Sentences with phrase «maintain social hierarchy»

These sounds help maintain social hierarchy in crowded or noisy environments and reduce energy consumption when fasting.

Maintaining social hierarchies and ensuring membership in a group can boost odds of survival.

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«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.»

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.»

In a country where cultural competency and high academic performance are markers of success, and schools are the mediums through which American children are socialized into their role as citizen, unequal education through racial segregation maintains a racial and social hierarchy.

Like most animals who live in groups, dogs tend to establish their own social structures, which is viewed as a dominance hierarchy that serves to maintain order, reduce conflict and promote cooperation among pack members.

Perhaps the most important cues are the calming signals, which are used to maintain a healthy social hierarchy and resolve conflict within the pack.

This sort of law is not wholly different from past sumptuary laws, which were ostensibly aimed at «restraining luxury or extravagance... in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.,» as Black's puts it, when in fact they were about maintaining social class distinctions and hierarchies — and mostly they failed.