Sentences with phrase «obdurate features»

It is easy, of course, once a conceptual dualism of this kind has been established, to argue that culture can not be understood sociologically unless it is «explained» in terms of social structure — unless the «sources» or «causes» of religious beliefs are located within such obdurate features of the social world as class interests, power relations, social networks, family backgrounds, and the like.

But then the visible bodies (5) are imaginatively decomposed by science into smaller, invisible particles possessing the same obdurate features as the larger aggregates on which they are modeled.