In addition, biological properties are perceived to be more permanent, immutable, and timeless than psychological properties (e.g. Dar-Nimrod & Heine, 2011; Haslam, Bastian, & Bissett, 2004).
They always seem to be more or less the same, immutable and increasingly deprived of sense in the rush of the sharing information technologies revolution that is distorting the system of social relations and the way in which things and places are related each other.
The "traditional values" that form the alleged bedrock of the GOP are no more immutable and enduring than core values popularly associated with Democrats.
I think that in this era of misinformation, fake news, and a general distrust of centralized entities like governments and corporations, the need for a decentralized, transparent, and immutable knowledge base is more relevant than ever before in history.
Justice Ginsburg's bland talk about status and conduct was significant because courts are more apt to protect groups whose characteristics are immutable.
Furthermore, Ellen Langer, a renowned Harvard social psychologist, even believes aging is more a matter of the mind than an immutable physical process.
If sexual orientation is immutable, discrimination against gays and lesbians is more like discrimination based on race or gender.
But he argues that kaiju are more about the wrath of nature, human hubris and dark immutable forces rather than science gone awry.
In the book, 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout note that being first in the customer's mind is more important than being the overall leader.
It was more than 2,000 years before modern physicists realized that the atom is indeed divisible and that it is not hard, solid, or immutable.
