Sentences with phrase «about social structure»

It was completely unfair, as Malibu Barbie didn't just have the best hair and the best clothes, but she also got the hottest guy, conveying a premonition about social structure that would later rear its ugly head again and again from youth onwards.

The research team developed a model with well - defined parameters, and included information about social structure.

The old debate was about social structure, about whether the market or government should organize society.

If you have more females than males, for example, which is what they think they have right now, that could lead to some interesting hypotheses about the social structures of people living at that time.

By analyzing the skulls of male gorillas and orangutans, scientists are learning about the social structures created by our extinct hominin relatives.

You think it's going to be a traditional monster story, but the movie doesn't let anyone off the hook, and it has a lot to say about social structures both with children and adults.

Challenging our assumptions about the social structures that shape the world around us, Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking, transformative work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of Conceptual art since the mid-1960s.

Eric Gottesman photographs, writes, makes videos, teaches and uses art as a vehicle to engage people in critical conversations about the social structures that surround both them and him.

«And there is a whole logic to organizing images and information that I think has been inherent in photography from the beginning — photography creates these units that can be rearranged, building blocks of knowledge about social structures.

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The essays collected in the latest of the pop culture and philosophy series offer insights about how Nietzsche's exploration of the positive power of active forgetting can illuminate the Draper, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson characters; a comparison between the social structure of Sterling Cooper and an Aristotelian definition of friendship; and a glimpse into the Existential Void of Roger Sterling.

Last year, Facebook's first president Sean Parker and former executive Chamath Palihapitiya both expressed serious misgivings about Facebook and how it messes with people's psychological and social structures.

Simply, it's about asking questions that help us understand if budget priorities, tax structures, and government programs maintain or worsen inequality, or if they help «level the playing field» for people occupying different social locations.

Your founders and board of directors may also have concerns about how to protect your social mission in a legal structure that is very flexible and can be changed by current or future shareholders.

The bible has the Ten commandments, which the first four are about God, the others are about social «rules» and structure.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

In Japan, for instance, there is a whole etiquette about how far and how long to bow to whom depending on their and your place in the social structure.

They know it's ridiculous, but just try not to think about it because it's a deep - seeded part of their social structure.

The Middle Ages brought about a great flowering of Christian culture: the cathedrals and the philosophical systems (especially in Thomas Aquinas), as well as Christianity's development of social structures.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

The suggestion is that in our current era we are in the middle of a profound paradigm shift, brought about by the emergence and now dominance of electronic forms of social communication and their supporting ideological and economic structures.

With less panache, but with equal force and even further empirical social science evidence, her method resembles Roland Barthes» Mythologies in its outlines of the deep structure of the contemporary beliefs and practices surrounding our most deeply held moral codes about human sexual desire — or should I say eros.

There is nothing about the adoption of an ecological perspective that excludes attention to the social structures of urban civilization.

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

To understand a nation one must know about all its peaceful activities, the development of its populace, its social structure, economy, peace - time traffic across its borders, and so on.

The current debate is about competence, and it takes social structure for granted.

It begins debates about the human person and the structure of social relationships by presupposing a particular view of the human person and of what the structure of social relationships should be.

Of course I have been talking, in the first story, about the beleaguered but unbowed Mark Regnerus, the sociologist whose New Family Structures Study was published in Social Science Research in 2012.

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

A great deal of our contemporary problem about «love perfectionism» centers in the attempt to ground ethics either in human nature or in the structure of social institutions.

There are a lot of debates in the humanities about the relative influence of agency (the will and power of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more abstract concepts including things like social norms and expectations which are not formalized).

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

Christianity in its more pietist, fundamentalist and conventional expressions, has confined its attention largely to the ultimate spiritual salvation forgetting its temporal witness in charitable social service and more than that, in social action to bring about justice in social structures.

The notions of «emergence» and «emergent properties» are used to develop an account of the structure - agency relationship that is consistent with Berger's concrete sociological work, whilst avoiding the shortcomings of his explicit reflections about the nature of the social world.

And the encounter with truth requires that we understand the methods appropriate to its complex character: truth about structures is discerned primarily through the objective methods of the sciences — natural, social, historical — and through the rigorous application of critical thought; truth about meanings is learned through the intuition and exercise of faith, hope and love.

I absolutely think we should improve a large number of social structures, but maybe we could start by not making assumptions about what is best for everybody.

Basically, a mix of customs and social structures governs the relationship, and all sides are usually fairly clear about how the process works.

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

It is about how to accelerate the achievements of our collective desires for shared prosperity; it is about how to give power back to our people, the electorate; it is about how to reduce social exclusion; it is about unimpeded access to jobs, healthcare delivery, education; It's about changing the structure of the economy; it's about placing emphasis and I mean more emphasis on industry and value addition.

We must go beyond our Pavlovian reaction to talk of fighting corruption to asking the hard questions about what it is about our structures — social, legal and political which makes corruption thrive in Nigeria.

We also learned about their hormones, behavior, social structure, and general overall biology and ecology.

Given the little that is known about flukes, the discovery means that complex social structures might actually be common in these animals — and that division of labour may have first evolved when life on Earth was dominated by worms.

«Teeth are usually really well - preserved and can tell you so much about diet and health, in addition to genetic relationships and social structure,» says Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies the size and shape of teeth as part of her work in Çatalhöyük's human remains lab.

Instead of measuring just the structure of social networks (who knows whom), marital status or membership in church or community groups, the functional social network index also measures social networks as a source of emotional and practical support from friends and relatives, as well as advice about weight management and physical activity.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

The notion of family is seminal in human genetics for many reasons: the inheritance and genetic basis of traits is discerned from family patterns; arguments about heritability and nature versus nurture are derived from studies of family relationships; population genetic structure and social diversity are determined by patterns of mate choice; genetic information is typically delivered in the context of families.

However, with the transformed gender roles and social structures today, marriage has evolved to become less about practical subsistence and service, and more about romantic love.

Social Media has changed so much about society: how information is dispersed, how we present ourselves, how we argue points of view, and even how relationships are structured.

Here we are not concerned about the design of teaching and learning material, the tasks, the organisational structure and social environment, such as teamwork or supportive management, but on the design of the physical environment (temperature, humidity, lighting and noise).

About how, in neighborhoods with so little social capital, so few functioning institutions and places of authority, those schools give hope and structure to their kids that they yearn for.

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