How To Use Egalitarian In A Sentence

Grim, sure, but true - not to mention ruthlessly egalitarian, which is why people rarely lob the P-word at those whose answer to life is, "Who knows? Why I love Carolyn Hax
I've harped on about this before, but was interested in Bryan Caplan's critqiue of the Levy-Peart project: I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable. Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Anyone: What’s Yglesias explanation for the increase in egalitarianism? Matthew Yglesias » Marriages Becoming More Financially Egalitarian
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
Given this shared commitment to material equality, do socialists and liberal egalitarians share the same account of justice?

The Maoist state preached egalitarianism and relied on the loyalty of workers and peasants.
Finally, we have what I’m going to call egalitarian redistribution, which is the view that resources should be transfered from the rich to the poor and middle class because economic equality is a good in itself. Types of Redistribution
Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.
Higher education shed the German tradition of elitism and became egalitarian.
Rather than expanding our understanding of national phyches, the shows tend to confirm commonly held stereotypes - of Swedes as rampantly egalitarian minimalists, for example.
The fact that egalitarian economic policies have no obvious correlation with per capita GDP within Europe or the Commonwealth makes a strong impression on egalitarians in those countries.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
In the egalitarian spirit of the French Revolution, the newly independent Haiti abolished primogeniture.
In the name of egalitarianism, the tournament features the club champions of FIFA's six confederations, plus a representative from the host nation. Club Champions of the World
The secret: excellent raw materials and handicraft skills that have somehow survived decades of war and years of egalitarian drabness.
But the strong tradition of upholding the clan makes for mutual support and a sharing and egalitarian instinct.
Is their being at school together a tribute to the egalitarian education system that pertained in fin de siècle Vienna? Archive 2008-01-01
Band and tribal societies are egalitarian societies in which the only real inequalities are those of status and influence. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
He had an innate egalitarianism, a plain-spoken American way of talking, a directness, and a lack of airs.
Far from being a destroyer of the written word, the Internet, with Google as a leading vehicle, will prove to be its great support and egalitarian promulgator.
Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
Liberalism and Communism both regarded egalitarianism as an ideal and both were godless; Communism openly so, liberalism more obscurely.
Since inequality is a natural aspect of society, it is foolish and even dangerous to seek egalitarianism.
Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
Moreover, the empirical evidence on the effect of egalitarianism on capital formation is uncertain.
As in the conventional discipline, demographic imbalances are less among egalitarian feminist psychology's subjects than they are among its practitioners.
Democratic liberty becomes the liberty to pursue and realize individual potential within the framework of an egalitarian society. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
The most egalitarian societies are also those with the highest level of social mobility.
Since, in an egalitarian society, there are few opportunities to wear crosses and ribands, the Order of the British Empire has begun to sell ties.
As in egalitarian feminist psychology, white, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual women are the main subjects of woman-centred psychology.
In spite of the acquisition of wealth and Western goods, egalitarianism continues to be the ideal.
Fourier believed a radically egalitarian society could be organized into a confederation of communes or phalansteries.
The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
Is there a field where authors-by-alphabet is standard, or is this some librul/Marxist/communist egalitarian thing? mattheww says: Matthew Yglesias » Alphabetism
That's the open-air office, the egalitarian "bullpen" that Bloomberg, whose spare cubicle is no fancier than any of his underlings, brought to City Hall.
The desire for remoulding an institution to make it more egalitarian is not the same as destroying it.
Furthermore, Scottish Calvinism was not an elite activity, it grew roots in the community quickly, and it nourished an egalitarian spirit that was at odds with what was, in every other respect, a deeply hierarchic society.
Private enterprise, in other words, delivers more equality than the supposedly egalitarian world of academia does.
We shall allow some areas to become rich first ; Egalitarianism will not work.
My fear is that these empty gestures will become the last remaining symbols of our shared belief in egalitarianism.
The main reason the trade unionists failed in the U.K. was probably because their culture, one of an absolute, rationalist belief in egalitarianism, jibbed so badly with British culture it was bound to invoke the greatest antagonisms eventually. Matthew Yglesias » EFCA in International Comparison
We should have a more egalitarian approach to how we impose libel law in cyberspace and not destroy the vibrancy of the internet. Times, Sunday Times
Other studies show a close relation between a more egalitarian social ethos and closer community relations.
