One sig- nificant aspect of the social system that leads to health dis- parities is racism, defined as an ideology of racial oppression at various levels, from interpersonal to institutions, that has real material consequences [15]. Racism operates in both micro- and macro-level settings. ...
Ideology is defined usually as "set of ideas, beliefs and attitudes, consciously or unconsciously held,which reflects or shapes understandings or misconceptions of the social and political world."Ideologies are also generally described as "systemic frameworks about or on the social and physicalworld....
This chapter addresses the issue of whether the term well-being, particularly the phrase subjective well-being, can be used as an indicator of quality, and quality-of-life. It examines both the way language is used and the cognitive basis of these expres
To understand the relationship between contexts and outcomes, realism uses the concept of ‘mechanism’, which can be defined as ‘… underlying entities, processes, or [social] structures which operate in particular contexts to generate outcomes of interest’ (Wong et al., 2013). Variation in ...
Video doesn’t capture or record reality; rather, it constructs or produces partial realities mediated by culture, ideology, and subjectivity. Aspects of the process of production, its representation, and translation are intertwined and informed by the discourses within which audiences are positioned ...
Thirty years after he prophesied the triumph of liberal democracy, the ideology seems to be losing ground all around the world, even within the traditional strongholds of democracy like the UK and the United States.His most recent book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of ...
On the other hand, in Hunston’s (2000: 195) view evaluations bestowed on the outside world (the autonomous plane) reflected the ideology of the section of society from which the writer came. Hunston analyzed planes of discourse alongside other perspectives: attribution (language or thoughts ...
related to constructing a feigned historical background and to how good and evil are defined and treated in the entire legendarium, their very existence poses a series of thorny questions for Tolkien readers and scholars, which have become even more entangled and confused by the recent cinematic ...
Terrorism can be viewed as an illegal use of or threat of force or violence made by a group or an individual against a person, a company, or somebody’s property with a goal of menacing the target, often grounded in politics or ideology.
For example, one simple and successful linear interpolation method can be defined as [7]: Ae=A1+ρeA2−A1, Be=B1+ρeB2−B1, where A1, A2, B1, and B2 are the specific values of certain properties (e.g., the index) of two materials (e.g., dielectric and air). During the ...