• Social scientists have increasingly examined the relative ease with which environmental, financial, human, informational, and ideological influences pass between borders. (berkeley.edu)
  • Higher education should generate and promote knowledge, considering political, social, and economic questions from every perspective, rather than promoting narrow ideological worldviews. (nas.org)
  • Recognizing that racial and ideological minorities face unique challenges, promoting a fatalistic worldview tends to exacerbate underlying currents of inequality. (nas.org)
  • It emerged as a response to social inequality, sparked by Enlightenment ideas, and evolved into a complex struggle for power and ideological dominance. (troydeltachi.org)
  • As a result, there is not a specific way of investigating social, political, religious, and ideological issues within the framework of media discourse analysis. (thelingwist.net)
  • Patriarchy is a social and ideological construct which considers men ( who are the patriarchs ) as superior to women. (onefuturecollective.org)
  • The objective of the study was to determine the predictive power of certain ideological (right-wing authoritarianism, belief in a just world, social dominance orientation, ideological self-positioning), cognitive (causal attributions of poverty and prejudice against poor people) and socio-demographic variables on the justification of social inequality. (bvsalud.org)
  • South Africa now risks sinking into an abyss of structurally embedded poverty, unemployment and inequality, endemic corruption and racialised capitalism. (aidc.org.za)
  • Even some of the non-Brahmin and non-Dalit scholars have reduced the understanding of the caste system to Brahmin domination without alluding to the notion of graded inequalities, which is endemic to the caste system. (epw.in)
  • It is widely reported that gender inequality has been and continuously remains an endemic to the growth of not just nation states but the international system. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Viewed through this lens, Africa is at greatest risk of political and policy shifts due to potential COVID-19 scarring. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • In Africa, where poverty and inequality are particularly pronounced, the political ground has already started shifting, including leadership changes and civil unrest. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • Over the next year, several African countries will go to the polls, and the results could alter political and policy trajectories (Angola, Kenya and South Africa). (alliancebernstein.com)
  • Inequality within Africa remains startlingly high. (aidc.org.za)
  • It observes that human social groups consist of distinctly different group-based social hierarchies in societies that are capable of producing economic surpluses. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated inequality and poverty, economic populism could rise and/or democratic principles could degrade. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • The interaction between economic and political concentration has led to periodic social conflicts and often contributed to institutional weakness. (springer.com)
  • What has happened with economic and political concentration at the top? (springer.com)
  • Series Blurb: 'Building Progressive Alternatives is a research-based series initiated to create a body of knowledge that will enable us to return advanced capitalist economies to full employment and sustainable growth, and to challenge the dominance of conservative, predominantly neoliberal, paradigms of economic and social thought. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • The Series provides a space for high-quality academic work by economists, political economists and other social scientists united in a common mission: to use their scholarship to create a coherent, credible and progressive economic growth strategy (and an associated set of wider public policies) that together can inspire and underpin the revival of a successful progressive alternative in advanced capitalist societies. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • In contrast to the tradition-based definition of conservatism, some political theorists such as Corey Robin define conservatism primarily in terms of a general defense of social and economic inequality . (artandpopularculture.com)
  • Previous studies have shown that economic inequality influences psychological processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this article, we argue that economic inequality also makes masculine attributes more prototypical. (frontiersin.org)
  • In Study 1 ( N = 106), using an experimental design, we showed that individuals belonging to a society characterized by a higher level of economic inequality are perceived as more masculine than feminine. (frontiersin.org)
  • Study 2 ( N = 75) shows, also experimentally, that the upper social class is perceived mostly in terms of masculine traits, and that this effect is greater when economic inequality is relatively high. (frontiersin.org)
  • These results inform our understanding of the impact of economic inequality on social perception. (frontiersin.org)
  • In recent years, economic inequality has been growing in the majority of developed countries ( Piketty and Saez, 2014 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The rationale behind how economic inequality has psychosocial effects is the notion that different social structures provide different environments, which are fundamental to the development of human characteristics ( Wilkinson and Pickett, 2017 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Consistent with this idea, Buttrick and Oishi (2017) have argued that economic inequality influences society by increasing individuals' mistrust and anxiety about their own positions. (frontiersin.org)
  • From this perspective, experimental social-psychological studies have corroborated some of the proposed causal effects of economic inequality. (frontiersin.org)
