• Social dominance orientation (SDO) is a personality trait measuring an individual's support for social hierarchy and the extent to which they desire their in-group be superior to out-groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • that is, it is a measure of an individual's preference for hierarchy within any social system and the domination over lower-status groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • SDT begins with the empirical observation that surplus-producing social systems have a threefold group-based hierarchy structure: age-based, gender-based and "arbitrary set-based", which can include race, class, sexual orientation, caste, ethnicity, religious affiliation, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] SDT is based on three primary assumptions: While age- and gender-based hierarchies will tend to exist within all social systems, arbitrary-set systems of social hierarchy will invariably emerge within social systems producing sustainable economic surpluses. (wikipedia.org)
  • Human social systems are subject to the counterbalancing influences of hierarchy-enhancing (HE) forces, producing and maintaining ever higher levels of group-based social inequality, and hierarchy-attenuating (HA) forces, producing greater levels of group-based social equality. (wikipedia.org)
  • In turn, it influences support for HE and HA "legitimating myths", defined as "values, attitudes, beliefs, causal attributions and ideologies" that in turn justify social institutions and practices that either enhance or attenuate group hierarchy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social dominance and interpersonal power: Asymmetrical relationships within Hierarchy-enhancing and Hierarchy-attenuating work environments. (uconn.edu)
  • That environmental factors - including culture and the violence or authoritativeness of the local social dominance hierarchy - affect both natural reproduction and the said set of sex-differentiating physiological attributes does nothing to invalidate the sex binary in human society. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Such distribution across classes occurs and is hormonally driven, in societies and cultures in which the dominance hierarchy does not strictly interfere with reproduction in classes of individuals. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Caroline Levine's Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network proposes a new model of formalist criticism able to attend to the range of forms organising not only literary texts but also the larger social world. (historicalmaterialism.org)
  • Status-standing in a hierarchy-has been a critical component of both realist and evolutionary theories, as well as empirical work on status inconsistency, power transition theory, and social identity and dominance theory. (scite.ai)
  • Our unusual findings seem to reflect a struggle for status by members of low-status groups who consider group-based hierarchy the most promising option to improve their status. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • A desire to compete, which fits with social dominance orientation, influences in-group and outside-group attitudes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The SDO-7 scale is the most recent scale measuring social dominance orientation, which embeds two sub-dimensions: dominance (SDO-D) and anti-egalitarianism (SDO-E). Some groups of people must be kept in their place. (wikipedia.org)
  • It will be shown that various individual-level constructs such as authoritarianism, nationalism, social dominance orientation, and militarism can be mapped onto these three dimensions. (umass.edu)
  • Our collaborator, Davide Morselli of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, published a new article linking social dominance orientation with disregard for the environment in The Guardian . (uconn.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)
  • As a social form it is one of the last preserves of male dominance in which women's contributions and concerns are largely overlooked. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Perceived risk factors of GBV included cultural acceptance, substance abuse, lack of punishments for GBV offenders, indecent female dressing styles, social media influences, effects of COVID-19 lockdown and male dominance. (bvsalud.org)
  • Certain economic, political, social and cultural conditions are assumed to facilitate the emergence of such specific ideologies in particular contexts. (umass.edu)
  • 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)
  • Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians. (ucpress.edu)
  • Occupying the area around Moscow, they are the people around whom the state of Russia (and the Soviet Union ) was built, and most histories of the area focus on them and their political, social, and cultural patterns. (encyclopedia.com)
  • these groups, western Ukrainians especially, drew some special cultural and social traits from that association. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This is a major cultural, economic, political, human rights, and public health problem, which the authorities and international community must commit to tackling. (bvsalud.org)
  • The dominance of Neo-Confucian social hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior individuals to possess status and political authority highly disproportionate to their wealth. (cambridge.org)
  • Marx viewed class differentiation as the crucial deter-minant of social, economic and political inequality. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • 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)
