Morals concern what is right and wrong. Right and wrong usually vary depending on what is normal in a specific culture or society. Many people would agree that what is “right” is moral, but it is James Rachels that explores what makes something right. Rachels argues that it is the cultural normality’s of a society itself, that makes an action morally right, while others would disagree and claim that there is a set of “universal moral codes” that people should live by. In different societies and cultures what is morally right and wrong can be determined only within the individual mind of a person.
Because the connection between nature and man is so central to the novel, an ecocritical approach to Fahrenheit 451 is especially revealing. Nature imagery in Fahrenheit 451 allows the reader to understand one's relationship with the natural world. The Department of English at The University of Wisconsin defines ecocriticism as, “A critical perspective that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the natural world and on how that relationship is structured by the institutions of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, law, science, and economics” (Roth). The ecocritical approach allows the reader to study a relationship with some human quality and nature. Simply, it is a study between literature and the environment.
“Othering” comes as part of human nature. It is just built in us to try and be the best, even if that means stepping on other people on the way to the top. Could you imagine a world where we are all truly equal? No one is judging you, or has power over you? “Othering” could be differences in culture and diversity, and what makes each one of us who we are.
Although they don’t condone the procedure, they prefer to hope for change from within. Other anthropologists point out that, although cultural relativism may help us understand a culture on its own terms, it can also help us understand how cultural beliefs reinforce inequalities by convincing people to accept practices that may be harmful and demeaning as natural. In
According to chapter 1 in the Essentials of Sociology textbook, the main idea of symbolic interactionism is that symbols are the way we can understand how we view the world and interact with one another. “George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is one of the founders of symbolic interactionism” (Henslin, 2013, p. 57). Mead believed that society depends on symbols. It is said that symbols define our relationships. For example, without symbols we would not have moms or dads, aunts or uncles, teachers, bosses, or even siblings.
Words stand for ideas, people, events, objects, feelings, and so forth, but they are not the things they represent (Wood, p. 95, 96).” 2. How does your unique perspective influence how you perceive language? Communication reflects cultural values and perspectives. It also creates or reproduces culture by naming and normalizing practices valued by the culture. The words of a language reflect what the mainstream in a culture regards as worth naming.
Society can limit the ways in which people express their identity and seek to fulfill their potential. Our identity is shaped by positive and negative experiences. It is also a self-representation of our interest, relationships, socially activity and numerous other factors. Our sense of identity also stems very closely from our sense of belonging and how we relate to something or someone. However, the society or the occupants of the place we reside in have an underlying impact on how we express ourselves and fulfill our potential. Society defines the right and wrong for us, thereby limiting the choices we have to express ourselves.
“If we hope to sift style from substance, and discredit the willful muddling of the two that makes the unfamiliar look exotic, then we are looking not just for family resemblances or a behavioral lowest common dominator, but for moral threads and themes that can anchor norms to recognizably objective values (Goodman, 2010)”. Relativism is the reference to a variety of diverse thoughts that people have. The moral relativism affirms that morality is not being centered on one complete custom. Morality is centered on several customs of cultures and other things. The moral relativism can be centered on a person’s faith, the beliefs that their family instilled in him or
It varies from place to place. Humans are humans, and so we should view things the same. But there are outside influences in cultures that make us see the discussed views differently. There is no truth in defining what is just and unjust but we are persuaded by believing what is in our morals by following the evidence, logic and reasoning behind each argument made. The author says “and one ought to bring up the question whether it is those who are sane or those who are demented who speak at the right moment”.
‘Belonging is as much about choices as it is about circumstances that an individual cannot control’ To what extent is this view of belonging communicated in your prescribed text and ONE other text of your own choosing? Belonging is a part of human nature and is a crucial emotion that allows individuals to gain a sense of identity and connection. Historical, social and cultural influences may contribute in forming an individual’s sense of belonging to a certain person, place or community. However despite its inclusive nature, a failure to belong can limit an individual’s sense of belonging as well as cause psychological damage to them. These notions of belonging are exemplified through Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle poem’s Felix