Monday, April 1, 2019
John Keats: Ode On A Grecian Urn
John Keats Ode On A Grecian UrnThou however unravishd bride of quietnessim1,Thou foster-child im2of silence and slow conviction,Sylvan im3historian, who basisst thus educeA flowery im4tale much sweetlyim5 than our create verb e precise(prenominal)yWhat leaf-fringd legend hauntsim6 ab away thy ca practice sessionOf deities or mortals, or of twain,im7In Tempe im8or the dales of Arcadyim9im10?What work force or gods ar these? What maidens un imparting?What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?im11What pipes and timbrels? What im12wild ecstasy?Heard melodies ar sweet, tho those unheardim13Are sweeter thitherfore, ye soft pipesim14, play onNot to the lift outial ear, that, more(prenominal) endeard,Pipe to the spirit ditties of no toneim15Fair youth, beneath the trees, kibibyte canst non leaveThy vocal, nor ever can those trees be b arim16Boldim17 Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,Though winning near the terminus yet, do not grieveShe cannot fadeim18, though thou im19hast not im20thy bliss,For ever wilt thou love, and she be fairim21Ah, cheerful, happy im22boughs that cannot shedYour leaves, nor ever bid the dancing adieuAnd, happy melodist, unweariedim23,For ever piping songs for ever newim24 more happy love more happy, happy loveFor ever prompt and still to be baskd,For ever pantingim25, and for ever juvenileAll eupnoeic human passion far in a higher levelim26,That leaves a he nontextual matter gain high-sorrowful and cloydim27im28,A burn mark forehead, and a parching tongue.Who ar these coming to the return?To what green altar, O private priest,Leadst thou that heifer lowing at the skies,And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?What microscopic town by river or sea shore,Or mountain-built with peaceful citadelim29,Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?And, little town, thy streets for evermoreWill silent be and not a in buy the farm outigence to tellWhy thou art desolate, can eer return.O attic shape Fair attitu de with bredeOf marble men and maidens overwroughtim30,With forest branches and the trodden smokingThou, silent pulpim31, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity Cold Pastoralim32When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of an diverse(prenominal) woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, bang is truth, truth beautyim33,-that is allYe know on earth, and all ye destiny to know. background know directgeKeats felt inspired after reading ii Benjamin Haydon articles, he was awargon of Greek art and he had depression hand pic to the Elgin marbles.Reinforced his be dissimulationf that Greek art was nonpargonilistic and captured Greek virtues which form the basis of the song.He wrote the Odes when he left his strain as ancillary house surgeon in London, to devote himself entirely to the composition of poetry. animated with his friend Charles Brown, the 23-year-old was burdened with money problems and despaired when his brother George soug ht his financial assistance.Relationships amid the soul, eternity, temperament, and art.Keats was a second generation of Romantic poet, he took a complaisant subject a study of a Greek pot unremarkably spoken about by the Augustans and traditionalistic odes and turned it into a loud, over-the-top celebration of music, finish up, and youth.StructureAttempted to write sonnets hardly found the poesy scheme did not match the message he was exhausting to convey, so he turned to the ode form.But he found the Pindaric form short(p) for discussing philosophy.So, he discovered his own kind.Further departed his ode style for nightingale and Grecian Urn by adding a secondary voice- creating a dialogue.Keats uses ekphrasis, (the poetic internal appointation of a painting or sculpture in expressions) but distinguishablely from Theocrituss Idyll, a spot slight(prenominal) poem describing a design on the military position of a cup, Theocritus breaks motion and underlying mo tives whilst Keats focuses solely on the external features of the cup but makes the reader think about the underlying motives.Ten-line stanzas, outset with an ABAB rhyme scheme (alternate rhyme) and ending with a Miltonic sestet (1st and 5th stanzas CDEDCE, 2nd stanza CDECED, and tertiary and 4th stanzas CDECDE, the Keatsian Structure). The same overall pattern is utilise in Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, and Ode to a Nightingale (though their sestet rhyme schemes vary), which unify the poems in mental synthesis as salutary as theme.Creates the sense of a cardinal-part thematic structure as salubrious. The first four lines of apiece stanza roughly go under the subject of the stanza, and the last six roughly explicate or develop it.Ode in Greek, means sung. While ode-writers from antiquity adhered to rigid patterns of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, the form by Keatss time had undergone enough transformation that it represented a panache quite than a set method for writing a certain eccentric person of lyric poetry.Keatss odes seek to find a classical balance in the midst of two extremes, and in the structure of Ode on a Grecian Urn, classical literature and the asymmetry of Romantic poetry. The use of the ABAB structure in the beginning lines of all(prenominal) stanza represents a clear example of structure found in classical literature, and the remaining six lines appear to break free of the traditional poetic styles of Greek and Roman odes.Keats metre reflects a conscious learning in his poetic style. The poem contains only a single font of medial inversion (the reversal of an iamb in the middle of a line), which was putting green in his anterior works.Keats incorporates spondees in 37 of the 250 metrical feet.Caesurae be never placed before the fourth syllable in a line.The intelligence choice represents a shift from Keats earliest reliance on latinate polysyllabic words to shorter, Germanic words. In the second stanza, Ode on a Grecian Urn, which emphasizes words containing the letters p, b, and v, uses syzygy, the repetition of a consonantal sound.The poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance, which is found in genuinely few English poems. Line 13 where the e of sensual connects with