  • Considering both global and local shortcomings, Cook Center scholars not only address the overarching social problem of general inequality, but they also explore social problems associated with gender, race, ethnicity and religious affiliation. (duke.edu)
  • Political Psychology , 31 (1), 109-137. (bvsalud.org)
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology. (uconn.edu)
  • Some of the explanations come from a 2017 review paper published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology by the psychologist and UC Santa Cruz professor Thomas Pettigrew. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Specifically, Bartolo asked whether 'Bill 28' - the legal amendment to introduce medical abortion, in life-threatening pregnancy complications - may be "weakening and fragmenting the massive social alliance that led Labour to its major electoral victories in 2013, 2017 and 2022. (maltatoday.com.mt)
  • The fact that most of us use English as a lingua franca in South Africa cannot be divorced from the colonial history of this country, and from the relative economic, social and political power of the English colonisers in South Africa, and of the geopolitical dominance of countries where some form of English is spoken. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Of course, if I had written this article in 1970 I might well have done so in Afrikaans (my home language) because the Afrikaner nationalists of the apartheid regime used their economic and political power (and the social status bestowed by this power), aggressively to impose Afrikaans on the people of South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • International support for the Arab uprisings: Understanding sympathetic collective action using theories of social dominance and social identity. (uconn.edu)
  • Interactions with age, education, political conservatism, and perceived inequity indicated that the inverse gender gap can be mainly attributed to older, conservative, (and less educated) respondents, and those who feel they get their deserved share. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Individuals who score high in SDO desire to maintain and, in many cases, increase the differences between social statuses of different groups, as well as individual group members. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is due, first, to perceived similarities and differences between humans and (other) animals and, second, due to the 'Great Chain' idea of human superiority and dominance over animals. (edu.au)
  • Decades of research on social conflict have contributed to our understanding of a wide variety of psychological, social, and community-based aspects of intractable conflict. (umass.edu)
  • The deepening of crisis took forms in social upheavals like occupy street that brought to the front question of mass movement after decades of social silence. (libcom.org)
  • Meanwhile, in southern Africa, Afrikaans is a codified mesolect, or a partial creole, [6] [7] with the acrolect (standard Dutch ) stripped of official status decades ago, having only been used for religious purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, decades of research on the link between status and conflict have yielded divergent findings, and little evidence of a causal relationship. (scite.ai)
  • For even though the PN's traditional support-base may be more overtly conservative, on such issues: the Nationalist Party, too, used to rely on a 'major social alliance' - including a more liberal, 'Euro-centric' faction - that resulted in a political dominance lasting more than two decades. (maltatoday.com.mt)
  • When I share my moral/political beliefs, I do so to show people who disagree with me that I am better than them. (scientificamerican.com)
  • I share my moral/political beliefs to make people who disagree with me feel bad. (scientificamerican.com)
  • When I share my moral/political beliefs, I do so in the hopes that people different than me will feel ashamed of their beliefs. (scientificamerican.com)
  • I lost friends because of my political/moral beliefs') and they report getting into more fights with others on social media because of their political or moral beliefs. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Nevertheless, since we are such a social species, the human need for social status is very pervasive, and often our attempts at sharing our moral and political beliefs on public social media platforms involve a mix of genuine motives with social status motives. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The most powerful effect of Jay's study is to convey how beliefs about the eye and 'the gaze' (as Sartre called the objectifying vision of strangers) found coherent views about human self-understanding and political analysis. (ucpress.edu)
  • The overwhelming majority of academics studying the issue have supported the calls for compensating black Americans for the centuries of chattel slavery and the 100 years of lynching, mob violence and open exclusion from public and private benefits like housing, health care, voting, political office and education that occurred during the Jim Crow era. (theweeklychallenger.com)
  • 94.7% reported feelings of humiliation and shame and 6.9% social exclusion and stigmatization. (bvsalud.org)
  • In particular, it examines whether system justification belief and effects are stronger among people with low socio-economic status, and in less social developed and unequal nations than among better-off people and countries. (uconn.edu)
  • further, associations between legitimizing ideologies and system justification were stronger among high status people. (uconn.edu)
  • The chapter will give an overview of (social and political psychological) research on ideology and the role ideology plays as a source and catalyst of violent conflict. (umass.edu)
