The Power of Groups: Understanding Social Dynamics and Research Methods
Given this distinction, people are part of a parent group and/or secondary groups (family – 1º – / workgroup – 2º -), but participation in the group is subject to the individual to remain within the limits and in full accordance with what that group thinks or values overall. So the group itself imposes on its members (in-group) a way of seeing things that may be different or opposed to how they see other group members (out-group).
The groupality shows that people do not act as autonomous individuals.
Read MoreJohn Donne’s Metaphysical Poetry: A Study of Love, Faith, and the Human Condition
– John Donne’s Metaphysical Poetry: A defining characteristic of 17th-century poetry, it explores the intimate connections between politics and religion. Poets were deeply engaged by the political tensions and diverse Christian beliefs of the era. This period also saw a significant intellectualization of poetry, where the intellectual tone became more prominent than the emotional one.
– Metaphysical Poetry: The term ‘metaphysical’ was coined by Dr. Johnson, who described these poets as ‘men of
Read MoreJohn Donne’s Metaphysical Poetry: An Introduction
John Donne’s Metaphysical Poetry: An Introduction
Seventeenth Century Poetry: An Introduction
Intimate connections between politics and religion:
- The poets were engaged and stimulated by the period’s political antagonism and diversity of Christian beliefs.
Intellectualization of poetry:
- Poetry became something out of the mind; the intellectual tone of poetry was more important than the emotional one.
Metaphysical Poetry
- It was Dr. Johnson who gave metaphysical poetry its critical meaning. “Metaphysical
The Power of Groups: Understanding Social Dynamics and Research Methods
Given this distinction, people are part of a parent group and/or secondary groups (family – 1º – / workgroup – 2º -), but participation in the group is subject to the individual to remain within the limits and in full accordance with what that group thinks or values overall. So the group itself imposes on its members (in-group) a way of seeing things that may be different or opposed to how they see other group members (out-group).
The groupality shows that people do not act as autonomous individuals.
Read MoreMarxist Literary Theory: A Comprehensive Guide
Chapter 8: Marxism
Key Figures and Concepts
Thinkers and Writers
- Karl Marx
- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
- Georg Lukacs & Antonio Gramsci (Marxist Theoreticians)
- James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett (Modernist Fiction, Ulysses & The Sound and the Fury)
- Sir Walter Scott, Stendhal, Honore de Balzac (Realist Novels)
- Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jurgen Habermas (The Frankfurt School)
- Louis Althusser (Ideology & Ideological State Apparatuses,
Cultural Materialism and Interculturalism in Complex Societies
Cultural Materialism
Cultural materialism aims, depending on the material conditions of existence, to explain variations in all areas of culture: in the field of moral values, religious beliefs, or artistic experiences. Variations in the material constraints affecting the way people face the problems that are presented to solving their basic needs in a given habitat are the most likely causes of differentiation in the mental or spiritual aspects of human life.