social theory task

1. Hamirah binti Wan Hamid
Al Samihah Amni bt Dollah @ Abdul Aziz
Tesl 1

2.  Definition:
- Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and
interpretation of literature. -Wikipedia
- Literary criticism has several ends: to understand
what's been written, to say how good it is, and to
choose between possible renderings.
- Literary criticism is the description and analysis of
literary works – novels, plays, poems, and short stories,
etc. Criticism may look at an author’s particular work
(e.g., Shakespeare’s Hamlet)

3.  Definition:
-Social theories are theoretical frameworks which are
used to study and interpret social phenomena within a
particular school of thought.- Wikipedia
-Social theory refers to the use of abstract and often
complex theoretical frameworks to describe, explain,
and analyze the social world. –NewWorldEncyclopedia
-the study of scientific ways of thinking about social life.

4. Explain change in society—
how it develops, what factors
facilitate and
inhibit it, and what results
from it
about methods of explaining social
behavior, power and social
structure, class, gender, and
ethnicity, modernity and concept
and problems in social life
Encompasses
ideas about how
societies develop
Questioning the value
and meaning of things
around people

5.  born in New York City on May 10 1919 play a central role in
his sociological theorizing, he considered his Jewishness to
be ethnic rather than religious.
 graduated from City College of New York in 1938, and after
a year of graduate study at Columbia University spent the
next twenty years in journalism, writing and editing for the
New Leader, Fortune (as labor editor), and The Public
Interest
 an associate professor at Columbia in 1958 , where he
received a Ph.D. in 1960 and was promoted to full professor
in 1962. In 1969 he moved to Harvard University, where he
received a Henry Ford II endowed chair in 1980, from
which he retired in 1990.

6. The Kiss - Kate Chopin
''During one of the pauses between their talk of the
last tea and the next reception the door opened and a
young man entered whom Brantain knew quite well.
The girl turned her face toward him. A stride or two
brought him to her side, and bending over her chair--
before she could suspect his intention, for she did not
realize that he had not seen her visitor--he pressed an
ardent, lingering kiss upon her lips.''

7.  Kate Chopin wrote The Kiss on 1895 where in that
era, women have to be polite and dignity. But Nathalie
showed different behaviour for having an affair with
other man eventhough she’s already agreed to marry
Brantain. The kiss portrayed the behavior of the main
character , Nathalie that oppose social norms which
using her charm to manipulated men.

8. Sadie and Maud
 The plot in this poet shows Sadie's social life that
makes people have a negative thought of her and
because of her social life she has no place in her
family... but, through out all of the hardship that she
face, she manages to face it alone with a brave heart.