Sentences with phrase «cultural values as»

Are you a Greek single looking for a meaningful relationship with someone who shares the same cultural values as you?

Changes in cultural values as well as changes in the economy have contributed to the crisis in families.

«Certainly, there?s a geographical bias in the survey as well: People prefer places like Berlin and Munich, which don?t only offer high - quality research institutes, but cultural value as well.»

Research has long shown that people prefer to be in groups that are thought to have higher status or cultural value as a way of boosting self - image and projecting an impressive image to others.

Not exact matches

Bringing it back to books: We have to value books as a valuable and essential cultural medium that deserves respect.

As with all board members, this woman would also would need to align with our cultural values and be able to share unique perspectives of her own.

We have cultural values that we as a company hold true.

Apart from skills and experience, the algorithm will attempt to match job - seekers and employers based on such variables as personality - as on the eHarmony site - as well as work and social and cultural values.

they are the first to unite materialism, sustainability values and cultural influence...» Aspirationals are particularly prevalent in emerging markets such as India, China and South Korea, but are also common here in the US.

As I have noted here before, the value of «hard power» (military dominance) and «soft power» (cultural, financial, diplomatic) can not be assessed until you don't have any.

That's because «Ridiculous Responsiveness,» as 45 - year - old Vanderbloemen calls it, is one of the group's core cultural values.

In this article, the style of social interaction known as hygge is analyzed as being related to cultural values that idealize the notion of «inner space» and to other egalitarian norms of everyday life in Scandinavian societies.

Domestically, universities such as Pontificia Universidad Catolica and the Universidad de Chile have published studies focusing on entrepreneurship influencing cultural change and and the value of the traditional business accelerator.

This precious metal carries an important cultural norm over in India, as the value of each family is often determined by the amount of gold that they possess, in the region.

Great brands such as IKEA explore the societal and cultural relevance of their brands to identify ways to create shared value.

For the faithful, the real value of cultural Judeo - Christianity (as Pera calls it) is to cut a clear path sothatall might someday be Christian by faith.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

The cultural aspects of Pope Francis's statement seem on point: Millennials on the whole don't value the marital commitment as much as previous generations.

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

Hospitality of Abraham: In Genesis 18, there is a myth about the hospitality of Abraham, (he welcomes two strangers, who turn out to be angels), as that was an important cultural value, in a society where a wandering desert dweller could get lost, and die.

The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of technological culture as developed in the West and its values.

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

«The purpose of tomorrow's vote is to decide whether the building has a special character or special historical or aesthetic interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of New York City, New York State or the nation,» commission spokeswoman Elisabeth de Bourbon said Monday.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

Both nihilism and cultural relativism leave the individual apparently free to do as he pleases without referring to moral values but actually in terrible insecurity until he can find something more than himself that is of value.

Yeah, I've learned a lot from them as far as cultural values go, and I accept the basics of honor / shame.

His own position of seeing the economy as «embedded» in sociopolitical contexts and social values opens the door for dialogue about the cultural - religious ethos and ethical, even explicitly theological, assessment of global processes.

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

On the cultural front, we are seeing what I call a «marriage mindset» — where people value childbearing within marriage as well as marital permanency — find a more secure purchase among highly educated Americans than among less - educated Americans.

The divine aim to raise up persons whose goals and values are identical with God's goals - for - them and whose actions are complementary to the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only in so far as social ends and cultural traditions are also in harmony with the divine.

These proposals assumed that all the cultural streams should be affirmed as having their distinctive value and encouraged to maintain themselves.

«The recent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the present campaign against Confucius indicate that traditional values and attitudes still exist in China, even as the Chinese attempt to eliminate them.»

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

It turns out that to be responsibly engaged in transforming culture means being responsive to the values and concerns of the cultural elite (much like the ones who Gustafson describes as finding the book helpful).

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

Reichley concludes: «Let me emphasize that we do not value Christianity primarily as a cultural support for democracy or a market economy.

The multimedia, directed by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, life styles, perceptions of beauty and religious mystery, as well as ethnic national identities of persons and communities to the market's cultural wasteland.

National traditions, religious traditions, and even cultural values are being harnessed and manipulated to suppress the Minjung as they confront the powers - that - be.

But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person of Christ without leaving their religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word of God as «part of the Church» within their religious and cultural community - settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.

The fact that Jesus is on the side of women should be our source of encouragement and empowerment as we continue to serve God and strive for a full and equal ministry.81 Nothing, perhaps, was more shocking for his contemporaries than the freedom with which he associated himself with women, considering the inferior position of women in Jewish society.82 According to R. L. Hnuni, «male dominated cultural and traditional values and injunctions may put boundaries and debar them from full ministry, but this should not discourage women's conviction and commitment to full ministry.

Even with respect to a particular category of cultural activities, as regarding learning, the state, the arts, contemporary values, popular culture, business, leisure, and so forth.

Where Lawler and many others declare that Christianity is a necessary precondition of humane values, I simply assert that humane values, or more accurately the values we hold today, used Christianity, as well as other religions and philosophies, as cultural vessels.

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

For instance, Habermas pays more explicit attention to economic development and to the state, credits the social sciences with a more prominent role in cultural evolution, and stresses secular procedures as elements of legitimation rather than emphasizing sacred or religious values.