Sentences with phrase «social dysfunction on»

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«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

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.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

I know this may sound heretical, since anyone who has spent more than a minute in an inner city school or neighborhood (see my Ed Next story on two Chicago charters) knows the intensity of the social dysfunction — and no school is immune to its effects.

Despite the 50 - year War on Poverty, the social safety net, and the War on Drugs, poverty and social dysfunction of various sorts appear undented.

Those who act in a way that is «atypical» to their gender (e.g., a girl who is «one of the guys») may have greater social dysfunction because they experience «gender policing,» where they are stigmatized and picked on by their peers.14

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

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