Sentences with phrase «in social hierarchies»

Melike KARA's work explores a highly unique and personal approach to figuration that's informed by diverse interests ranging from 20th century German figurative traditions and a deep interest in social hierarchies, as well as both her familial history of migration and the realities of straddling two cultures.

Using human and animal models, these studies may help explain why position in social hierarchies strongly influences decision - making, motivation, and altruism, as well as physical and mental health.

«Our position in social hierarchies strongly influences motivation as well as physical and mental health,» said Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, in a press statement.

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

The biggest thing for me to keep in mind is that everyone comes from someplace different in the social hierarchy, and that it is damn difficult to do the «right thing» when you have fewer resources.

The crucial connections dictating a mouse's place in the social hierarchy appear to sit in the part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), responsible for emotion and decision - making.

Trump's belief in social hierarchy is suggested by his preoccupation with ratings and racially charged comments, while his rule - breaking nature is evident in his unrestrained Twitter use, he says.

So important is it that for many people, physical and emotional wellbeing are directly connected to their place in the social hierarchy.

Maya, shown with her newborn, Kip, had to use her wits to rise above her lowly station in the social hierarchy of her group of macaque monkeys.

As «pack animals,» dogs will test you to find out where they stand in the social hierarchy of your family.

Greyhounds are pack animals, which means that they are social creatures who live in a social hierarchy.

Greyhounds, like all other dogs, are pack animals which means that they are social creatures who live in a social hierarchy.

She cites a European preference to physique that has been inflicted on and adapted by Africans, resulting in both social hierarchy and genocide.

Not exact matches

«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says writer Steve Errey, who continues: «When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status game — there are no winners.»

Less obvious but perhaps more important, play has been shown to help us develop and enhance our social skills and to build bonds in our relationships distinct from bonds based on dependency or hierarchy.

Startups are able to experiment across social media platforms in ways that large corporations, with their red tape and layers of hierarchy, can't.

«If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups.

In a world in where the social contract between employer and employees has broken down (careers are no longer created within one company, but across several organizations), where hierarchies have been replaced by networks, where products have been replaced by solutions, and where agility has replaced bureaucratic coordination — the way you lead has to changIn a world in where the social contract between employer and employees has broken down (careers are no longer created within one company, but across several organizations), where hierarchies have been replaced by networks, where products have been replaced by solutions, and where agility has replaced bureaucratic coordination — the way you lead has to changin where the social contract between employer and employees has broken down (careers are no longer created within one company, but across several organizations), where hierarchies have been replaced by networks, where products have been replaced by solutions, and where agility has replaced bureaucratic coordination — the way you lead has to change.

So while, when he focuses on the social context of suffocating patriarchy, Le Rider is no innovator, he is far more alert than many feminist interpreters in seeing how the cure - liberation from hierarchy and patriarchally assigned roles - could easily double back on itself, leaving, as it were, seven devils in the cleanly swept house where previously there had been but one.

Generally social justice must be given priority over survival in our theological hierarchy of values (here the way of the cross can be paradigmatic).

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

Caste was an ancient system of occupational class delineated in Hindu texts that over the years developed into a rigid social hierarchy.

By working in factories and on farms she sought to understand how the oppression of work could be alleviated and the social hierarchy dismantled.

Their religious activities reflected and reinforced the hierarchy and fulfilled obligations connected with the caste system in the eocnomic and the social life of the village.

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

A civilized society is, in the universal hierarchy of social order, simply a particular form of social creativity made uniquely distinctive by human effort.

The nineteenth - century sense of certainty about a hierarchy of moral, social, and intellectual values remains a part of the way many in the church today still regard family ideals.

When President Bush talks of a «kinder and gentler» America, he is hearkening back to that complex hierarchy of social, moral and intellectual values and symbols that were once very powerful in this culture, particularly in the churches.

Noting a «certain tone,» a «certain mood,» he observed that the completeness of the mood «suggests a 19th - century belief in an innate hierarchy in which social values, values of taste, moral values and intellectual values all combine in a self - evident pattern.

It continues to shake the foundations of all moral systems invented by men, it relativizes all social hierarchies, and, in the final analysis, it shows up the hollowness of all humanly constructed orders.

The Church imposes an egalitarian social order in the organisation of its rituals and is increasingly involved in secular affairs, thus collapsing the complementarity of religious equality and caste hierarchy, and more generally of the sacred and the secular.

According to MacKinnon, sexuality is «socially organized to require sex inequality for excitement and satisfaction,» or, «to put it another way, perhaps gender must be maintained as a social hierarchy so that men will be able to get erections; or, part of the male interest in keeping women down lies in the fact that it gets men up.»

Same - sex unions in particular disrupted a social order that required strict hierarchy between the sexes.

When we pass to the next higher step in the biologic hierarchy, the social organism, we at once perceive a difficulty.

The term holon may be applied to any stable sub-whole in a biological, social or cognitive hierarchy which displays rule - governed behaviour and / or structural Gestalt constancy.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other meanIn fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other meanin the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

Martin imbibed the traditional culture and kept his place in a severe social hierarchy, shuttling between various respectable and well - set - up families, the Schalbes and the Cottas for whom he did baby sitting, and accompanied Heinrich Schalbe's son to school.

Jesus was in the business of turning hierarchies and power structures on their head, so why does he resort to conventional social structures to make this point to the disciples?

Gerbner also charged that violence and sexual violence tend to vindicate existing inequities in the social order, especially to force «integration of the many into the prevailing hierarchy of powers.»

In childhood, adult power hierarchies — based on social status, gender, ethnicity, even height and attractiveness — are replicated inside the school walls, and kids learn early who's on top and who's pushed to the exit ramps.

To expand on Nicolas Holthaus» excellent comment: in a modern western society, if you're in a position to make your opinions on «populism» widely heard, you're close enough to the top of the social hierarchy that radical social change would be very much against your class interests!

Stuart, would you say democratic republicanism and libertarian socialism have a lot in common and similar goals of abolishing political, economic, and social hierarchies?

Not class in the monetary sense but in terms of the British social hierarchy.

(3) Social classes exist in the Roman Catholic hierarchy and Vatican City whose functional members are sworn to poverty, and all wealth is corporately owned by the church entity.

@SJuan76 Indeed, there is good reason to think that the origins of social class in countries like England are predominantly from Norman military hierarchies that were transplanted into English society as conquerers.

Fighting ants, giant solider termites, and foraging worker ants recently discovered in 100 - million - year - old amber provide direct evidence for advanced social behavior in ancient ants and termites — two groups that are immensely successful because of their ability to organize in hierarchies.

To investigate the mPFC's role in social ranking, Hailan Hu and her colleagues at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai first worked out the hierarchy within a group of mice through challenges between pairs in tubes.

In the strict social hierarchy of meerkats, a dominant pair all but monopolises breeding.