3.(Sociology) the existence in a society of groups having distinctive ethnic origin, cultural forms, religions, etc 4.(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a theory that views the power of employers as being balanced by the power of trade unions in industrial relations such that the interests of...
should be defined as the impossibility of two ends being combined at a maximum level―though it is possible to find compromises between them when not pursued to their maximum―whereas incommensurability refers to the existence of more than one valid, rational solution to a conflict of ends. Af...
(JTA) — Rabbi Debbie Bravo once called the High Holiday sermon “the World Series for rabbis.” Not only does it fall in late autumn, but it’s a high-pressure opportunity for rabbis to show their best stuff to what is often the largest crowd — that is, cong...
” Aristotle does not criticize the Pythagoreans for assuming contraries as principles, but because they are unable to explain “how there can be movement” [Ibid.,990a9, p. 705]. That is because they give primacy to the existence of numbers rather than the existing things. He emphasizes ...
In 1972, Zola defined medicalisation as the process of ‘making medicine and the labels “healthy” and “ill” relevant to an ever-increasing part of human existence’ [11]. Medicalisation and the creation of the ‘Medical Industrial Complex’ continues to be discussed in sociology [12] and...
Medical pluralism is aphenomenon that refers to multiple health systems co-existing within a specific environment. It iswidely accepted that the co-existence of different health systems can generate some adversehealth-related consequences at both individual and societal levels. In the context of the ...
compels its subjects to labour without pay, and State authority sanctions the co-existence of great wealth and great poverty. A State, one may say, has a vested interest in its subjects. The image of the shepherd and his flock is to the point, for what does a shepherd with his sheep ...
(Dauer et al.,2013; Hammer et al.,2005; Zarkadis et al.,2022) with different roles to interpret and construct representations that necessarily implicate the existence of plural representations. Some of these cognitive resources correlate with the subjects’ embodiment processes (Bolder et al.,2012...
It is a commonly expressed sentiment that the science and philosophy of well-being would do well to learn from each other. Typically such calls identify mi
In government, the political philosophy of pluralism anticipates that people with different interests, beliefs, and lifestyles will coexist peacefully and be allowed to participate in the governing process. Pluralists acknowledge that a number of competing interest groups will be allowed to share power....