Sentences with phrase «social class distinctions»

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.

Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.

This style icon defies all automotive and social class distinctions and has come to represent the benchmark in its segment.

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«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

The distinction between social class and functional classification is discussed particularly in the field of education and the dangers of grading students abilities and the grades in which students are placed.

Baptismal water was the universal solvent not only of traditional religious distinctions within Judaism but also of the foundation stones on which the ancient city rested; for the church, it was the sole initiation and was not confined to a single family, clan, race, or social class.

When these worldview differences are aligned with other social distinctions — such as economic class, race, region or religion — competition can turn from civil politics to cultural war.

Preceded by a tremor, a wave of «shared impulse» extending to the very depths of the social and ethnic masses in their need and claim to participate, without distinction of class or color, in the onward march of human affairs, the final act is already visibly preparing.

These helped conquer «the tyranny of distance,» as John C. Calhoun called it, and played a role in stimulating the great social changes of the time, including the advances in America's wealth and living standards, the spread of opportunity, the leveling of class distinctions, and the increase in popular suffrage.

(6) Social classes exist in every Communist regime that has ever been, with a first order distinction between party members and people who are not party members, and further distinctions on up the line.

She considers issues of justice and accessibility, because, as she wrote in the American Journal of Bioethics, while «cancer and infertility are conditions that afflict all women equally and traverse class, race and ethnic lines, social and economic distinctions generally determine health care access.»

Thomas Hardy's novel told of a 19th Century rural England in which class distinctions and unyielding social codes surrounded his characters.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Transit Connect outperformed 38 other Minivans, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 5 outperformed 201 other Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Pathfinder outperformed 124 Full - size SUVs, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 3 outperformed 100 other Compact Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Focus Electric outperformed 287 Compact cars, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CR - V outperformed 104 Mid-size SUVs, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Impala outperformed 66 other Full - size cars, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

Carmichael argues that the continued oppression of African Americans is rooted in economic and educational inequality, while de Falla's opera serves as a cautionary tale about the polarizing social implications of class distinctions.

Here Ojih Odutola's work is informed by the French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu and his 1979 book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste that describes how distinguished aesthetics visualize class fractions.

However closing the ranks to the incompetent does not deal with the issue of class and social distinctions.

Putting the kidding aside, do you not find it at all instructive that members of the legal profession weren't called «doctor» and seemingly saw no need to be called doctor back when law was commonly described as one of the «learned» professions in a culture where social and class distinctions mattered.

Now, a country where (supposedly) social and class distinctions don't matter is the source the everyday lawyers as «doctors» of?

As Susie Cagle at Pacific Standard notes, «a policy that judges an individual's qualifications based on the qualifications of her social network would reinforce class distinctions and privilege, preventing opportunity and mobility and further marginalizing the poor and debt - ridden.»