Sentence examples for surrogate activities from inspiring English sources

The ideas of "oversocialization" and "surrogate activities" recall Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and his theories of rationalization and sublimation (the latter term being used three times in the manifesto, twice in quotes, to describe surrogate activities).

He argues that these surrogate activities are not as satisfactory as the attainment of "real goals" for "many, if not most people".

Among these drives are "surrogate activities", activities "directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the 'fulfillment' that they get from pursuing the goal".

As detailed in Taylor's memo, McCain will "provide compelling set of programming and surrogate activity to drive media interest," and "mobilize economists in target states supporting the McCain plan to engage the media in support of our plan".

He claims that scientific research is a surrogate activity for scientists, and that for this reason "science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research".

Several kinds of surrogate activity, ranging from random to strongly structured, were used to validate the algorithm.

We see no rationale for repeating the electrophysiology in DMOG-treated animals, given that DMOG did not affect the surrogate activity markers pCREB or c-Fos.

According to this Act, the mother of any progeny resulted after IVF is that woman who carried the pregnancy, rejecting, in this way, surrogate motherhood activities.

Until recently, most miRNA studies have focused on expression levels, but clinical data on miRNA activity are lacking and it is unclear if miRNA expression levels are a good surrogate for activity.

Our data showed that females had a lower average number of years since their first publication relative to males and we used this variable as a surrogate for activity within the publishing and refereeing process.

Combining hs-CRP, a surrogate of activity of atherosclerosis with the presence of calcifications, a surrogate of stage of atherosclerosis, the prognostic value improves.