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Of course, the flip side of that coin is that easy hand-outs create an ecological nitche for freeloaders– that is, a subsociety parasitic upon the larger society.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bryan Caplan’s “Jock/Nerd” Libertarian Theory of Class Conflict: 2007
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Failing to do so will lead to those children rejecting the at-large social rules and developing their own subsociety predatory on society-at-large.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bryan Caplan’s “Jock/Nerd” Libertarian Theory of Class Conflict: 2007
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What is considered a fair exchange or proper trade and what is tabooed is, to a significant extent, a matter of the specific morals of a given society or even a subsociety such as a class or region, and historical period.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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This, in turn, is significantly affected by the relative level of morality within a given society or subsociety in a given historical period.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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What is considered a fair exchange or proper trade and what is tabooed is, to a significant extent, a matter of the specific morals of a given society or even a subsociety such as a class or region, and historical period.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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This, in turn, is significantly affected by the relative level of morality within a given society or subsociety in a given historical period.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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There is an opacity about the manner Mundanes may enter Xanth; normally people from the same Mundane subsociety may enter Xanth only if they are grouped together, not separately, but it seems these ones were, after all, able to follow-I don't pretend to understand this, but perhaps it is a mere distortion of the legend-at any rate, they were less able than he and fell prey to the natural hazards of Xanth.
Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981
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There is an opacity about the manner Mundanes may enter Xanth; normally people from the same Mundane subsociety may enter Xanth only if they are grouped together, not separately, but it seems these ones were, after all, able to follow-I don't pretend to understand this, but perhaps it is a mere distortion of the legend-at any rate, they were less able than he and fell prey to the natural hazards of Xanth.
Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981
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Besides, the situation struck me as intolerable, with exactly the same discrepancy between the actual practice of a community (in this case the subsociety of those under thirty) and the laws which presumably regulated it, as had prevailed in respect to alcohol during the late Twenties.
On Being Busted at Fifty Fiedler, Leslie A. 1967
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By 1950, therefore, there existed a Catholic subsociety that was well adjusted to prevailing specific conditions and capable of maintaining Catholic identity.
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