Sentences with phrase «social power»

Once it had been established that male sperm was indeed responsible for producing offspring, the balance of social power shifted drastically.
Hence, social power arrangements and cultural practices that constitute social beings are reduced to personal or interpersonal terms and not addressed as realities in themselves.
The conflict within us concerning primitive power and social power centers upon the fact that you can not do them both at the same time.
And he set about giving social power and social access and social goods to the poor and excluded.
When the police carry a resistant culprit to jail or when one army drives back an opposing army in battle, social power takes the same form as the powers of nature.
The power or influence types are those concerned about impact, about changing people's hearts and minds, and about leveraging social power.
Conversely, those with high social power are more concerned about themselves.
What if what we're really seeing and not understanding is girls learning about their own social power just as society finally allows them the space to do so?
In order to ensure that this comfortable situation is maintained, part of the accumulated social power is used to protect the situation.
A highly private «freedom» in certain restricted spheres can go together with the dominance of purely technical control at the center of social power.
«New Social Power in China» read one 2004 cover of Economics, a Beijing - based magazine.
Access to information and the means to communicate define who has power and who doesn't and determine one's «place» in social power structures.
Another problem with Greek - letter organizations is that antiquated rules give men too much social power on campus.
The artist's sculptures formulate a radical critique of existing social power relations and their stereotypical gender constructions.
If they look to your child for their opinion, your kid may be being given too much social power, says Gilboa.
In the Catholic vision of Church and State, while social power derives democratically upwards from the people created in the image of God, spiritual power descends downwards from God through the Body of Christ.
A Gramscian analysis of democracy as hegemony would say that elections are voiceless, but might reflect the «war of position» over social power between the class conscious parts of the working class and the bourgeoisie.
For example, a juror would overtly be influenced by the celebrity's social power without actually changing his private opinion of the case.
It generates power and fun at the same time, acting as a social
Order volume increases its success probability in real time and that's the additional advantage which in simple English is called social power.
To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).
Now in America, where be has acquired social power, his distrust of the Christian community leads him to align himself with the secularizing forces whose dominance, he thinks, will afford him a security he has never known.
Honesty really has become the best policy no matter how clever or well - established we are in hierarchical social power structure!
The anatomy of social power vividly illustrates the interfusion of physical, mental, and spiritual elements in human affairs.
It enjoys some particular social location within that society, and at least in that immediate vicinity fills some social roles in which it exercises what social power it has.
The Good Life — or, as I shall call it, the «American Success Syndrome» — consists of having a lot of money, making the right kinds of connections, and achieving social power through success in the business world or one of the professions.
The historic social power of the missionaries and churches that brought about the nearly universal «conversion» of Rwandans to Christianity.
people do that ALL THE TIME, but you would never know that because you're too busy fantasizing about how great it was in the days that christianity itself filled its pews and wielded social power with the terrifying threat of physical violence
To say that «there exists only one sickness, sin, «39 and to pour scorn on all political movements produces a simplification of human problems, and in some instances prophetic judgment; but it also leaves the manipulation of social and political institutions which do make and break lives of people to whatever shrewd and ruthless schemers may get social power.
This reached a climax in the Middle Ages, by which time the church had in her hands social power stronger than that of kings and emperors.
It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.
She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man's home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.»
And while she writes that, it's revolutionary to be «fighting for marriage to be about love and companionship — and not about a strictly gendered economic or social power construct,» she misses the point that same - sex couples already had love and companionship — what they wanted, and needed, were the legal and financial perks and protections marriage grants them.
Unfortunately, by the time children reach grade school this approach can often backfire, causing children to lose important social power and denying them the opportunity to develop the skills and experience to negotiate these difficult social waters themselves.
As with chimps, however, female bonobos have more social power, and males can be highly competitive.
Specifically, someone who is good at telling a story has the ability to influence others and accrue social power, which in turn increases attractiveness for a long - term relationship.
With Oscar nominee The Square out in UK cinemas, MUBI celebrates with a Ruben Östlund double - bill, introducing us to more of the Force Majeure director's work, from his visual storytelling to his sagacious observation of social power dynamics.
When these cosmetic systems are monetized it is every bit as manipulative and exploitative as when games make you pay for weapons because it all feeds into that same vying for social power that happens in any setting you put people into And though I want to end with a call to action, I am also caught up within these models.
Modigliani's work seeks to intervene in what might otherwise be an unfettered replication of established and naturalized social power.
The entrance room houses the installation Spoiled Foot, which fills the space with a large, obstructing black and red mass hanging from the ceiling and which forces the public to walk in a narrow passage and brush against the side walls as a metaphor of the contrast between those who live at the margins and a centralized social power.
This film highlights the vital, complicated, and often misunderstood efforts behind these artworks while exploring the extensive social power of art within four South LA County neighborhoods.
Without collective social power things won't change.
Economic, political, and social powers manifest themselves within an urban landscape, marking out the metaphysical effects of history and contemporary progression.
I especially like this quote about hipsters, attributed to one Rob Horning, that they are «an embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics,» or «a kind of permanent cultural middleman in hypermediated late capitalism, selling out alternative sources of social power developed by outsider groups».
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