  • The dominant approach to ideology defines ideology as a coherent set of political cognitions, attitudes, and feelings maintained by an individual, referring to the proper order of society and how it can be achieved (e.g. (umass.edu)
  • And what does the dominance of this ideology mean for politics? (spiked-online.com)
  • Taking four member states which each represent one of the four major welfare-state models in Europe-Nordic universalist, core-European insurance-based, market-oriented Anglo-Saxon and minimal southern-European-we tried to identify correlations between welfare regimes and the impact of ECJ case law on social regulation (reported in Soziale Sicherheit , volume 10, 2019, pp 378-82). (socialeurope.eu)
  • Our laboratory focuses on the impact of social and environmental stressors on molecular, neural and endocrine responses to influence adaptive behavior and activities like learning, coping, developing social rank relationships, biological rhythms, reproduction, and social interaction. (usd.edu)
  • Can the EU's high positional status be cashed in for power and influence? (scite.ai)
  • This volume reveals how contemporary farm women experience life on the family farm (often through their own voices) and how they have managed to create their own spheres of influence, despite their apparent unequal status and invisibility in the male world of agricultures. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • This study not only makes farm women's subordination explicit, but in discerning the sources and force of their influence within and outside the farm family, it offers a challenge to existing explanations of the evolution of Irish rural social structures. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • It also suggests that feminist theories of the family need to pay closer attention to the mother's influence on social reproduction. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Despite important divisions within these categories, the distinction between privileged and nonprivileged (tax-paying) divided society in a fundamental way and continued to influence social attitudes and realities into the twentieth century. (encyclopedia.com)
  • My natural very high Dominance and high Influence DISC Behavioral Style (100% in both Styles) means that I most fear losing control (D) and social rejection (I). (pricelessprofessional.com)
  • the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, to the March 14 political coalition in Lebanon in efforts to spread their version of Islam, Wahhabism, or to counterbalance the influence of other states. (lu.se)
  • When the Democratic Alliance invokes the (qualified) constitutional right to be taught in the official language of your choice to defend the status quo at Stellenbosch, it is deploying the discourse of rights, not to protect the rights of everyone, but rather to protect the political and economic interests and the social status of a group who happens to have been the main beneficiaries of apartheid exploitation and oppression. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This study focuses on how animal metaphors are deployed by Chinese social media users to evaluate others and negotiate social positioning in online grassroots political discourse. (edu.au)
  • In the course of election, the ruling class factions - in main Democratic and Republican parties - and political elites sank into the deeper political-ideological crisis that American state-capital structures has ever experienced and managed since the end of second world war. (libcom.org)
  • The political economics of capitalist world has been suffering in terms of economic performances and profitability measurements since the general slow down trend with economic growth chart, in the early 1970s. (libcom.org)
  • The ruling class and political elite that was already divided on dealing the question of the US's political economics and its declining place in capitalist center, dived into deeper political crisis. (libcom.org)
  • This leads to a functional dominance of economics over social issues, which ultimately turns the ECJ into a driver of liberalisation. (socialeurope.eu)
  • Of course it's wonderful to have a social cause that you believe in genuinely, and which you want to share with the world to make it a better place. (scientificamerican.com)
  • To be sure, the human drive for social status can be a great driver of growth and goodness in the world. (scientificamerican.com)
  • He was a founding editor of Political Geography (nee Quarterly) and Review of International Political Economy , and is the Founder and Director of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC). (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • A world-systems analyst, he is an Advisor to the Chinese Academy of Social Science (Beijing). (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • ii) People in cities have created 'world-changing' innovations consequent upon densities of communications within and between cities across several millennia (iii) The scope of the changes depends upon the relation between cities and states, the comparative power of the latter generally curtailing potentials for macro-social change in cities. (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • it is world-changing as macro-social change in cities operates through hegemonic economic cycles rather imperial political contingencies as in normal history. (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • Alcohol is a social drink that is used by many people in the whole world. (supremeessays.com)
  • The nature of the sugar industry itself--the production of a nonstaple and essentially nonnutritive commodity for a widely fluctuating world market--only served to deepen this hostility and to motivate Kittitian laborers to seek greater control over their working lives and their political situation. (workmall.com)
