Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really identifies how race is a social construct and not biological," she said...
...Haliwa-Sapani--who have Black, Native American and European ancestors--were classified as mulatto in the early 19th century, but after the Civil War "the social significance of being mulatto was taken away," and the kinship group began to be classified as Black, McClain said...
Most students said they felt that it was absolutely none of the College's business what went on behind the bedroom doors. Monro told reporters that, "When we talked to the students we found a prevailing attitude that what went on in the rooms during social hours was none of the College's business...
...cells, with DNA found in blood or semen at the scene of a crime can provide seemingly indisputable evidence of guilt. But now DNA fingerprinting is itself on trial, and shadows of doubt are falling on detective work that once seemed virtually infallible. Says William Thompson, a professor of social ecology at the University of California at Irvine: "This technology has been steamrollered through the courts, and now it's beginning to get serious scrutiny...
...than Karl Marx asserted that the political order of a country derives from the economic relations among its citizens (although Adam Smith had figured out the same thing in the previous century). The leaders of the Russian and Chinese revolutions imposed on the people a totalitarian form of the social compact: You give up your freedom, and we'll make sure you live decently. Bread was one of the most common words on the banners that the workers carried through the streets of Petrograd in 1917, and the promise of food was an important theme in the propaganda...