  • Similarly, when individuals face a disadvantageous situation in a context of economic inequality, they tend to be more aggressive toward others ( Greitemeyer and Sagioglou, 2017 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In this paper, we are interested in the consequences of perceived economic inequality on societal inferences about others. (frontiersin.org)
  • The Movement aimed at the total abolition of the caste system and socio-economic inequalities. (iassite.com)
  • Serious economic inequality in the society can also bring in such controls. (hssliveguru.com)
  • In recent times, global social, political, and economic changes have impelled research to reconsider how individuals relate to one another across national, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic categories. (berkeley.edu)
  • Ordinary Africans will continue to suffer the burden of poverty and its related social ills unless deep and systemic economic change occurs across the continent. (aidc.org.za)
  • Unless African economies rid themselves of commodity dependence, future economic achievements are likely to be unsustainable, with a growth path that is attached to an elite (local and foreign) accumulation stream that entrenches structural inequality. (aidc.org.za)
  • However, this generation failed to translate political freedom into economic prosperity, often due to ethnic conflict, elite corruption and interests (see Fanon's discussion of the national bourgeoisie in Wretched of the Earth ) and disruption by foreign powers. (aidc.org.za)
  • In essence, feminism is a set of ideologies and theories that seek to equalize women's social, political and economic rights. (greenbhl.com)
  • Discrimination against women and other social oppressions, such as racism and economic injustice, are the focus of this type of feminism. (greenbhl.com)
  • A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. (harvard.edu)
  • The economic facts of inequality are clear. (harvard.edu)
  • Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the coherence of liberal democratic nation-states. (harvard.edu)
  • For Savage, there is a link between the rise of an 'inequality paradigm' (focused especially on wealth, rather than income) and movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which seek to address the economic legacy of historical injustices. (harvard.edu)
  • The spotlight that has fallen on Russian oligarchs since the invasion of Ukraine is another manifestation of the inequality paradigm, emphasizing the links between present injustices (not to say humanitarian catastrophes) and political-economic maneuvering dating back to the 1990s. (harvard.edu)
  • This thesis examines how social and economic factors shape the behavior of Russian journalists. (uoregon.edu)
  • The historical, political, and economic linkages shared among the countries, alongside regional integration and attractive government-led industrialization strategies contributed to large-scale flows of migrant workers within the region. (ucf.edu)
  • Through historical comparison of the development of social networks in Japan and Taiwan, this research argues that as a result of the tension between the scarcity of natural resources, the inequality of access to those resources, and the committed use of those resources by the dominant mode of production technologies, there have been high levels of concern over economic security among the general population in both Taiwan and Japan. (syr.edu)
  • On the other hand, the style of political dominance and state policies, through the creation of various types of social and economic institutions, have played significant roles in the provision of security and therefore, network building. (syr.edu)
  • States, public policy, and related institutions, have been, still are, and will be playing critical roles in defining the styles of social and economic networks, particularly in East Asia. (syr.edu)
  • In early 15th century Europe, news used to be political, economic, military and diplomatic messages of the ruling classes. (countercurrents.org)
  • This tumultuous period, which spanned from 1789 to 1799, witnessed sweeping social, political, and economic changes within France that reverberated across Europe and beyond. (troydeltachi.org)
  • but in the US, UK, and France, part of the economic elite has drawn the conclusion that open borders no longer translate into global dominance. (academicmatters.ca)
  • Concerned with the economic, political, social and cultural dimensions of uneven access to resources, opportunity and capabilities, Cook Center researchers take a cross-national comparative approach to the study of human difference and disparity. (duke.edu)
  • Cook Center researchers compare the human experience of disparity in the U.S. and beyond, with a focus on economic, political, health and cultural disparities. (duke.edu)
  • In a patriarchal system, the males hold primary power, laying their dominance in all spheres - political leadership, economic authority ( including control of livelihood and property ), social and moral authority ( including religious dominance ). (onefuturecollective.org)
  • Patriarchal ideas blur the distinction between sex and gender and assume that all socio-economic and political distinctions between men and women are rooted in biology or anatomy " (Heywood, 2003: 248). (onefuturecollective.org)
  • 4). With the top 1% of incomes in many nations obtaining a disproportionate share of economic benefits, capitalism has however also contributed to an increase in income inequality. (customwritings.com)
  • This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the office of the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai, India. (epw.in)
