Ladies and Gentlemen, as you are well aware, our country is going through one of its worst economic crisis. Economists have termed it the Great Recession, next only in acuteness to the Great Depression of the early twentieth century. Unemployment has been at unprecedented levels since the 2008 Wall Street crash. And for those who…
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Public World of the Ancien Regime
The second reading is chapter 5 titled Public and Private. The author presents a slightly different perspective of the private and public spheres by placing them in the context of the larger society, with its attendant interpersonal relations, social norms and trends, individual needs, rights and aspirations. This reading too is historically well informed, as…