Sentences with phrase «atomizes society»
Enlightened self - interest atomizes society into individuals.
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Common values and references have gotten hard to find in an atomized society, and vague new - age nostrums can't fill the vacuum.
Common values and references have gotten hard to find in an atomized society, and vague new age nostrums can't fill the vacuum.
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Seligman considers whether, in a time of atomized anomie, new social movements such as feminism or gay rights might provide an incipient civil society for their adherents.
What I mean is the religiously atomized pluralistic society of our time of which all forms of Christianity are only a part and in which we live together with post-Christian neo-pagans, if I may be allowed to use this expression.
He recommends that we rebrand ourselves by working with the underprivileged, trying to repair a society that is «atomized, unforgiving, and inhospitable.»
That prospect raises the specter of mass society that was so much discussed in the 1950s: no identity stands between the atomized individual and the nation state.
We need to provide atomized people with the options of non-optional solidarity, and in this way «mitigate both over-consolidation and hyper - individualism by revitalizing the mediating layers of society.»
About the same time in 1984 Vaclav Havel attributed to the Czechoslovakian opposition group, the Chartists, the «knowledge» of «how suddenly a society that seemed atomized, apathetic, and broken can be transformed into an articulate, united civil society.
«The atom he split,» though, «was... not physical but psychic,» for Ockham shattered our concept of the human soul and thereby created a new, atomized vision of the human person and, ultimately, of society.
Instead of banding together to reach the outside world, Soderbergh's characters pull away from each other in terror, sealing themselves up in their homes in a spooky mirror image of our atomized online society.
They assert that our society has become atomized: that with the proliferation of TV channels, the indulging of hundreds of Facebook friends whom you may never even see and speak with in person, leave us lonely and depressed.
In Wide Receivers I examine how society and human behavior are becoming simultaneously tribalized and atomized amidst the ever increasing noise of mass (over) communication, digital media, and self - broadcasting.