  • The party's platform focuses on nationalism, social welfare programs, and economic development. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • It has positioned itself as a moderate alternative, advocating for economic growth, social programs, and political stability. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • The coalition's platform includes anti-corruption measures, social programs, and progressive economic policies. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • The country's politics are influenced by issues such as corruption, economic development, social inequality, and international relations. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • Exclusion consists of dynamic, multi-dimensional processes driven by unequal power relationships interacting across four main dimensions - economic, political, social and cultural - and at different levels including individual, household, group, community, country and global levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • The applications considered include: the theory of economic decision making under risk and uncertainty, non-cooperative game theory and the basic concepts of dominance, Nash equilibrium, and subgame perfection, the theory of monopoly, oligopoly theory, developing game theoretic models of competition in prices and quantities as well as sequential competition, the basic theory of incentive problems created by asymmetric information about actions or states of nature. (lu.se)
  • The unique characteristics of COVID-19 may have stifled unrest initially, but the pandemic has exacerbated inequality and poverty, which could fuel public discontent, impacting political and policy paths. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • Lower-skilled workers have been most affected, and poverty has increased substantially in low-income countries with weak social safety nets. (alliancebernstein.com)
  • After providing an overview of the historical and political contexts of child protection policy in England, the chapter considers the ways poverty and parenting are constructed in the dominant discourses as well as the policies and practices that have developed within this context. (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com)
  • Given that many of the above characteristics - independence, competitiveness, and aggressiveness - have commonly been associated with social constructions of masculinity (see Bem, 1974 ), we suggest that individuals living in societies that are perceived as more unequal may be perceived in terms of traits more closely associated with masculinity (and less associated with femininity). (frontiersin.org)
  • Gender like social class, caste, race or religion is a significant social cleavage, and it is important to analyse it in order to understand social inequalities, oppressions and unequal relationships between men and women. (onefuturecollective.org)
  • Based on these results, the contribution of political psychology to the understanding of the psychosocial mechanisms that enable the legitimation of unequal situations is discussed. (bvsalud.org)
  • It results in a continuum of inclusion/exclusion characterized by unequal access to resources, capabilities and rights which leads to health inequalities. (bvsalud.org)
  • For data collection and validation of predictions, the social dominance orientation (SDO) scale was composed to measure acceptance of and desire for group-based social hierarchy, which was assessed through two factors: support for group-based dominance and generalized opposition to equality, regardless of the ingroup's position in the power structure. (wikipedia.org)
  • One area of research has examined Social Dominance Orientation (Sidanius, 1993) which is defined as an attitude syndrome that legitimizes the ranking of groups within a society. (berkeley.edu)
  • In addition to studies of social dominance orientation, social psychologists have pointed out that a group's norms surrounding interpersonal behavior among individuals of different groups is especially important in determining the nature of inter-group encounters. (berkeley.edu)
  • Across cultures studies show that men score higher on social dominance orientation than women. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • In Study 1 we analyzed sex differences in social dominance orientation in three German probability surveys (each n 2300). (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Unexpectedly, the analyses yielded an inverse gender gap with higher values for social dominance orientation in women than in men. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • In Study 2 we replicated the well-known gender gap with men scoring higher than women in social dominance orientation among German students. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • While younger women take advantage of a relational, feminine self-construal that leads to lower social dominance orientation in young women than in young men, older women are supposed to profit from an agentic self-construal that results in stronger social dominance orientation values. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • B. Küpper and A. Zick, "Inverse gender gap in Germany: Social dominance orientation among men and women", International Journal of Psychology , vol. 46, 2011, pp. 33-45. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Group differences in the legitimization of inequality: Questioning the role of social dominance orientation. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Westerners have been slow to appreciate that inequality undermines the very foundations of liberal democracy: faith in progress and trust in the political community's concern for all its members. (harvard.edu)
  • Generally, these have been positive developments, but have contributed to historically high levels of income inequality , which undermines social cohesion. (digitaltonto.com)
  • It represents a more united effort among smaller left-leaning parties to challenge the dominance of larger political entities. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • People used mass media to fight against all forms of exploitation, injustices and inequalities. (countercurrents.org)
