Sentences with phrase «at societal»

I spent the next 10 years working for various non-profits managing and directing research, policy, and programs primarily supporting the psycho - social health of women, children and families.I realized that rather than focusing on creating change at a societal level through research and policy, I'd much rather direct my focus to those who need change the most — individuals, couples and families struggling with the problems that life throws at them.As a Therapist, I am interested in working with anyone needing support.

Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.

One thing that every person should experience in his or her life is cultural shock, or the experience of total confusion at a societal norm that completely challenges everything in your life.

But the latter type of change could be accomplished at a societal, legislative level.

For scientists arguing for significant change at the societal level, there us no escaping engagement with the public whose preferred forum increasingly lies in the blogosphere.

You may come into this because of nationalistic concerns about energy security and maintaining national place in the world — frankly, I cringe every time the words «energy independence» are mentioned as the top motivation for developing greater renewable energy — but ultimately this has to be about greater social change, both at the societal and personal level.

Humans at the societal / national level can cooperatively engage in the making of laws and other actions that will press these changes even further.

«Scientific caution» (and the RealClimate folks are right on the mark in that department) is very different from «medical caution» or «policy - making» (which should sort of be like the medical model at the societal level).

My point is the selfish one, that for a social scientist looking at societal risk perception and adaptive capacity in flood risk areas, this research represents a dilemma.

At the societal level, our books advance social and economic justice, shared prosperity, sustainability, and new solutions to national and global issues.

At the societal level, over the last few years regimes in many countries have been finding out the best way to turn a localised insurgency into a full - scale revolution is to deny their populations access to the internet, something which didn't even exist a generation ago.

As educators we need to simultaneously look inward at classroom curriculum, and outward at societal issues that impede our students» progress.

Encouraging girls to go into STEM fields must happen at a societal level rather than just an individual one.

Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

They should become incensed about slavery, suffrage, and imperialism, just like the movers and shakers of history, who were infuriated enough at societal injustice to change the rules.

Murray adopts a kind of iffy working class Brooklyn accent and his outbursts at societal standards (from bank lenders who cut him off with a shrug and a smile to telemarketers) feel a little stale and unoriginal.

Are you someone who thumbs your nose at societal norms and instead embraces your own style?

«Reducing exposure to phthalates and other hormone - disrupting chemicals is something that needs to be addressed at a societal level through consumer advocacy and regulation, and education of health care providers.»

«People don't like to think that older people have sex — but we need to challenge this conception at a societal level and look at what impact sexual activity can have on those aged 50 and over, beyond the known effects on sexual health and general wellbeing.»

«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

Writer Jimmy Breslin, whose outrage at societal wrongs and interest in people combined in a novelized reporting style that powerfully captured the New York of his era, was memorialized in a funeral Wednesday at the Upper West Side's Church of the Blessed Sacrament.

Finally, from a primarily ethical perspective, with great wealth comes great responsibility and this maxim applies at a societal level as well as an individual level.

In fact, all of my writing is exactly about what you've written — I don't believe in mom guilt nor the idea that moms need to look at societal pressures to do more, expect more, and achieve more because, at the heart, being a mom — which you articulated again — is simply enough.

Some of them, to be sure, are pitched decidedly at the societal level.

As cultures and circumstances change, roles tend to change along with them — both at the societal level and the individual level.

As you might have guessed, I'm fascinated by how a culture and language affects interpretation at a societal level.

Moreover, it may not be out - of - bounds to suppose that donors also emphasize evangelism because they think spiritual revival among individuals will eventually help influence positive reforms at the societal level.

Not exact matches

Private and foreign investors could be forgiven for having concerns over investing in the country at a time of economic and societal change.

«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.

In an article from Co.create.com, Abigail Posner, Head of Strategic Planning And Agency Development at Google explains our societal fascination with sharing cat memes and videos: «In the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we're not just sharing the object, we're also sharing in the emotional response it creates.»

In a short statement on the Formula 1 website on Wednesday, commercial operations director Sean Bratches said the custom of using grid girls «does not resonate with [the] brand values [of F1] and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms.»

While I'm hardly a proponent of ever more government, there are areas where at least developing societal awareness and at most putting in place regulatory controls to monitor and protect a society, is warranted.

«Survivalism,» or preparing for societal collapse, has become serious business among some of America's super rich, as illustrated by a recent article from The New Yorker which takes a look at the great lengths to which some of the richest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have gone to protect themselves against cataclysmic civil unrest.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

The new magazine sported a tag line that both hinted at its future while also being understandably blind to the societal changes that were to come: «A Magazine For Canadian Business Men.»

Dreams have the power to change the world, at both an individual and societal level.

At one of the first great gatherings of startups in the Middle East, I begin a journey to explore a central question: what solutions — business, economic, societal — can a new generation create with unlimited access to technology?

One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.

A population that has learned the value of owning and become adept at trading physical gold would prevent central banks from continuing to use fiat currencies as economic, political and societal control mechanisms.

«Political polarization and the widespread use of social media are the chief reasons that it's increasingly difficult for brands to remain neutral on societal and political issues,» says Gene Grabowski, a partner at crisis communications firm KGlobal.

Although financial activism may return immediate wealth to some shareholders through the sale of assets, payment of special dividends or share buybacks, evidence is mounting that this may be at the expense of the longer term corporate and societal interests.

What he thought about gay people is irrelevant at best and one can not expect him alone to break the stigma of societal norm of his era (apparently many still live in that era).

Your tastes are above reproach and your musical canon has been arrived at after more academic thought than a doctoral dissertation on the «Ebb and Flow of The Mental Qualitative State Due to the Societal Imperatives of Pezz Dispensers.»

The Gallup research indicates that American confidence in all societal institutions in general are at all - time lows, although confidence in religion has declined more quickly than others.

I've experienced it everywhere — this culture of personality, willfulness, and arrogant self - indulgence, and I think it's at the root of our societal and economic crisis.

Perhaps other factors are at work in producing the societal ills mentioned in the article.

When the congregation I serve initiated a prayer chain several years ago, its participants were amazed at the response: healing intercessions requested for all manner of illnesses and ailments — physical, emotional, 1 spiritual, societal.

This happened in a country where in 1979, at a White House Conference on the Family, participants could not agree as to whether or not there is a societal norm that could be described simply as the American Family.

Mostly what I hear is finger pointing at Cathoilics without recognizing that there is a much broader, even societal, problem.

Cardinal Wyszynski was the archetype of moral leader and societal focal point at a time when the nation had no legitimate political leader.