Sentences with phrase «encompassing social structure»

It is Political and an all encompassing social structure that has no room for any other system.

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Together the four functions encompass the activities that give a social structure both its equilibrium and its capacity to evolve through time.

Hence, the issue of the objective reality of the universe as an all - encompassing social totality or, in Whiteheadian terms, structured society can not be resolved empirically at the present time; accordingly, one should be free to postulate it as a trans - empirical hypothesis as I am doing here.

By providing a unifying concept that articulates a common structure of a great number of spiritual quests, the process paradigm I have adumbrated should illuminate and give coherence to the varieties of women's and men's experiences at three levels: the interpersonal; social systems, and institutional structures; and the all - encompassing natural world.

With this in mind it's more important than ever for content providers to ensure they have a constantly updated web presence, which could encompass any number of elements, from a well - structured and consistently updated website, a prominent and professionally maintained blog, good social media links, competitions, peer review sites and so on.

Her practice encompasses a wide range of supports — including painting, video, sculpture, photography and installation — , through which she investigates certain power structures that underlie social and economic ties.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

[9] Negotiations may encompass the impact of proposed future acts on claimants» native title and on their social, cultural and economic structures, including management, use and control of native title lands and waters.