the e of endeard and the ea of ear connects with the ea of endeard.A more complex form is found in line 11 the ea of Heard connecting to the ea of unheard, the o of melodies connecting to the o of those and the u of but connecting to the u of unheard.ThemesLike numerous Keatsian odes, Ode on a Grecian Urn discusses art and arts audience.He relied on depictions of natural music in earlier poems, and works much(prenominal) as Ode to a Nightingale appeal to auditory sensations while ignoring the visual. Keats reverses this when describing an urn at heart Ode on a Grecian Urn to focus on representational art.He previously use the image of an urn in Ode on Indolence, depicting one with three figures representing Lov e, Ambition and Poesy. Of these three, Love and Poesy ar integrated into Ode on a Grecian Urn with an emphasis on how the urn, as a human artistic construct, is capable of relating to the idea of Truth.The images of the urn described indoors the poem be intended as intelligible depictions of common activities an fire at courtship, the making of music, and a religious rite. The figures are supposed to be beautiful, and the urn itself is supposed to be realistic. Although the poem does not include the subjective interestingness of the narrator, the description of the urn at heart the poem implies a human observer that draws out these images.The narrator interacts with the urn in a manner similar to how a connoisseur would respond to the poem, which creates ambiguity in the poems final lines Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye fill to know. The lack of a certain(prenominal) voice of the urn causes the reader to question who is really spill the beansing these words, to whom they are speaking, and what is meant by the words, which encourages the reader to interact with the poem in an interrogative manner manage the narrator.The urn, as a piece of art, requires an audience and is in an incomplete severalise on its own. This yields the urn to interact with humanity, to put forth a narrative, and allows for the imagination to operate. The images on the urn provoke the narrator to ask questions, and the silence of the urn reinforces the imaginations ability to operate.This interaction and use of the imagination is part of a greater tradition gripeed ut pictura poesis the observation of art by a poet which serves as a meditation upon art itself. In this meditation, the narrator d oddmentlys on the aesthetic and mimetic features of art.The figures on the urn indoors Ode on a Grecian Urn lack identities, but the first atom ends with the narrator believing that if he knew the story, he would know their names. T he second sectionalization of the poem, describing the piper and the lovers, meditates on the possibility that the office of art is not to describe specifics but universal characters, which falls under the term Truth. The three figures would represent how Love, Beauty, and Art are unified to calculateher in an idealised demesne where art represents the feelings of the audience. The audience is not supposed to question the purgets but instead to rejoice in the happy aspects of the scene in a manner that reverses the claims about art in Ode to a Nightingale. Similarly, the response of the narrator to the sacrifice is not compatible with the response of the narrator to the lovers.Narrator contemplates where the boundaries of art lie and how much an artist can represent on an urn. The questions the narrator asks to declare a yearning to understand the scene, but the urn is too limited to allow such(prenominal) answers.Furthermore, the narrator is able to visualise more than what very exists on the urn. This conclusion on art is twain(prenominal) satisfying, in that it allows the audience to genuinely connect with the art, and alienating, as it does not provide the audience the benefit of teaching or narcissistic fulfilment.Besides the contradictions between the various desires within the poem, thither are other paradoxes that emerge as the narrator compares his world with that of the figures on the urn. In the opening line, he refers to the urn as a bride of quietness, which serves to contrast the urn with the structure of the ode, a showcase of poem to begin with intended to be sung. approximately other paradox arises when the narrator describes immortals on the side of an urn meant to carry the ashes of the dead.In terms of the actual figures upon the urn, the image of the lovers depicts the relationship of passion and beauty with art. In Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on Melancholy, Keats describes how beauty is temporary.However, the figures of the urn are able to forever and a day enjoy their beauty and passion because of their artistic permanence. The urns description as a bride invokes a possibility of consummation, which is emblematical of the urns need for an audience.im1Apostrophe Silences the Urn and projects a voice, his own onto it allowing him to speak on its behalf.im2Married to Mr. Quietness but they dupe never consummated their marriage contempt ravished imagery. Also, adopted by silence and time but these were not the originally circumstances, the genuine erect is the silent painter and ceremonial use. aft(prenominal) the slouch on Greece the pot continued to live on.im3Means Forest, the Urn is a historian of mint of the woods.im4As well as the bee imagery flowery is a pun as a flowery tale is very complicated, in addition an urn had a flowery or leafy b govern.im5Flower and sweetly is metaphor for bees and nature, he believes that the Urn can tell a better story, with nature analogous unlike poetr y, both are true beauty and show nature.im6Exist in one place- but has obvious connections to the supernatural and the dead characters.im7In ancient Greece Gods were represented as normal batch so it would be hard to tell the difference, Gods withal liked to be in company with people.In a way, the poems rigid rhyme and quantify is very understated bringing parallels to God. Effortless on the surface exceedingly intricate underneath you wouldnt know what you were expression for unless you sough it out..im8The Vale of Tempe was internal for a time to Aristaeus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, and it was here that he get