Sentences with phrase «in class society»

The Second Mother, which won a Special Jury Prize for Acting at Sundance earlier this year, stresses that privilege in a class society is inherited not earned, even as Jéssica or a new generation wants to change that narrative.

The NDC scribe could not fathom why the former deputy Governor of the Bank and his wife «who are dyed - in - the - wool NDC» will trade a «people - centered political party like the NDC» to join the NPP which «believes in a class society.»

We must understand these oppositions in order to understand the complexity of the interpenetration of racism and sexism in a class society.

In fact Marx would say that just as selfishness is natural in a class society they need not be interpreted in moral terms.

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in a class society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which, of course, the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

How do democratic commitments modify these undemocratic structures and tendencies in a class society?

For a Christian of integrity living in a class society, socialism is the only viable option.

Not exact matches

There are no official definitions of what it means to be rich, and many factors come into play for measuring where one falls in the often amorphous class structure of American society.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

«My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me — the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society,» the class of ’80 graduate said in a statement.

President Obama and the progressive ruling class of both parties believe in the collective planned society.

Even Rupert Murdoch said so earlier this month, warning in a tweet that America is becoming a «class society.»

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

«No one wants to say it, no one's proud of it, but this is a capitalist society, a capitalist system, with capitalist rules, and my investors expect me to maximize profits, not to minimize them, go half, or go 70 percent, but to go to 100 percent of the profit curve we're all taught in MBA class.»

We are living in a world where the financial sector is waging class war against al the rest of society.

In 2012, dealer Craig Gates spearheaded Jolly John's Keep You Truckin, a foundation that provides money for sick «working - class, productive members of society.»

Very soon, almost all classes of Dutch society were involved in tulip bulb speculation, with many trading all of their worldly possessions for a single tulip bulb.

Daniel graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class degree in Economics and Management and was previously the co-chair of the Value Investing Special Interest Group of the UK CFA Society.

4 a: a body of persons const!tuting a special class in a society: estate 3 b plural: the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete: a person of high rank (as a noble)

There are many in society from all classes who are lazy, make poor choices, and live a life that is the direct result of those choices.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

Whenever religion is eradicated from society in history, you see the resulting ungodly atheist ruling class oppressing the poorest and the neediest people mercilessly and callously.

Places that have experienced racial, religious & class hatred what can happen when hate mongers are allowed to run amuck in society.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

In point of fact one of the greatest obstacles to revolution is the lack of a class consciousness on the part of the exploited sectors of a society.

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.

In fact, the U.S. government is responsible for crerating the largest welfare class in history, starting with LBL's so - called Great SocietIn fact, the U.S. government is responsible for crerating the largest welfare class in history, starting with LBL's so - called Great Societin history, starting with LBL's so - called Great Society.

In a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicIn a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicin a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicin conflict.

Capitalism lives from and reproduces a class society in which the few live off the labor of the many.

Vigilante continues: «Philistines, bullies, prudes, and fops; the New Agers, the new racists, the new Puritans, and the new class all but strangle us with their new rules on what we can say and think in polite society.»

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.

To interpret cultural and religious differences in terms of a theory of interests works no better than to ignore the role of class interests within all societies.

Our optimism about America, our belief that in the end our nation always finds its way, comes from the past — a past in which we were a middle - class society.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

When we ask how this once widespread notion was lost and replaced by the radically anthropocentric thinking so dominant in our society, we see that middle class and male interests played a considerable role.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

He was conscious of the economic breakdown in Muslim society caused by the luxurious living of the rulers and upper classes among the Muslims.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

In one remarkably progressive instance, the New York Moral Reform Society (NYMRS) published an article in their newsletter — the Advocate of Moral Reform — calling out the double standard between men and women in terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the loIn one remarkably progressive instance, the New York Moral Reform Society (NYMRS) published an article in their newsletter — the Advocate of Moral Reform — calling out the double standard between men and women in terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the loin their newsletter — the Advocate of Moral Reform — calling out the double standard between men and women in terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the loin terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the low.

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

Others are insisting these days that, in a class - ridden society, violence is the only possible relation between the classes.

This class of people rarely feels disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system working for them.

(See, for example, Leonard Reissman, Class in American Society (New York: Macmillan, 1959).

His followers took this point more seriously than the master himself, and they found that religion and class society were slower in dying than expected.

If we are to live faithfully and in right relationship, what does this mean for our participation in the middle class of a capitalist society?

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquIn a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquin 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.&raquin the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»