By definition, the expatriate community--even long-term, multigenerational groups--is excluded from legal citizenship and its associated rights because of its
ascriptive characteristics of birth.
The idea of precedent, whether vertical or horizontal, is fundamentally
ascriptive and not descriptive, and the ascriptiveness--the act of "deeming"--enables those who make decisions under a regime of precedent to participate in the creation of a community of decisions.
ascriptive vision, practically the sole unifying feature of U.S.
To be ascribed a stigmatized racial identity is to be subject to continuing harm, which this Article calls
ascriptive injury.
Analytically speaking, the characterisation of the epoch as 'Anthropocene' involves a descriptive claim and an
ascriptive claim.
Educational advancements have also been changing in the rural society from
ascriptive criteria of mobility to the achieved one.
In fact
ascriptive selection combined with compensation was the prevalent strategy mix in five of the seven cases only occasionally supplemented with other instruments.
It should be clear that this problem would vanish if Shahar's potential employer used
ascriptive rather than prescriptive stereotyping to motivate his decisionmaking.
Will this new elected leadership be up to the challenge of stabilizing this fractious land, torn apart by ethnic conflict, endemic corruption and what social scientists call
ascriptive inequality, a land that has failed, from the time of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taleban resurgence today, to establish the kind of social institutions that would have helped it transform itself into a genuine nation state?
I am not denying, in saying this, that general terms somehow pick out properties that play a role in an assessment of the expression's semantic contribution; I think that this is so, but I also think that the expression's contribution to a sentence's meaning goes beyond that, as such expressions seem to have what we could call "
ascriptive force" by themselves--otherwise the explanation of a certain range of phenomena involving these terms would be rather strained.
(9) Middle Eastern anthropology shows that fellaheen and hadareen (urban dwellers) self-definitions are
ascriptive concepts grounded in behavioral and performative practices, informed by shared ideas (10) about hospitality, wealth, gender differences and, very marginally, actual occupations.
Next, Woodford (2002) describes
ascriptive recruitment as the "beliefs and knowledge that are made available or denied to individuals on the basis of age, gender, culture, socioeconomic status, or other factors" (p.
At present, age still remains one of the last
ascriptive characteristics where de jure discrimination and social approval meet.
Social constructivism: The proponents of social constructivism believe that ethnic identity is the combination of both
ascriptive traits (birth place, tribe, clan etc.) and social inputs (subjective beliefs, religion, political interests etc.).
