Sentences with phrase «such social distinctions»

Neff is an avid student of such social distinctions.

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human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Social theorists today seem largely unaware of any such distinction, and this is why they pay so little attention to solitude.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms of this Declaration without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status».

When these worldview differences are aligned with other social distinctions — such as economic class, race, region or religion — competition can turn from civil politics to cultural war.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

But when they switch to other religious faiths and experience the same distinctions — albeit in different forms — they realize that such a change neither improves their social status nor remedies their economic problems of unemployment and poverty — the real source of their social discrimination.

Government benefits are the same in both but making the distinction is important for census data and for social responses to potential issues such as disease, divorce and family interactions.

But most queer theorists — and, for that matter, most academics throughout the humanities and the social / behavioral disciplines today — will readily concede that such distinctions are fledgling constructs and not much more.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

To make such a distinction requires a carefully circumscribed definition of health, one quite different from the famous definition once given by the World Health Organization: «a state of complete physical, mental, and social well - being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.»

Because of one social distinction, you may focus on other differences between yourself and that person, such as her or his culture, upbringing and experiences — differences that you would not expect from another Chinese collaborator.

Dysfunction of these mechanisms drives diseases such as cancers, in which social controls on multicellularity fail, and autoimmune disorders, in which distinctions between self and non-self are disrupted.

While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality — and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life — Huyghe's playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

It is a nonsense to try and draw a distinction between mentioning one's office on a firm / chambers website, printed CV or on social media — and such a prohibition plainly can not apply across the board (if I told you I was a judge I'd have to kill you).

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, without distinction of any kind, such as race, creed, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.