Sentences with phrase «dehumanizing social»

The costs of such heroics could be turned to what Midgley cares about, namely poverty, environmental depletion and other dehumanizing social conditions.

The sinful given is often imbedded in unjust or dehumanizing social structures, in prejudicial attitudes, in traditions of hostility or conflict or control.

reflects the impact of dehumanizing social forces and reductionistic (and mechanistic) views of man which are among the causes of psychopathology.

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Readers will remember Eldridge Cleaver's graphic confession that in committing rape he was striking out against a repressive social order (though» later on Cleaver saw this crime as dehumanizing to both the perpetrator and the victim).

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.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and dehumanizing life.

In fact, like many other hipster intellectuals, Marshall McLuhan for instance, Illich and Goodman appeared to believe blacks» social disenfranchisement, to some extent, preserved them from The System's dehumanizing encroachments.

Producing work over a period of extreme political tension, social anxiety and rising global capitalism, Kienholz created a body of work that, in the words of Guy Brett, reviewing his 1971 exhibition at London's ICA, were «a protest against a dehumanized, fear - ridden society».