Sentence examples for socially powerless from inspiring English sources
This occurs when as a result of a group being socially powerless, members of the group lack the conceptual resources to make sense of certain distinctive social experiences.
Being relatively socially powerless, most of these women are vulnerable to various types of abuse and human rights violations, including sexual exploitation, spousal violence, and denial of reproductive freedom [ 7].
The resulting widespread abuse and discrimination are nowhere more clearly evident than in the chilling fact that huge numbers of socially powerless women are being infected with HIV by their husbands.
Because the standard environment, or cultural norms can conflict with the achievement of vital goals of individuals, especially of those who are socially powerless, local cultural practices or the status quo should not have absolute determining power over the content of vital goals; or in determining who can achieve them, when, where, and how long.
Maybe it depends on whether you like your monsters socially powerful or powerless, in control or anarchic.
Their feeling of not having the basic rights like access to water and sanitation, respect to their dignity, in addition to feeling powerless and socially underprivileged became even stronger in these situations.
It is disingenuous for those in the media to defend their "entitlement" to free speech for the mere sake of it and to rail against a concept that might render their gratuitous attacks on the powerless and voiceless, as socially unacceptable.
If male domination is pervasive and women are powerless by definition, then it follows that female power is "a contradiction in terms, socially speaking" (MacKinnon 1987, 53).
As the rhetoric of resentment, snark is a socially acceptable way to sneer at multiculturalism, progressive taxation, environmental protection, and other developments one feels powerless to rescind.