The idealistic egalitarian part of me likes the idea of a more neutral auxiliary language whether esperanto, interlingua or even latin. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING EUROPE'S BABEL.
Though I believe in artistic egalitarianism, I was overawed by the big names.
With unwavering resolve we support plurality, egalitarianism, and the political process.
The drive toward egalitarianism began in Conservative Judaism nearly 30 years ago. Rabbi Charles Simon: The Next Wave Of Jewish Feminism: Engaging Jewish Men In Communal Life
Although some legislators passionately opposed this idea as inegalitarian, the program was quickly passed with high expectations.
That gradually became radical egalitarianism, which is an ideal not of equality of opportunity but of equality of results. Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
It seemed to many that the revered Constitution was really the bulwark of powerful economic interests and, therefore, the enemy of more egalitarian and populist policies.
I like to think of the rats as a metaphor for the city's egalitarianism.
Just like the Austrians, I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable. Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The young Karl Marx criticised the utopian egalitarianism of the German socialists' Gotha programme by saying that socialists had to accept that good workers would expect the appropriate rewards, but would also expect the problem of shirkers and poor workers to be addressed. Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture | Will Hutton
Ruskin did not altogether fail to indicate how this concern to ethicize manufacture and exchange can go in an egalitarian direction.
The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralized access to unedited stories. Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale
They are still stuck believing in egalitarian fantasies and clean consciousness. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
So yes, egalitarianism is possible in a working environment, but I think the conditions are a lot harder to realise — first you have to have a relatively small employee pool, and then you have to ensure that the personalities of those employees complement each other well enough to self-police their behaviour. Egalitarianism vs hierarchies « Love | Peace | Ohana
It's about equality, egalitarians will be pleased to know.
The result was to increase the influence of those who favoured extreme egalitarianism.
But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations.
How to preserve that involvement in an egalitarian context is one of the great challenges of modern society.
`Ah yes, those good old values are old-fashioned in today's milk-and-water egalitarianism and the world-owes-us-a-living ethic. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Private enterprise, in other words, delivers more equality than the supposedly egalitarian world of academia does.
The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society.
As on can deduce from the quote from Wilson above, the Germans may have copied their racism from Anglo-phone countries, but Anglophone and French countries also had strong humanistic and egalitarian traditions that they did not copy. Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
The failure of the social democratic experiment to produce a significantly more egalitarian society does not necessarily mean that it has been a complete failure. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
I'm quite the egalitarian when it comes to my fellow human beings.
To the extent that egalitarians are sincere and consistent in the embrace of their principles, this counts against the charge that their occurrent motivation is envy.
No bit of culture is as egalitarian or democratic as film. Times, Sunday Times
But it also has a radically egalitarian social meaning. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
One of the distinctive qualities of Scots and Welsh politics has always been their egalitarian tradition.
My aim, in this lecture, is to discuss this kind of egalitarian reasoning.
The ideology of egalitarianism is still very much alive.
Or is it also about a state of mind that is only possible because of Western individualism, egalitarianism, freedom of choice and civil institutions and rights?
It ought to be easy to argue that egalitarian social goals are best pursued by crushing bureaucracy, by taking power away from know-all Islington lawyers and restoring control of people's working lives to them.
Some feminist psychologists have even developed a kind of biological egalitarianism as a corrective to psychology's male-oriented biological theories.
He has pledged to restore a faltering economy and achieve greater equity in this most inegalitarian of the world's large economies.
I think this is because at least from my point of view the non egalitarianism in orthodoxy might stem from fairly earnest respect for halacha whereas it seems to me that in the conservative movement when shule is not egalitarian, it is to do with conservatism with a small c and sexism. Rosie the Tefillin Wearer - Danya Ruttenberg
Collective or community rights imply permissible inegalitarian ranking of members in the interests of preservation of tradition.
‘I used to be a much snootier reader," she admits, " but I'm buying for a lot of different stores and a lot of different readers, so I have to be far more egalitarian.’
