Sentence examples for Social descent from inspiring English sources

Self-discovery through social descent is a familiar American theme.

Austerity is rippling down the social hierarchy, as the affluent cancel vacations, middle-class people fret about social descent, and Dickensian scenes of destitution multiply.

"The dark side of the golden age is that more individuals are now experiencing social descent and fewer social ascent, simply because the numbers at risk of the former have increased," Goldthorpe says.

Weber first described social closure as occurring when 'one group of competitors takes some externally identifiable characteristic of another group of (actual or potential) competitors – race, language, religion, local or social origin, descent, residence and so forth – as a pretext for attempting their exclusion' (Weber, 1968: 3419682).

His social origins and descent imbued him at an early age with a sense of responsibility to his people.

If inter-specific variation in EP-levels is commonly not related to descent, social mating system, or obvious contemporary ecological factors, this could well be one reason why general explanations for the evolution of EPP have remained elusive [ 2- 4].

In societies organized by what Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Straussentermedystelementarynsystemsd marriage, the key sofial units were exogamous descent groups.

There he finds the true curse of oil in Africa – the headlong descent into social desperation, a frightening absence of government and the grotesque cynicism and amorality of the multinationals.

"If you are doing what you are doing and not letting people know, that results in much more risky behavior," said Jamaul Roots, a prevention associate at Gay Men of African Descent, a social support group.

For the former, the common-law courts developed a system that tended to maintain the existing military and social order through unpartitioned descent of land to one heir rather than division among several coheirs and, for a long time, by reluctance in admitting freedom of testation.

In this closing subsection the author will focus on one important aspect of this broader social impact of the Descent, the Darwinian treatment of ethics.