acrossd Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, who, in her flight, was bitten by a serpent and died. In the thirteenth snow AD a church dedicated to Aghia (Saint) Paraskevi was erected in the valley.im9Tempe and Arcady are allusions to two regions of Ancient Greece known for macrocosm particularly lush and green. They work conduct symbols in English poetry for places where p eople lived in the forest.im10Vision of pastoralism in nature.im11USE of ekphrasis, the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words.im12Repetition of questions (anaphora) that the speaker cannot comprehend draws parallels to the interaction between Job and God. nearthing that is godly like nature or beautiful art is incomprehensible for man we can do our best(p) to try to understand it only.im13ASSONANCE ea of Heard connecting to the ea of unheard, the o of melodies connecting to the o of those and the u of but connecting to the u of unheard.im14Unlike the wild party music in the chase in stanza 1 the soft pipes give a soothed atmosphereim15Paradox the sweetest melodies are the ones that you do not hear. Keats is tricking the audience he treats the people as if they are real people in real events living on the Urn sound in frozen timeThe Urns beauty allows him to think of a song in his head that the man is playing and its more beautiful than anything that he has ev er heard before.Aka he picks the fantasy world to the real one.im16Edenic, it shall ever so be spring here with the man under the tree ever so playing his sweet music for his spirit.im17Another apostropheim18No surprise that he is so ghost with immortality, he had unless contracted TB..im19Greece had connections to higher confederacy and was rebellious, he uses anachronic diction to make this connection with the constant repetition of thou- its do to sound fancy.im20Keats says not to grieve but continues to use negative phrasing even in these lines do not grieve, cannot fade, and hast not thy bliss. Keats whitethorn stupefy made a mis transmit, or in that respect whitethorn be a narrate for this negative undertoneim21SYZYG Repetition of the consonant sound b v p in particular, breaking his reliance on Latinate polysyllabic words to shorter, Germanic words.im22Potentially trying to convince himself that he is happy allegorically he is actually happy.im23Pronounced un-wea r-i-ed to preserve the iambic pentameter. Potentially comparing himself to the happy melodist who too draws out notes/syllables.im24Stuck in the same time forever its ever so new nothing shall ever grow old.im25Repetition shows the eternal nature of the urn which is sight here. Panting from being chased in S1 as well as end upual connotations. Alternatively, with the rhythm pulsating and the repetition of speech he is growing sexually excited himself.im26Could be the speaker standing above the urn or it could betoken that the lovers are better of above human passion and they are actually all Gods, preserved and beautiful- living on forever as wide as they are remembered.im27If it is the speaker standing high above past it must be his heart that is sorrow filled, looking at those in love sadden him. Uses metonym to connect them.Words that give meaning to other i.e. Westminster = House of Parliament, Downing Street = Prime Minister.im28Too much of nearlything good.im29Oxymoron peaceful safeguardim30Overcomplicated- too good for us Godly.im31Apostrophe and personification is cyclical like looking around the urn in a circle.im32The poet compares the experience of looking at the urn to thought about eternity, an idea so lofty and hard to understand that trying to think about it is like not thinking at all.im33Simple chiasmus acts as synecdoche for the poem. referable Process and abomination Control Models Compare and ContrastDue Process and Crime Control Models Compare and ContrastThe aim of this news report is to research both the Due Process and Crime Control Models. After researching each of the topics, they testament be discussed in further detail. two of the copys will be compared and contrasted as well. Both of the shams scram proven to be well known and use by means ofout the United states, as well as umteen another(prenominal) another(prenominal) another(prenominal) other parts of the world both standards have been apply since the 1960s. The modern-day state court constitution status and the illustration that is used there will be discussed further in the paper.Both of the exercises named above are very complex systems that are used in brutal evaluator systems throughout the United States as well as many other parts of the world. The manikins were developed as slightly type of guidepost to aid in the arrest and prosecution of roughshods. The purposes of the two poseurs are to tending guard safety is familiarity, as well as protect the rights of the shady in various slurs and scenarios. In shape to fully understand both of the models, each system must be viewed separate and together.Various models and techniques have been used in the condemnable justice system since its development, some of the models have been more structured than others, some have been less structured than others. When evaluated, some of the different models have worked well in some areas, while other models have not appe ared to be beneficial at all.Literature reexaminationChoongh (1998) provided readers with nurture regarding the limitations of Packers annoyance get a line and callable touch on models, which were developed in the 1960s. Choongh informed readers that the annoyance carry model follows procedures very resolvely, as well as screen suspects, determines guilt, and secures punishment all according to written policies, procedures, and legal philosophys. Choongh projected that there are some problems with the model. One of the problems is that the model fructifys efficiency by upper berth and finality. This could possibly be beneficial in some ways, but could alike cause harm in other ways the quicker the investigating the more probable that the work whitethorn be incomplete or sloppy. The cod exploit model is more touch with individual uprightness and autonomy. The main purpose of the over referable butt model is to maintain close get wind over the power of the state . Choongh inform that nevery model is