  • The West India Company's grant of local governing rights to Beverwijck (Albany) in 1652 and municipal rights to New Amsterdam (New York City) in 1653, resulted in the re-creation of a familiar Old World social structure. (newnetherlandinstitute.org)
  • In this article I analyse the EU's social status in world politics. (scite.ai)
  • Drawing on existing literature on status in international relations, I conceptualize the diplomatic corps of various polities as the embodied recognition of their positional status in world politics. (scite.ai)
  • In a state-centric global world order, these transnational, nonstate actors take many forms including corporations, nongovernment organizations, social movements, and terrorist groups. (army.mil)
  • These inject the world order with an unprecedented level of complexity, which tends to confound the international status quo. (army.mil)
  • Over the past year, Tehran has sought closer economic and political ties with Georgia and Azerbaijan, which have intensified after the sanctions were lifted. (cacianalyst.org)
  • The economic and political obstacles due to Russian interference in Armenia-Iran bilateral ties have led to stagnation in this relationship. (cacianalyst.org)
  • After the second Boer war, in May 1900 British forces occupied Johannesburg, achieving economic and political dominance. (cdc.gov)
  • Moral grandstanders are more likely to report greater moral and political conflict in their daily lives (e.g. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Of course, moral grandstanding is not the only factor predicting public conflict, and not every instance of public moral or political sharing is motivated by narcissistic motives. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This study tests specific competing hypotheses from social dominance theory/realistic conflict theory versus system justification theory about the role of social status. (uconn.edu)
  • Modern sociology has developed two main approaches to the study of social stratification-structural-function-alist and conflict perspectives. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • This conflict between social classes has been continuous since the dawn of history. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • I find strong evidence that the fear of losing status impedes decision making and increases the tendency to "throw good money after bad," but that power aids decision making by buffering high-power subjects against the worst effects of status loss.A large body of research in international relations (IR) has suggested the importance of status concerns for international conflict. (scite.ai)
  • From a Marxian perspective, systems of stratification derive from the relationships of social classes to the forces of production. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • Or maybe, more likely, the forces clearly exhibited by Facebook and other social media (if there still is such a thing) come from strengths and centers of power we're somehow overlooking. (zdnet.com)
  • Against this critical orthodoxy, Levine aims to offer a more open-ended, ecumenical approach to form, able to treat social and aesthetic forms as separate and multitudinous, and to understand power in more nuanced and multi-faceted ways. (historicalmaterialism.org)
  • I utilize a unique sample of high-profile political and military leaders from the Senior Executive Fellow (SEF) program at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a group of demographically matched control subjects, allowing me to evaluate the moderating effect of power on status concerns while also addressing typical concerns about external validity in IR experiments. (scite.ai)
  • Status is thus often related to material power but it cannot be reduced to it. (scite.ai)
  • Iran's position has favored maintaining the status-quo in Nagorno-Karabakh through a sustained balance of power between the adversaries, in order to retain relative peace at its North-Western border region. (cacianalyst.org)
  • Iran is well-versed in shaping movements toward its own ends, having deployed this tactic to assume power in 1979, hijacking legitimate social and antigovernment movements to install the current theocratic regime. (army.mil)
  • Individualistic/Political-Actual or perceived diminishing/loss of power. (pricelessprofessional.com)
  • they are very different macro-social processes - city-states are states, their territoriality indicated by the raising of city walls where there had been none before. (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • There are no discrete boundaries between the different varieties, and the situation in which such a continuum exists involves considerable social stratification. (wikipedia.org)
  • The whole Marxian perspective about social stratification revolves round the concept of social classes. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • Other authors argue that social roles or gender-stereotypical self-construals encouraged by intergroup comparisons are responsible for attitudinal gender difference. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • While these certainly were the two most important classes, such a view obscures what was in fact a much more diverse society divided into a large number of recognized groups by social-economic functions, legal classifications, wealth, geography, gender, and ethnicity. (encyclopedia.com)
  • But, for this, the working class must first develop class consciousness-a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change. (yourarticlelibrary.com)
