Sentences with phrase «social distinctions which»

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.

To this day there is among the Syrian Christians a social distinction which is said to have originated in the settlement between those who intermarried with the Indians and those who did not.

Not exact matches

The distinctions between needs and wants will be different for everyone, but once you have your list, it makes sense to match essential expenses with guaranteed income — money that you can't outlive — like Social Security, pensions, and lifetime annuities (which let you convert savings into guaranteed income).

The plight of the young doctor's question illuminates a distinction which Harvard psychologist Herman Kelman famously made between two common forms of social influence: normative and informative.

The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry becomes of particular political importance.

This rejection of nature is manifest in the now orthodox distinction between sex, which is «merely biological,» and gender, defined as a construct either of oppressive social norms or of the free, self - defining subject — one often finds protagonists of this revolution oscillating back and forth between those polar extremes.

All are called to leisure, and thus the Sabbath has a profound social dimension: It's the thin wedge by which freedom enters ancient societies, eradicating the distinction between masters and slaves.

Any ministry out in the society should preserve the distinction we have come to know between social service, which is okay, and social action, which creates controversy and disaffection.

It seems indifferent to the radical distinction between conventional religion — which throws the aura of sanctity on contemporary public policy, whether morally inferior or outrageously unjust — and radical religious protest — which subjects all historical reality (including economic, social and radical injustice) to the «word of the Lord,» i.e., absolute standards of justice.

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.

In distinction to it he now set the sphere of the «social» in which many individual existences are bound into a group with common experiences and reactions but without any personal relation necessarily existing between one person and another within the group.

Niebuhr said that the thesis of his book was that a «sharp distinction must be drawn between the moral and social behavior of individuals and of social groups, national, racial, and economic; and that this distinction justifies and necessitates political policies which a purely individualistic ethic must always find embarrassing.

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.

It argues that a sharp distinction must be drawn between «the moral and social behavior of individuals and of social groups, national, racial, and economic; and that this distinction justifies and necessitates political policies which a purely individualistic ethic must always find embarrassing.

A further distinction, important to make but not self - evident, is the extent to which Israel simply took over prevailing social regulations, and on the other hand, gave unique and distinctive meaning to the duties they believed laid upon them by their covenant with Yahweh.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

The problem, however, arises when this social sphere, which traditionally transcended the boundaries of the public / personal distinction, and which preserved, until the dawn of the modern age social integrity and conventional values, becomes encroached by the intervention of the new social — in the sense in which Arendt used the term.

Dysfunction of these mechanisms drives diseases such as cancers, in which social controls on multicellularity fail, and autoimmune disorders, in which distinctions between self and non-self are disrupted.

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

There is a real distinction between desegregation, which means getting diverse bodies in the building, and integration, which means creating positive academic and social experiences for all students.

The choreography of these sculptures is accompanied by a pulsating sound track and text statements, collaged from celebrated male authors, which collapse the distinctions between art objects and social history artefacts, and the strange and compulsive desires of consumerism.

Following a conversation with Mike Kelley about the physical beauty of many performance artists, McCarthy collaborated with Kelley to make Fresh Acconci (1995), a restaging of a series of historic works by the New York — based artist Vito Acconci, who is known for early performances in which he employed his own body to explore questions of social interaction, the distinctions between public and private behavior, and the objectification of the human body.

(1995), a restaging of a series of historic works by the New York — based artist Vito Acconci, who is known for early performances in which he employed his own body to explore questions of social interaction, the distinctions between public and private behavior, and the objectification of the human body.

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.

He found that s 49 (2) establishes a distinction between medical and social care provided by nurses which enables this issue of funding to arise.

Lord Justice Auld, who delivered the main judgment in the appellate court, (concurred in by his two colleagues), was adamant that there was no distinction to be drawn between the fact that this case concerned the duty of care owed by social workers, in contrast to East Berkshire which considered the ambit of the duty of care of doctors.

If we reject the distinction between these two supposedly separate psychological systems and instead pay attention to what can and can not be rationally justified, it will be more evident that behavioral change imposed on us through nonrational means not only is more coercive than that which comes about through the rational evaluation of justifications, but also erodes our capacity to reflect rationally and critically on our social world.

Markias received his Masters in Social Work with an emphasis in Integrated Health and Mental Health from The Clark Atlanta University in 2014, in which he graduated with Magna Cum Laude Distinction.