The Debate On American Exceptionalism Norbert Elias Further Aspects Of Established Outsider Relations The Maycomb Model And Synopsis Towards A Theory Of Civilzing Processes

Author : Moritz Mücke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656020981

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The Debate on American Exceptionalism. Norbert Elias' "Further aspects of established-outsider relations: the Maycomb model" and "Synopsis: Towards a Theory of Civilzing Processes" by Moritz Mücke Pdf

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), language: English, abstract: The insistence that the United States of America is an exceptional country is widespread, particularly and unsurprisingly in America. Given the country's economical and social history, the suggestion that the country is indeed fundamentally different from other nations can not be easily discredited. Many factors contribute to this idea and recent political developments, most notably the impressive comeback of the Republican Party in the 2010 elections, indicate that a majority of Americans disapprove of a political approach that would move the country toward a larger size of federal government, European-style socialism and an apologetic foreign policy. The work of the late sociologist Norbert Elias is particularly relevant when American Exceptionalism is concerned. Elias examined the historical and social evolution of nations, a development which he called the Civilizing Process. He also focused on established-outsider relations and their underlying social dynamics and the friction that arises in communities with an established group and the outcast. In the case of the United States, one can easily detect patterns that bring to mind this part of Elias's work; the discrimination of ethnic or religious groups like native Americans, African-Americans and others (“No Irish need apply”). The aim of this paper is to evaluate Elias's theories in the context of American Exceptionalism. The question of whether the American Civilizing Process is in line with Elias's observations or constitutes a unique phenomenon within human history has to be addressed just as well as the depiction of established-outsider relations that he deals with in his essay on Harper Lee's novel “How to Kill a Mockingbird”.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 1904558399

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The Collected Works of Norbert Elias: The established and the outsiders by Norbert Elias Pdf

Elias wrote in both English and German, and in all his work runs to 14 books and around 90 other essays, along with poems and numerous interviews. The 18 volumes of the collected works contain many writings not previously published in English, and a small number never published before. All of the texts have been thoroughly checked and revised, by editors who have a deep knowledge of Elias's thinking; they have inserted many clarifications, cross-references and explanatory notes.

Author : Timothy Roberts,Lindsay DiCuirci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Exceptionalism
ISBN : 1138660442

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American Exceptionalism Vol 3 by Timothy Roberts,Lindsay DiCuirci Pdf

American exceptionalism - the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations - is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.

Author : Alexander Mircescu
Publisher : Grin Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668378797

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Automation Theory Defined by Systems and Processes by Alexander Mircescu Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Engineering - Automotive Engineering, language: English, abstract: Automation systems are the most general systems known in engineering, since they couple the management of matter, energy, and information in space, time, and causality. Indeed, such systems define entire production processes where materials and processed, transported, and stored. The production processes of materials require (mostly electrical) energy needed for the operating machines, such that energy has also to be transformed, transported, and stored. The machines are controlled by computers, such that information flows are also present, implying that information has also to be processed, communicated among the operating machines, and stored. In order to formalize the description of such automation processes we will define a system and a process in a deductive manner in this chapter. This definition will appear astonishing at this step, but will be clarified in the following chapters explaining what information and causality are, and how they behave in physics together with matter, energy, space, and time.

Author : Dr. Rashad Richey
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783668498815

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The Global Affect of Western Religion on Politics, Policy and Government by Dr. Rashad Richey Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: EP, , course: Doctor of Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The present paper investigates the effect of Western religion on governance, policies, and politics, within both the domestic and the global contexts. This question, however, leads into the need for deep ideological analysis. The paper thus defines the concept of Western religion, and then proceeds to show how Western religion is inseparable from Western civilization, including modern values which are often called secular but which, in fact, have ideological roots that can be traced to Western religion. Over the course of this analysis, an opposition emerges between Western religion on the one hand and secular progressivism on the other—the latter of which is both derived from and antagonistic toward Western religion. The contours of this ideological conflict and their implications are explored through the development of a comprehensive theoretical framework. The independent research of the present paper consists of an interview with a selected congressman. The interview seeks to delve into the congressman's views regarding Western religion and its effects on governance, policies, and politics. This data is analyzed using a qualitative method. Finally, the present paper analyzes and discusses the statements of the congressman in the interview in light of the previously developed theoretical framework. The main conclusion that is reached is that although the congressman is insightful in several respects, he seems to lack a general awareness of the nature of ideology, or the fact that secular progressivism is in ideological conflict with Western religion, even as the former cannot escape the influence of the latter. A key recommendation that emerges from this conclusion is that it is perhaps necessary for both politicians in particular and Americans in general to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of ideology, especially as this pertains to politics.

