Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Because an individual's degree of impairment is often not correlated with symptom counts, and can stem from various individual and social factors, the DSM's standard of distress or disability can often produce false positives.

Because of its emphasis on usage, communicative function, and the social context of language, functional grammar differs significantly from other linguistic theories which stress purely formal approaches to grammar, notably Chomskyan generative grammar.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

Because of the lack of subsidies and a need to reduce expenditures, many social programs in Hungary had to be cut in an attempt to lower spending.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

Because extensive European contact began so late in the country's history, the traditional social structure carried over into modern times with little change.

Because of his increasing interest in the social sciences, Manchester University created a new chair in Social Science ( 1948 – 58 ) for him.

Because of the low social status of immigrant workers, contemporary writers and media had little trouble portraying opium dens as seats of vice, white slavery, gambling, knife and revolver fights, a source for drugs causing deadly overdoses, with the potential to addict and corrupt the white population.

Because of the relative success of economics at understanding markets, rational choice theory has also become increasingly employed in social sciences other than economics, such as sociology and political science in recent decades.

Because in some societies racial groupings correspond closely with patterns of social stratification, for social scientists studying social inequality, race can be a significant variable.

Because modern systems cut across many areas of human endeavor, security engineers not only need consider the mathematical and physical properties of systems ; they also need to consider attacks on the people who use and form parts of those systems using social engineering attacks.

Because social dynamics focuses on individual level behavior, and recognizes the importance of heterogeneity across individuals, strict analytic results are often impossible.

" Because historical experience and social relations are embedded within this musical material, it is to the analysis of such material that the critic must turn.

Because Adorno believed that sociology needs to be self-reflective and self-critical, he believed that the language the sociologist uses, like the language of the ordinary person, is a political construct in large measure that uses, often unreflectingly, concepts installed by dominant classes and social structures ( such as our notion of " deviance " which includes both genuinely deviant individual and " hustlers " operating below social norms because they lack the capital to operate above: for an analysis of this phenomenon, cf.

Because the play is so stripped down, so elemental, it invites all kinds of social and political and religious interpretation ," wrote Normand Berlin in a tribute to the play in Autumn 1999, " with Beckett himself placed in different schools of thought, different movements and ' ism's.

Because social aspects of gender can normally be presumed to be the ones of interest in sociology and closely related disciplines, gender role is often abbreviated to gender in their literature.

Because Sweden's socialist leaders chose a moderate, reformist political course with broad-based public support in the early stages of Swedish industrialization and prior to the full-blown development of Swedish interclass politics, Sweden escaped the severe extremist challenges and political and class divisions that plagued many European countries that attempted to develop social democratic systems after 1911.

Because the purpose of these clubs is split between general social interaction and taking part in the events themselves, clubs tend to have more single members than married ones ; some clubs restrict their membership to one of the other, and some are for gays and lesbians.

Because these regimes influence and are influenced by the organization of both social and economic capital, the analysis of dimensions lacking a standard economic value ( e. g., the political economy of language, of gender, of religion ) often draw on the concepts used in Marxian critiques of capital.

Because of its pejorative connotations in popular speech, health-care workers have mostly abandoned cretin.

Because of late industrialization, Russia's workers were highly concentrated.

Because the state dominates the economy, an estimated 90 percent of workers are in effect state employees.

Because of the oil wealth, Venezuelan workers " enjoyed the highest wages in Latin America.

Because the population of Côte d ' Ivoire was insufficient to meet the labor demand on French plantations and forests, which were among the greatest users of labor in French West Africa, the French recruited large numbers of workers from Upper Volta to work in Côte d ' Ivoire.

Because flooded disaster sites are unstable, clean-up workers might encounter sharp jagged debris, biological hazards in the flood water, exposed electrical lines, blood or other body fluids, and animal and human remains.

Because of the assumption that only one worker per family would be permitted to work under the proposed program, this total of 5. 15 million was further reduced by 1. 6 million — the estimated number of workers who were members of families which included two or more employable persons.

Because of San Francisco's relative isolation, skilled workers could make demands that their counterparts on the East coast could not.

Because of his attempts to form a labor union among the workers, Arturo and the other organizers are attacked and murdered by government troops when a co-worker is bribed to betray them — Arturo's severed head is seen hanging from a tree.

Because of these actions many gymnasium students took part in the 1905 Revolution and were joined by factory workers.

Because workers are forced to compete in a global job market, wages are less dependent on the success or failure of individual economies.

Because of these human-made institutions, workers have little or no choice but to pay the capitalists surplus-value ( profits, interest, and rent ) in exchange for their survival.

Because they often exist in places without effective workplace safety or environmental laws, sweatshops sometimes injure their workers or the environment at greater rates than would be acceptable in developed countries.

Because the first of August was to fall on a Friday, and construction workers had strong superstitions about Fridays, it became important that the construction be completed by Thursday, July 31.

Because maintenance of diesel and steam engines was then very labor-intensive, there were many workers whose needs were served by abundant service businesses, such as restaurants and bars.

Because of high labor costs and the lack of enough skilled workers in Hong Kong and Macau, the Universal decided to outsource its die casting in mainland China.

Because it is a federal holiday, some American workers and many students have Veterans Day off from work or school.

Because the strike was by then more than a year old, striking workers could not vote in the election.

Because it is in the capital of Japan, Hombu ’ s membership consists of white-collar workers, intellectuals, businessmen, politicians and university students.

Because of this dual role, in the United States, 80 % of single mothers are employed of which 50 % are full-time workers and 30 % are part-time.

Because it is necessarily a large fraction of the signal, workers must be very careful in interpreting the statistical significance of measurements on scales close to the horizon.

Because plaster of Paris sets quickly, " retardants " were used to slow setting time enough to allow workers to mix large working quantities of lime putty plaster.