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Encyclopedia > Domination and submission

If you are looking for the article on Domination and submission in BDSM, try Domination & submission (BDSM)! A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ... Domination and submission (also known as Dominance and submission, D&s, Ds or D/s) is a set of psychosexual behaviors, customs and rituals relating to the dominance of one individual over another. ...

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Overview

Domination and submission refers to a relationship between two subjects, who relate to each other in a hierarchical manner. Many animal social structures are known to adopt such a model, making some members dominant to others, who submit. The phenomenon, with same causes and effects, is also observable as a human lifestyle and a model commonly utilized in computer software, though different terms are used. A hierarchy (in Greek: Ιεραρχία, it is derived from ιερός-hieros, sacred, and άρχω-arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things or people. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Social structure (also referred to as a social system) is a system of social relations. ... Model has many different meanings, depending on the context. ... Membership can refer to: Set membership - comprising part of a set in mathematics Social group membership - in sociology, the process of socialisation aims/results in achieving membership of a social group This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The word dominant has several possible meanings: In music theory, the dominant or dominant note (second most important) of a key is that which is a perfect fifth above the tonic; in just intonation the note whose pitch is 1. ... Submit is an album by the British band Pitchshifter, released in 1992. ... This article is about causality as it is used in many different fields. ... Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu(extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ... A drawing of the everyday computer. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...


Please note that in the case of domination and submission in a social setting, this type of organization is not necessarily forcefully imposed. // Latin root meaning The term social is derived from the Latin word socius, which as a noun means an associate, ally, companion, business partner or comrade and in the adjectival form socialis refers to a bond between people (such as marriage) or to their collective or connected existence. ... An organization (U.S. spelling) or organisation (U.K. spelling) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... In physics, a force is an external cause responsible for any change of a physical system. ...


There are multiple possible implementations of dominance and submission: In engineering and computer science, an implementation is the practical application of a methodology or algorithm to fulfill a desired purpose. ...

  • There is one dominant member, to whom all the remaining members submit
  • Each member, except the top dominant and bottom submissive, submits to another one and dominates the member who submits to him/her/it, thus producing a chain-like organization
  • Each member can dominate a number of other members who chose to submit to him/her/it, producing a tree-like organization

A real-life domination/submission scheme like this can also be either permanent or changing depending on the situation. Look up chain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... The phrase real life is generally used to mean life outside of an environment that is generally seen as contrived or fantastical, such as a movie or MMORPG. It is also sometimes used synonymously with real world to mean ones existence after he or she is done with schooling... For the hair treatment see Permanent wave. ... This article is about the normal meaning of change (things varying). ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International , the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...


Efficiency

The domination/submission hierarchical organization is only one of many possible organizations. However, it is often easiest to organize a group of individuals in this manner. The model requires the least from all the members, allowing more specialization, and is one of the most efficient ways to organize individual members. Efficiency is the capability of acting or producing effectively with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort. ...


Domination and submission as a lifestyle

While the practice of BDSM, which is emotionally and sexually related to domination and submission, is much better recognized, there is a noteworthy domination and submission lifestyle that does not relate to BDSM or sexual practices in any shape or form. Practice connotes a few important things in regard to life ways and ideas, commonly referring to how we learn and do. ... A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ... Emotions are essentially impulses that move an organism to action, originating automatic reaction behavior which has been perfected through evolution as a survival need. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sex positions Francoeur, Robert T. (ed. ...


Domination and submission- being primarily about power and control over another person- are something that most people who experience it prefer to keep to themselves because of the fashion in which it is possible to negatively interpret it. Sociologists usually define power as the ability to impose ones will on others, even if those others resist in some way. ... The word control has a number of different meanings: Often control is directing influence. ...


A hierarchical approach to social relations is not unknown to most people. In a family, parents are often dominant and the child is submissive (referring to the natural state of this relationship). In a corporal organization, the boss is dominant and the workers are (supposed to be) submissive. To most people these relationships are nothing more than a part of the system, but a person who prefers the hierarchical model over that of equal individuals can thrive in such environments, although in daily situations outside these relationships, they seek to maintain the hierarchical relationship, whilst not including any unnecessary characteristic elements of the above two cases. A hierarchy (in Greek: Ιεραρχία, it is derived from ιερός-hieros, sacred, and άρχω-arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things or people. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman... Parenting comprises all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult. ... A male toddler A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... See: relational model personal relationship mathematical relationship, including: inverse relationship direct relationship relation (mathematics). ... Look up boss in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ... A system is an assemblage of inter-related elements comprising a unified whole. ... Model has many different meanings, depending on the context. ... The word characteristic has several meanings: In mathematics, see characteristic (algebra) characteristic function characteristic subgroup Euler characteristic method of characteristics In genetics, see characteristic (genetics). ... Look up element in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


It could be said that there are many people who want to be the boss- in effect, to be dominant; however, it is questionable if those people actually seek to establish a hierarchical situation or, instead, secure a privileged situation for themselves. This article is about causality as it is used in many different fields. ... A privilege—etymologically private law or law relating to a specific individual—is an honour, or permissive activity granted by another person or a government. ...


In a healthy hierarchical relationship, it is less stressful to be submissive than to be dominant and the act of submission does not necessarily imply the presence of the other stereotypical characteristics that are usually associated with it, e.g. cowardliness. In such an environment more specialization is possible and motivation is usually less problematic than it can be under other models, as it sufficiently stimulating for both the dominant and submissive members. Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being (Blaxter 1990). ... Stress has different meanings in different fields: Look up stress on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one social group about another. ... Cowardice is a vice. ... Concept B is a specialization of concept A if and only if: every instance of concept B is also an instance of concept A; and there are instances of concept A which are not instances of concept B. For instance, Bird is a specialization of Animal because every bird is... In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of human beings, animals, and lower organisms. ...


Similarities in computer software

Even though the relation may seem awkward, the same needs for control, sharing and organization that 'force' a society to adopt a hierarchical model of those who choose to submit and those who choose to dominate ("lead"), is also present in computer data exchange. The word control has a number of different meanings: Often control is directing influence. ... Look up share on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ... In common usage, leadership generally refers to: the position or office of an authority figure, such as a President [1] a group of influential people, such as a union leadership [2] guidance or direction, as in the phrase the emperor is not providing much leadership capacity or ability to lead... A drawing of the everyday computer. ... DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) was established in 2002 by Bono (Paul Hewson) of the Rock band U2, and Bobby Shriver, along with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign, as an organisaton focused on Justice, not charity. ...


If you consider a P2P computer program a member in a society, it should be able to work with the other members of this society. In order for the others to know its capabilities, there must be someone who is known to be capable of arranging for that information to be exchanged. Although this solution may not be the only one, it is the simplest. A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Program or Programme may refer to: Computer program Radio programming Television program, Webcast Program (management) 12-step program Program (The Animatrix), a short film in The Animatrix series Event programme This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... This article or section should be merged with Capability (computers) and Capability. ... Exchange is the following: Usually an exchange is the process of giving and receiving. ... Look up Simple on Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music a simple interval is one which lies within one octave, contrasted with a compound interval which exceeds or is wider than one octave. ...


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