As Jacques Revel notes, the success of the Annales School, especially its use of social structures as explanatory forces contained the seeds of its own downfall, for there is " no longer any implicit consensus on which to base the unity of the social, identified with the real.

The consensus, however, in position statements from the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association and other institutions in many other countries, is that the research and clinical literature demonstrate that homosexuality is a normal and positive variation of human sexuality, and that any social exclusion or difficulties with homosexuality are a problem of society.

A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.

While not gaining complete parity, there has been solid political consensus since the Helmut Schmidt social democrat government introduced the measure in 1976.

Academics like Thomas Farrell discuss the importance of social consensus as knowledge.

After sifting through these sources and noting their strengths and weaknesses, Morris generally credits Shaka with a large number of military and social innovations, and this is the general consensus in the field.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Mahyar Arefi identifies consensus building as a direct positive indicator of social capital.

There is no widely held consensus on how to measure social capital, which has become a debate in itself: why refer to this phenomenon as ' capital ' if there is no true way to measure it?

However, the consensus of research shows that the more people spend online the more in-person contact they have, thus positively enhancing social capital.

One view of these trends is that a strong social consensus on political economy and a good social welfare system facilitates labor mobility and tends to make the entire economy more productive, as labor can develop skills and experience in various ways, and move from one enterprise to another with little controversy or difficulty in adapting.

In contrast, formally organized Green parties may follow a coherent ideology that includes not only environmentalism, but often also other concerns such as social justice, consensus decision-making, and nonviolence.

Although the ROC's Government Information Office officially lists 13 major groupings as " tribes " the consensus among scholars maintains that these 13 groupings do not reflect any social entities, political collectives, or self-identified alliances dating from pre-modern Taiwan.

Nevertheless, anthropologists never reached a consensus, and with the Vietnam War and the process of decolonization in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, anthropological interests shifted away from mapping local social relationships.

Their objection to the “ Euroamerican ” lifestyle that was of social norm in the United States at the time, was seen as both unacceptable and uncivilized ; and by the end of the 1880s, a general consensus seemed to arise amongst the country concerning the native ’ s habits.

There is consensus among scholars that Solon broadened the financial and social qualifications required for election to public office.

Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.

Throughout history this has also raised a social question: " What shall we make of those who do not agree with consensus realities of others, or of the society they live in?

G. William Domhoff, a research professor in psychology and sociology who studies theories of power, sees the role of international relations forums and social clubs such as the Bilderberg group as a place to share ideas, reach consensus, and create social cohesion within a power elite.

Some anarchists ( usually social anarchists ) have advocated forms of direct democracy as an alternative to the centralized state and capitalism ; however, others ( such as individualist anarchists ) have criticized direct democracy and democracy in general for ignoring the rights of the minority, and instead have advocated a form of consensus decision-making.

When this is done – and it will take the efforts of many keen intellects steeped in the law of at least a dozen lands and also aware of the social nexus of the law – then mankind will be able to see clearly for the first time and clearly where the common consensus of the great living social and law systems lies.

Also, among the latter a large percentage soon acquire the prevalent Southern attitude on most social problems.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

Holmes rebels against the social conventions of his day not on moral but rather on aesthetic grounds.

This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.

Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Such proposals look to an apocalyptic act, a kind of Lockian `` social contract '' on a world-wide scale.

He sees evidence of fair winds for the ten-year Alliance for Progress plan with its emphasis on social reforms.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

An overpayment of income and social security taxes entitles you to a refund unless you indicate on the return that the overpayment should be applied to your succeeding year's estimated tax.

They were inseparable, not because they were fond of each other, but because they wanted to keep an eye on each other, as they were keen rivals for social leadership.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

but basically that pace depends on changes in the supply of resources and in the human attitudes, political institutions, and social structure which each society must generate.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise featured a luxury arcology in which disparity between social classes among the residents eventually led to widespread anarchy and a reversion to primitive archetypes.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

High unemployment and consequent social unrest resulted, and the Communist Party of Greece made rapid advances.

The House of Mogh was a family of high social and political rank which was for a time represented on the Klingon High Council.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.

She does not fare much better at Thomas Ewen High School ; she has been a social outcast since first grade, and has been the focus of bullying due to her religious beliefs, her outdated clothing and her plain appearance.

' Yet while having been officially removed from office, he remained as one of the nation's most influential political and social individuals, aided greatly by the use of his five sons and his son-in-law as puppet High Priests.

Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the " social conscience " genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America. Twelve O ' Clock High was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.

She took a teaching position as a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire in 1982.

* Landscapes Unlocked-Aerial footage from the BBC Sky High series explaining the physical, social and economic geography of Northern Ireland.

From the 1880s until the 1940s, High Ridge served as the mercantile, social and church center for the surrounding countryside of small farmers.

The schools have shown constant improvement and Butler High School is one of the top in the state of Ohio in the social studies area of study.

Queensberry Square and High Street are the central focal points of the town and this area hosts many of the historical, social and commercial enterprises and events of Dumfries.

McMinn Central High School offers countless academic and social opportunities to help young men and women become the leaders of our community tomorrow.

The prevalent view today is that Old English symbel, Old Saxon symbal, sumbal ( Old High German * sumbal ) and Old Norse sumbl, all of which translate roughly as " feast, banquet, ( social ) gathering ", continue a Common Germanic * sumlan " banquet ", which would correspond to a PIE " joint meal " or " congregation " ( literally, symposium or assembly ).

High NFC scores consistently correlate with items on the C-Scale ( conservatism ) as well as other measures of political and social conservatism.

High unemployment produced serious social problems in the town that were only alleviated by the advent of the Celtic Tiger investment boom at the start of the 21st century.

* Landscapes Unlocked-Aerial footage from BBC Sky High series explaining the physical, social & economic geography of Northern Ireland

High income, English-language use, and embeddedness in American social contexts increased Latin American immigrants ' geographic mobility into multi-ethnic neighborhoods.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

The social order is further consolidated by social edict: " A man who refuses to practice his livelihood or strives to alter status without consent of the Council of High Castes is by definition an outlaw.

* Hetrick-Martin Institute, a social service agency for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and home of the Harvey Milk High School

After earning a master's degree in fine arts, he taught social studies and coached football at Cambridge Springs High School.

A membership-operated social club, The Flitwick Club, is situated on The High Street, opposite the Drivestyle yard.