  • For instance, one of the biggest corporations in the world, Amazon, has come under fire for allegedly mistreating the warehouse staff and squeezing out smaller competitors through the use of its market dominance. (customwritings.com)
  • According to the theory, group-based inequalities are maintained through three primary mechanisms: institutional discrimination, aggregated individual discrimination, and behavioral asymmetry. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, discrimination is found to not solely be the cause of inequalities in the labor market. (lu.se)
  • Yet although the problems of racism, racial discrimination, and inequality have scarcely been resolved, many scholars of this current post-civil rights period have continued to ignore the profound and dynamic relationship between race and American politics. (iresearchnet.com)
  • CDA may be defined as fundamentally concerned with analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control as manifested in language. (thelingwist.net)
  • Even though the Dravidian parties emerged out of a struggle against the Brahmin dominance in structures of power and against caste discrimination in various spheres of life, they have not been able to orient Tamil Nadu society towards egalitarian social order even after being in power for more than half a century. (epw.in)
  • Social hierarchy is not only seen as a universal human feature - SDT argues there is substantial evidence it is shared, including the theorized trimorphic structure - among apes and other primates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social dominance theory (SDT) argues that all human societies form group-based hierarchies. (wikipedia.org)
  • It argues that priestly dominance is not an inherent trait. (iassite.com)
  • It also analyses the impact of interventions on parents and argues that contemporary child protection policy and practice in England is based on a narrow approach to child and family welfare and the role of social work. (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com)
  • Similarly, Fairclough (1995b) argues that media discourse contributes to the reproducing of social relations, domination, and exploitation and that the main goal is to locate where ideology is manifested in the news reports. (thelingwist.net)
  • A primary assumption in social dominance theory (SDT) is that racism, sexism, nationalism, and classism are all manifestations of the same human disposition to form group-based social hierarchies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The alt-right political polarization, grounded in identity, not class (although white nationalism actually claims the mantle of the proletariat, capturing class within cultural identity) turns on an opposition between singular ethno-national identity, and global openness and plural identity. (academicmatters.ca)
  • The continued dominance of methodological nationalism reduces the promises of meaningful expansive transnational thinking to a monolithic binary model that tend to reproduce harmful narratives of absolute differences and otherness. (lu.se)
  • Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization . (artandpopularculture.com)
  • The first established use of the term in a political context originated in 1818 with François-René de Chateaubriand during the period of Bourbon Restoration that sought to roll back the policies of the French Revolution . (artandpopularculture.com)
  • Religion and social context, important to the emergence of the civil right movement, remain central to Black electoral politics (Cohen and Dawson 1993, Harris 1994). (iresearchnet.com)
  • Critical Discourse Analysis or CDA scrutinizes discourse in its social context. (thelingwist.net)
  • From the socio-cognitive perspective, Van Dijk (1998a) defines CDA as a field that is chiefly concerned with scrutinizing written and spoken texts to uncover the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality, and bias in the social and political context. (thelingwist.net)
  • Within the context of EFL teaching, discourse analysis can be defined as "how stretches of language, considered in their full textual, social, and psychological context, become meaningful and unified for their users" (Cook, 1990, p. 3). (cevios.com)
  • According to him, to determine the sources of dominance, power, and inequality with special reference to the social, political, and historical context in the media, it is compulsory to single out the type of language used and analyze it within the framework of discourse. (thelingwist.net)
  • A social hierarchy is where some individuals receive greater prestige, power or wealth than others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Males are more dominant than females, and they possess more political power and occupy higher status positions illustrating the iron law of androcracy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Given the historical relevance of top incomes and elite power, it is surprising that scholarly work on the reduction of income inequality in the last decade has ignored them, concentrating instead on short-term growth in formal employment and reduction in the skill premium (Cornia 2010 ). (springer.com)
  • Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker criticizes "social justice warriors" in his latest book, meaning the practitioners of "identity politics," which "sees society as a struggle for power, also zero-sum, among different sexes, sexual orientations, and races [and] also has a contempt for science. (currentaffairs.org)
  • Furthermore, Wodak and Meyer (2001) explain that CDA emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary work in order to gain an appropriate understanding of how language plays a significant role in shaping, transmitting, spreading knowledge, organizing social institutions, and exercising power. (thelingwist.net)
