On the left, changing economic and social structures have shrunk the old working class.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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Gossip exists in all human social structures as a way for conveying information to navigate the complexities of relationships.
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The operational strategy of street art, where social structures are challenged on their own turf, is often referred to as culture jamming.
The band members were icons of a 1960s generational shift that called for new social structures, questioned institutions and carried a "certain optimism, " he said.
In his mid-30s when the Nazis came to power, he saw fascism as an inevitable product of repressive social structures, such as the patriarchal family.
Combined with gradual improvements in its political, financial, and social structures, Albania offers several investment advantages for risk-tolerant investors looking to get in near the ground floor.
While inequalities and gender stereotypes exist in social structures and in the minds of people, media have the potential to propagate and perpetuate or to ameliorate these.
About 20 years ago psychologist Alan Page Fiske and author of Structures of Social Life (Free Press 1993), now Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, wrote about the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality that describe our mental orientation of the form of exchange that we think we should use in each interaction with someone else.
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Think back to how horseless carriages, modern architecture, and print journalism yielded to cars, post-modern structures, and social media.
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The answer has ramifications that affect customer-facing operations throughout a company: requiring a different blend of skills, greater levels of employee empowerment and shifting organizational structures as enterprises go social.
Secondly, as a platform that supports these changemakers, Tides must re-examine its own business model and the broader organizational structures we support within the social change sector.
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Some people think that Nigeria, battered by years of economic decline and the criminalisation of government under military rule, plus a collapse in respect for traditional structures, is on the brink of social breakdown.
From this perspective, getting rid of Putin would hardly change the structures of power and the fundamental relationships between social actors.
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For example, many of the panelists spoke about the enormous influence of their parents and social networks, and asked how we could incorporate family support structures into advancing education for African Americans.
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But this pension system is ripe for common-sense reforms, including changing eligibility ages and benefit structures for those with greater means, ridding the Social Security disability program of pervasive fraud, and removing disincentives for those who would rather work in their later years.
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Wherever they seek to change old-fashioned economic and fiscal structures, they will run into deeply entrenched special interests and social attitudes.
As the social web, cloud computing, blogging and other forms of new media have transformed the structures of communication in recent years, companies can leverage this metamorphosis in their approach to employee engagement by utilizing an integrated platform that allows for staff to connect with one another, their company, and their most cared-for causes.
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