Sentences with phrase «social hierarchies at»

In our research of social hierarchies at UC Berkeley, we found that «doggy buddies spend time with each other» and that dogs approach friends very differently than dogs they don't know.

Not exact matches

Since grinders are at the pinnacle of teen social hierarchy, Soaps have been selling briskly among boys aged 10 to 15.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

Local Hindu fundamentalists are using extreme rhetoric about Dalit Christians, who are at the bottom of India's social hierarchy.

When we pass to the next higher step in the biologic hierarchy, the social organism, we at once perceive a difficulty.

Most studies of mouse social hierarchy have focused on more aggressive behaviors such as how male mice might pick on new cage members, says Helmut Kessels, a neurologist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience who was not involved with the research.

To investigate the mPFC's role in social ranking, Hailan Hu and her colleagues at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai first worked out the hierarchy within a group of mice through challenges between pairs in tubes.

In humans, social hierarchies exist but they are less pervasive and depend on quickly changing social reference groups, for example, within one's family, or at work, or in a sports team.»

For example, in species such as baboons that have rigid social rankings and hierarchies, with so - called alpha males dominating other males and females over extended periods of time, it can apparently be more stressful at the top.

The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in - between is nearly 200 years old.

Starring Mary J. Blige, Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell and Jason Clarke, the film is set in the segregated Mississippi Delta, and tells the epic story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

«I did wide research into the social and historical world of the Royal English family [from 1887 at the Queen's Jubilee celebration until her death in 1901], and this woman who was burdened with formality and rigidity and the absurdity of the hierarchy within the household,» said long - time Fears costume designer Consolata Boyle (twice Oscar - nominated for «The Queen» and «Florence Foster Jenkins»).

Chris Evans may be white - hot after the blockbuster success of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but perhaps he's taking that cold season a little too seriously with his career trajectory, as his next big - screen role finds him trapped on a train in a frozen future — and chomping at the bit to move up the social hierarchy ladder.

Two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Set in the rural American South at the end of World War II, Mudbound is an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.

In fact, UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman has challenged Abraham Maslow and his famous hierarchy of needs, placing social needs at the bottom of the pyramid.

This KS3 and KS4 English, Citizenship, History and Geography resource investigates marginalisation, with reference to social hierarchies in Ethiopia, where the Goqa are at the top and the Hilancha are at the bottom.

With the rise of a sophisticated and expensive test - preparation industry, the means of selecting entrants to Hunter has grown less independent of the social and economic hierarchies in New York at large.

Not only is a Social Security number not a requirement for all credit reporting, but it only tends to comes in at third place within the hierarchy of the four most critical pieces of personally identifiable information that determine whether an account lands on your credit report or doesn't.

However, if you look at the behavior of species with social hierarchies, like dogs, dominance is something designed to resolve conflicts without fighting because fighting is dangerous.»

We now know that the assumption that dogs form a social hierarchy with an alpha at the top, is flawed.

Wild canine packs have a social hierarchy with the alpha male and female at the top.

Veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer, Dr. Ian Dunbar received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) plus a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, where he researched the development of social hierarchies and aggression in domestic dogs.

«The source of dog aggression has nothing to do with social hierarchy, but it does, in fact, have to do with fear,» says Meghan Herron, a veterinarian at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study published in the January 2009 issue of Applied Animal Behavior Science.

At the core of his work is a focus on the social practices embedded in both new and old technologies, the ways these practices either challenge or reinforce established categories and hierarchies, and the politics of visibility these practices engender and operate within.

These investigations have acted as a critique of social and academic hierarchies at work within the production and exhibition of contemporary art.

company hierarchy These are at the more public end of social objects.

Answering these questions has often entailed the examination of social norms, values, hierarchies and categories, which are all highly articulated human constructions that are oddly meaningful and somewhat arbitrary at the same time.

And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt or interfere with social norms, surfacing as impure formations and messy, unstable substances.It re-examines the notion of «dematerialization»; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject andphobic; explores the vitality of substances, and the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation.

Is Wool more like Rubens, or Goya — an artist at ease with the social hierarchy that makes him possible, or at odds with it?

This is the split «between what you think and what you do» to which Pollan refers, and it should, perhaps, come as no surprise that so many educated liberals, living at the upper end of a social hierarchy that was becoming ever more stratified, should find the remedies that Pollan and Beavan offer so compelling.

But this unique indigenous group, known for shunning material possessions and social hierarchy, is at great risk of losing the elements that have allowed them to thrive for so long.

Worrying about this, having any sort of social stigma, personal social discomfort with this is just manufactured nonsense of the highest order — manufactured by advertising linking sweat to lack of control and, at a deeper level, by ingrained hierarchy (sweating is laboring and laboring is a lower rung on the social ladder than being able to pay or order people to labor for you; cool people don't labor).

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.

Social sciences like sociology and anthropology push us to think past the limitations created by an over-reliance on rankings and an over-emphasis on the schools at the tops of hierarchies.

The DECA chapter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School decided to reach out to the less fortunate in the community by organizing an event that served food, with social hierarchy in mind.

Within the family there is an indisputable social hierarchy - those at the top, the parents, have full authority are to be obeyed.

Consequently, the study points out to the extent that aggression is instrumental for social climbing, increases in status also increase the risk of victimization — at least until the pinnacle of the hierarchy is reached.