I observed, in fine egalitarian style, a punt full of beer-swilling lads float by - a mate running along the tow path, shooting down the bank, using a punt full of tourists as a stepping stone, and leaping in among them.
It might seem non-egalitarian, but consider that for the past two years we've been trying to ratify the succession of one of two political dynasties - neither of whose scions has had a non-political aspiration since birth.
It seemed to many that the revered Constitution was really the bulwark of powerful economic interests and, therefore, the enemy of more egalitarian and populist policies.
Plainly Australians have not been thorough egalitarians, but they have been egalitarians in their own way.
One set of beliefs expresses the commitment of a democratic society to the liberal values of justice, individualism, egalitarianism and freedom of expression.
The government's commitment to higher education for its own sake creates unrealisable expectations for the students involved, and a false sense that we live in an egalitarian society.
The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions.
Would you say that your struggle is for an egalitarian society?
There's also a hint of social democracy in the attempt to link these values with fundamentally collectivist values such as ‘egalitarianism, mateship, fairness’.
Until recent decades France's egalitarian education system kept the path open for bright pupils from humble backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South secede and becoming an egalitarian social democracy.
Reflecting the primacy of kinship bonds, tribes are resolutely egalitarian, segmental, and acephalous - to use terms favored by anthropologists.
If I were interested only in egalitarianism and didn’t care at all about incentive effects, I would consider a progressive consumption tax clearly preferable to a progressive income tax. Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive
The old egalitarian ideal of striving to improve equality of outcome seems to be entirely absent.
I get upset when I look around at egalitarian minyanim full of liberal Jews davening mostly from ArtScroll siddurim. Warning: Artscroll Women’s Siddur | Jewschool
For example, some people argue that Paul was horrified by certain practices of the pagan Greeks — such as pederastic homosexuality with minors, or homosexual prostitution, or homosexual rape of POWs and house-slaves, or men in heterosexual marriages going on “the down low” — but that he wasn’t necessarily condemning “egalitarian” homosexuality between free adultpeers. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams. The Prince's Pillows
This despite the fact that the solution is broadly in consonance with the key aspirations of egalitarian liberals and social conservatives alike: the solution, of course, is to reverse the steady shift from household production to market production. Malevolent Aspirations, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The social milieu of Hebrew poetry changed, rising from egalitarian synagogical circles to the elite upper class.
Then, of course, a set of principles coming from the unforced agreement will be inegalitarian in just that respect.
The concept of egalitarianism was expressed in housing through uniformity, regardless of individual needs.
It has moody lighting and decorative sculptures, and, most innovatively, a workspace that is egalitarian. Times, Sunday Times
That is not the kind of egalitarian base on which Australians would want to see their taxation system working.
Taken as a whole, Marshall's meritocratic egalitarianism was strongly critical both of the distribution of social benefits and harms in the United States, which did not conform to meritocratic principles, and of the widespread ideas about meritocracy, which placed too much weight on differences that a real meritocrat would regard as minor. Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall
Yet, such a stance is exactly correct and it is shared, to some extent, almost by everybody, including the ardent egalitarians.
There is no arguing with a radical egalitarian on that point, so I won't.
Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
In so far as we can infer the Buddha's own preferences, they were for the sort of oligarchic egalitarian or republican political organization that seems to have held among his own people.
Such a climate increases the likelihood that egalitarian feminist psychology will be incorporated into the traditional discipline.
This experience reinforced American egalitarianism, the belief that everyone is equal in status.
Under such presumptions, institutional solutions based upon egalitarian principles were much more the norm and more forthcoming.
It's probably the most egalitarian food on the high street. Times, Sunday Times
This probably reflects a primitive form of egalitarian society.
The inegalitarian society, this was an important development.
In the past, the ruling elite has deliberately promoted the myth of an egalitarian society.
In the egalitarian world of the NFL, in which free agency and a salary cap are designed to prevent the emergence of dynasties, these Super Bowl appearances imply an aristocratic bearing.
Any degree of customary journalistic objectivity in what is, after all, a state-owned organization has clearly gone out the window ... regrettably and undeniably negative to what President Hugo Chavez Frias had originally ambitioned as a peaceful revolution towards an egalitarian form of government under the acknowledged principles of Third Way Socialism, albeit with a Venezuelan twist to the tail. Do Venezuelans really want a Fox News copycat with unmitigated bias to pathetic bootlicking?
