The word
"egalitarian" means that all individuals are treated equally and have the same rights and opportunities, regardless of their differences such as gender, race, or social status.
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In times of plenty, however, the
more egalitarian approach of choosing the hungriest or feeding at random is most successful.
She explains, «Critics argue that the purpose of modern mail order relationships is to circumvent the progressive ideals
of egalitarian marriage and exploit and abuse women.
Of course, churches and Christians find themselves in very different contexts: some in very wealthy settings where the experience of poverty as it is known to millions in the world today is practically unknown, or
in egalitarian societies where the basic needs of life seem to be assured for almost everybody, to situations of extreme poverty.
Using additional criteria, (which we will discuss later), Webb asserts that the redemptive movement of Scripture supports the abolition of slavery, a more
egalitarian approach to women's roles in society, and the continued condemnation of homosexual behavhior.
Finally, I show that the recent changes in age at marriage and divorce are associated with more
egalitarian marriages and decreased marital conflict.
We study direct effects of hours - equity and specialization with relationship satisfaction, but more importantly we investigate to what extent associations differ for people
with egalitarian gender role attitudes, and for people with young children.
The Scandinavian economies are generally regarded
as egalitarian liberal market economies, aren't they?
Of course, by attenuating the identity - affirming meaning that climate change now has for
egalitarian communitarians — by suggesting that we needn't go on a «diet» to counter the effects of our «planetary over-indulgence»; we have the option «atmospheric liposuction» at our disposal!
Even the most
egalitarian communities recognize a diversity of «gifts,» which accounts for the differences in authority, prestige, and position within the community.
Crowdfunding The ICO was hailed as the new IPO, offering a more
egalitarian way of raising funds.
«Contemporary fathers — having more
egalitarian gender views — want to be more involved in their children's lives than their own dads were.
In more
egalitarian cultures such as in Northern Europe where humans are able to pursue their short - term strategies more freely, short - term desires and behaviors are more prevalent among women (and men; Kennair et al., 2009).
And what the state provides is less and less education, and more and more a form of rough and ready crowd control, usually shaped
by egalitarian principles, and calculated to prevent the emergence of an educated middle class.
But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively
egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.
Specifically, those who interpret scripture literally will report a less
egalitarian attitude than those who interpret it metaphorically.
Yes, an economy that requires less manual labour for food production is an important piece of the picture, but is far from sufficient for creating a society of
egalitarian values.
-- and those who lamented the symbolism of a treasured program with
egalitarian principles teaming up with a soulless corporation.
The possibility of strained relationships has moved Vance Ross, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville, Maryland, both to defend the inclusive and
egalitarian nature of Christianity against charges that Christianity is a «white man's religion» and to insist that the members of his congregation have an accurate understanding of Islam.
Among parents who are married or living with a partner, dual - income couples are the most
egalitarian couples, even though they do not divide up their work in a 50 - 50 way.
But it also has a very poor record on civil liberties and related issues about the quality of state power (e.g., the database state), things which also matter to
egalitarian liberals as liberals.
reveals how politically divided the United States was as a progressive, more
egalitarian world order evolved.
An analysis of 93 Austronesian cultures suggests ritual human sacrifice has played a role in keeping societies
less egalitarian.
OK, maybe it is, but if we truly want
egalitarian partnerships (and I'm not exactly sure if we do), shouldn't we have moved past that by now?
When resources were scarce and they made the decision slowly,
egalitarian people gave more funding to blacks than whites.
It neither makes an issue of her gender, nor ignores it (there's one near - seduction scene that explicitly occurs because she is a woman), and in that way it feels like a
very egalitarian approach, given some extra weight because of how often she is the only woman in a room, or car, or building full of men.
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.
For much of today's right, Communism should simply be remembered as a machine for the production of human suffering — and a warning of what can happen when
egalitarian ideals take hold of a generation.
And, he says, the high number of favorable rulings reflects «the continuing vigor of America's
egalitarian tradition.»
This 1980s ad for Lindeman's Ben Ean Moselle mirrored the shift in Australian wine culture
from egalitarian to aspirational.
«Rauschenberg was
radically egalitarian about what art could be: a sock, a brush - stroke of paint, a movement that was non balletic.
He moves me down the couch, sets my book on the coffee table, I've seen that look a million times over 13 years now, and I chuckle that we can all agree: the real win, in all of this, is the addition of the phrase
egalitarian pleasure party to our lexicon.
Studies of marital relationships are fairly consistent in indicating that husbands have greater power than their wives, though the research also indicates a change
toward egalitarian marriage.
In the US, bloggers and authors such as Rachel Held Evans and Sarah Bessey have written
about egalitarian theology and are supporting feminism in a way that is accessible to those who are just discovering feminism, as well as for seasoned advocates.
«These trends are consistent with a shift away from a breadwinner - homemaker model of marriage toward a more
egalitarian model of marriage in which women's status is less threatening to men's gender identity.»
The mechanism of response is from 0 (agree strongly) to 3 (disagree strongly), with the low score (minimum 0) indicating endorsement of traditional sex roles, and high score (maximum 75) indicating a liberal,
egalitarian perspective.
But do mass extinctions work like clockwork?In Turkey, archaeologists are uncovering evidence a Neolithic,
egalitarian utopia.
Black marriages tend to be more
egalitarian when it comes to household chores, and marriage for blacks isn't nearly as «greedy» an institution as it is for whites because black couples, especially black wives, tend to be «weight - bearing arches of their broader communities» in addition to caring for their own family.
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