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Examples of non-material

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In other narratives, the distinction between material and non-material aspects of wellbeing was not always as evident.
This again demonstrates the danger of inferring older peoples' material and non-material wellbeing directly from their living arrangements.
Satisfaction with democracy is still seen as a function with material and non-material dimensions.
On the other hand, material culture can also be considered to be an essential element of societies which influences other non-material aspects of society.
Are they swayed by economic considerations or by purely non-material factors such as human rights and the rule of law?
Social forces consist of groups who are conceptualised in terms of how they are related to the production of material and non-material goods.
It enables one to obtain dynamic models for systems subjected to material constraints and non-material referred to as program constraints.
If we specify tasks by program constraints and view robots as constrained systems, we will have to combine material and non-material constraints.
It is one of the abstract relational things that, though non-material, actually exist.
Their subjective perceptions of their wellbeing were strongly influenced by non-material considerations: their intimate relations, friendships and spirituality.
A second focus, and one of the more recent veins of scholarship, has been the elaboration of the non-material basis of care.
We modify it to incorporate both material and non-material constraint effects.
A frequent interpretation is that, as nations or regions attain higher income levels, their citizens demand that the non-material aspects of their standard of living be improved.
Rather, they aimed to naturalize the supernatural by inserting into this framework some non-material phenomena, preeminently mental telepathy, thereby challenging the sole sufficiency of physical agents in the universe.
This is the role of explicit (written or otherwise formally articulated) and informal institutions, and, more broadly, the non-material aspects of culture, in influencing economic outcomes.
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