  • Based on the above-mentioned definition, we infer that CDA is concerned with how power relations, dominance, and discursive practices are exercised through language. (thelingwist.net)
  • The dominant culture exercises supremacy through language power and inequality. (thelingwist.net)
  • Based on examples of cultural, artistic and activist practices from the peripheries, namely those emerging in Rio de Janeiro, this article aims to discuss how artivism can challenge gender inequalities and power relations. (frontiersin.org)
  • and often, the option to use violence as a tool to achieve status, exert power or control that is threatened or lost, and to achieve social belonging. (frontiersin.org)
  • The shifting debate about Social Security is one sign that the balance of power may be shifting. (truthout.org)
  • Social Security cutters have held virtually unchallenged dominance in recent years, both in the corridors of power and on the pages and airways of corporate-funded media. (truthout.org)
  • The idea is to create mass produce social, cultural and political values that accepts the dominance of illegitimate authority and power. (countercurrents.org)
  • It was through such individual stories intertwined with broader socio-political dynamics that the French Revolution emerged as an epoch-making movement reshaping societal structures and challenging existing power hierarchies. (troydeltachi.org)
  • A strange, dangerous, and oddly familiar era -- of declining American power, global rebalancing, and profound inequality -- is upon us. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The serfs were at the bottom of the social ladder due to the well-established tight social order, which gave the nobility tremendous power and authority. (customwritings.com)
  • Panama has a multi-party political system with several parties vying for power and influence. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • With such power that discourse possesses, language planners, political actors fabricate linguistic and semantic images to seek connection with the aspirations of their audience. (com.ng)
  • The very idea of political representation opened a wholly new need to define the status and the political role of the people whose sovereignty did legitimize the power of representatives. (123dok.org)
  • Results indicate particularities of the predictive power of these variables depending on the evaluated dimension of the justification of social inequality. (bvsalud.org)
  • A persistent problematic in much transnational, comparative research, policy, and activism, is the ways in which inequalities of power - past and present - shape knowledge production. (lu.se)
  • Savage guides us through the ideas of leading theorists of inequality, including Marx, Bourdieu, and Piketty, revealing how inequality reimposes the burdens of the past. (harvard.edu)
  • We strive to model justice in all its forms (restorative, environmental, social, etc.) so that all Brockton community members can feel valued and empowered with the cognitive, social, and emotional skills to make a positive impact in the world around them. (brocktonschool.com)
  • A meta-analysis of research literature by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski and Sulloway in 2003 found that many factors, such as intolerance of ambiguity and need for cognitive closure , contribute to the degree of one's political conservatism. (artandpopularculture.com)
  • The debate therefore has been what language(s) should function in the lives of the people given the various political, cultural, cognitive and economical role language plays in the socio-political architecture of nation. (com.ng)
  • The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects. (duke.edu)
  • In a world facing democratic decline, with particularly devastating consequences for groups and regions considered other and/or minority, it is urgently important to re-imagine meaningful ways to expose ongoing structural inequalities and to decenter and localize cultural diversities in ways that highlight underlying or potentially generative commonalities and hence, our shared humanity. (lu.se)
  • His sophisticated reflections about the visual representation of inequality inform a broader inquiry into how the achievements and limits of social science shape the new politics of inequality. (harvard.edu)
  • An important focus is to deepen the student's understanding of how sociology of law is related to other social science disciplines as well as the centrality of sociological theories for understanding broader social processes. (lu.se)
  • Politics is one of the spheres of social life where language plays a vital role. (com.ng)
  • This chapter examines what the capability approach can contribute to child protection policy and practice in England as an alternative conceptual framework for social work that challenges the dominance of neoliberal ideology in ways consistent with the promotion of human rights and social justice. (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com)
  • With a wide-ranging, original, and visionary argument and engagingly written, The Return of Inequality is a major contribution, the crowning of an exceptionally productive career focused on the sociology of inequality, social change, and culture in the UK, Europe, and the world. (harvard.edu)
  • demonstrate the capacity to make assessments in sociology of law informed by relevant disciplinary, social and ethical aspects of research. (lu.se)
  • The theory was initially proposed in 1992 by social psychology researchers Jim Sidanius, Erik Devereux, and Felicia Pratto. (wikipedia.org)
  • The social tiers described by multiple theories of stratification become organized into hierarchies due to forces that SDT believes are best explained in evolutionary psychology to offer high survival value. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research in the area of social psychology and socio-legal studies has begun to explore the question of how individuals and groups might more effectively get along across differences. (berkeley.edu)
