Sentences with phrase «fixed social meaning»

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It updates and refines our understanding of how the IMF seeks to wield ideational power by analysing the Fund's post-crash their ability to influence what constitutes legitimate knowledge, and their ability fix meanings attached to economic policies within the social process of constructing economic orthodoxy.

By «social institution» I mean an established and relatively fixed arrangement of social status, roles, and various sorts of power among a group of people engaged in some sort of common activity.

Osborne's forecasts of continued austerity in the next parliament, a media and public discourse which continues to harden public opinion against claimants, and an ongoing failure to fix underlying causes of social security spend — by building houses and creating well - paying jobs — all mean that our social security system is heading in the direction of much more short - termism.

From kindergarten, children have formed the fixed ideas of what it means to be a girl or a boy, woman or man and often believe these narrow social constructs are true and therefore unchallengeable.

According to this study, primates (including humans) have only a fixed amount of cognitive space for social relationships, which means that the average person can maintain only about 150 friends at a time.

Without wishing thereby to weaken the possible ethical and social impulses evinced by the collected works, a central impulse emerges in the focus upon a visuality of the artwork whose multiplicity of meanings and appeal to the senses disallow any fixed definitional determinations.

If we try to avoid this necessity, we'll just wind up blathering on about our favorite technical fixes, as if they could be rapidly scaled up and deployed by means of some friction - free process in which the overall social contract remains essentially unrevised.

Contrary to expectations the social network never gave Instant Articles higher prominence in the News Feed algorithm, which meant publishers basically had the choice between more - difficult - to - monetize - but - faster - to - load Instant Articles or easier - to - monetize - and - aren't - our - resources - better - spent - fixing - our - web - page?

«There is no quick fix for these issues, however as the largest employer of Aboriginal people in many communities, Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Organisations provide an important means of lifting health and wellbeing in their local communities and breaking the cycle of poverty, incarceration poor mental health and social emotional wellbeing.