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.
Not exact matches
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.»