The First Great Awakening, the wave of Protestant evangelical revivalism that swept from England through the colonies from about 1730 to about 1760, was thoroughly infused with egalitarian ideology and formed part of the background to the American Revolution. American Grace
Despite his restrained academic tone, he appears to be a committed egalitarian and redistributionist.
Its revival or rediscovery was especially appropriate to the Surrealist brand of pictorial egalitarianism.
How to preserve that involvement in an egalitarian context is one of the great challenges of modern society.
Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.
The differences between it, and traditional and egalitarian feminist approaches, are not as big as they look.
Accordingly, we may ignore these texts and move to others that are regarded as illustrative of Jesus' egalitarian program.
The idea is very democratic and egalitarian but if you want to spread egalitarianism, start a political party.
Here Gloria brilliantly discusses the changing position of women throughout history and what she describes as a "cellular homesickness" that humanity feels for a past, more egalitarian time. Jennifer Siebel Newsom: Gloria Steinem for Miss Representation: What's New Is Old
He was very egalitarian in his approach. Times, Sunday Times
Democratic liberty becomes the liberty to pursue and realize individual potential within the framework of an egalitarian society. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender.
Egalitarianism : The tax system should try to achieve a more equal distribution of after - tax incomes.
He prophesised the end of the era of mercy was, and the awning of the day of vengeance in the inegalitarian society.
The large open-plan office certainly has an egalitarian feel.
In order to prevent skilled people from leaving, salary differentials have to be raised, reinforcing an initial inegalitarian income distribution.
The basis of the original American concept of economic liberty lies in a past agrarian and rather egalitarian structure of property ownership. Politics, Planning and the State
The egalitarian pleasure of helping a fellow traveler is increasingly being replaced by internet-organized lift-share schemes (), to save waiting in the rain by the side of the road, King said.
In the wave of egalitarianism sweeping the country, he dropped the `von" from his name. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors.
Unlike the traditional matrimonial classifieds the online version is much more egalitarian.
The film debunks the notion of an egalitarian society.
As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors.
So which is the more egalitarian society in the end? Times, Sunday Times
We are a profoundly egalitarian society, and the roots of this are perceptible from the very origins. The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project
The outcome is clearly a compromise of his own egalitarian inclinations.
I fly this route regularly and every time there is a huge, egalitarian, all-inclusive line to enter the gate lounge.
I think the real problem is that certain sectors of the Left have taken the idea of egalitarian universalism and “tolerance” so far as to invite political, cultural and economic suicide. African-American Homophobia May Explain Why California Voted For Proposition 8
He bluntly declared that egalitarian notions must be abandoned.
Sounds much more like godless, egalitarian Communism than like Tailgunner Joe and his followers.
Democratic liberty becomes the liberty to pursue and realize individual potential within the framework of an egalitarian society. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
That's part of a longtime mystery that may soon be solved: How did a prehistoric, egalitarian people called the Hohokam produce large quantities of decorated ceramic vessels without a "manager" hierarchy? PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
If the norm of equality does not match our considered judgments after wide reflection, we should be content to be instrumental egalitarians if we are determined to be egalitarians at all.
The Aussie management style, which tends to be open, egalitarian and not overserious, also plays well with the troops. Up Top, From Down Under
But this deeply held egalitarianism also makes the Nordic model difficult to export.
If you wish to live in a backward, moribund, intolerant inegalitarian society please feel free to choose one from the many available…
Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism.
I don't want to sound excessively alarmist, because I do believe that in the end the quintessential Australian qualities of egalitarianism, the fair go and mateship and so on will come out on top.
I personally applaud the newer "egalitarian" minyanim that are springing up in Israel, although, prohibiting women from leading shacharit because of "divrei she-b'k'dushah" is equally frustrating... Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State
All involve following the inegalitarian example of the private sector. Times, Sunday Times
They have yet to recover from expelling their Jews in 1933, and from the post-WWII emasculation of their traditional elitism in the name of egalitarianism. Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals
Of course, in other cases desert principles as described will have inegalitarian implications.
