Sentences with phrase «about social attitudes»

From this perspective, today's epidemic says as much about social attitudes and economic pressures as it does about actual anxious feelings.

«The epidemic says as much about social attitudes and economic pressures as about anxious feelings»

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Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good causes gives me hope that people's attitudes about the social responsibilities of business really are changing.

They hired a market research firm, polled 4,000 people in Frank + Oak's target demographic about their social values and attitudes, and used the data to build a profile of the prototypical customer.

The attitudes of local authorities may be changing now as the economy slows and officials become more concerned about unemployment and tensions over access to schools and other social services.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

Changing social attitudes have led to what China's leading sexologist, Li Yinhe, called a «sexual revolution» in her 2015 lecture to the Brookings Institution about changing sexual lifestyles in China.

As I said earlier, Christianity, as a movement, was born from the ashes of late antiquity's social malaise, gobbling up the philosophical attitudes and cultic practices that were lying about, offering ultimate meaning to the Greeks, ultimate justice to the Jews, a City of God to the Romans.

Rosie: This year's British social attitudes survey put the proportion of Britains purporting to have no religion at a record high — about 53 per cent.

The most persistent liberal criticism of Schuller involves his attitude about preaching on social issues.

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

An «I'm just going to talk through text and social media with whoever, whenever, about whatever» attitude is spreading like a virus through all sectors of our culture, both Christian and non-Christian alike.

Don't get me wrong — I like Pod and, at least on his social media postings, he seemed t have a fantastic attitude — but it pains me that in the end he (and the Bendtners and Gervinhos and Arshavins others pointed to) seemed more comfortable carping about why he wasn't playing as a center forward and complaining about his lack of first - team football opportunities than he was trying to develop the traits and on - field work habits Wenger demanded of them.

And, finally, because prevailing attitudes towards concussion symptom reporting and reporting behavior are deeply entrenched in our sports culture, we encourage, as Step Five, that coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors, and parents continue working over the course of the sports season to create and maintain an environment in which athletes feel safe in immediately reporting concussion symptoms (both their own and their teammates) by sharing and reinforcing positive messages about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting via social media, by maintaining open lines of communication and an ongoing dialog about concussion safety among and between and among coaches, athletes, medical staff and parents.

Back in 2009, when I started STFU, Parents, there were no articles or blog posts about how parents use social media, what kind of impact these attitudes and user mechanisms had on their kids (or their friends), or what we could learn from social media etiquette, including the benefits of curbing certain types of posting behavior.

In it, four young urban professionals intertwine in a web of social, racial and gender politics, questioning both current and ingrained cultural attitudes about racism and other social dynamics.

Improve students» social - emotional skills, attitudes about self and others, connection to school, and positive social behavior; and reduce conduct problems and emotional distress.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Our inequality attitudes work suggests this broad «quality of life» case for fairness and greater equality has quite a lot of resonance across social groups, and often more than a «who's got what» argument about fairness.

«But I do think that if we are irresponsible and if we allow huge numbers of young males, particularly to come from countries which have different attitudes to women then we are giving ourselves a social problem and we do need to think about it.»

But the new campaign group is alarmed about a drift to the right in attitudes to the jobless and has seized on warnings by the government's own advisers, the social security advisory committee, to suspend plans to force single mothers with children under 12 to seek work or face benefit cuts.

When the annual British Social Attitudes survey started in 1983, about 55 per cent of those questioned said they were very or quite satisfied with the way that the NHS is run.

The influence of friends To try to better understand the ways in which social norms might be influencing social clusters of obesity, Brewis and her colleagues interviewed 101 Arizona women aged 18 to 45 — and 812 of their close social ties, including friends, spouses, family members, coworkers and others — about their attitudes toward body size.

They asked the participants to read example menus presenting these scenarios and to answer questions about their perception of the restaurant's corporate social responsibility, their attitude, their willingness to select the restaurants and their health - consciousness.

The researchers noted a 2012 report which concluded that negative attitudes about Alzheimer's disease and dementia can result in shame, guilt, hopelessness, and social exclusion among stigmatized individuals, leading to delay in diagnosis, inability to cope, and decreased quality of life.

During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication, public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.

The other half (the control group) were given unrelated information about changing social and political attitudes.

Levin also hopes insights gleaned from the model will help scientists grasp the origins of collective human behaviors, such as the emergence of social norms and attitudes about important issues.

«It describes a natural experiment — the introduction of a papal encyclical — on attitudes about a critical social issue, global warming.

Although these changes were conceived with the idea of making Indian science more rigorous, the hoped - for changes have not come about rapidly because the engrained social attitudes have not changed.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

It is important to consider larger institutional attitudes toward Twitter and social media platforms in general; at Michael Thompson's institution (University of New Hampshire), there was a university - wide push to engage on Twitter; Gretchen Kiser's institution (UC San Francisco) was concerned about branding and more hesitant toward strong engagement on social media at first.

People in the nationally representative General Social Survey were asked about their sexual behavior and attitudes about same - sex experiences.

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In a press release, SugarDaddieForMe said, «Attitudes about dating older men and the social acceptability are rapidly changing.»

Attitudes about dating older men and the social acceptability are rapidly changing, according to the sugar daddy dating site.

«Attitudes about dating older men and the social acceptability are rapidly changing.»

The 2017 survey is set to reveal surprising data and trends on new dating rituals, the impact of social media on the dating landscape, shifting gender roles, and attitudes about love, sex, and relationships across generations.

Real - world social networks exert an enormous influence over our attitudes about marriage.

So L&D teams would be well advised — if they're serious about social learning — to examine their own and their organization's attitude and response towards the tools that are in common use day - to - day.

In fact, having emotionally close relationships with child - care providers as a toddler has been linked with more positive social behavior and more complex play later as a preschooler.3 Kindergartners with close teacher relationships have been shown to be more engaged in classroom activities, have better attitudes about school, and demonstrate better academic performance.4 Thus, teacher - child relationships appear to be an important part of children's social and academic success in school.

«Whereas a lot of [teachers] are much more concerned about the social mission of schooling and battle through their frustrations, my attitude was, screw it,» Hess says.

The law, signed by acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco on Jan. 9, grew out of a controversy in the fall of 1999 in which 2,000 7th through 12th graders in the suburban Ridgewood district were given a voluntary survey that asked them about their drug and alcohol use, social attitudes, and sexual habits.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

The campaign will continue to use prime time TV advertising, billboards and cinema and shopping centre screens to put images of real girls and women exercising on the national stage and use social media to continue the debate about attitudes to female sport.

Opinion that the program had strong leadership which helped its successful implementation; Focus on meeting social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs through the program; Details of the program, including its grouping of students from various age groups and use of hands - on experiences; Discussion of the impact the program had in various areas, such as students» self - esteem and attitudes about school and learning.

Workshop for Parents at McLean School Open House January 2014 Julie Baron discusses how the various elements of social culture and developmental needs guides teens in their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors about peer relationships.