  • In the course of the email exchange on these ideas, I raised a number of concerns with my correspondent about the logic, theory, and growth of anti-natalism, one of them being that, given the already problematic propensity among Whites to attach themselves to abstract moral concerns, and social fads based on guilt, there was likely to be a practical ethnic disparity in the adoption of anti-natalism at group level. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • The issue remained on the political agenda of some black nationalist organizations like the the Nation of Islam and later the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations . (theweeklychallenger.com)
  • Dominant social groups need to make the necessary distinction between legitimate anger to set right history and illegitimate hatred to push back history. (countercurrents.org)
  • Due to social, political, and economic factors, a creole language can decreolize towards one of the languages from which it is descended, aligning its morphology , phonology , and syntax to the local standard of the dominant language but to different degrees depending on a speaker's status. (wikipedia.org)
  • The debate about whether Stellenbosch University should be allowed to continue using Afrikaans as the dominant medium of instruction when this excludes many students, and thus reinforces racial discrimination at the university, is therefore a highly political debate. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The following discussion focuses primarily on the social classes and traits of the Russians, the dominant group within a diverse social universe. (encyclopedia.com)
  • My results further illustrate how the two dominant discourses permeate into different practices in REDD+, e.g. how forest carbon monitoring practices operationalisation of social safeguards both contribute to and are embedded in the overarching discursive debates on REDD+. (lu.se)
  • The equality status and women empowerment when openly discussed creates a wonderful vibe amongst students and they come up with solutions. (ukessays.com)
  • Korzan, Wayne W., Summers, Tangi T., and Summers, Cliff C.. Neural and endocrine responses to social stress differ during actual and virtual aggressive interactions or physiolgical sign stimuli, 1-10. (usd.edu)
  • This article takes a narrative synthesis approach to identify key themes across the studies, paying particular attention to multisectoral determinants, changes in the food environment, the role of structural factors (including longstanding social inequities), and changes in political commitment, cross-sectoral coherence and capacity. (bvsalud.org)
  • To address these interrelated issues, policy must simultaneously tackle nutrition's upstream (social/economic/equity) and downstream (health and dietary) determinants. (bvsalud.org)
  • The pro old-structures and strategy, the gang of Hillary/Obama (Democrats and parts of opposition including Republicans) side of this political convulsion on global level (EU, Canada. (libcom.org)
  • Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of these social structures, the socio-economic vulnerability and low political status of Dalit women and girls increase their exposure to human rights violations, while simultaneously reducing their ability to escape harm or access justice. (articlebiz.com)
  • As with Latour, the larger structures and logics within which Levine's forms meet disappear, thereby proffering an illusory freedom from determination, or a democracy of forms, which mitigates Levine's ability to speak to the twin crises of our time, namely global capitalism and climate change, and typifies non-causal, Latourian-based theories of literary texts and the social today. (historicalmaterialism.org)
  • While dozens of psychologists have analyzed Trump, to explain the man's political invincibility, it is more important to understand the minds of his staunch supporters. (psychologytoday.com)
  • This was crucial in order to evaluate the risk that the status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh becomes disrupted by the deployment of Russian troops posing as peacekeepers, which runs counter to Iran's interests. (cacianalyst.org)
  • Through an analysis of the interpersonal systems of appraisal and involvement, we found that contributors often adopt highly charged animal metaphors to negatively evaluate each other and to create and maintain a left-right political division. (edu.au)
  • The ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh incentivized Tehran's military and political circles to establish military cooperation with Armenia, which Yerevan had to decline as sanctions were imposed on Iran. (cacianalyst.org)
  • These actions," wrote Prof. Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for CNN.com, "reflect a major shift in how large social media platforms handle extreme speech. (zdnet.com)
  • It can be detrimental to society when those with degrees and platforms try to demonize their political opponents or paint them as mentally ill when they are not. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Moral grandstanders (those scoring high on the moral grandstanding survey) tend to also score high in narcissistic characteristics and also tend to report status-seeking as their fundamental social motive. (scientificamerican.com)
  • 1 It has also featured in international political economy (IPE), often as one of the "less tangible payoffs" sought by states. (scite.ai)
  • Many of our recent studies are demonstrating that the same "political psychologies" are not the same across political contexts. (uconn.edu)
