Sentences with phrase «as microcosms of society»

This is especially true of a vow — in particular the marriage vow, which gives rise to the physical establishment of the home as the microcosm of society, shaping a universal commonwealth.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

Based on interviews with 100 women, this book identifies obstetrical procedures as rituals, and analyzes the American medical system as a microcosm of our society which seeks through these rituals to socialize birthing women into the collective core value system of the technocracy.

Not exact matches

As far back as the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universAs far back as the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universas the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universe.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

Though Crossan says that «Jesus» Jewishness is particularly important in terms of the body / society interaction» (body as microcosm), there is virtually nothing particularly Jewish left in Crossan's portrait of this Mediterranean peasant.

As, for Frye, the symbolic construction of a literary work is a microcosm of all literature, so a congregation reflects the imaginative struggle of societies everywhere to congregate.

This microcosm of monkey society has shed light onto questions as diverse as how they think, choose friends, choose mates, and the genetic underpinnings of their complex social behaviors.

This is an enraging film, as it is meant to be, not just because it is a microcosm of rape culture, the collection of pervasive attitudes that rule our society that deny and dismiss men's violence against women.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

We identified schools as essential environments for tackling these wider societal challenges; they act as a microcosm of broader society and represent a key stage in life for shaping and developing how one looks at the world.

Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.

In the microcosm of the workshop practice, the exhibition simultaneously explores these sites as reflected in their day as spheres in which the pressing questions of modern society were addressed.

Instantly understandable and readable as one of society's primary bonds, marriage can also be seen as a microcosm for how communities are built through ideas, effort, communication, and compromise.

They were among the first artists to settle in the East End of London: indeed, most of their art has been centred, literally and metaphorically, on the East End, which they regard as a microcosm of British society, if not the world.

Rob Loblaw # 59: Indeed — a nice analysis of how our individual situations are a microcosm of the society as we face climate change.