Sentences with phrase «effecting social change through»

In 1990, Rauschenberg established his eponymous foundation to further his lifelong goals of effecting social change through his art.

EmpowerDC.org: A citywide membership - based organization, Empower DC is dedicated to effecting social change through a democratic, self - help empowerment approach to community organizing working on issues including affordable housing, quality affordable child care, preserving public property and improving public education.

Not exact matches

Black churches must begin to examine the economic realities of their existence, not in the light of their individual or denominational budgets alone, but in view of their tremendous possibilities to effect social change by utilizing the considerable resources that pass through their hands.

While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.

This apparent conflict has never been a problem for the paid - time broadcasters, who consider it beyond the scope of Christian concern to effect social change except through the conversion of individuals, a process which can take place regardless of contexts and suggested identifications.

The health and social care bill's slow progress through parliament comes amid an ongoing battle over the transition risk register, a currently secret document detailing the government's assessment of the potential negative side - effects of its proposed changes.

What's at issue is the standard format and effect of so many confabs we're all trundling through, in which, Meyers writes, we all get «Conference head» — that state you're in after «speakers # 2, # 5, # 8, and # 11 all talk about how «social reading» is gonna change digital books» and everybody staggers out of the Whatever Vista Ballroom finding it «hard to pinpoint what, exactly, they've learned.»

Motevalli has been active in creating social change with her students on issues of civil rights within the class through pedagogy or working with students and community to organize around issues that effect their quality of life and access to education.

So we know very clearly that a direct change on institutional norms or social norms — what people consider to be acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior — those things have an ultimate effect on economics through energy policy.

As I've noted before, stamping out these problems in society is not best effected through the courts, but through broader social change.

Fischer and colleagues [21] proposed a theoretical framework that extends socio - cognitive models of learning [22] and the more recent General Learning Model [23], and explains elevated levels of risk taking in relation to media exposure not only through priming effects of risk - positive cognitions and emotions, but also through changes in the self - concept, due to (1) situational cues in the media that risk taking is rewarding instead of potentially dangerous, (2) through habitation processes and changes in risk - related social norms, and (3) through identification processes that are stronger in active vs. passive media consumption.

«The transfer of all Indigenous programs to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, I believe, will make it more difficult, not less, to effect change through mainstream agencies that are not responsible for program delivery but which have very high stakes in delivering programs that have a broad impact on the social determinants.