Sentences with phrase «affluent society»

In less affluent societies, and in the past, we lived much more closely with other people.

Even in the face of economic turmoil, we are still one of the most affluent societies on earth.

In the near future, these technologies will enable most of the world to experience what only affluent societies have access to today.

It's not just a problem in affluent societies.

And despite good evidence showing it does improve health, there remains an ambivalence among health professionals as to whether breastfeeding makes a difference in affluent societies with clean water.

Not only have measures of well - being and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.

Mariani notes that Stevens had a withdrawn manner at home and an unpleasant one in the office, but none of this stopped him from becoming rich and successful and, eventually, joining affluent society after the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1916.

-LSB-...] Social and psychological alienation and the many neuroses that afflict affluent societies are attributable in part to spiritual factors.

People live in their own kind of paradise, as there's a small population and truly affluent society in Luxembourg.

Although specific numbers aren't available, it's clear that Bingham and White helped draw more affluent Society Hill families to McCall.

In the words of Marshall Sahlins, hunter - gatherers were «the original affluent society.»

Unless colossal efforts are undertaken now to halt the emission of greenhouse gases, those living in less affluent societies can expect to suffer from extremes of flooding, drought, starvation, disease, and death in potentially staggering numbers.

A little - known essay by Tocqueville after he visited England and tried to figure out why the most affluent society in Europe had the most paupers, while many impoverished societies apparently had none at all.

Not only have measures of wellbeing and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression and numerous other social problems.

Indeed, sociological studies have not found any evidence that people in affluent societies are happier than those in impoverished ones, or that happiness increases over time as people become more affluent.

We're also divided on what it means to serve the poor in an affluent society.

Certainly it must be tempting to look at all you're doing without, especially in comparison to much of our affluent society, and to feel that you are better, that you have demonstrated your faith and devotion — maybe even to feel you have done your part.

Ours is an affluent society unequaled anywhere else in the world.

The pastor realizes that people's needs are virtually limitless, particularly in an affluent society in which there is an ever - rising threshold of desire (which we define as «need»).

Through much of the period from David to the fall of Jerusalem, Israel's life was not marked by the concern with hope, any more than is the life of the affluent society of the west today.

But in an affluent society one has got to be tempted, at least once, to see what it is like to be out from under the weight of so many possessions.

However, this tendency is counteracted by the virtually endless outpouring of new products by an inventive and affluent society.

But there is also a wealth of clinical data showing that, even in affluent societies, breastfed babies, and their mothers incidentally, are much better off than formula fed babies.

In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

He should now turn the policy agenda into the progressive causes and campaigns for this generation: that no child should grow up in poverty in this affluent society; that pupils in state schools should enjoy similar opportunities to those educated privately; that work should earn a living wage and we must invest in the skills of all to avoid being losers in a global economy; that we should not die sooner if born in a poorer town.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's slogan is «explore to realize,» expressing «our philosophy of becoming an agency of realizing a safe and affluent society.»

Like the other Scandinavian countries, Denmark is one of the most equal and affluent societies in the world.

The dominance of salt in manufactured food in the sodium intake of affluent societies

But this is less a play about bestiality than a modern version of Greek tragedy: an Oedipus Rex for the affluent society.

Martin Luther King saw others «smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society» and knew it was morally wrong to turn away.

We advocate the idea of «materializing creative cycle of sound copyrighted works» as our business principle, and shall contribute to the development of culture and to create an affluent society.

Current & Last 6 Books: Galbraith's The Affluent Society; Hunt's Hannibal; Davis» Policing the Black Man, Soni & Goodman's A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age; Child's The Midnight Line; Mievelle's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.

A thousand years ago, the maritime traders of Ambergris had built a large and affluent society.

From Hannah Arendt's copy of The Affluent Society, found between pages 278 - 279; Katja Novitskova, Warlords, 2010; Aki Sasamoto

The exhibition deals with the social isolation of the individual and the lack of communication that Elmgreen & Dragset attribute to an affluent society and consumer culture.

â $ «are indulgences tolerated in an affluent society when there isn't anything more serious to worry about.