Sentences with phrase «by social systems»

Borland frequently asks us to consider the fragility of human life and the way in which it is valued by social systems and institutions.
By social systems is meant the sum total of all humanly developed knowledge, cultural patterns, institutions, values, and goals.
Unless the poor understand that their poverty is caused by a few people who are exploiting them, sucking their blood... It is not caused by your past lives and bad acts, it is caused by the social system which depends on exploitation.
This method implicitly is guided by the social system of the interpreter.
We are fighting to build a mass movement of the working class, which seeks the abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a social system based on human need, not private profit — i.e., socialism.
This ever so charming Dr. Ravetz wants to replace science with a system where every action has its own «attributes of quality», and each of those «attributes of quality» has their own «criteria» and their own «standards», and these criteria and standards and attributes are upheld by a social system containing a recursive process which is repeated up to some supreme sanction of unknown nature... what on earth does that all mean?
«This ever so charming Dr. Ravetz wants to replace science with a system where every action has its own «attributes of quality», and each of those «attributes of quality» has their own «criteria» and their own «standards», and these criteria and standards and attributes are upheld by a social system containing a recursive process which is repeated up to some supreme sanction of unknown nature...»

Not exact matches

One key strategy to focus on is to leverage the power of social proof by implementing a reputation marketing system.
But that's not the case in Arizona, which requires businesses to use E-verify, a system in which businesses electronically verify that the documentation presented by a potential employee has matching information between the name and the social security number (securing proof of eligibility to work).
Technology inventors have a horrible track record of turning new behaviors into long - term financial successes — social networking pioneer Friendster was long ago lapped by MySpace and Facebook; the first search engines, Web browsers, and video game systems met similar fates.
Ever since «fake news» first started to get traction during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it has been seen by many as primarily a Facebook problem because many hoax and fake - news creators use the giant social network as a distribution system.
By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.
The various «core» components are captured by Total Social Financing (TSF) data, an official gauge that provides a measure of credit and liquidity supplied by the entire financial system in China.
Feeling that you're part of a community is also apparently a hefty immune system boost, Seppälä says, citing research that «shows that genes impacted by social connection also code for immune function and inflammation.»
A wide range of jobs are covered by this category, as social services can include work in everything from employment support to recreational facilities, while managerial work in correctional services is carried out primarily in the Canadian prison system.
On the other hand, security firm Solutionary's Chief Security Strategist Jon Heimerl notes that some things won't change: «We will see errors in operating systems, configuration errors or lapses, errors in applications, and errors in judgment by people who fall for social engineering attacks.
Designed by the social network, the Facebook Surround 360 video camera and software system is meant to produce spherical, 3 - D content.
Everything on the site looks like it could be sold at a mall but is designed independently and ethically; many brand partners have a «corporate social involvement» component, such as Madrid's Ananda Pascual, which employs people disenfranchised by India's caste system.
Facebook can repair the damage caused by the controversy around its Beacon ad system if the company follows basic social etiquette.
Three that sell full - blown systems like Workpace by Facebook that use employee directories to create enterprise «social networks» are IBM (ibm), Jive Software (jive), and Lithium Technologies.
By 2020, the government has promised to roll out a national social credit system.
The public blacklist has been incorporated by another incarnation of the social credit system — Zhima Credit, a service of the mobile payment provider Alipay.
Two weeks ago, Equifax — one of the country's biggest credit reporting agencies — announced that its systems were hacked by cybercriminals, exposing the Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers of 143 million Americans.
Only 7 % of those surveyed are very confident that the Social Security system will continue to provide benefits of at least equal value to the benefits received by retirees today.
We should begin by understanding that trust itself is undergoing radical change in reaction to the systems and social transactions in which it operates.
Zuckerberg declined to acknowledge that Facebook's ad system and products are informed by all of this information gathering on and off the social network.
«I do think that we can do a better job of explaining how advertising works,» Zuckerberg said as he finished his response, but he did not explain that Facebook's ad system works by harnessing all the pieces of information from social network users.
Until 1984, employment by the federal government was covered under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and not by Social Security.
The Fiancia platform enables investors and traders to trade cryptocurrencies online in a simple, transparent, and enjoyable manner by utilizing the social network investment strategies of a copy trading system.
The digital identity extreme is being pushed by the Chinese government which is planning to introduce Social Credit System, which will rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 Bn citizens on the basis of daily online activities, social media posts, and tax paySocial Credit System, which will rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 Bn citizens on the basis of daily online activities, social media posts, and tax paysocial media posts, and tax payments.
When We're 65: Reforming Canada's Retirement Income System, The Social Policy Challenge 13, by John B. Burbidge et al..
It's essentially a support system for America's elderly, enabled by the 1935 Social Security Act.
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In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.
While the average working American might know enough to file and receive their Social Security benefits, the system, thanks to the nearly 3,000 filing rules, is wrought with traps and run by a government agency that is prohibited from dispensing advice.
An internal investigation «shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone» and there's «no reason to believe password information ever left Twitter's systems or was misused by anyone,» the social - media firm said.
But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.
However, it's the instability that is attracting the investors and the builders to develop and upgrade last years» crypto - medieval systems into the kind of social infrastructure we need for a world where trust is dominated by corporate and political monopolies.
As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.
But in its neoliberal form it becomes a nightmare lived by the victims of unemployment, young people traumatized by the future, workers shut out of the productive system and nations subjected to structural adjustment, labour deregulation, the erosion of social security systems and the elimination of networks serving the poor.
Dalits are the oppressed groups, marginalized for centuries by the social and cultural systems.
The son of a noted Orthodox rabbi and a product of the modern Orthodox social and educational system, Greenberg was almost defeated by the Holocaust's absolute devaluing of life.
The Belhar Confession, originally drafted in 1982 and formally adopted in 1986 by the DRMC of South Africa, came about as white and black Christian leaders wrestled with the gospel and the unjust social systems of their land.
The friendly visitor system was administered by a committee which included several trained social workers.
Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.
It is necessary to remember that such a paradigm shift does not occur overnight - paradigm shifts generally occur over a long period of time, with pockets of thought frequently unaffected by the new for a long period, and often with movement taking place back and forth between paradigms until the new paradigm becomes «settled» and existing social systems are reintegrated.
This shows the depth of the social evil produced by the slave system — it could not be eradicated by war, sermon, or prayer.
In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).
It is one thing teleologically to validate a particular action «separately taken» and another to validate it by appeal to a system of norms or a social practice that is itself validated teleologically.
In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon of economic globalization.
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