Sentences with phrase «social hierarchy as»

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Over time, it became more and more fixated on hierarchy and social rank as the source of all meaning and value.

So while, when he focuses on the social context of suffocating patriarchy, Le Rider is no innovator, he is far more alert than many feminist interpreters in seeing how the cure - liberation from hierarchy and patriarchally assigned roles - could easily double back on itself, leaving, as it were, seven devils in the cleanly swept house where previously there had been but one.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

According to MacKinnon, sexuality is «socially organized to require sex inequality for excitement and satisfaction,» or, «to put it another way, perhaps gender must be maintained as a social hierarchy so that men will be able to get erections; or, part of the male interest in keeping women down lies in the fact that it gets men up.»

anthropomorphism or personification of society as the term «social justice»... treat society not as a spontaneous order of free men but as an organization whose members are all made to serve a single hierarchy of ends.

As with any new technology however the internet was introduced into a society already marked by economic and social hierarchies.

@SJuan76 Indeed, there is good reason to think that the origins of social class in countries like England are predominantly from Norman military hierarchies that were transplanted into English society as conquerers.

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.

Now, it seems that children as young as 11 months use size as a cue to interpret social hierarchies.

The authors examined a concept known as power distance belief (PDB)-- individual acceptance and expectation of social hierarchy — and its relationship with charitable giving and power, defined as the control one has over valued resources.

As perhaps with any social creature, Fischer points out that higher social competence and the ability to conform to social hierarchies may well stand the cichlids in good stead in later life:

But angelfish are fighters: A school's social hierarchy is determined through combat, with fish using their mouths to wrestle and their tails as clubs.

Dogs have personalities, as any loving owner will attest, but GPS trackers are needed to find out if they form complex social hierarchies like wolves

Thus the higher levels of stress hormones in alpha males, the team contends, are probably due to the stress of expending the energy necessary to stay competitive and on top of the hierarchy, whereas low - ranking males are stressed out by social factors such as being the targets of aggression by alpha males.

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.

«Our position in social hierarchies strongly influences motivation as well as physical and mental health,» said Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, in a press statement.

Using human and animal models, these studies may help explain why position in social hierarchies strongly influences decision - making, motivation, and altruism, as well as physical and mental health.

Indeed, many millennials view the traditional luxury brand playbook — with its glossy advertising, glitzy flagships and seasonal runway shows — as a tired and inauthentic marketing formula, tied to old - fashioned ideas of social hierarchy and extravagance.

Del Toro, a master of crossing genres, subtly turned his film into a commentary on American social hierarchy, including reinventing the beast as a romantic hero.

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.

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.

It doesn't make much sense, but the point is that the bureau is doing its own form of social hierarchy, with the genetically pure being seen as superior to those who are not.

Students listed as a friend by many peers who are themselves popular, rise to the top of the social hierarchy.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

More worrying is the effect on classroom ethos as children are increasingly seen to directly compete against each other for their place in the class and therefore the social hierarchy and life chances.

Prison environments and prison cultures create a multitude of challenges, such as the physical environment itself, social dynamics and hierarchy, and interaction and relationships with incarcerated...

In a country where cultural competency and high academic performance are markers of success, and schools are the mediums through which American children are socialized into their role as citizen, unequal education through racial segregation maintains a racial and social hierarchy.

The hierarchy within the sport is as intransigent as the social and economic status described in the novel.

It is definitely a subversive practice to disguise a girl as a boy, even if the intent of the individual family or bacha posh is something other than an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, and hierarchy.

One of the most fascinating chapters is titled In the Jungle: The Power of the Group in the Lives of Children, which reveals the social hierarchies and underlying forces exerting pressure on children (and adults as well) in group situations.

As «pack animals,» dogs will test you to find out where they stand in the social hierarchy of your family.

There are plenty of species of animal that do have social hierarchies where the strongest or most aggressive male rises to the top, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, but canids like wolves and dogs generally don't operate like this.

These behaviors can occur as sexual challenges over a female, or to achieve a relatively high position in the cats» loosely organized social dominance hierarchy.

Like most animals who live in groups, dogs tend to establish their own social structures, which is viewed as a dominance hierarchy that serves to maintain order, reduce conflict and promote cooperation among pack members.

It is very important that puppies stay with their mom and siblings for as long as possible during these periods and get to develop very important social skills of relating to each other and establishing a pecking order or hierarchy.

Although they are still highly social animals, the hierarchy of dominance is no longer the same in a dog family as it is in a wolf pack.

Some colonies are organized in more complex structures, such as relative hierarchies, where social status of individual cats can vary on their location, the time of day, or the activity the cats are engaged in (particularly feeding and mating).

Rockstar announced yesterday that they would be incorporating a new hierarchy system as part of its Social Club, just in time for GTA V's release.

As social becomes the axis for which all search is predicated, advanced SEO / SMO and a maturing human algorithm reinforced by the stature of one's social capital will ultimately contribute to the hierarchy, placement, and findability of the content and social objects we share online.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as ResistancAs a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistancas Resistance.

Ever since the beginning of her career, Trockel showed her love for addressing controversial issues of sexuality, feminism, as well as the hierarchy of the political and social systems.

In other works, such as her painted takes on iconic modernist furniture — of the kind still to be found in certain gallery and museum settings — Daignault amplifies, and gently subverts the aesthetic codes and social hierarchies associated with these universal symbols of good taste.

9 These are admittedly academic perspectives, and are focused as much on hierarchies of power — «institutional critique» — as on the horizontal «social» networks they also name.

This essay will examine the two exhibitions as examples of an «aesthetic of disappearance» that brought artists to invent an alternative «art world» that challenged dominant cultural institutions, social hierarchies, and media power systems.

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

What kind of social order would remain in a world without economic status or knowledge work as hierarchy?

The show centres on the key thematic lines in Rosler's work, where politics as the ideological exercise of power, class hierarchy and economic interest is addressed, especially through the enactment of U.S. imperialism and the social control of women's bodies.