Central to this reality is the understanding that any Black future in the twenty-first century and beyond must be equitable for all members of the Black community--where Blackness is both an
ascriptive identity and a political identity, where Blackness is not bounded by hegemonic perceptions that seek to narrow the breadth of Blackness.
37) That helplessness stems from the belief that mobility is fundamentally determined by forces beyond their merit or control like tribal connections, royal favor, inherited wealth, and other
ascriptive factors.
Authentic leaders venture into an inward journey to digest their experiences, learning from their
ascriptive, biographical, and societal life challenges to explore their values and beliefs.
American capitalism, for all its proliferation of choices and lifestyles, cannot emancipate us from the
ascriptive ties of family and birth; who we come from irrevocably shapes who we are.
Descriptive representation refers to the formal composition of parliament and is concerned with the presence of individuals who are
ascriptive of a particular social, economic or political group, share similar characteristics and stand for that group within a representative body.
To be ascribed a stigmatized racial identity is to be subject to continuing harm, which this Article calls
ascriptive injury.
Analytically speaking, the characterisation of the epoch as 'Anthropocene' involves a descriptive claim and an
ascriptive claim.
Educational advancements have also been changing in the rural society from
ascriptive criteria of mobility to the achieved one.
In fact
ascriptive selection combined with compensation was the prevalent strategy mix in five of the seven cases only occasionally supplemented with other instruments.
Before Price Waterhouse:
Ascriptive Stereotyping, Sex-Plus, and
Will this new elected leadership be up to the challenge of stabilizing this fractious land, torn apart by ethnic conflict, endemic corruption and what social scientists call
ascriptive inequality, a land that has failed, from the time of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taleban resurgence today, to establish the kind of social institutions that would have helped it transform itself into a genuine nation state?
It seems to me pretty clear that, in both formalizations, the
ascriptive force of the predicates, or, in any case, that of the predicates in the consequents of (A1S) and (A1M), is made to depend exclusively on the value of the "is" of predication, given that the descriptive expressions in these examples (i.
