Thursday 9/7 Eisler, Human Rights and Violence In the passage, Rene Eilsler is relating violence and abuse with the lack of a certain link in the human rights theory and social violence. Is social violence the main reason for the breakdown of human rights? Well if this is so then it also might play a fault in human rights organizations fighting for a certain reason that in fact causes violence itself. It is the little things in life which creates situations such as man over women, man over nature, and nation over nation occur.Thursday 9/14 Elias, A Culture of Violent SolutionsThe passage discusses the violent society we live in today. Elias discussed the behaviors, encouragement, and push for violent people and/or leaders in certain cultures. Would violence survive without these certain culture? Or will culture survive with out violence? These were question I thought about while reading this article. Elias spoke out on violence in American culture. This was interesting and informative at the same time for he spoke out on certain subjects such as violence, drugs, poverty, enemies, children and normal living.Thursday 9/21 Lepowsky, Women, Men and Aggression in an Egalitarian SocietyLepowsky based his writing on a remote island in the South Pacific. Lepowsky talks a little on legal systems and other facts about the island and the surrounding areas. A term that impress me in particular, and Id like to learn about is the different ideologies and how they play into part of a persons everyday life or even in sociology. Lepowsky spoke of ideologies of power that are gendered because the people who use the powers are also gendered. She expanded on this thesis and focused on gendered constructions of the person and personal power as expressed by physical aggression or supernatural attacks on the islanders.Thursday 9/21 Harris, Race, Class, CrimeHarris discusses the common things I see when I must consider what comes into play when ...