effective, this is because the investigations are not thorough enough, court put to workes are rushed, and prosecutors and law enforcement rush to accuse a person of guilt sooner than taking their time and finding the real villain.Henham (1998) provided readers with information about the rights- found antenna. The author explained that there is a heavy(p) need for a rights- found approach to be used for wickeds during the sentencing process. Henham feels that the curse halt model and the due process model are not adequate. The nuisance look into model is based on repressing criminal bodily process and maintaining a low abomination rate. The due process model focuses in frequent the protection of the individual through emphasising adherence to court board procedures. The rights-based approach is concerned to postulate a number of fundamental normative propositions that have moral, rather than empirical validity. The evil control model and the due process model do not provide adequate choices to criminals when mental health problems are involved, but a rights-based approach would address several areas that the other models do not address. Henham felt that people who suffer from different mental dis rewrites are essentially being discriminated against, by not providing for their need.Schrieber, Renneberg, and Macracker (2009) and Tucker, Hasselt, and Russell (2008) all wrote about the criminal justice system, mentally ill patients, and the professionals inadequate training for dealing with the mentally ill. All of the above authors equipd that there is a great need for special training and possibly special wickedness models that should be used when police are dealing with mentally ill criminals. newly there has been a rise in the number of cases that law enforcement officials have responded to in which mentally ill individuals were the reason the police were called. Schrieber, Renneberg, and Macracker repo rted that the criminal justice system is not capable of dealing with offenders who suffer from mental disorders that uncontrollable. Recent studies have shown that law enforcement officials have are generally the first sink in with mentally ill suspects in criminal cases, but also in many cases that are not criminal and have to be dealt with through loving service programs. The authors reported that the models need to be reorganized so that the criminal justice system will be more warm to individuals who suffer from major depression, post traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and psychosis. Rehabilitation is very of the essence(predicate) for individuals who have these disorders and the treatment that they need is not offered in many of the trammelment facilities that criminals are sent to.Klein (2006) wrote about the crime control model. She reported that the crime control model has a very reliable process for coating suspects, and many of the criminals that are charged w ith crime using this model, will evanesce time in jail or prison, because the system is so reliable. Klein also wrote about the due process model and how it helps an individual to maintain some autonomy during the criminal justice process. Even though there is room for improvement in the areas of p prefaceing and discovery, Klein throws most of the aspects in each model and the basis behind them.duff (1998) wrote about the crime control model and the due process model and how the models are viewed in the criminal justice system. Duff reported that the due process model does not agree with the majority of cases in which criminal are sanctioned for their crimes, this is because if the crimes do not involve any harm to others, Duff feels that the criminal should be penalize les severely. Roach (1999) provided readers with information about four different models used in the criminal justice system. Roach directed more attention to the due process model and the crime control model. Ro ach explained Herbert Packer provided professionals with a guide to criminal justice systems by using these models. Both of the authors reported that if the crime control model is used correctly, most criminals plead finable to the charge or the prosecuting attorney withdrawals the charges. Roach, as well as Duff reported that both models were not only efficient, but also very durable in order to withstand as many age as they have.Edkins (2007) provided readers with information about the due process model and its purpose of helping suspects maintain their individual rights during the criminal justice process. Edkins also provided readers with information about the crime control model and its purpose of making trustworthy that all convicted criminals have harsh punishments. Edkins gave information about seven different studies that were completed which measured attitudes about the due process and crime.Vance and Trani (2008) conducted numerous studies on the crime control model an d the due process model. The authors are not in agreement with the crime control model, but they do support the due process model. Vance and Trani reported that both of the models have ethical standards and should be supported across the board, but the in some places, law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys will not support every of the models. The authors reported that there are many reasons for different crime models, some of these purposes are to help catch criminals, detain them, and reduce crime. Arias and Ungar (2009) wrote about Latin Americans and the impact that the two models have on their deportmentstyle. The authors informed readers that the purpose of the crime control mode is to reduce crime and the purpose of the due process model is to protect individual rights of the impeach when it is used as a guide for the criminal justice process. inter potpourriDue ProcessThe basis of the due process model is globe structure. When used correctly, the due process model prot ects the rights of suspects accused of various crimes. The due process model reduces many errors that occur during the investigation, arrest, evidence gathering, and trial. Due process does not support much of the evidence that is used in many criminal trials, and there are many reasons and situationors for this. Basically, the due process model criticizes every type of evidence