More important, perhaps, than such instrumental concerns, the arts sustain the inner lives of the British nation's citizens in myriad intangible and unmeasurable ways.
To illustrate this proposition further, socially tied individuals usually have more or less instrumental concerns.
Under some conditions, the cultural face will dominate, while in other contexts, the instrumental concerns prevail.
World government proposals are justified in terms of both intrinsic and instrumental concerns.
Instead, we proceed to the second statement, that the instrumental concerns of complying with social relations can be (partially) substituted.
Second, if such instrumental concerns can somehow be taken care of through alternative ways, employees feel it is less necessary to secure their particularistic ties with the employers.
Sometimes the cultural constraints of guanxi may dominate while sometimes it only shows sheer instrumental concerns; what is worse, we hardly know the reason why this occurs.
We propose several statements to construct our theoretical framework: The first statement argues that people comply with informal institutions partly due to the moral restrictions but more likely due to their instrumental concerns.
Both Eclipse and Dialectic are nuanced texts that present a number of themes, but if there is one overarching theme to the work from the 40s it is, as that German title suggests, the critical description of how reason collapses into irrationality through its emphasis on instrumental concerns.
Tommie Shelby tries to combat the ambivalence of Appiah and Blum through resources found within Martin Delany's Black nationalism, distinguishing classical black nationalism, which rested upon an organic black identity, with pragmatic black nationalism, based on an instrumental concern with combating anti-black racism (2005, 38 52; 2003, 666 668).
