At once disdained and central to the boundaries that maintain social order, such groups continually enact this contradiction by being socially marginal and ideologically compelling.
Professional philosophy disdained "public philosophy" (today's "applied ethics" and "bioethics").
Order counts more than "beings," and inventory, so much disdained, leads to invention.
Yet the supporters of auto-therapy usually disdained state and federal regulatory measures.
They collaborated as much as they resisted, disdained all agricultural labour and were intensely and violently male-chauvinist.
Though they were selfproclaimed elites and disdained comparison with communal area farmers and their extensive farming techniques, they were not intensive farmers.
They may have disdained the generals for fighting the last war, but it was not only scholarly allure that gave the academics a platform.
The department generally disdained subletting.