Race, gender, etc. are not objective variables, rather they are a set of relations and practices that inter-relate.
A 2009 report on Chinese investment practices on the continent, conducted by the African Labor Research Network, spoke of "labor relations and practices that are simply unacceptable".
Paternalism, as it evolved through the industrial age of the 19th and 20th centuries, applied the model of family relations and practices of patronage (fatherly protection, tutelage, and control) to relationships between classes of people understood as unequal: employers and workers, the privileged and the underprivileged, the state and the masses.
In the mainstream population, intergenerational relations and practices are largely determined by parental educational background.
As today's givens, interests, relations and practices are cast into the future, forecasts become a tool for those seeking to sustain their established positions [78, 79].
These relations and practices vary and depend heavily on the relevant area of research, past experience and, last but not least, on the personality of the laboratory head or professor.
However, the empowerment of women and girls is not exhaustive of gender relations and practices.
Although few organizations have the capacity and resources to intervene at all these levels, many of the more successful ones tackle at least two or more of these levels and try to understand and intervene on socially constructed gender norms, relations, and practices, using a multipronged, multileveled approach.
The early period was preeminently the age of professional bards, who trained in a teacher pupil relation and practiced a poetic art so complex as to exclude the untrained altogether.
Through inept public relations and poor practice Cuadrilla is set to scorch the earth of the nascent shale gas industry in the same way, ably abetted – as was also the case for GM crops – by a tone-deaf and blinkered government.