  • The following paper will present an overview of the most significant research findings in the areas of social psychology and socio-legal studies on how diverse individuals (and nations) can avoid conflict, and achieve harmony. (berkeley.edu)
  • In the area of social-psychology, the work of Michael Bond has been particularly helpful in synthesizing research that touches on both the social and environmental barriers and enabling factors that might assist individuals and groups get along more effectively across diverse cultural, religious, and racial backgrounds. (berkeley.edu)
  • A large body of research in social psychology has examined both the behavioral and normative factors that contribute to prejudicial attitudes. (berkeley.edu)
  • political psychology. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social dominance theory (SDT) is a social psychological theory of intergroup relations that examines the caste-like features of group-based social hierarchies, and how these hierarchies remain stable and perpetuate themselves. (wikipedia.org)
  • This separation may be accomplished by physical separation, by social barriers and by psychological mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Internationally, the French Revolution challenged existing monarchies and aristocracies, setting in motion a series of wars that reshaped European boundaries and political structures. (troydeltachi.org)
  • Sylvia Walby in " Theorising Patriarchy " calls it " a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women " (Walby, 1990). (onefuturecollective.org)
  • This failure led to near social collapse in the decades after, particularly in the years preceding and following the debt crisis in 1979. (aidc.org.za)
  • The study investigated language and political crisis: a study of the Nigerian situation. (com.ng)
  • Findings showed that: the extent in which language causes political crisis in Nigeria using the response from Nsit Ibom Local Government Area is very high. (com.ng)
  • We're beginning to see the peak of the Coronavirus crisis in hard-hit urban areas like New York City , thanks to social distancing measures and the bravery and dedication of healthcare workers. (digitaltonto.com)
  • Men's rights are protected in all societies, and all social organizations and institutions are based on male thinking. (greenbhl.com)
  • In The Return of Inequality , acclaimed sociologist Mike Savage pushes back, explaining inequality's profound deleterious effects on the shape of societies. (harvard.edu)
  • Singapore's dominance of Indonesia and Malaysia in the semi-periphery of South-East Asia conditioned the environment that migrants faced in their host societies. (ucf.edu)
  • How do inequalities evolve in such quick-changing societies and what is the role of transition policies and emerging institutions? (lse.ac.uk)
  • The history of citizenship is coterminous with the political history of modem western societies. (123dok.org)
  • What is meant by social constraints? (hssliveguru.com)
  • The constraints on liberty can be in the forms of external control or dominance. (hssliveguru.com)
  • Conservatives seek to preserve a range of institutions such as monarchy , religion, parliamentary government , and property rights, with the aim of emphasizing social stability and continuity. (artandpopularculture.com)
  • It should include the more fundamental needs of building and maintaining sustainable social institutions, and therefore, appropriate levels of organizational capacity of the state and general citizens. (syr.edu)
  • Their work illustrates the central role of policies and institutions in shaping long-run inequality. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Politics of social justice in Tamil Nadu has been narrowed down by the dominant Dravidian parties to mere fulfilment of reservation in government jobs and admissions to educational institutions. (epw.in)
  • Feudalism is built on a social hierarchy and land ownership, whereas capitalism emphasizes the private ownership of firms and the growth of wealth through free market competition. (customwritings.com)
  • Poland experienced a sharp rise in inequality during its transition from communism to capitalism, and this trend has continued into the 2000s. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Savage makes a compelling argument about how the legacy of the past combines with capitalist accumulation to affect inequalities of race, gender, and class around the world. (harvard.edu)
  • In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, signaled, constituted, and legitimized, and so on by language use (or in discourse). (thelingwist.net)
  • The dominant theories put forth by leading American democratic theorists following World War II obviously excluded African-Americans in broadly characterizing the American political process as one at its core, where no one group is excluded and all, although hardly equals, can be heard. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Democratic theorists like Dahl (1961) and David Truman (1971) generally assumed that the political incorporation of Blacks would 'normalize' American politics, with all the various groups and subgroupings able to engage in pressure politics. (iresearchnet.com)
  • To the vagueness of the sociological literature on modernization and democratization, legal theorists tend to oppose a rigid definition of citizenship in its original meaning of membership into a political community [La Torre, 1995], as though such community-and consequently membership to it- had not undergone significant, strategical changes. (123dok.org)
  • Social movement scholars established how protest is not unlike electoral politics (McAdam 1982, Morris 1984) and the continuity between the two in the postcivil rights era (Holden 1973, Smith 1981, Tate 1993, Walton 1973). (iresearchnet.com)
