Sentences with phrase «coercive authority»

To examine whether or not lower status is more benign in small - scale, relatively egalitarian societies in which group members frequently share food and other resources, lack coercive authority, and where people have little wealth to contest, the investigators studied the relationship between status and biomarkers of stress and disease among Tsimane men.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Hence, all fundamentalisms tend toward a political religiosity or a political theology in the sense that they establish an identity between religious community and whatever political community has coercive authority.

You don't have to try to take on the coercive authority of a parent, the persuasive authority (i.e. being knowledgeable about what you are teaching) is more than enough and all that you can conceivably be right in claiming.

Faith becomes acceptance of what one finds implausible on the grounds of an external and coercive authority.

Finally, with reward / coercive authority, the teacher uses punishments and rewards to influence student behavior.

For instance, one of my most powerful strategies (a combination of referent and reward / coercive authority) was scheduling time to have lunch with students.

Barbara Kruger's adoption of advertising techniques emphasized the coercive authority of language while work by Renée Cox and Catherine Opie, among many others, brought renewed attention to the politics of the body — be it the black male body in the case of Cox's photographic collage, or the gay, lesbian and transgendered subjects of Opie's reverent photographic portraiture.