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subordinate adjective subordinate position, accessory, ancillary, auxiliary, collateral, humble, inferior, junior, less important, less significant, lesser, low-level, lower, lower in rank, lowly, minor, secondary, subaltern, subject, subjected, submissive, subservient, subsidiary Associated concepts: subordinate interest, subordinate lien See also: ancillary, assistant, coadjutant, conditional, dependent, derivative, employee, extrinsic, impose, incidental, inferior, minor, obsequious, passive, pliant, secondary, sequacious, servile, slight, subaltern, subject, subservient, subsidiary, supplementary, tangential How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the social context, for instance, androcentrism operates in the social organization of patriarchy where power is always in the hand of the dominant man or men, with others ranked below in a graded series of subordinations. Capitalist and socialist subordinations of the many to the few remain most effective when subjects delude themselves that everything will either trickle down from the rich to the poor or else will become inherited by a future socialist proletariat. John Burton echoed with the claim that "the inequality that is betwixt you [and servants] must not make you forget, that it is not nature, but the necessary subordinations of civil life, which have caused this distinction. |
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