counter-tendency

Michael Young's telling phrase (1959, passim), might in due course be followed by a counter-tendency em - phasizing a reduction or elimination of factual differ - ences in power and reward, only the future can tell.

CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

Thus the history of civilization reveals this striking differentiation in the language of different groups, a counter-tendency making for a wider uniformity of particular languages.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

In complex society the various imitations which tend to set themselves up are frequently found to be in conflict; thus the tendency toward elaborate fashions in dress is constantly limited by the counter-tendency toward simpler fashions.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

The effective counter-tendency of democracy towards the creation of parties ever more complex and ever more differentiated -- parties, that is to say, which are increasingly based upon the competence of the few.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

His moral development is menaced if this process is reversed so that a counter-tendency is set up, -- a tendency to interpret the human functions in animal terms.

The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880

Its tendency lies in this direction even now; but this tendency is constantly met, thwarted, and retarded, by a counter-tendency in the general practice of agriculture, which is always slowly improving its own powers -- that is, obtaining the same result at a cost slowly decreasing.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

But there’s also this counter-tendency for things to concentrate — to take advantage of these forces of agglomeration and human capital.

The Great Reset 2009

But there’s also this counter-tendency for things to concentrate — to take advantage of these forces of agglomeration and human capital.

The Great Reset 2009

But there’s also this counter-tendency for things to concentrate — to take advantage of these forces of agglomeration and human capital.

The Great Reset 2009