FASHION AND SOCIAL IDENTITY Image analysis in terms of social identity. Using a fashion related image of your choice, discuss how fashion is used to communicate social and cultural identities. In Fred Davis? Fashion, Cultural and Identity (1992), he argues that fashion is used to communicate all sorts of aspects of social identity. Our gender, age, race, sexuality, political affiliations, class, occupation, as well as our individual personality and character, can all be evaluated and conveyed through the clothes that we wear. Fashion is, as Roland Barthes (1990) suggests, a language. It is a way of expressing and communicating our social identity and at the same time, as Goffman (1959) explains, it operates as a symbol or ?sign vehicle? for others to read and interpret. If you think about the clothes that you buy and wear ? you can consider how they are used to create a particular image or impression of yourself for different audiences, at different times, in different places, and how your ideas about what is appropriate, what looks good or bad, what is tasteful or tacky, is influenced by the social and cultural context in which you live. The aim of this section of the course then, is to explore how fashion is used to communicate social identities and how society works to influence our fashion practices and discourse Assessment Task: Image analysis in terms of social identity. Using a fashion related image of your choice, discuss how fashion is used to communicate social and cultural identities. Week 5: The Language of Clothes explore the idea that fashion operates as a language, which communicates our social identity to others. We will discuss how fashion relates to social and cultural contexts, and how fashion can be used to create particular impressions or ?social fronts? in social spaces or for social audiences. In doing so, we?ll assess how fashion is used to evaluate and place individuals in terms of social structures and hierarchies and consider our own fashion practices and discourse. Week 7: Fashion, Gender and Ethnicity In this final session we will look more closely at how fashion is used to communicate gender and race. Using Butler?s notion of ?performativity? as well as the idea of performance, we will discuss how fashion is used to both construct and act out masculinity and femininity, and the distinctions which is made between appropriate femininity and sexuality. The lecture will then move on to look at distinctions in terms of race and ethnicity, exploring how fashion, and particularly fashion advertising, is used to construct and reinforce perceptions of race and ethnicity.
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choose an age group (early chilhood), psychological domain, and theoretcal perspective, focus this paper on your interview subject. Provide a final paper : the topic will be on a domain group and theoretical perspective used to analyze a person that you interview (please write interview based on my 26 month old daughter Malaika). you will present findings from the article to the class;this paper involves conducting a literature search, on a contemporary topic exemplifying evidence drawn from the interview focus. it must be written APA sixth edition, including 1.title page, 2. Introduction: Purpose incorporating- Focus on a topic within a psychological domain of interest: cognitive (thinking, language, intelligence), social-emotional or physical development(i rather physical development). make use of a theoretical orientation (using concepts/language of the theorist). select a period of development (infancy, early childhood, late adulthood,etc)( i prefer early childhood). Introduce your interview or observation participant (my 26 month old daughter malaika). describe the task you will use to engage your participant with (i.e. structured interview, Piagetian tasks, Heinz dilemma( i prefer Piaget). 3. Literature reviews (from your references draft): search then summarize relevant information gathered from diverse resources (reference books, historical works(seminal research or theory), periodical articles (prioritize), professionally affiliated websites(please limit to maximum of 1). 3a. INTEGRATE, ANALYZE, AND CRITICIZE your summaries : analysis of adequacy and consistency or inconsistency of the information your find on your selecred topic. include limitations of methodology of research according to your text. 4. Coclusion: Summary linking your introduction with the overall findings; your unique raction to the process of research. 5. reference page(APA) style 6. overall writing skill is part of the grading
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philosophy of religion Respond to an article written by an actual atheist. This article titled “On Being an Atheist,” was written by H. J. McCloskey in 1968 for the journal Question. 2. The response paper is to be a minimum of 2,000 words (not including quotes) and should be written as a single essay and not just a list of answers to questions. 3. The basis for your answers should primarily come from the resources provided in the lessons covering the philosophy of religion unit of the course (Evans and Manis-Philosophy of Religion Chapter 7, and the presentation) and these sources should be mentioned in your paper. You are not merely to quote these sources as an answer to the question—answer them in your own words. 4. You may use other outside sources as well, as long as you properly document them. However, outside sources are not necessary. Each of the questions can be answered from the sources provided in the lessons. 5. While the use of the Bible is not restricted, its use is not necessary and is discouraged unless you intend to explain the context of the passage and how that context applies to the issue at hand in accordance with the guidelines provided earlier in the course. You are not to merely quote scripture passages as answers to the questions. Remember this is a philosophical essay not a biblical or theological essay. 6. While you may quote from sources, all quotations should be properly cited and quotes from sources will not count towards the 2,000 word count of the paper. 7. You may be critical of McCloskey, but should remain respectful. Any disparaging comment(s) about McCloskey will result in a significant reduction in grade. 8. Please note that all papers are to be submitted through SafeAssign, which is a plagiarism detection program. The program is a database of previously submitted papers including copies of papers that have been located on the Internet. Once submitted, your paper will become part of the database as well. The program detects not only exact wording but similar wording. This means that if you plagiarize, it is very likely that it will be discovered. Plagiarism will result in a 0 for the paper and the likelihood of you being dropped from the course. Specifically, you should address the following questions in your paper: 1. McCloskey refers to the arguments as “proofs” and often implies that they can’t definitively establish the case for God, so therefore they should be abandoned. What would you say about this in light of my comments on the approaches to the arguments in the PointeCast presentation? I will attempt to download this presentation. 2. On the Cosmological Argument: a. McCloskey claims that the “mere existence of the world constitutes no reason for believing in such a being [i.e., a necessarily existing being].” Using Evans and Manis’ discussion of the non-temporal form of the argument (on pp. 69–77), explain why the cause of the universe must be necessary (and therefore uncaused). b. McCloskey also claims that the cosmological argument “does not entitle us to postulate an all-powerful, all-perfect, uncaused cause.” In light of Evans and Manis’ final paragraph on the cosmological argument (p. 77), how might you respond to McCloskey? 3. On the Teleological Argument: a. McCloskey claims that “to get the proof going, genuine indisputable examples of design and purpose are needed.” Discuss this standard of “indisputability” which he calls a “very conclusive objection.” Is it reasonable? b. From your reading in Evans and Manis, can you offer an example of design that, while not necessarily “indisputable,” you believe provides strong evidence of a designer of the universe? c. McCloskey implies that evolution has displaced the need for a designer. Assuming evolution is true, for argument’s sake, how would you respond to McCloskey (see Evans and Manis pp. 82–83)? d. McCloskey claims that the presence of imperfection and evil in the world argues against “the perfection of the divine design or divine purpose in the world.” Remembering Evans and Manis’ comments about the limitations of the cosmological argument, how might you respond to this charge by McCloskey? 4. On the Problem of Evil: a. McCloskey’s main objection to theism is the presence of evil in the world and he raises it several times: “No being who was perfect could have created a world in which there was unavoidable suffering or in which his creatures would (and in fact could have been created so as not to) engage in morally evil acts, acts which very often result in injury to innocent persons.” The language of this claim seems to imply that it is an example of the logical form of the problem. Given this implication and using Evans and Manis’ discussion of the logical problem (pp. 159–168, noting especially his concluding paragraphs to this section), how might you respond to McCloskey?
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