except definitive physical evidence that cannot be disputed. The object of looking at evidence in the due process model is deciding what information may be incorrect, falsified, or coerced from an individual. This has occurred on many occasions when other criminals have testified against the suspect, because they may be rewarded with time off of their sentence or other things. Because the main address of the due process model us to reduce mis impinge ons that can place an indigent person in prison, the process is very slow (Henham, 1998 Klein, 2006).Crime ControlThe idea of the crime control model is to decrease crime in all areas for this to be done criminal conduct involve to be drastically reduced. Many of the problems that arise in the crime control model is directed at law enforcement officials. People commit crimes and get away with them, hence it may create a higher crime rate because their likely to be more followers. The crime control model directs more attention in investigating, screening people, establishing guilt, seeking harsher punishments for individuals who have perpetrate crimes (Roach, 1999).For the crime control model to work appropriately, the processes must be efficient. higher(prenominal) arrest and conviction rates need to be seen, as a way of deterring other people from committing crimes. The investigation and arrest process needfully to be expedient, so that fewer resources are used on each client. The main purpose of the crime control model is for the there to be enough evidence gathered that the suspects pleads guilty to the charges, and there is no need to waste time, money, or effort on a trial that may last for a unknown amount of time (Duff, 1998).The crime control model utilizes law enforcement officials and prosecuting attorneys to establish the innocence or guilt of a suspect early during the investigation. Individuals who are most likely guilty of committing such crimes progress through the criminal justice systems with great speed they either plead guilty to such crimes, or they are found innocent or guilty in a criminal trial. , the less likely to find the evidence needed, and the more money spent on the investigation (Klein, 2006).Similarities and Differences between the Two ModelsThe main goal of the due process model is for individuals to be treated fairly in the criminal justice system, so they will not be deprived anything that they deserve in life of they are innocent. The due process model explains that all individuals have a right to freedom and security, unless they are guilty of committing a crime. The crime control model does not hold an individuals rights in high regard, and feels that criminals should be caught at all cost (Roach, 1999).The crime control model puts a apportion of their trust into law enforcement officials and prosecuting attorneys to complete the criminal investigations. Depending on the amount of work put into the investigation and the quality of the work that is done, many suspects will either plead guilty, therefore there is no trial. Speed and finality two tasks the crime control model looks to complete (Roach, 1999). When people are arrested for a crime, they are seen as innocent until they actually admit to or are convicted of such crimes (Klein, 2006).When dealing with the due process model, policing family in a positive nature be acclaims a very vital issue. Followers of the crime control model feel that the number of arrests may deter other criminals from committing crimes, by showing them that the criminal justice system does work (Klein, 2006). much of the population is in favor of the due process model, because of reasons such as equality, human rights, and freedom. Undert the United States Constitution each individual has certain rights, and the due process model helps to maintain and restore these rights (Henham, 1998).Law enforcement agencies generally prefer the crime control model they treat suspects who are arrested as though they have already been found guilty (Henham, 1998). The due process model protects individuals with the 4th and 8th amendments which address the issues of illegal searches on individuals suspected of crimes, as well as the right not to incriminate ones self (Choongh, 1998).State Court Systems Model of ChoiceIt appears that each of the models are very laughable and are used for different purposes. Just as different defense mechanism attorneys have different styles and models that they follow, so do law enforcement officials and prosecuting attorneys. The model that is used is completely up to the indi vidual who is gathering the information and investigating the crime. In an ideal world, the due process model would be the model of choice, because it helps contain the rights of individuals intact, as well as serving its purpose in the criminal justice system. Both the crime control model and the due process model have a positive side as well as a negative.The United States criminal justice system and discriminative system has debated the subject of which models are the most beneficial for numerous years, but no common ground has been reached. Two of the main factors that are looked at when making a decision such as this are, which model helps maintain brotherly order, and which model helps reduce the risk of imprisoning innocent individuals. As close as these two factors are related, the answer should be simplistic, however it is not. In the criminal justice system, these factors actually conflict with one another, therefore there is not a common system that came be used for bo th of the factors. Maintaining and restoring genial order is best maintained by the crime control model, whereas protecting individual rights is best maintained by the due process model (Edkins, 2007).The population that law enforcement officials are serving may have-to doe with the crime model that they decide to use. Areas with high crime rate may be better served by using the crime control model, whereas areas with less crime may be better served by the due process model. Along with the population, the type of crimes that are being committed may also be a factor in which model is chosen. Areas that suffer from drug trafficking and violence may be best served by using the crime control model, whereas areas that suffer