Sentences with phrase «social arrangements»

They were social arrangements of necessity rather than choice.

«The peculiar institution» of slavery and immigration during the 18th century created a city that, even in 1961, was a complex social arrangement, one that remains palpable today.

Nor can we predict triple - sex sexual, parental, or larger - scale social arrangements with any confidence.

This includes novel social arrangements, e.g., a division of labor, the formation of a more complex society with developed institutions, etc..

We work online, doing our shopping and banking, and play online, keeping in touch with family and friends, booking holidays and making social arrangements.

Those with strong social arrangements (often, loyal children) will survive well, as will those that have saved / invested well.

Today we are moving, with great social turbulence and at a high but necessary cost, toward a more equitable set of social arrangements in which women are no longer regarded as the chattel of men; love, fidelity and mutual respect replace property rights and concern to reduce competition between related males for the same woman.

There's no more inequitable social arrangement than the world Big Climate wants to impose on us.

People are forced by social arrangements and expectations based on prejudice into situations that make the intrinsically irrational and arbitrary racial distinctions to some degree justified.

... we educated, liberated, successful American women of today... [are] also suffering from some flaws in modern social arrangements.

The editors added: «A great deal of what might be called the silent public opinion of the south has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement.»

Consequently, practices will tend to have some interest in preserving social arrangements that give them access to the resources they need and some interest in resisting changes in those societal arrangements that might limit their access to the resources they need.

Locating the problem in contemporary social arrangements — rather than the child — leads to the conclusion that interventions to build resilience in families of children with ID, with the goal of helping them beat the odds, are insufficient.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

The problem wasn't merely the grossly imbalanced social arrangement of Spanish lord and Indian slave.

This same dual freedom applies to all of the social sciences — both in respect to the conceptual structures of political science, sociology, anthropology, and other behavioral disciplines, and to the deliberate social arrangements and processes studied.

But almost inevitably when we begin to implement our envisagements of the ideal social arrangement, we end up excluding some groups and individuals whose presence in our system keeps it from running as effortlessly as we would like.

What she finds is not stuffy puritanism that wants to spoil everybody's good fun, but in fact just the opposite: a subtle, exciting, sexy social arrangement in which men are men, women are women, and both get the maximal benefit from it.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.

This is when those who benefit from present social arrangements are called, in the face of that benefit, to submit to change as the will and work of God.

If we sincerely trust that the promise of divine fidelity provides the ultimate context within which to live out our lives, we will not feel obliged to cling too tenaciously to immediate social arrangements in order to find the approval we desire.

What those who think of marriage as a trap, as an «artificial social arrangement,» overlook is that the real artificiality takes place when persons seek the joys of union without the risks of marriage and of growing love.

All forms of thinking politically may include advocacy or — less purposively — at least a preference that certain social arrangements should happen or be prevented from happening.

This was perhaps the most complex social arrangement ever attributed to animals considered (erroneously) so small - brained.

Their study contradicts the idea that pair bonding (think Adam and Eve) represents the most primal social arrangement.

Something of an anomaly on the American indie scene, Weintraub (Bummer Summer, You Make Me Feel So Young) delights in awkward social arrangements, eccentric slice - of - life naturalism, and... Read more»

My brother, a political scientist, informs me of a debate in his field: Many political scientists insist that «policy follows culture,» meaning people establish laws and social arrangements based on their cultural values.

Instead we are reproducing existing social arrangements, adding to privilege where it already exists and denying it where it does not.

He explains that civilization is a means for allowing individuals to liberate their energies and their genius — an emergence from primitive, tribal, collectivist social arrangements.

In devising and choosing between social arrangements we should have regard for the total effect.

My own view is that the use of such «cosmetic neurology» is handy for pointing out those areas in our culture where social arrangements, and not brains, need serious rearranging.

«The Cava research found that problems tended to increase as children got older and wanted to make their own social arrangements...

In many regions of the world, however, the results of democratic choices can be strongly influenced by power relations and inequitable social arrangements, owing to differences in economic development, access to technology and knowledge.

Moving toward more modern social arrangements is presumed to entail a displacement or devaluation of traditional religious institutions, or at least some concessions on the part of such institutions to the secular environment.

It was not until somewhere between eight to five thousand years ago that this tribal existence gradually gave way in certain regions to broader and more complex social arrangements that eventually led to the great civilizations, nations and cultures of more recent times.

They expressed the conviction that «the silent public opinion of the South has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement» (June 2, 1954).

Our own position is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the heightened levels of psychological distress and dysfunction found among families of children with ID: These are the result of institutionalised patterns of social value (devaluing persons with disability) and contemporary social arrangements that do not take the needs, interests and circumstances of these families into account.

The social arrangements of nomadic clans must of necessity be collectivist.

Charity understood as relief of a particular need until new social systems can eliminate that need altogether becomes even more crucial when envisioned radical change of social arrangements is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future, let alone in the lifetime of those who care and are cared for.

We can not allow laws, social arrangements and psychological adaptations designed for this age to corrupt our vision of the one who is «not God of the dead, but of the living.»

We must therefore form a social arrangement that is democratic, both economically and politically.