  • Ferrajoli [1993] rightly deplores the lack of communication between legal and sociological analyses of citizenship, but at the same time he seems to overlook the fact that the modification of rights is a social, not merely a legal process. (123dok.org)
  • The main aims of the Movement were social services and the spread of education among women and lower caste people. (iassite.com)
  • In the fields of work, culture, and social roles, feminism aims to give women the same opportunities as men. (greenbhl.com)
  • It concludes with recommendations for policy and practice that aims to promote greater social justice. (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com)
  • CEDAW) has been successful in the achievement of its aims and also that the glass ceiling which represents all barriers to women's political participation may never be eliminated. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Finally, Fairclough (1995b), believes that media discourse contributes to the reproduction of social relations, domination, and exploitation to name a few. (thelingwist.net)
  • 1] The concerted assertion of male domination eventually went on to create a social system, namely, patriarchy. (onefuturecollective.org)
  • 2] It is therefore inferable that gender does legitimise inequality and domination. (onefuturecollective.org)
  • We have long been witnesses to social suffering as a result of political violence and domination. (rootsandleisure.com)
  • We have seen oil's rise to dominance since the 1970s, which has greatly affected geopolitics over the past half-century, but now may be reversing. (digitaltonto.com)
  • Social policy has also failed to redistribute income significantly, benefiting small segments of the population instead-as shown by Arroyo and Lindert in their contribution to this volume. (springer.com)
  • Echoing Javier Rodriguez Weber's contribution to this volume (see also Rodríguez Weber 2014 ), I illustrate how the Pinochet dictatorship contributed to a deepening of concentration at the top and redefined Chile's political economy. (springer.com)
  • A major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class. (harvard.edu)
  • But quite a few emerging markets in Asia and Latin America have comparable demographic and income inequality dynamics, and therefore face similar risks ( Display, below ). (alliancebernstein.com)
  • His reconstruction of citizenship's development-from civil to political and to social-shows a dynamics inherent to it, stronger than the rigidity of a strictly legal pattern of citizenship. (123dok.org)
  • A second need is equally strong: the analysis cannot be done through the juridical language alone, because this latter accounts for the codification of rights, but cannot explain the deeper dynamics through which rights and the social pact itself do change. (123dok.org)
  • The course reviews and analyzes the specific characteristics of the manner in which sociologists study law and seeks to explain some of the patterns and dynamics of law in a variety of social settings. (lu.se)
  • Satyashodhak Samaj also advocated for social changes, including less expensive weddings, inter-caste marriages, the end of child marriage, and the right of the widow to remarry. (iassite.com)
  • The main objectives were education, access to social rights and civil liberties for lower caste groups, the underprivileged and women. (iassite.com)
  • Similar to this, the medieval caste system, which was based on social status rather than merit, illustrates how feudalism had an impact on society. (customwritings.com)
  • The creation of conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions and other social assistance programmes enhanced the redistributive capacity of the state (Cornia 2014 ). (springer.com)
  • At the same time, the chapter recognises Chile's gradual move towards redistributive universalism in social policy (Huber and Stephens 2012 ) and explores whether these policies can transform the country's political economy in the future. (springer.com)
  • Looking ahead, it also discusses possible pathways to achieve global justice in and through migration, in terms of geopolitics, subjective experience, human rights and redistributive justice, global solidarity and political activism. (midwestbookreview.com)
  • This rising inequality and promises to address it through redistributive policies were key factors in the victory of Law and Justice at this year's Polish election - and they could well be a major feature in the UK's upcoming election campaign. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The party emerged from the country's political turmoil and has strong ties to labor unions and social movements. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • A much-needed and highly insightful intellectual history of the concept and analysis of inequality…Extremely well written, engaging, and learned…It should be read carefully by social scientists who study inequality. (harvard.edu)
  • Empirical analyses have documented increasing inequality over recent decades. (harvard.edu)
  • A group-based hierarchy is distinct from an individual-based hierarchy in that the former is based on a socially constructed group such as race, ethnicity, religion, social class, linguistic group, etc. while the latter is based on athletic or leadership ability, high intelligence, artistic abilities, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its rigid social hierarchy and limited social mobility ensure control, stability, and security within the time frame it emerged. (customwritings.com)
  • These ideas gained traction among an increasingly educated middle class eager for political representation and social mobility. (troydeltachi.org)
  • It also attempts to bridge the gap between the linguistic, on the one hand, and the social, political, cultural, and historical analyses of texts, on the other. (thelingwist.net)