from trespassing and burglaries may be best served by using the due process model. The crime control model implies that law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys act promptly to allegations and investigate them more thoroughly at a later time, but the due process model requires careful friendship in each and every case, prior to arresting individuals (Duff, 1998).ConclusionBoth of the models have very different key points. Both of the models have different methods that are used to reach a common goal. If the main goal of the United States Criminal Justice System is to maintain social order and protect the rights of individuals, then there is no way to utilize just one of the two models. The crime control model appears to be the best model used for maintain and restoring order in bon ton. In the ideal world, decisions would not be made in haste. But in order to complete a job and catch certain criminals, then there has to be room for quick decisions, even if it becomes clear that the decisions that were made were wrong. to each one state, county, and city has their own way of operating and reducing crime. Unfortunately at times innocent people are brought into the mix, this is a chance that has to be taken in order to have a fully mental pr ocess criminal justice system. Scholars have researched for many years how to make the criminal justice system work by following one model, but at this time nobody has been successful in developing such a model.Family Social Construct And governing bodyFamily Social Construct And InstitutionIn this essay I intend to discuss the family as a social construct and institution. I will be critically discussing the different forms of the family, and the role of the family within society from four sociological perspectives.The family as a social structure is often taken for granted to mean a married couple with children, possibly incorporating grandparents and directly linked blood relatives. This stereotypical view does not take into broadside a changing society with changing norms and set. It is important when discussing the family in a sociological context to define the family in a wider perspective.Ferrante (2011) suggests that the family is often described as a social institution that binds people together through various means, blood, marriage, norms and law. According to Zelditch (1964) as cited in Ferrante (2011) there is no concrete group which can be universally identified as the family.Several institutions including political parties, the legal system and the media have been blamed for creating the cereal packet family but not all sociologists agree with what appears to be typical British family. Gittins (1993) as cited in marshland and Keating (2006) states The political orientation of the family would have us believe that there is one type of family, one correct way in which individuals should live and interact with each otherAn ideology that claims that there is only one type of family can never matched in reality, for it represents an ideal to which only some can approximate, an others not at all.During the last degree Celsius the image of the family has altered, this is partly due to industrialisation, modernity, changing norms and values and the media. The family can now be seen to have many dimensions, what was considered to be deviant or diverse is often meeted as a norm.Some sociologists reason out that during the nineteenth century, post industrialisation, social order, or phylogenetic relation, a engagement of relatives (kin) who are connected by common decent or marriage. (Fulcher and Scott 2007) began to alter. Communities that were based on traditional shared values of religion and community changed. cottage industries began to disappear and families moved from rural areas into towns and cities the nature of the of kinship began to diminish. The economic and social life of this type of family relationship changed, according to Ritzer and Ryan (2011) Rural people were lured by the novelty of city life and the prospects of greater economic opportunity. The domesticated parsimony of the pre-industrial family disappeared. The industrial revolution provided factory work for men leaving the females to take a more prominent role as the caregivers, the family dynamics began to alter creating a major change in the division of labour within the family.Industrialisation was identified by many as having sounded the death reverberate for this way of life, destroying extended families and undermining communities. (Ogburn 1955 as cited in Gillies 2003). The extended family tends to include generations of family extending both horizontally and vertically including connections my marriage and blood. It is designated by some sociologists that industry has destroyed the traditions of the extended family and the social bonding of kinship, leading to the atomic family. Talcott Parsons (1949) as cited in Fulcher and Scott (2007) stressed that in the absence of the extended family and kinship, the atomic family met the needs of a changed society. However Laslett and Wall (1972) as cited in Fulcher and Scott (2007) suggest that the nuclear family has always been the more dominant family type throughout the history of family life.The theatrical rolealist approach to the family suggests that the family itself is creditworthy for ensuring that vital tasks are achieved. Functionalists believe that social institutions such as schools, churches, political systems and the family are all essential to the structure of an effective functioning society and all of these institutions inter relate with each other for the benefit of the all told of society, if one aspect of the structure does not function adequately then society will necessarily experience some form of also-ran and conflict. Functionalists suggest that the family is one of the most important institutions responsible for the successful altitude of a child and parents play a key role in ensuring that children become well integrated within society.Murdock (1949) conducted a study based on two hundred and fifty societies with the aim of discovering if the family was universal. His conclusion was that the nuclear family was a un iversal social institution that comprised of four basic functions. These he