Sentences with phrase «cultural consensus»

It's not like we have achieved any kind of cultural consensus on right and wrong, even in our own societies.

Convention is cultural consensus about how you should live your life.

== -LCB- So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative. -RCB-

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

Failure to do this will lead to one of two outcomes: Either we will go the route of the Rev. Beeson and affirm whatever the current cultural consensus happens to be, and the church will become so inclusive as to be indistinguishable from the world; or we will focus so much on combating the socially revolutionary aspects of the lobbyists» ambitions that we will fail to care for the individuals who come into our churches seeking help and clarity.

Meacham prefers the «broad middle,» which is founded upon a «collective cultural consensus,» «common sense» and, of course, religious principles.

As a nation, we are committed «to individualism and to deconsolidation,» which is a nice way of saying that the majority of Americans don't want the Moral Majority to oversee the reconstruction of a strong and binding cultural consensus.

Then, from about the 1870s until the 1960s, we have the dominance of a broadly liberal Protestantism which allied itself with a growing ideological secularism to form a prevailing cultural consensus.

Trump calls into question our elite cultural consensus, which requires a carefully calibrated, therapeutic rhetoric that never offends — or at least never offends people designated as those never to be offended.

In a dreadfully volatile way, the current brinkmanship is a symptom of this re-evaluation - and a fundamental cultural consensus that the electorate has to reach.

And more often than not, truth becomes lost in cultural consensus, which is nowadays based on social media posts, You Tube videos, and leaked iPhone photos.

«Settled argument», as well as being a contradiction in terms when used as an argument, as Rud notes, comes from cultural consensus, revealing that the process meant to be providing objectivity has failed.

So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative.

But for those of us living in this postmodern moment, we have to choose to act in the context of a multitude of moral preferences and a lack of cultural consensus...

california, 294 pages, $ 29.95 Our cultural consensus about lower - class single dads is bleak: They are on a road to perdition without the picturesque, thrilling detours that mobsters, jewel thieves, and rock....

The film depicts how two young poets are compelled to battle parents, doctors, and the cultural consensus to maintain their relationship which is considered dangerous by the community because...

As societies we forge a kind of cultural consensus, but it is entirely possible that within a society there can be a lot of fragmentation and disparate notions.

Referencing diverse sources from Modernist theatre to Playboy magazine articles, Byrne questions the history of cultural consensus that grows around these subjects.

Indeed religions do have plenty of associated social data, which does point to cultural consensus.

Still other scholars emphasize a cultural consensus around environmental values and beliefs.