  • The natural implication of these diversities is that language becomes a principal source of individual identity and also a social-political capital for interaction across different cultural and political borders. (com.ng)
  • The dominance of traditional religions and their cultural heritage seriously hinders the emancipation of women across the globe 12 . (humanreligions.info)
  • Her definition of liberal feminism emphasizes issues such as gender equality at work, education, and political rights. (greenbhl.com)
  • Taking discourse approach towards language teaching has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' attention since the introduction of discourse analysis as a discipline in social sciences. (cevios.com)
  • Yet with relatively few right-leaning voices in the professoriate, particularly in the humanities and the social sciences where ideas matter most, many college students receive less than the intellectually rigorous education they deserve. (nas.org)
  • Some scholars, however, recognize that race and ethnicity remain central features of a rational and modernizing society, and have begun to explore the political foundations of racial conflict and racism. (iresearchnet.com)
  • The racial identities of Blacks, a factor in the movement, continues to play a critical role in their political participation and attitudes today (Dawson 1994, Miller et al. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Stevens saw reparations as necessary to avoid racial hatred, inequality and strife. (theweeklychallenger.com)
  • Martinelli's government focused on infrastructure development and social programs, but it was also marked by corruption scandals. (anycountyprivateschools.com)
  • https://www.who.int/social_determinants/knowledge_networks/final_reports/sekn_final%20report_04 2008.pdf. (bvsalud.org)
  • For decades there has been a concerted, well-funded effort to cut Social Security benefits. (truthout.org)
  • But for decades they were marginalized by norms of political and social decency. (truthout.org)
  • From the original concern about membership-by way of defining who has the right to be acknowledged as a member of a society and the constitutional forms of such a right-the notion of citizenship has undergone the same modifications than the very content of the social pact. (123dok.org)
  • In turn, feudalism assured a continuity of social relationships which, in an age of insecurity and violence, was not without its advantages. (customwritings.com)
  • This integration into global political economy also produced toxic ideologies. (aidc.org.za)
  • But the analyses and the action need to be linked by careful consideration of just how to think about inequality, including its locations, dimensions, forms, and visceral experiences. (harvard.edu)
  • The region has traditionally been characterised by high concentration of income and political influence of the elite (World Bank 2003). (springer.com)
  • Although these businesses have boosted innovation and produced jobs, they have also come under fire for mistreating employees and promoting income inequality. (customwritings.com)
  • Inequality was high in the first half of the twentieth century due to the high concentration of capital income at the top of the distribution. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Figure 2 shows there was a substantial and steady rise in inequality after the fall of communism, which was driven by a sharp increase in the income shares of the top groups. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Nobody in mainstream political thought would have dared to challenge it. (truthout.org)
  • Perhaps the abandonment of multilateralism by a mainstream political party in the UK is the larger change. (academicmatters.ca)
  • Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that political candidates should strive to practice politics without bitterness by making frantic efforts to inform or persuade electorates rather than deceive them with enticing words. (com.ng)
  • Results are interpreted on the basis of biocultural interaction, which integrates the sociobiological, social role, and self-construal perspectives. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Here, we discuss the female ideal of the national socialist period and the agentic female social role in the post-war era necessitated by the absence of men. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Women since time immemorial have been relegated to the background in terms of political participation. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • The foundation of the system is social mobility and meritocracy, which presupposes that people have the ability to advance economically via perseverance, creativity, and entrepreneurship. (customwritings.com)
  • The women of color characters are dispersed through the stratified roles of Handmaids or Marthas which also assumes levels of social mobility. (ruthdesouza.com)
  • analysis of bio-politics [Foucault, 11979], Citizenship can be described as a strategy to govern processes of social change affecting political relations-namely a strategy to socially create citizens [Burchell,1995], Burchell stresses that thinking of citizenship as a social creation may help to avoid the oppositions dominating citizenship debates-between active and passive, public and private, bourgeois and citizen, community and the market. (123dok.org)
  • This sparked widespread discontent, with calls for political reform echoing throughout France. (troydeltachi.org)
  • Featuring chapters written by researchers, political activists and contributors with lived experience of migration injustice, the Handbook explores central topics including failures in refugee protection, worker exploitation and violence against migrants. (midwestbookreview.com)
  • Queer/ Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures (with Will Schroeder and Hongwei Bao, NIAS Press, 2015), and Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe: Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging (with Mia Liinason, Routledge, 2023). (lu.se)