Sentences with phrase «social distinctions»

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.

Nevertheless, social distinctions do exist, and the two most important in these societies — gender and age — meet in the institution of initiation.

Throughout the centuries, food has been a marker of social distinction between the haves and have - nots, even in today's society.

Out of her memories Mason brings to life the finely graded social distinctions which would be invisible to outsiders, but which anchor and define the members of a group, like the hierarchies in the world of Proust or Tolstoy.

Typically, «non-romantic» sexual relationships are assumed to be casual; however, the emotional and social distinctions between romantic and non-romantic contexts are not well understood, particularly in adolescence.

Neff is an avid student of such social distinctions.

In Romans 12 - 14 we have in part a different set of problems, which arose as the Church grew and spread abroad in a pagan society: such as those of individual and social distinctions within the community, relations with friendly and with hostile pagans, the State and its demands, and so forth.

«14 In 1847, the AMM Seminary at Pasumalai almost closed because teachers and students refused to ignore social distinctions by eating food prepared by a low caste cook.

«If social distinction is a core principle of the entrepreneurial personality, then we clearly see this principle reflected in his unusual personality profile,» says Fisch.

«All my life I have felt most strongly against social distinction of any kind», he wrote to Harold Wilson in 1967.

But when the rich man sobers up the next morning, and returns to the world of social distinctions, he no longer recognizes Charlie, and has him thrown out on the street.

In earlier times it was the wealthy who contributed to the well - being of society as a civic virtue, giving to an undifferentiated cultural system, making no social distinctions on the basis of need, thus keeping the poor invisible.

But their contributions were given to an undifferentiated cultural system that made no social distinctions on the basis of need.

Men were Catholics, Protestants, or Jews, categories based less on theological than on social distinctions.»

Social distinctions are moderated in the simple, immediate relations of rural life.

Because of one social distinction, you may focus on other differences between yourself and that person, such as her or his culture, upbringing and experiences — differences that you would not expect from another Chinese collaborator.

Modern in its geometric composition and perhaps in its meta - meditation on artistic media, the social distinctions explored in The Dividing Line predate the grit of the Ashcan School and The Steerage (1907; 1913) by Alfred Stieglitz.

He pursues this idea in his work as a way not only to reinforce formal aspects of his medium like transparency, refraction, distortion, and reflection, but also to reveal a deeper sense of human connection that supersedes physical, political, and social distinctions.

Unbounded by territorial and social distinctions, «Travessias» puts favelas in an aesthetic reference, mobilizing processes of creation and enjoyment.

De Tocqueville states that, in America, the old aristocratic and traditional values have been discredited, leaving only wealth and material enjoyment as sources of social distinction, and leading us to pursue commercial callings.

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