Sentences with phrase «class status of»

The second - class status of women in Korean society is a reminder of Confucianism's dark side.

The high incidence of breastfeeding in this sample reflects the middle - class status of the mothers in this cohort and the popularity of breastfeeding at the time of recruitment (1980 through 1981).

The scrupulous manner in which the caste and class status of various Indian Christian theologians are plainly discussed in most books is a case in point.

Despite the second - class status of ecological economics, it is beginning to play a role in policy formation.

Slavery, as social phenomenon and as metaphor, has been an important topic, as has the role of prophets and prophecy, the practice of magic, and the class status of early converts to Christianity.

Not exact matches

If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

Meanwhile, class action lawsuits by groups of independent contractors requesting employee status are becoming increasingly common; reports suggest that this is one of the hottest areas in employment litigation.

In fact, researchers have found that when people think they are more physically attractive, they believe that they belong to a higher social class, regardless of how good looking they really are or their actual social status.

On Tuesday, Uber filed to appeal the class - action status of its lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Along the upward journey to middle - class status, a growing number of people around the world are working up quite a voracious appetite.

(Class actions in Massachusetts and California challenging contract worker status at some of the on - demand companies may also alter the landscape.)

«To start with, I don't know many flight attendants who view premium - class passengers any differently because of financial status.

I had a business class seat due to status of flying a lot and my family was in economy.

If you buy 12 paid rentals or 40 paid rental days in a year, you'll get executive status, which gives you a choice of full - size rental cars and automatic upgrade to the next car class up.

Taking that humbling walk past those already seated in first class becomes a clear reinforcement of their «relatively disadvantaged status,» the authors wrote, which can «prompt negative emotions.»

Moore, who seeks class - action status and unspecified damages, claimed that Apple failed to disclose how its iOS 5 software operating system would obstruct the delivery of «countless» messages from other Apple device users if iPhone users switched to non-Apple devices.

«[This is like] the loser of the class trying to change his status by going after the popular kid instead of getting rid of the tape on his glasses and removing his pen holder.»

For example, across nineteen Techstars classes in its four year history, over 70 % of all Techstars graduates have raised capital (Techstars publishes an amazing chart that lists every company in every class and their fundraising status as well as employee count).

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

In arguing against class action status, Uber had submitted sworn statements from hundreds of drivers supporting the company.

The plan doesn't specify whether Trump still wants to eliminate «head of household» filing status and eliminate personal exemptions, two changes in his campaign plan which would result in many middle - class families seeing tax increases.

Once again, in 2015, CMIT Solutions has earned FRI's elite status of «World Class Franchise.»

A patient with status epilepticus is initially treated with a class of psychoactive drugs called benzodiazepines.

Now, Rosselló and his allies are hoping that the post-hurricane media attention has raised enough awareness of the «second - class» status of Americans in Puerto Rico.

The case was eventually granted class - action status in July 2012, allowing Liss - Riordan to represent all of the aggrieved workers.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

It's only under the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule that the fiduciary duty is not just an obligation of the advisor but also the Financial Institution, and it's only under the DoL rule (unlike the Investment Advisers Act) that fiduciary breaches must have the opportunity to escalate to class action status.

The popularity of digital currencies and the industry furthering its status as a legitimate asset class continues to attract retail investors and traditional investment institutions.

More than 60 countries have now successfully negotiated what is known as Approved Destination Status (ADS) from Beijing, putting them on the list of group travel destinations for the increasingly affluent Chinese middle class.

In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

Although some people believe economic status is overrated; many people want to know how much income you need to be considered part of the upper class.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

This psychological relationship is then exploited by the priest class as one means of maintaining the status quo.

Fewer working - class and poor Americans are marrying nowadays in part because marriage is seen increasingly as a sort of status symbol: a sign that a couple has arrived both emotionally and financially.

When Father Ron thought of «family,» he thought only of the biological family unwittingly relegating other kinds of families to a second - class status.

When Christians move adoption from the periphery to the center of theological reflection, teaching and counseling, they will lessen the degree to which adopted children are assigned a second - class status in secular society.

Christians and Jews were peoples of the book whom Muslims would tolerate» indeed Jews, who were a majority of the city's population, thrived in Ottoman Salonica and made it a center of rabbinical learning» but only if they paid a high tax and accepted second - class status.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

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Invidious discrimination exists when inherent equals — for example, all human beings — are treated unequally based on sub-categories that bigots assert to reduce the moral status of the disfavored classes, placing them beneath the favored.

Funny how an African American, who just fifty years ago would have ridden on the back of the bus to his interview, is using the same Bible used to enslave his ancestors, to relegate those different from himself to a second class citizen status.

As people mature they come to care about those who are remote in terms of class, economic status, race, and geography.

What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

Critics of this argument, including Douthat, often point out that status has a way of becoming a proxy for class.

3) It is a source of dignity — made obvious in this case by Renee's low status as an unattractive working - class woman without children and past child - bearing age.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.

Nor does she find any support for a straightforward effect of social class or status groups on ideologies.

Herbert Gans has developed a typology of the poor and draws distinctions between (1) so - called maladjusted, (2) the routine seekers, (3) those who are striving to get into the working class or into the middle class, and (4) those who are action seekers striving to maximize excitement and gratification within their present status.

Engels found that while institutionalized religion generally seeks to defend the status quo, the content of the religious affirmations has its own logic, and may appeal to, and does appeal to, different classes.