Sentences with phrase «as social reasons»

Ask any teacher what their students spend most of their time doing in the halls, not to mention during class, and they will tell you that their kids are always on their smartphones — for academic as well as social reasons.
So, we wear clothes not just to keep us warm, but also for the very same reason why some Muslim women wear the burka (from an atheist point of view, the religious reasons should be interpreted as social reasons) and our laws mandate that you have to wear clothes for exactly that reason.

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Among the top reasons consumers cite for subscribing to mailing lists, social media channels and newsletters for their favorite brands is their desire to keep apprised of hot new sales, deals and news, as well as receive exclusive coupons.
Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.
As Nick Bilton writes in Vanity Fair, there's good reason to think the popularity of social media has peaked, with prominent Silicon Valley figures like former Facebook president Sean Parker and venture capitalist Mark Suster saying they think the technology has become addictive and unhealthy.
One reason: Taco Bell's success with social media and other millennial marketing tactics is serving as a blueprint for all Yum Brands chains in 2015.
The only people local businesses are concerned with are those who are able to buy their product or service, so there's a reason why many haven't seen social media marketing as the most valuable use of their time and money.
There were two reasons: One was that entrepreneurs, particularly those under 45, don't see their global footprint or their so - called corporate social responsibility strategy as an afterthought.
This feeling of social responsibility, Li says, is the reason his company has instituted technical training as well as management training courses for its employees.
Negative opinions and statistics on the use of social media in workplaces are also portrayed as good enough reasons to ban its usage altogether.
It's the reason he does as many in - person events as possible in addition to sharing photos from wine tastings with fans on social media.
As BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has pointed out, the main reason people share things on social networks isn't because they are true or false.
The New York Times spoke to a number of experts on the topic, who cited social changes — such as higher divorce rates — and the economic downturn as possible reasons for the increase in suicide rates overall.
If your goal is to engage your fans over social media, or generate sales, or position yourself as an authority, these things can be accomplished if you provide value and a reason for people to interact with your brand.
In Cook's statement of his own sexual orientation in Bloomberg Businessweek he justified revealing that he was gay for social reasons, noting what he sees as the potential for anti-gay discrimination in the majority of the country.
Yet there's little public conviction that alcohol sales need to be as tightly controlled as they are for social reasons.
While most social influencers aren't traditional businesspeople, they sure know how build trust and rapport with their audience — which is one of the reasons why social influencer marketing is delivering 11x the ROI as compared to other digital marketing strategies.
The reason content works as a social media marketing strategy is that people not only want valuable information, they like to share it as well.
One reason for that is McLaughlin, who previously directed McKinsey's Social Innovation Practice, and has led the foundation since October of 2013 while also serving as Walmart's chief sustainability officer.
Gamers are coming together for practical reasons as well as social ones.
Social responsibility was cited as the reason for the disinvestment decision, but given the recent performance of coal stocks they could have just as easily cited the fund's financial duty.
Many people plan to wait as long as possible to begin collecting Social Security for one obvious and understandable reason: The monthly checks get higher the longer you wait.
Hashtags should be treated with the same standards as all other social elements — they should mesh with brand messaging and give audiences a reason to engage.
Putting off benefits for even a year or two will ensure the retiree starts out at a higher amount, which means each cost of living adjustment (from 5 reasons to delay social security) will be higher, as it is based off a percentage of the benefits received.
This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view) as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and cultural contexts.
Nevertheless, there are good reasons for thinking that conservatism (as here and now understood) arose out of a reaction, first to the French Revolution, and secondly to the habit engendered by that revolution, of seeking large - scale social transformation as a remedy for the unhappiness of man.
All the more reason, then, to be grateful to two Catholic University professors for having assembled a florilegium of brief texts from a century of Catholic social doctrine, and then artfully arranging them as answers to the real - world questions asked by business people trying to live their professional lives vocationally.
and as far as church goes, social reasons are pretty much the only thing keeping me around too...
He believed that reason was ultimately limited to solve social injustice because our rational capacities as human beings are, at their root, self - serving.
Social science experiments such as this have limited application to the wider population, for a number of reasons.
I know people who for personal reasons are for or against certain religious / social / political issues who migrated to religious groups which identify as Christian (and agree with these peoples» personal opinions) so they presumably might have an ultimate authority to support their opinions.
If the social group as a whole was sunk in iniquity, the reason lay deep in the quality of the group's constituent individuals — «The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?»
This is one reason — perhaps the most prevalent reason — why religion fares so lamely in high school groups and on the college campus, for where the atmosphere has become predominantly secular, as it has in most communities, social pressures have enormous power.
For this reason, recognizing the social fact of difference should not be mistaken as relativism.
What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.
Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.
This dual focus on reason and ethics similarly explains the close attention religious liberals have paid to the sciences — physics as a source for better cosmologies, and the biological and social sciences as a source for both ethics and philosophies of history.
This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.
Another reason is that Islam has a social character which strengthens the morale of the group, bringing men together as brothers without discrimination in a way which facilitates travel, trade, and the struggle for a livelihood.
We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast to the joys of the world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.
I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.
It's for this reason that ideas such as a guaranteed basic income will not solve the social and cultural problems caused by globalization and technological innovation.
From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty of individuals to pursue private good is the major moral concern of the new reformers and for this reason their ethical views can fairly be seen as a variety of the contractarian social ethic now increasingly characteristic of political society.
There are so many social, cultural, religious, economic, and political factors at play in all these situations, it is hard to point at any one reason as the cause.
Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.
As humans we are able reason how setting standards for our social groups benefited our survival and thus aiding others helped us in the long run versus just some survival of the fittest flawed notion.
It seems to my perceptions that you might be having a personal identity conundrum... Speaking from experience; many folks seem unable to cope with individualized rationalizing complexities... Giving up attempting, toward understanding social austerities which encompass individualism, gives people their identification of oneness... Individualisms are set upon the relativities of quaint somberness issues in daily moderations... Religious identities are as emotionalized labels giving people an ability to pause and reflect upon judgmental reasoning... Whether or not, religious agendas are servicing and served with ever those willing to serve...
And just as man turns away from Being, so entire large social organisms turn away from it... For this reason we may observe how social, political and state systems, and whole societies, are inevitably becoming alienated from themselves.
As the Greeks progressed in their application of reason to the understanding of law, they developed quite naturalistic ideas of how law arose in social community.
Securing solidarity and cooperation for this agenda, however, requires extending reason's mastery and control over social relations of distribution as well, so as to ensure that the possibilities of self - transcendence are widely shared by «humanity.»
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