Sentences with phrase «social elite»

From August Sander's portraits of society to Tina Barney's depictions of social elites to Cana Bilir - Meier's cinematic exploration of the forgotten stories of migrant workers, How To Live Together shows that the stranger, the other, is something people are made into.

As you suggest, where Taylor needs to be challenged is in the assumption that the only kind of world that can be enchanted is a «vertical world» in which people have their identities and roles mostly assigned to them by social elites rather than choosing for themselves.

However, despite the latter's sustained attempt to coopt intellectuals, their growing numbers along with other social elites in the emerged middle class will soon exceed the Party's ability of cooptation.

This is despite the sophistication of the Communist Party, says Pei, in effective economic patronage in building a supportive wealthy and influential social elites through cooptation.

Will judicial activism and proclamations from social elites find their comeuppance in a generational shift?

Born into a well - to - do military family (on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1930), presented at court and married to an army officer, Chiara Hatton - Hall set up a riding school, in the idyllic Kentish countryside, for the international social elite.

Much of it was the dismantling of a vestigial religious establishment in which a religiously defined social elite imposed formal religious practices on all who would enter the social mainstream.

Bull Cyclone never could tolerate Kemper County's self - proclaimed social elite, which dismissed the Sullivans as boorish newcomers even after they'd lived in Scooba for 15 years.

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

The three begin the social whirl that makes up the British social elite's Season.

Founded in 1831 as America's first «rural cemetery,» this former park is liberally littered with the graves of Boston's original social elite — Mayflower descendants and Harvard eggheads abound.

This is thanks to impeccable service, impressive amenities — the award - winning 22,600 - square - foot spa offers not only traditional treatments but Turkish baths in private facilities — and the always - buzzing YALI bar and lounge, where the city's social elite gather nightly over cocktails and Turkish - inspired bites.

He began to wonder what the value of an artistic practice could be to a community ravaged by poverty and brutality, and whether his participation in an art world oriented toward social elites might mean that he was complicit in the oppression of his own people.

Tina Barney, best known for her portraits of the American social elite, returned to landscape photography during the summer of 2017 after having experimented with it in the late 1980s.

«It shows how religion can be exploited by social elites to their own benefit.»

For example, an artist could go from a starving nobody, and based on the whims of social circles, catapult to social elite in a very short time.

Since the inns are in close proximity to both Milwaukee and Chicago, they've long been a popular destination among the cities» political and social elite.

Quoting the well - known marriage historian John Gillis, Thatcher points out that «among the English and American plebs in the last half of the 18th century almost all brides below the social elite had experienced sexual intercourse with their future husbands before marriage.»

The abandonment of the family is occurring largely for the sake of an exaggerated individual freedom which can not, in the eyes of our social elites, be constrained even by gender identity or family structure.

While leisure itself is not new, modern social critics have widely observed that leisure in America has taken on a uniqueness and increased relevance because it is no longer a luxury allowed only to the social elite.

He didn't know any of the social elite.

More importantly yet, the enjoyment of human rights was no longer restricted to privileged individuals and social elites.

While homemakers were ceding power in their own domains to experts, the feminist revolution, he charges, was «hijacked by new economic and social elites.»

«The caste» — their term to describe the Spanish political, economic, and social elite — «is driving us into the abyss for their own selfish benefit.

Complaints about the loss of EMA, rising tuition fees, austerity measures, and police discrimination gain added valence from the rioters» subconscious coded articulations of their own (growing) alienation from a continually victorious political - economic - social elite.

«There can not be two standards of justice, one for the average citizen and another for the political and social elite.»

According to a religious evolutionary theory called the «social control hypothesis,» social elites may have used human sacrifice to preserve their power, cementing their status by claiming supernatural approval for their acts.

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Mar 6 - Trudy Gilbert is Sydney's own millionaire matchmaker, responsible for marrying off famous faces, executives of blue - chip companies and the social elite.

The silky Carter Page (Harrelson), black sheep of a southern political dynasty, could be the spiritual son of Julian Kay from «Gigolo,» a man who moves comfortably through the social elite but is abandoned by everyone in his circle when he's implicated in a scandal after trying to cover for a friend.

These objects and a unique burial of a woman from East Yorkshire provide the chance to learn about the values of the social elite of Iron Age Britain and the evidence provided by graves.

Most were men, most were from the social elite.

The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti (Atria, September 27) As a member of the social elite and wife to a handsome Wall Street tycoon, Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed Manhattan life.

However, even though social life and norms were very fluid, one's goal was still to attain social elite status or at least be associated with the social elite.

They became the best friends and companions for the social elite.

Experience the luxurious European spa hospitality that drew in the social elites of the early 1900s.

Walk through Point Ellis House and Gardens for a taste of what 1860s Canada was like for the social elite.

Come and rub shoulders with the social elite, and sample some amazing dishes that will truly delight.

For those in the social elite, spending on restaurants and entertainment may be an everyday occurrence.

By 1890, jewelry from his Parisian studio was the favorite of celebrities and social elites.

The status of contemporary artistic practice can be ironically summarized with the same slogan: Artists do sometimes fight for bread for the poor, but their work at least as often consists in delivering roses to the representatives of the social elites.

Both artists have been embraced by the art mainstream, leading this reviewer to wonder whether art that is granted permission to transgress by social elites can truly be transgressive.

Alongside her oeuvre of portraits portraying the daily life of the social elite that Barney is most known for, exists an entire series of landscape photographs using her 8 by 10 - inch view camera.

Rather than arguing for the play on its merits, Bernays cleverly organized a group that he called the «Medical Review of Reviews Sociological Fund,» inviting prominent doctors and members of the social elite to join.

What usually happens with high status careers is that they become colonized by social elites that have privileged access to high quality education and useful social networks...»