dominant

Examples of dominant 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.
  • According to conflict theory, society is defined by a struggle for dominance among social groups that compete for scarce resources.
  • Therefore, men can be seen as the dominant group and women as the subordinate group.
  • While certain gender roles may have been appropriate in a hunter-gatherer society, conflict theorists argue that the only reason these roles persist is because the dominant group naturally works to maintain their power and status.
  • According to conflict theory, social problems are created when dominant groups exploit or oppress subordinate groups.

• Minorities

  • A majority is that segment of the population that outnumbers all others combined or one that is dominant.
  • In this process, the minority group sheds its distinctive traits and is absorbed into the dominant group.
  • Voluntary assimilation is usually the case with immigrants, who often adopt the dominant culture established earlier.
  • This is especially true in situations where the institutions of the dominant culture initiate programs to assimilate or integrate minority cultures.
  • Many indigenous peoples, such as First Nations of Canada, Native Americans of the US, Taiwanese aborigines, and Australian Aborigines have mostly lost their traditional culture (most evidently language) and replaced it with the dominant new culture.

• Widespread Belief

  • It is common for many societies to be dominated by a single widespread belief.
  • Islam, for example, dominates the Middle East, with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, and Niger having 90% or more of their population identifying as Muslim.
  • As the map shows, certain regions are dominated by widespread beliefs.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • Evolving out of the mid-20th century "Chicago School" of urban sociology, Park created the term human ecology, which borrowed the concepts of symbiosis, invasion, succession, and dominance from the science of natural ecology.
  • Then, after some time, a hierarchical arrangement can prevail—one of accommodation—in which one race is dominant and others dominated.

• Authority

  • Max Weber, in his sociological and philosophical work, identified and distinguished three types of legitimate domination (Herrschaft in German, which generally means 'domination' or 'rule').
  • These have sometimes been translated to English as types of authority, because domination is not seen as a political concept.
  • Weber defined domination (authority) as the chance of commands being obeyed by a specifiable group of people.

• The Social Reproduction of Inequality

  • According to conflict theorists, this is a predictable result of capitalism and other forces of domination and inequality.
  • Inequality is continually socially reproduced because the whole education system is overlain with a dominant group's ideology.
  • The premise that education fosters equal opportunity is regarded as a myth, perpetuated to serve the interests of the dominant classes.
  • Conflict theorists argue that schools, like society in general, are based on exploitation, oppression, domination, and subordination.

• Women in Medicine

  • In the 21st century, women continue to dominate in nursing.
  • Women continue to dominate nursing in the 20th century.
  • For example, some medical specialties like surgery are significantly male-dominated, while other specialties are or becoming significantly female-dominated.

• World-Systems Theory

  • ., Japan, Germany) are dominant, capitalist countries characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization.
  • In the 11th century, international production and trade was dominated by the exchange of silk, and thus countries along the silk route were the dominant participants in the "world-system. " Today, with vast communications and transportation technology, virtually every society participates in the world-system as either a source of raw materials, production, or consumption.

• The Spread of Liberal Democracy

  • Liberal democracy requires universal suffrage, competitive politics, and the rule of law and is currently the dominant world political ideology.
  • After World War I and especially after World War II, liberal democracy achieved a dominant position among theories of government and is now endorsed by the vast majority of the political spectrum.

• Traditional Authority

  • Weber noted that, in history, these ideal types of domination always seemed to occur in combinations.
  • Weber traced traditional domination back to patriarchs, their households, and the ancient tradition of the family.
  • Patrimonial dominance has often prevailed in the Orient.