Before then our society was more egalitarian, with fewer people in the higher tax brackets. Times, Sunday Times
Its proselytizers declare that the internet's distributed, nonhierarchical design 'naturally' favours transparency, sharing, freedom, egalitarianism and populism. The Times Literary Supplement
Such a climate increases the likelihood that egalitarian feminist psychology will be incorporated into the traditional discipline.
Many different arguments or blueprints for a sexually egalitarian society can be, and have been, constructed on this basis.
He was a Swedenborgian mystic and freelance theologian, as interested in psychic phenomena as radical egalitarian politics. William James, part 1: A religious man for our times
Membership was open to anyone, not because of egalitarian principles but through financial necessity.
Racial egalitarianism is another typically leftist position. What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
The tolerant, liberal, egalitarian country which we are now, or at least aspire to be, was only just beginning to struggle out of the austere, regressive, hierarchical society of the post-war years.
Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender.
In an interesting discussion of varieties of egalitarianism, Plant attacks the rhetoric that links freedom only with consumer choice.
The difficulty in creating these models stems from the harsh political situation, which allows neither men nor women the leisure to focus on egalitarian relationships that would permit them total self-expression unconstrained by outer factors that derive from living in the shadow of a dreadful, bloody conflict. Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004.
Because egalitarian feminist psychology wants to adapt conventional psychology, rather than replace it, it has to begin from psychology's self-definition.
This principle can also be incorporated into hierarchical, inegalitarian theories.
An egalitarian democratic ideal extends beyond public affairs and the political sphere.
What a weird yet wonderful egalitarian world we live in. Times, Sunday Times
Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits. — “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology Quick Study
If we are all capitalists now, it is because we moderns - right, left, and centre - are all deep-dyed egalitarians and capitalism is revealing itself to be the most egalitarian of regimes.
Thus popular sanction will legitimate the silencing of redistributionist and egalitarian policy options.
I think the union movement has to come to terms with that and build a base to say that we want an egalitarian society again.
Humanist psychology's caution about change can add to egalitarian feminist psychology's existing theoretical timidity.
Hence liberal egalitarians favour taxing free exchanges in order to compensate the naturally and socially disadvantaged.
The U.K. has figured on a baseline egalitarian approach where everyone gets a potential of unlimited care; the queue ends up being the de facto allocator of the scarce resource.
He possessed an egalitarian ability to get on with people from all walks of life, especially if their background happened to involve horses. Times, Sunday Times
Some feminist psychologists have even developed a kind of biological egalitarianism as a corrective to psychology's male-oriented biological theories.
Because egalitarian feminist psychology wants to adapt conventional psychology, rather than replace it, it has to begin from psychology's self-definition.
He possessed an egalitarian ability to get on with people from all walks of life, especially if their background happened to involve horses. Times, Sunday Times
The egalitarian ideals of this communal society place loyalty to family and religion above all.
The egalitarian pleasure of helping a fellow traveler is increasingly being replaced by internet-organized lift-share schemes.
Egalitarian feminist psychologists draw on both feminist and psychological criticisms of gender imbalance among psychologists.
Lately, an antidemocratic and antiegalitarian element that respects a Machiavellian methodology, one so far to the right of the macro-spectrum that it is off of the American spectrum altogether, has emerged and gained control first of the Republican Party, and then of the American government. On Liberalism, American Conservatism and Reactionary neo-Conservatism: exploiting ambiguous nomenclature
This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes.
Communists and community - when we say communist hypothesis is possible on basis of egalitarian presupposition, communism has been permeated by its opposite, namely inegalitarian tendencies. Infinite thØught
A profoundly humanitarian and egalitarian person, identification with the oppressed was at the core of her being.
This has led to a tension, perhaps even a crisis, in the politics of liberal egalitarianism.
Sure, there were times when Australia was definitely a much more economically egalitarian society.
`Ah yes, those good old values are old-fashioned in today's milk-and-water egalitarianism and the world-owes-us-a-living ethic. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Today, people say, out of a spirit of egalitarian tolerance: Social democracy for Swedes!
In other areas of the public sphere, most people are in favour of an egalitarian system, even if it's slower.
Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities? Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This

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