Sentences with phrase «everyday social life»

Over the last 70 years since Konrad Zuse invented the first computer, digital development overtook society so quickly that barely any time remained to consider its dominant impact on everyday social life.

How — right now, today — can we care for U.S. everyday social life?

It is important to recognise the link between the use of technology in everyday social life, across virtually all socio - economic backgrounds, and the use of technology in the classroom.

The devices are part of Facebook's plan to become more intimately involved with users» everyday social lives, using artificial intelligence — following a path forged by Amazon.com Inc. and its Echo in - home smart speakers.

Not exact matches

By prompting people to set reasonable goals, exercise, and count calories — and by offering encouragement from their social networks — mobile apps may prove to be the missing link between what doctors know we need to do and what we actually do in everyday life.

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.

Social media is a staple of everyday life, and most financial institutions are spending time, money and effort to build their profile on social Social media is a staple of everyday life, and most financial institutions are spending time, money and effort to build their profile on social social media.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

His point is not that we should, or even do, live in everyday reality all the time; rather, it is that everyday reality is a familiar world and yet an arbitrary world, because it is a world constructed of symbols, social experiences, and casual presuppositions.

There is in Berger's discussion of religion and everyday life a courageous optimism, despite the existential despair in which humanity is assumed to live, a courageous optimism that the social sciences will reshape and reinvigorate our understanding of ourselves.

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

Social patterns from everyday life tend to be taken for granted in worship; i.e., what is normal in daily life becomes normal in worship.

This directs attention to the concrete subjects doing science or scholarship, as well as the life - worlds of everyday living and the social institutions within which those subjects do science and scholarship.

The Spirit which animated God's Son is released in «Resurrection» and resumes a ministry of personal and social transformation «in Jesus» name» through believers» performance of the faith in conjoining arenas of «worship» and «everyday life».

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from thesocial sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theSocial Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from thesocial anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.

Since social media has become an integral part of everyday life for many young adults, it is important to address its adverse effects on stress levels and well - being.

Smart phones and tablets are amazing and in many ways have a very positive impact on our everyday lives, but the instant access to information and apps and social media platforms can make it hard to turn off.

I'm in the living - alone category myself, and so I was really delighted to discover the Village movement, a membership - based organization that helps seniors get help with many of the practical needs of everyday life (rides, errands, household tasks) and have access to social events, too.

Be on the lookout for signs your teen's cellphone is interfering with his behavior, grades, social life, or overall everyday functioning.

Your child's social life is another issue: Daycare and preschool automatically put kids in everyday contact with peers, but home care doesn't.

This stress can have a ripple effect throughout the caregiver's daily life, putting stress on professional activities, family relationships, and everyday social interactions.

I explore people's decision to utilise the South Africa Police Service and the degree to which their decisions were influenced by the everyday politics of living in an informal settlement, and their membership of the shack dweller's social movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, a group which fights for the housing rights and the dignity of shack dwellers.

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

Abundant, affordable Information Technology — smart phones, iPads, apps, the internet, wifi, social networking, interactive mapping — is transforming the everyday life and work of New Yorkers.

The conference is part of a five - year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) entitled «Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Transformation of Conflict in Belfast, Jerusalem and Other Divided Cities» (CinC).

As social media becomes increasingly present in our everyday lives, a major democratic cultural shift is underway.

It celebrates some of the very best British social science research, as well as highlighting the ways in which social science makes a difference to everyday lives.

The left should be intrested in how immigrants integrate into social and political life, where they settle, and in their knowledge of English and of the way society functions at the level of everyday life.

Technology — smart phones, iPads, apps, the Internet, Wi - Fi, social networking, online commerce and interactive mapping — is transforming the everyday life and work of New Yorkers.

«Those data, taken as a whole, may provide very precise information on the private lives of the persons whose data are retained, such as the habits of everyday life, permanent or temporary places of residence, daily or other movements, activities carried out, social relationships and the social environments frequented.»

Cameron responded with a speech that was earnest, even passionate; that offered a vision of a Tory Britain which encourages «social responsibility, not state responsibility»; that earned him applause for denouncing ID cards, over-regulation and a Labour government that has promoted «the nationalisation of everyday life».

Paul Mason suggests that Labour has reached a critical mass required to be come a social movement active in every aspect of everyday life.

It brings together industry leaders, scientists, government officials and policymakers to address the broader social implications raised by integrating robots into our everyday lives.

«What I like most is the idea of combining information about everyday - life social networks with standardized brain imaging to assess implicit measures of social perception [that are relevant to the real world].»

This helps us in everyday life, but it also holds great potential when trying to understand why people with autism and schizophrenia have difficulties with social interaction.

Studies in social psychology indicate that human intellectual functions originate from the social context of everyday life, Barbey said.

Song's study looked specifically at Facebook, which, with more than one billion users and growing, is a major force in people's everyday life and social interactions.

«Scientific methods especially [in] social science... are very highly advanced, but at the same time so poorly applied in our everyday life that you can take these advanced scientific concepts and start applying them to your local life.»

Caregivers» experienced better health outcomes when they were older, caring for a spouse, had higher income, better social support, sense of control, and caregiving had less of a negative impact on their everyday lives.

Quality of life — being able to enjoy sports, social activities and everyday life — is an important part recovery.

Many people who experience chronic feelings of anxiety about social situations, work and relationships, or other aspects of everyday life often reach for a beer or a glass of wine to quell their unease.

MONDAY, August 1, 2011 (Health.com)-- Many people who experience chronic feelings of anxiety about social situations, work and relationships, or other aspects of everyday life often reach for a beer or a glass of wine to quell their unease.

«After you have addressed any unresolved issues, you need to look at changing predictable routines, especially when it comes to your social life and your sex life,» says Dr Jo Lamble, psychologist and author of Answers to everyday questions about relationships.

Social Anxiety is a horror and I live all of this in an everyday life.