Results 211 to 220 of about 4,651 (265)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

The Tyranny of Tradition

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 1999
This paper narrates the cruelty enforced by tradition on the lives of women in India. It begins with the life of the authors great-grandmother Ponnamma wherein the family was rigidly patriarchal and Brahmin values were applied. Here women had very little say in the decisions men made were forced in an arranged marriage before puberty were not sent to
openaire   +2 more sources

The tyranny of the clock

Communications of the ACM, 2012
Promoting a clock-free paradigm that fits everything learned about programming since Turing.
openaire   +1 more source

The tyranny of technology

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1990
Society's fascination with medical advances, and particularly with the changing technology that highlights those advances, is readily apparent. A sense of drama and expectation seems to surround them and in turn draws the interest of the media. It is this proliferation of medical technology, emerging as it does as the most visible accomplishment of our
openaire   +2 more sources

The Tyranny of Health

New England Journal of Medicine, 1994
There has recently been much in both lay and medical literature on the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Once upon a time people did not have lifestyles; they had lives.
openaire   +2 more sources

Stopping tyranny

Communications of the ACM, 2020
A compromise proposal toward a solution to making it impossible for a would-be tyrant to exceed reasonable authority.
openaire   +1 more source

The Tyranny of Urgency

Computer, 2019
Many lament accelerations wrought by technology, while others revel in it. Commerce, however, has measurably sped up, outdating long-term initiatives. As technology continuously speeds up and algorithms become increasingly nonlinear, however, forensic shortterm preventative cybersecurity runs the risk of being overrun.
openaire   +1 more source

The Tyranny of the Normal

The Hastings Center Report, 1984
I embark upon this essay with a sense that I am an amateur writing for professionals, a dilettante addressing the committed. I am not a doctor or a nurse or a social worker, confronted in my daily rounds with the problem we discuss here; not even a lawyer, philosopher, or theologian trained to deal with its moral and legal implications.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Tyranny of Principles

The Hastings Center Report, 1981
Oversimplification is a temptation to which moral philosophers are not immune, despite all their admirable intellectual care and seriousness; and the abstract generalizations of theoretical ethics are, I shall argue, no substitute for a sound tradition in practical ethics.
openaire   +2 more sources

Tyranny and Leadership

2016
In this chapter, we address the nature of tyrannical leadership and the reasons why people accept tyrannical leaders. To start with, though, we outline a social identity model of leadership, according to which an effective leader is seen as someone who can speak for the ingroup and who acts for the ingroup. Following this, we argue that different forms
Reicher, Stephen   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The Tyranny of Choice

Scientific American, 2004
Americans today choose among more options in more parts of life than has ever been possible before. To an extent, the opportunity to choose enhances our lives. Assessments of well-being by various social scientists--among them, David G. Myers of Hope College and Robert E.
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy