Sentences with phrase «stratified society»

Some cultures at each level of social stratification engaged in human sacrifice, but it was more common in those that were harshly divided: Two - thirds of the highly stratified societies practiced the macabre ritual, compared with just one - quarter of the egalitarian societies, the researchers report online today in Nature.

In stratified societies each person is tagged with a class designation which fixes his place in the social structure.

He notes as well the racially stratified society which was her lifelong context, the ubiquitous presence of black maids and farmhands, the people who came and went by back doors, or who did not enter the house at all, by unwritten law.

Moderately stratified societies allowed for inherited status, but without pronounced social classes.

Moreover, like vouchers, online learning is theoretically egalitarian but could further stratify society, as the wealthy and educated exploit new technology before low - income and working - class students do.

However, when such prosperity is narrowly defined as the accumulation of currency, the ideals begin to break down, stratifying society by way of inequitable resource access and creating unrest.

In highly stratified societies, class differences were strict, social mobility restricted, and stature largely inherited.

On the one side was a stratified society, with a few rich and many poor, with private property in land and water, with money, trade, and credit and the inequalities and tyrannies incident to a commercialized regime — all this under the ægis of the baals.

This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximize their potential,... Socialists argue that socialism would allow for wealth to be distributed based on how much one contributes to society, as opposed to how much capital one holds.

The research conducted by Garcia and colleagues also found a relationship between social complexity and kissing: The more socially complex and stratified a society is, the higher the frequency of romantic kissing.

The study suggests that even in highly stratified societies, there may be an evolutionary benefit to settling disputes with egalitarian rules rather than fisticuffs.

«Status has its obvious rewards in a modern, stratified society — if you were on the sinking Titanic in 1912 and you were high status, then it was more likely there was a place for you on one of the lifeboats,» said Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at UCSB and senior author of the paper.

After all, the administrative progressives also were maximizing use value, but use for a stratified society that Labaree does not like.

The Fed studies show us that grit does not determine success in today's highly stratified society — privilege does.

In Hemphill's story, the girls fake their afflictions, and the book's great strength lies in its masterful unveiling of the girls» wholly believable motivations: romantic jealousy; boredom; a yearning for friendship, affection, and attention; and most of all, empowerment in a highly constricting and stratified society that left few opportunities for women.

It's been nearly six years since Janice Y.K. Lee made her fiction debut with The Piano Teacher, an «exceptional first novel» set in postwar Hong Kong where Allied occupiers and the native people negotiate an uneasy peace and a brittle, stratified society (read our review).