Sentences with phrase «certain social movements»
Special programs have been established in ethnic studies and in women's studies, for example, that address the needs of some students and support certain social movements.
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This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.
Finally, I would say that there is a liberal Catholicism that was inspired both by the Second Vatican Council (or at least a certain reading of it) and by the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, particularly feminism.
Prophets arise at certain historical, social moments and are invariably part of movements.
Kurant probes the «unknown unknowns» of knowledge and the speculations and exploits of capitalism by integrating elements of science and philosophy, and analyzing certain phenomena — collective intelligence, emergence, virtual capital, immaterial and digital labor, evolution of memes, civilizations and social movements, artificial societies, energy circuits and the editing process — as political acts.
All it shows is that involvement in a popular mass movement is a powerful drug for grass roots politicians, just as geo - political speculation is for a certain kind of armchair social scientist.
The fax has given way to the internet, which is in fact a social movement that contributes to the politicisation of certain projects».
FSM is described as a «social movement» with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedom to run the software, to study and change the software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes, according to Wikipedia.