Sentences with phrase «current social attitudes»

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Mary Fulbrook's comparative study of Puritanism and Pietism in England, Wurttemberg, and Prussia also contributes to the current reassessment of Weber's ideas.2 Asking why religious ideas favored absolutism in Prussia in contrast to a politically passive orientation in Wurttemberg and an anti-absolutist attitude in England, Fulbrook is led to examine the interaction between religious ideas and the social contexts in which they take shape.

The current concept of «social engineering» reflects this mechanistic attitude toward human beings.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

In it, four young urban professionals intertwine in a web of social, racial and gender politics, questioning both current and ingrained cultural attitudes about racism and other social dynamics.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

The current teachings of the three R's and simpler sciences and most of our religious and social philosophies have failed to relate us correctly to our past which so largely controls our physical behaviour and mental attitudes.

By recording and documenting those on the edges, or outside of the mainstream, the images in Another Kind of Life bear witness to how social attitudes change across time and space, charting how visual representation has helped shape current discourse in relation to marginalised or alternative communities.

In the same way, as we shall see, «postmodernist art» is part of a wider current of technological, political and social change in the West, which has introduced many new attitudes and new types of behaviour.

Even Cass Sunstein has calculated using current models that the SOC in the US may be as low as US$ 5 / MT or even less, but because their might be some global disbenefit, potentially based on poor social attitudes over which we have no control, the calcluation is still «legitimate» under US law.

Social scientist Robert Putnam, of «bowling alone» fame, and his colleagues have done extensive research on the current attitudes and values of Americans.

No matter what your political allegiance, challenging the status quo appears to tap into the current zeitgeist, and the corporate world hasn't been immune to this movement either, with established norms being challenged by developments in technology, as well as shifting social attitudes and expectations.

The program is linked to the current PDHPE syllabus and aims to develop children's social and emotional learning, resilience, wellbeing and leadership through topics such as: developing a growth mindset; identifying values and understanding behaviours that help / hinder progress; recognising thoughts and emotions and developing emotional regulation; training our minds through mindfulness meditation; using imaginations and exploring creativity; having an «Attitude of Gratitude»; enhancing communication skills and the power of body language; having the courage to fail; building resilience by knowing and understanding your «internal» world»; and planning for the future.

Current perceived social network overlap was associated positively with three types of perceived similarity (attitudes and beliefs, leisure interests / pursuits, and background characteristics, in that order), but unrelated to the other types of perceived similarity.

Qualitative analyses confirm the results and show that QoL is characterized by topics of health, current living situation, attitudes, leisure activities and social contacts.