Sentences with phrase «own social power»

Another problem with Greek - letter organizations is that antiquated rules give men too much social power on campus.

Order volume increases its success probability in real time and that's the additional advantage which in simple English is called social power.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

Now in America, where be has acquired social power, his distrust of the Christian community leads him to align himself with the secularizing forces whose dominance, he thinks, will afford him a security he has never known.

Honesty really has become the best policy no matter how clever or well - established we are in hierarchical social power structure!

And he set about giving social power and social access and social goods to the poor and excluded.

The anatomy of social power vividly illustrates the interfusion of physical, mental, and spiritual elements in human affairs.

This understanding of social power — whose power we live under and how to get power and why we need power — becomes a life stance for some of us.

Furthermore, they are practices that are inherently institutionalized to some degree, that entail some structural and lasting arrangement of various sorts of social power.

Clearly, then, that end ought also to govern how the school uses its social power in its immediate vicinity.

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.

Access to information and the means to communicate define who has power and who doesn't and determine one's «place» in social power structures.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

The historic social power of the missionaries and churches that brought about the nearly universal «conversion» of Rwandans to Christianity.

It also left them indisposed to resist the unjust decrees and behaviors of the Nazi regime, for fear of weakening their already uncertain influence with the government as well as their institutional independence and social power.

people do that ALL THE TIME, but you would never know that because you're too busy fantasizing about how great it was in the days that christianity itself filled its pews and wielded social power with the terrifying threat of physical violence

The loss of social power by the ministry as a result of the spread of education and the transference to scientists of the representative authority of learning is comparable to the loss ministers suffered when Church and state were separated.

Literature itself (no less than religion) is, in this view, an ideology, with the most intimate relations to social power.

A highly private «freedom» in certain restricted spheres can go together with the dominance of purely technical control at the center of social power.

He will have to carry out his office as a service because at his back there will no longer be any, or hardly any, earthly social power of tradition or the great mass of those who will always obey in any case.

On the social power of a community of memory and hope, see Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 152 - 55.

The hermeneutics of suspicion seems to have hit home in the sense of a growing awareness that we can't recover the fullness of the tradition itself without expanding our vision beyond our captivities to one or another wielder of social power.

A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.

A desire for mastery and power also motivates people to drive powerful cars, to fly in powerful planes (especially corporate jets, which they «control» more directly), to carry impressive brief cases (a symbol of social power), and to engage in «power» breakfasts.

Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.

For him, a positive ethnicity necessitates an appreciation for one's historical roots, a growing self - confidence and social power, a sense of being discriminated against, condescended to, or carelessly misapprehended; a growing disaffection regarding these to whom one had always been taught to defer.

The danger of proceeding in this way is that one may unify theological schooling but in doing so may hide larger inequities in the arrangement of social power and may validate particular oppressive arrangements of power.

That it is a tool for the mighty to enforce a social power over others.

Hence, social power arrangements and cultural practices that constitute social beings are reduced to personal or interpersonal terms and not addressed as realities in themselves.

Central to the criticisms has been the conviction shared by many religious leaders that the exercise of social power should be directed by a concern for justice on a representative basis rather than a concern to impose one's own particular standards and beliefs on others.

This is epitomized in Marx's statement: «Capital is... not a personal, it is a social power».5 As presented in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Marxian theory of history runs exclusively in abstract social and economic categories.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

Out of praxis that aims at transforming oppressive social power arrangements arise fresh theoretical understandings of the structure and dynamics of oppressive relationships within society.

Rather than brush this aside as an example of the irrelevance of the church, it deserves to be examined as a revealing example of what I mean by the social power of myth.

And while she writes that, it's revolutionary to be «fighting for marriage to be about love and companionship — and not about a strictly gendered economic or social power construct,» she misses the point that same - sex couples already had love and companionship — what they wanted, and needed, were the legal and financial perks and protections marriage grants them.

It's still about social power, at times.

Unfortunately, by the time children reach grade school this approach can often backfire, causing children to lose important social power and denying them the opportunity to develop the skills and experience to negotiate these difficult social waters themselves.

During the early teen years, bullying is a form of social power.

In the form they're implemented they reinforce the existing structures of social power.

But this question too I would reverse on its head, and claim that it's not 50 %, or 11 %, but the extent of social power necessary to influence enough people to vote - legislators, or the public.

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.

As with chimps, however, female bonobos have more social power, and males can be highly competitive.

«It was our social power that made us a collaborative species,» said Muotri, «capable of dramatic transformation of our environment by creating poetry, music and technology.»

«Touch is the first sense to emerge in utero, and though far from mature, it is the most strongly developed sense at birth,» writes Brooklyn, N.Y. — based science writer Lydia Denworth in our cover story, «The Social Power of Touch.»

A new series of studies by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and at University of London College found that people who have social power are strongly influenced by internal body cues stemming from their motor system when making judgements about preferences of paintings, objects, movements or letter sequences.

«New Social Power in China» read one 2004 cover of Economics, a Beijing - based magazine.

In the Psychology Department at Princeton University, our research examines issues of social power and intergroup relations.

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

With Oscar nominee The Square out in UK cinemas, MUBI celebrates with a Ruben Östlund double - bill, introducing us to more of the Force Majeure director's work, from his visual storytelling to his sagacious observation of social power dynamics.