contradiction

Examples of contradiction in the following topics:

• Value Contradictions

  • Although various values often reinforce one another, these clusters of values may also include values that contradict one another.
  • Value contradictions can arise between individual and communal value systems.
  • Value contradictions can also arise within individual or communal value systems.
  • A value contradiction could be based on a difference in how people rank the value of things, or on fundamental value conflict.
  • The practice of slavery represents a value contradiction between wealth and liberty.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • In the 1960s, functionalism was criticized for being unable to account for social change, or for structural contradictions and conflict (and thus was often called "consensus theory"), and for ignoring systematic inequalities including race, gender, and class, which cause tension and conflict.
  • During the turbulent 1960s, functionalism was often called "consensus theory," criticized for being unable to account for social change or structural contradictions and conflict, including inequalities related to race, gender, class, and other social factors that are a source of oppression and conflict.

• Why does lean thinking elicit strong emotions?

  • Lean thinking contradicts a number of established production theories taught in business schools because it advocates making a shift from conventional batch and queue' production practices (i.e. the mass production of large lots of a product based on anticipated demand) to a ‘one-piece flow' system that produces products in a smooth, continuous stream based on customer demand.

• The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

  • Karl Marx saw capitalism as a progressive historical stage that would eventually stagnate due to internal contradictions and be followed by socialism.
  • Marxists have offered various related lines of argument claiming that capitalism is a contradiction-laden system characterized by recurring crises that have a tendency towards increasing severity.

• Quoting Relevant Passages

  • These passages might express important ideas, themes, and structural elements, or they might express contradictions or exceptions to a rule.
  • In secondary texts, look for statements that concur with your argument, but also try to find assertions that contradict your claims.

• Deploying Evidence

  • Likewise, your audience may have evidence of their own to contradict your line of reasoning; anticipate these contradictions and argue your point with evidence to counter their disagreements.

• The Disadvantages of Mixed Economies

  • Social democratic programs intended to ameliorate capitalism, such as unemployment benefits or taxation on profits and the wealthy, create contradictions of their own through limiting the efficiency of the capitalist system by reducing incentives for capitalists to invest in production.
  • The democratic socialist critique of social democracy states that capitalism could never be sufficiently "humanized" and any attempt to suppress the economic contradictions of capitalism would only cause them to emerge elsewhere.

• Revoking Commit Access

  • This contradicts the usual injunction against secrecy, but in this case it's necessary.

• Rare Events

  • But your sample data are real and the data are showing you a fact that seems to contradict your assumption. )

• Subcultures & Countercultures

  • A counterculture is a subculture with the addition that some of its beliefs, values, or norms challenge or even contradict those of the main culture of which it is part.