non-economic issues to ever confront the Australian

to be missing three-dimensionality, rather serving as symbols for the men in the novel. Undoubtedly, the women are overwhelmingly undervalued, and placed in a separate sphere completely. The “cult of domesticity” was commonly used in the 19th century to illustrate the tendency to see women in private life, while men dominated public life. In an institution as large as colonization, women are overwhelmingly missing from the narrative. However, on closer inspection it becomes clear that the connection

The focus of this paper is on post communist transition economies touched by the Euro Zone crisis. The negative influence it has made to economic dynamics was felt by everyone living in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the actual collapse of some economies in Central and Eastern Europe, lower standards of living in parts of the region, protests and social anxiety, little attention was paid to the crisis and the recession in the post-communist countries that joined the European Union in 2004 and

absorption problem that inevitably leads to stagnation. To prevent the latter, unproductive consumption rises and the remaining surplus enters the sphere of circulation, particularly, financial activities. This is a stark contrast to Orthodox Marxists (cite), who explain the rise of finance as a consequence of the falling rate of profit in the sphere of production. The essential contention is that poor profitability in

country where gender roles are undergoing vast changes, especially the women’s status in the public spheres, which includes their educational attainment, earnings, occupational status, job mobility, and political representation. Throughout the last four decades, gender division has also massively differed in the subject of household labour. In the 20th Century, Vietnam underwent structural transformation, including military