subordinate

Examples of subordinate in the following topics:

• The Conflict Perspective

  • Conflict theory suggests that men, as the dominant gender, subordinate women in order to maintain power and privilege in society.
  • Therefore, men can be seen as the dominant group and women as the subordinate group.
  • According to conflict theory, social problems are created when dominant groups exploit or oppress subordinate groups.

• Power

  • With downward power, a company's superior influences subordinates.
  • When a company exerts upward power, it is the subordinates who influence the decisions of the leader.

• Authority

  • Authority, by contrast, depends on subordinate groups consenting to the use of power wielded by superior groups.
  • Superiors, he states, feel that they have a right to issue commands; subordinates perceive an obligation to obey.

• Theories of Culture

  • As a result, efforts for social justice and equality must often overcome cultural patterns that lead dominants and subordinates to blindly accept existing social orders as natural or inevitable.
  • Following Collins, sociologists thus explore whether or not the shared understandings and meanings maintained via cultural practice resist and / or reproduce the ongoing subordination of minority groups.

• Freeman's approach to binary relations

  • Actors B and C also have betweenness, because they lie between A and their "subordinates."
  • One way of identifying hierarchy in a set of relations is to locate the "subordinates."
  • The second portion of the output has re-arranged the nodes to show which actors are included at the lowest betweenness (level one, or everyone); which drop out at level 2 (that is, are most subordinate, e.g. actors 1, 2, 52); and successive levels.

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • African Americans arrived in North America under duress as slaves, and there is no starker illustration of the dominant-subordinate group relationship than that of slavery.
  • For African Americans, the civil rights movement was an indication that a subordinate group would no longer willingly submit to domination.

• Biological Differences

  • However, females are, statistically, twice as vulnerable to anxiety disorders and depression (possibly due to their experience as a subordinate or minority group within many societies), but only one-third as vulnerable to suicide and one-fifth as vulnerable to alcoholism (potentially due to traditional definitions of masculinities that link violence and substance abuse to masculinities).
  • Females attempt suicide more often than males (mirroring patterns between other dominant and subordinate groups) but have lower rates of "success", because their preferred methods do not involve firearms, unlike males (potentially due to the association of violence with masculinities).

• Gender Messages in Mass Media

  • Traditional images of American gender roles reinforce the idea that women should be subordinate to men.

• The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

  • The term oppression, in such instances, refers to the subordination of a given group or social category by unjust use of force, authority, or societal norms in order to achieve the effects mentioned above.

• The Social Reproduction of Inequality

  • Conflict theorists argue that schools, like society in general, are based on exploitation, oppression, domination, and subordination.