Sentences with phrase «changing social systems»

However, unlike the younger set who tends to use social networking sites to pass time, Boomers find groups of similar sensibilities, share ideas and generate passions for changing social systems.

This stream includes a variety of therapies that focus on changing social systems so that all their members will be freer to grow to - ward wholeness.

When we use political or revolutionary means, when we declare that violence will change the social system we are thus fighting in defense of the disinherited, our violence demolishes the spiritual power of prayer and bars the intervention of the Holy Spirit.

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Currently, a victim of identity theft can not change their Social Security number, which is the primary reason why White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce is advocating for a new 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.

He also said that state and municipal retirement pension plans should be swept into the Social Security system — and argued that the political pressures are building to force change.

For instance, we can (and assuredly will) radically change social security benefits to future retirees and stop limiting the income level at which taxes are paid into the system.

We should begin by understanding that trust itself is undergoing radical change in reaction to the systems and social transactions in which it operates.

Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.

The BIS continues to stress structural, microeconomic changes, like labor market reform and changes to social security systems.

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.

Hi Steve, Is this program like the US social security system where it appears destined to bankrupt our country sometime in the future because of changing life spans, demographics, etc.?

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.

Medium - term changes, like the general opening of the market, be it the market for goods or services, in particular financial services etc, or even the labour market, all of these are accelerating the transformation of the system and the transformation of capitalism and they are having significant social consequences in all regions of the world.

Charity understood as relief of a particular need until new social systems can eliminate that need altogether becomes even more crucial when envisioned radical change of social arrangements is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future, let alone in the lifetime of those who care and are cared for.

The ideal the French Revolution set before it was not merely a change in the French social system but nothing short of a regeneration of the whole human race.

Every student should be strongly encouraged, if not required, to take at least one quarter of clinical pastoral training and another in an urban internship; the first would help equip him to be a change agent in individual relationship, and the second would help equip him to be a change agent in organizations, structures, and social systems.

We know tradition as a living social process constantly changing, constantly in need of criticism, but constant also as the continuing memory, value system and habit structure of a society.

«Change comes, we suspect,» states Wallis, «more through the witness of creative and prophetic minorities who refuse to meet the system on its own terms but rather act out of an alternative social vision upon which they have based their lives.

The Social Gospel movement tried to change America's unjust social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the Social Gospel movement tried to change America's unjust social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the Mount.

But demographic changes have rendered the Social Security system unsustainable in its current form.

The social dominance of the market has changed the nature and purpose of our educational system.

But the same social changes that have attenuated family ties have also weakened traditional support systems outside the family.

The plan calls for four separate and complete educational systems, ranging from a more traditional system designed to serve churches dissatisfied with the national emphases on social action to a forward - looking system meant for churches wishing to be involved in social change.

The first is that they might become, or be made into, palliatives to structural situations caused by the economic system, rather like the St.Vincent de Paul Conferences in the XVIII and XIXth Centuries: fine people but ineffective in the struggle to change social relations.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

The diverse cluster of therapies whose aim is to facilitate creative change in relationships and in social systems represents a highly significant development in contemporary therapies.

Changes in circle 5 (larger, more impersonal organizations) and circle 6 (the systems beyond the local community) may occur through educational [and] persuasive approaches, but often they require the use of political [and other social action] methods....

Without this understanding it will remain impossible to devise social change programs (e.g., youth job training, head start) that ghetto families can use fully, in conjunction with family systems therapy, to interrupt the vicious, mutual reinforcement of family and community problems.

For a discussion of «the system of territorial segmentation» and the effects of social change on such old boundaries, see Eric J. Miller, «Caste and Territory in Malabar,» American Anthropologist, Vol.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

The anomaly is far deeper; it has to do with the way the very social systems themselves are continually rendered invisible, perpetually withdrawing themselves from examination, leaving us only ourselves to blame or change.

With its special emphasis on individual conversion, it reassured people that whatever social change was necessary could be achieved by changing individuals within the system.

Teggart asserted social change results from «the collision of groups from widely different habitats and hence of different idea - systems.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political sySocial morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political sysocial behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political sysocial structures or political systems.

They want to change the system; they increasingly speak of political revolution that will right all social ills.

Dr. Smith preaches a gospel that takes the church beyond its own wall — to wage war against drugs in the street, to form coalitions of Hispanics, Asians, and Caucasians to work for changes in social systems and structures.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

With the support of Blue Horizon, Seattle Food Tech joins a community of companies and social initiatives that can work together to change our food system.

Passions are nurtured, ideas are examined, and a structured support system is in place as students navigate the sometimes intense social and emotional experience at this time of growth and change.

As a clinical social worker, she understands the science of sleep, as well as the need for a gentle, proven, step - by - step system to help families make a positive sleep change.

She stated that Ghana is a» globally acknowledged democracy» which has changed governments successfully since 1992 «without causing any dislocations to the political, economic or social systems of the country» therefore «all investors are assured of a stable and peaceful country to invest in.»

Britain's struggling social care system needs urgent change to save elderly and disabled people from a «vicious circle», campaigners say.

In this view, it was years of neglect that meant that the welfare system failed to keep up with massive social change, meaning that we ended up with a system that failed to properly incentivise work — something that had been central to the original post-war plan.

Some of these changes contribute to the cohesion of states and the stability of the states systems; others disturb familiar political and social orders.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

A promising transition depends upon a new regime's set of state powers, its capability to operate the emergent system, and its ability to promote structural and institutional changes in domestic politics and in the economy resulting in social justice, good governance, and fair distribution of the national wealth.

Since the Spending Review of 2010 The Centre for Welfare Reform has tried to understand the overall impact of the cuts, changes to the benefit system and other social policy impacts on disabled people and people in poverty.

I don't think the election is going to descend into chaos, but it is going to expose the limitations of the current system in a rapidly changing social demographic.»