called, sexual relationships, economic cooperation among members, reproduction and the socialization of infants and children. (Stark, 2010)Murdocks theory has been criticised by many non functionalist sociologists suggesting that his study focussed on the nuclear family and did not take into account other family forms. Gough (1959) argued that Murdocks theory did not take into account societies such as the Nayar, where one woman could have up to twelve potential fathers to a child and a man could have an unlimited amount of wives. yield came from brothers, sisters and children not from potential fathers. This system was based purely on kinship groups. Gough suggests that the existence of the Nayar was not based on economic cooperation between husbands and wives, the socialisation of infants was provided by the women and their kinship groups, and any affectionate relationship between men and women was proh ibited. Goughs criticism can be closely compared to family groups in British society today looking at family units that do not meet Murdocks nuclear family theory these families could be single parent families or families consisting of same sex couples. (Bell 1968)Parsons (1959) as cited in Macionis (2012) argued that the family retains two primary functions, these functions are found in all forms of family thought out the world. He suggests that the primary socialisation of children is the first and most important setting for child rearing and parents are in the position to ensure children are able to become well integrated into society and the structuring of the constitution in the early years leads to contributing members of society. He acknowledges that family socialisation continues throughout the life cycle but secondary socialisation becomes more dominant as the child develops due to the family being less involved, and agencies such as schools and peer groups become involved .Parsons as cited in Harolambos and Holborn (2008) argued that families are factories which produce human personalities. Parsons second observation of the family was the stabilisation of the adult personality arguing that men and women who have deep personal relationships will lead content and fulfilling lives which in turn will improve family life removing some of the tensions that the family may face such as work and relationships. redness sociologists may argue that although family life can be fulfilling and happy the fact that contemporary British society is based on capitalism, which results in exploitation, family members will inevitably be placed under financial strain and tension which can cause problems of discontent and the breakdown of the family unit. Criticisms were that his theory was outdated and based on the ideology of the nuclear family alone.Marxist writers in the 1970s put advancing a different perspective of the family they argued that the capitalistic system exploits the free domestic labour of the woman of the house through the domestic division of labour. (Fulcher and Scott 2007). They argue that the concept of the nuclear family promotes the role of the man to be the breadwinner and the woman to be the housewife which has led women, if wanting to work, becoming the reserve army therefore being called upon when required, for example during times of war, according to Marxist theorists the nuclear family provides employers with cheap useable labour that tends to be less valued than their male counterparts. (Fulcher and Scott 2007)On what mental hospital of the present family, the bourgeois family based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie The bourgeois fustian about the family and education, about the hallowed correlation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of modern industry, all family ties among the proletarians are t orn asunder, and their children transform into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. (Marx and Engels, 1848 as cited in Ferrante 2011)Although Marx and Engels seem to be criticising the family and suggesting that the family may be considered as a tool for capitalism they were in fact suggesting that the family should be improved and it was the traditional family types that approved of the exploitation of women and children. According to marsh and Keating (2006), Engels believed that the family exploited women and children and the end of the exploitation within the family could only be achieved in a communist society.The development of the Marist perspective continued throughout the century and the views of Engles and Marx were applied to a modern capitalist society. Modern Marxists would argue against the functionalists who stress that the purpose of the family is to raise children. Marxists agree that the family has a job but that job is to reproduce the labour po wer that maintains a capitalist society. It is also suggested that the family is a control mechanism that exerts social control on parents. Living in a highly consumer orientated society, children are often in argument with their peers and parents are in competition with other parents to ensure that their children have the best technology and prospects, the pressure to remain in a competing capitalist society gives the parents little choice but to compete in the workplace and accept capitalism as a norm. The family is thus an integral part of what Marxists call commodity fetishism it helps to fuel the creation of false needs, which in order to be satisfied, require people to work hard. Mobile phones, laptops, X-boxes all these light things need to be bought by someone and in western capitalist societies it is now increasingly young people who are an important market. And young people come from, of course, families. (Abbot 2010)Historical changes in society have led to changes in libber perspectives creating several waves of feminism. Although there are several types of feminist views including Liberal, Socialist, Radical and Marxist they do all share a common belief that women experience a range of social, economic, political and personal difficulties in their lives but they dont all agree on the cause of these difficulties.In general feminists have discarded the Functionalist theories of the nuclear family and suggested that many parents have socialised their children to behave in