Sentences with phrase «as a social institution»

The family as a social institution is not extinct.

In a culture where the church has very little visibility as a social institution, there is not much social validation for the role of pastor.

And by implication, the date point to a hypocrisy deeply embedded within organized religion as a social institution.

The prediction of the end of the family as a social institution was wrong.

Theologians have long recognized this and have sanctified marriage as a social institution whose rules sometimes need to take precedence over individual needs.

He speaks of religion «as the social institution which provides a setting in ritual for the process of oscillation in a society.»

The traditional reply to this has been to make a distinction between the visible Church (the Church as a social institution) and the invisible Church (the community of those who have been restored to new life by faith in Jesus as Christ, whether they belong to the visible institution or not).

Given the nature of the changing role of family and school as social institutions, children are now instructed and cared for by a cadre of professionals.

What is endangered in the church is the secular clement: its prestige as a social institution, its power as a political agency, its endowment as a foster - child of nation or of class.

The second good is fidelity: As a social institution supported by cultural and legal sanctions, marriage encourages an exclusive commitment that expresses what is noblest in the human aspiration to solidarity and that calls us beyond the selfishness and self - centeredness that can erode, and ultimately destroy, social life.

As social institutions go ~ large public schools organized in political hierarchies are fairly new phenomena.

Dominik Lang has located many of his previous works in the architecture, infrastructure or politics of the art world as social institution.

For the Afro - British especially (as well as for African - Americans here), barbershops serve as social institutions for people who don't ordinarily have them....

Same - sex marriage erodes the very purpose of marriage as a social institution and trivializes the intellectual, psychological, and biological distinctions between men and women.

Change in the family as a social institution in the 1960s came at a time when family relationships were already fragile because of the extent to which parents — or a parent — had become the primary source of affection for children.

Jesus has no special significance except as an influential historical figure around whom the church, as a social institution and phase of culture, has been organized.

My own way of talking approaches marriage as a social institution, not a Platonic form.

This can not be discarded in determining the definition of marriage since it is a fact of life, which has been recognised by every society in history that has used marriage as a social institution.

As social institutions they are more important as bulwarks of achieved social values than as instruments of change.

«The Church» as a social institution has had only a marginal and indirect influence on American culture in the twentieth century.15

Information technology is transforming law — as a social institution, and as a profession.