  • Decisions" by citizens about which languages to use (and in which contexts to use those languages), are not innocent choices made by free-floating individuals with no connection to the political and economic realities of a country. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Either they seek to engage more people with their art form and are willing to work in a range of contexts, or they are committed to social justice and hope to use the art form towards additional aims of generating understanding and redressing some of the inequalities experienced by prisoners. (oxfordre.com)
  • Results are interpreted on the basis of biocultural interaction, which integrates the sociobiological, social role, and self-construal perspectives. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • The development of human civilization as the result of the mixing and mingling of ideas across geo-political borders weakens race-based claims that some ethnic groups have contributed more than others to this process. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Those of us striving to develop a biopolitical science should see Christian's book as a way of framing such a science by putting human political history within the broad sweep of cosmic evolutionary history. (blogspot.com)
  • He divides human history into three stages corresponding to three major eras of human social life: the foraging era (from 250,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago), the agrarian era (from 10,000 years ago to 1750 A.D.), and the modern era (from 1750 to the present). (blogspot.com)
  • I attempt to resolve this impasse by shifting the focus from status to relative status concerns in building a theory of status from the ground up, beginning with its behavioral microfoundations. (scite.ai)
  • 23 Work on foreign policy analysis, social identity theory, and evolutionary approaches have come to similar conclusions regarding the importance of status concerns for 15. (scite.ai)
  • Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. (ucpress.edu)
  • i) The book is the result of an experiment in studying macro-social change by putting people in cities at the centre of the action. (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • And we have seen that social categorization can have a variety of negative consequences for the people who are the targets of our stereotypes. (opentextbc.ca)
  • By 2011, it had become abundantly clear to most people (as evidenced by the referendum result) that the lack of divorce legislation had only served to create more social problems, than it ever solved. (maltatoday.com.mt)
  • Intending, in part, to turn literary criticism 'upside-down' (p. 122), Levine proposes a 'new formalist method' (p. 3) that neither assumes 'that social forms are the ground or causes of literary forms' nor '[imagines] that a literary text has a form' but instead asks the following 'two unfamiliar questions: what does each form afford, and what happens when forms meet? (historicalmaterialism.org)
  • The EU has not only stuff like money, bureaucratic institutions, identity and personnel but also social status. (scite.ai)
  • Practically every major institution, from political parties to big businesses, has embraced woke identity politics to some degree. (spiked-online.com)
  • Zhang argues that this social difference had major consequences for property institutions and agricultural production. (cambridge.org)
  • iv) Cities still develop as major city networks but their potential for macro-social change is curtailed: the largest cities are political capitals of empires. (exploringgeopolitics.org)
  • Using these data, we investigated social, spatial, and temporal dynamics and quantified transmissibility as measured by the time-varying reproduction number. (cdc.gov)
  • Is social media an influential technology or an insurrectionist tool? (zdnet.com)
  • It's tempting to blame the social media machine for having enabled the insurrection against the US Capitol, or perhaps laying waste to our society. (zdnet.com)
  • It's a move that many saw coming," wrote Social Media Today , "though likely not this fast. (zdnet.com)
  • Certainly social media tells us this at every opportunity. (zdnet.com)
  • Judging from what we read on social media, social media itself is either entirely culpable or innocently blameless. (zdnet.com)
  • Amid both assertions, there's a valid argument that social media has exploited our society, uncovering its deepest vulnerability. (zdnet.com)
  • Social media is "a great liberating thing," remarked former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2012 , in the wake of the course of events in the Middle East known today to history as "Arab Spring. (zdnet.com)
  • Last December, Facebook alone constituted about 68 percent of all social media activity worldwide - 71 percent if you include owned-and-operated Instagram - according to Web activity analysts StatCounter . (zdnet.com)
  • There are two real businesses behind what we call "social media:" leveraging its ability to find eyeballs and target them for advertising, and reselling the data and metadata gleaned from its users for market analytics, or other similarly euphemistic purposes. (zdnet.com)
  • It shows that you recognize the dangers of social media. (japantoday.com)
  • Popular media discourses and heated debates on possible transitions to plant-based food systems can sometimes give the impression that veganism is a newfangled trend or that advocacy for animals is an intrinsically Western or even 'white' social phenomenon. (lu.se)
  • In comparison, landed wealth was a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the far more 'individualist' society of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership. (cambridge.org)
  • If the member states have the political will to realise change, the ECJ can become the guardian of social rights in Europe. (socialeurope.eu)