Even bloated, revenue-hungry industries and corporations have found ways in recent years to model aspects of what's so compelling about the social prerogatives Jesus announces as the hallmarks of the kingdom network, the default realities of our condition.
Facebook, which I had always thought of as a guilty diversion just a step up from Funny or Die, does have its social — and business — prerogatives.
Our use of psychiatric drugs with children is tied to deep social, cultural and economic prerogatives.
They note heroes (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century), villains (Thomas Hobbes, John Calvin, the 19th century), tracking how kindness was "steadily downgraded from a universal imperative to the prerogative of specific social constituencies: romantic poets, clergymen, charity workers, and — above all — women".
The discussion of health as characterized by death rates rather than life quality, the focus on the benefits for the sober community over those of the addicts themselves, and the deterministic attitude that addicts cannot be seen apart from their social context; these are the prerogatives of a system that sees addiction first and foremost as a social scourge, not an individual illness.
According to Gundle, a film and television studies professor at Warwick University in England, glamour first came into being in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when the French revolutionaries and Napoleon Bonaparte dealt a series of crushing blows to fixed social hierarchies and entrenched class prerogatives.
" 'How to Be Alone' reaffirms the novelist's prerogative to engage in social criticism," A. O. Scott said in the Book Review last year.
They characterized the medical model of disability, which takes disability to be a problem requiring medical rather than social intervention and as both the prerogative and the responsibility of medical professionals to fix, as oppressive.
This show brings together rappers who want to hold on to some of hip-hop's other prerogatives, including political activism, social observations and speedy, good-humored wordplay.