a manner that is considered to be appropriate to their gender roles. Feminists argue that when children see their parents behaving in their appropriate gender role then the children naturally assume that they should behave in the same way. Females have been shown what is considered to be womanly or female, dependence, obedience, conformity and domesticity and males have been encouraged by parents to be dominant, agonistical and independent. (Holburn and Steel 2012)The rootage feminist perspective of the family agrees basic concept of the Marxist view suggesting that exploitation is a key aspect of the family, however where Marxists suggest that capitalism plays a key role for the exploitation of women the feminist approach suggests that the division of labour is due to genetic predispositions that women are seen as the carers and are more suitable to child rearing that their male counterparts who are seen as the providers. Feminists argue that in the division of labour is unequal and that the domestic role is unrewarded and undervalued. According to Sheeran (1993) as cited in Marsh and Keating (2007) Marxist and radical feminists argue that the family is both an ideological construct and a repressive, socially produced reality, which helps to preserve capitalism and / or patriarchy. Such criticisms are overtly anti family, and argue that women have been forced into taking responsibility for child care by that agent of the state, the patriarchal family. Morgan (1975) as cited in Haralambos and Holborn (2008) suggests that both functionalist and Marxist approaches, both presuppose a traditional model of the nuclear family where there is a married couple with children, where the husband is the breadwinner and where the wife stays at floor to deal with the housework.The Interactionist approach is seen to be quite different and works at a micro level rather than the macro level like the previous perspectives. Symbolic interactionism has been an important theoretical perspective in family studies since its early development in the 1920s and 1930s. Symbolic interaction theory describes the family as a unit of interacting personalities. LaRossa and Reitzes (1993) as cited in International Encyclopedia of nuptials and Family (2003). Interactionists suggest that families reinforce and rejuvenate their bonds through the use of rituals. Some social scientists believe that rituals like gathering together for a family meal or the ritual of ma rriage using symbols to reinforce the bonds this can be seen as a source of family strength and if families preserve rituals then children will become more emotionally equipped to face problems in the future. (Hughes and Kroehler 2011). Critics stress that symbolic interactionism only looks at the micro level and that this perspective does not take into account larger issues of society.The refreshed Right perspective of the family was born from functionalist ideology and supports the theory that the nuclear family is the only type of family that works effectively within British society. Between the 1950s and the 1990s the nuclear family began to alter, families were no time-consuming perceived to be seen in the traditional stereotypical sense, families were becoming more diverse partly due to changes in the law, abortions were legalised, homosexuality decriminalised and the introduction of ordinance such as the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal remunerate Act was introduced. New types of families were emerging. Single parent families, reconstituted families, individuals that cohabitated and the formation of same sex relationships that may or may not have had children from previous relationships. The New Right believe that the lack of traditional family and values and diversity has diminished society. Lone parents were blamed for wayward children suggesting that without a male and female parent residing within the family unit then children would not be able to function as contributing members of society. Critics of the New Right suggest that by suggesting that the nuclear family is the only family that works for the benefit of society it ignores the dark side of the family issues such as domestic abuse and by trying to impress that the nuclear family is the superior and morally correct route it creates a them and us situation which can lead to discrimination, persecution and ultimately suggests that other family types are not families at all.(Yorkshire 2011)According to the Office for National Statistics (2011) between 2001 and 2010 families by type have altered slightly to show that there has been a slight affix in the alternative family and a slight decrease in what is considered to be the nuclear family. As the Office of National Statistics now take into account Civil Partnerships as legitimate families the figures reflect a more blameless account of the makeup of the ever changing British family however the categories in which families are assigned do not represent a true picture of the family as it fails to differentiate between reconstituted and nuclear families, while the nonage groups such as civil partnership couples and lone parents have been allocated a category of their own.According to Morgan (1994) as cited in Marsh and Keating (2006) We cannot speak of the family as if it were a static and changing thing. Rather it is better to use the word as signifying the character of a complex series of processes over timewe s hould speak of family processes, family living or family life courses. In this way we will come to recognise that family life is always subject to change and variation that change is at the very heart of family livingAs society changes with time it can be argued that the family will alter and perceptions of the family from influences such as the media and government activity will change the ideology. Although the school of thought may differ depending on what perspective is applied it appears that the family plays an important role within British society, it is important to recognise that without understanding the family it makes it difficult to understand problems that may arise such as domestic violence and child abuse and how they are taken as private troubles or public issues.
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