Author : Christa Buschendorf
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839436608

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Power Relations in Black Lives by Christa Buschendorf Pdf

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,

Author : Amira Karam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668921709

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Who is American? A Definition of American Identity by Amira Karam Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on what it means to be an American and if it is possible for people and immigrants with different cultural backgrounds to acquire an American Identity. In want to find out if the American exceptionalism and its three dimensions give an impression of what it means to gain an American identity. Obviously, being American means to share the same values, but it is not clear if it means to also share the same citizenship. I take a close look at the idea of multiculturalism that challenges the current ideological solutions for equality and diversity in the United States, trying to answer the question whether multiculturalism is or is not a threat to the idea of an American Identity. The meaning and consequences of national identification have long been the subject of debate among philosophers, historian, and social scientist. The identification with the American country through national attachment, pride, and loyalty is self-evident for many Americans. A national identity shared by fellow citizen creates a sense of unity and a bond of solidarity. The question of what defines an identity or the American identity, to be specific, is not clarified. What is clear, however, is the important and vast difference between a patriot, who feels a sense of pride and love for his country, while the nationalist views his country as superior with a desire to dominate other countries. However, both are bond by their trust for the American values. Freedom, Truth, Justice and the American way of life.

Author : Elena Agathokleous
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346370457

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Native American Genocide in Natalie Diaz' Poem "Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation" by Elena Agathokleous Pdf

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This essay analyses the poem "Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation" of Natalie Diaz regarding Native American genocide. Natalie Diaz, a Native American of the tribe of Mohave, published her first collection of poetry in 2015 and through it eloquently and passionately presents a variety of issues related to the Native American community. As she states in an interview given to Kaveh Akbar, her poetry consists of images that tell stories, stories she had either experienced or were created through myth and history. The issue of genocide is such that rouses responses from all kinds of people and also vast production of literature including texts, essays and poetry.

Author : Laura Götz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668476318

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America Goes Abroad. American Emigration to the European Metropolis in the 1920s and Today by Laura Götz Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will compare the motives as well as differences and similarities of American expatriation to European cities in two different time periods. For this, the research will look at the emigrant generation of the 1920s post-war Parisian literary community and, in a second step, this community of writers will be compared to today’s American expatriates in Berlin. The research aims at illustrating how those two periods have influenced the emigrants’ decision of leaving the country and what social circumstances of the respective time period in European centers have shaped the generation’s lifestyle. The United States of America, once a country conquered, and then a nation founded, by various European nationalities, is the starting point of this paper. The century-long waves of immigration into this country give the historical justification of the U.S. as an immigrant nation. From this point of view, the movements of emigration away from this country over the last decades show a counterstream back to Europe. In this process of migration a tendency of being attracted to European urban centers characterizes American emigration.

Author : Kenneth W. Warren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674066298

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What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren Pdf

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In WarrenÕs view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, WarrenÕs work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.

Author : Noemi Donner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640251100

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Cultural Identity in the Early English Colonies in North America by Noemi Donner Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Chemnitz (Anglistik/Amerikanistik ), course: Hauptseminar "British and American Relations since 1607", 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The history of English settlement in North America starts in 1607 when disregarding Indians and some earlier attempts of settlers which were abandoned or not documented further. Thus, American history and civilization started with English settlers. But were they still English when they arrived in the New World? Were they not Americans from the early colonization on? Did they not leave part of their Englishness in the mother country when they entered the ship to cross the Atlantic? And did they all have the same motivations and attitudes to leave England? In order to examine their culture and to highlight obvious implementations of an evolving American cultural pattern, this paper examines the settlers’ identities, thus what they identified with and what they disclaimed. It deals with the question whether one can speak of an American culture or national feeling before the American Revolution, i.e. before the United States had become a nation. It tries to conceive or grasp the sensations of the population, their attitudes and feelings about their cultural and national identity.

Author : George E. Tinker
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451408404

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Missionary Conquest by George E. Tinker Pdf

This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft of the Black Hills from the Sioux.

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : BuK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1933540036

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Bük #13 by Richard Wright Pdf

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781598533811

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A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”

Author : Simon Susen,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783080724

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The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu by Simon Susen,Bryan S. Turner Pdf

These critical essays bring together prominent scholars in the social sciences to consider the diverse nature of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social theory. In offering a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu’s sociology, the essays of this volume examine Bourdieu’s relationship to both classical and contemporary social theory. This collection constructs an intellectual bridge between French-speaking and English-speaking accounts of Bourdieu’s work.