Sentences with phrase «existing social patterns»

The danger in any society — and ours is no exception — is that the use of higher learning to serve existing social patterns will take precedence over the critical and innovative functions.

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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.

Given too that where records exist skepticism seems to stalk every religion (indeed every social consensus15a), and also that religious behavioral practices of one form or another have been around for a very long time, a plausible hypothesis is that this pattern always held and so skepticism is very old indeed.

AI might be particularly useful as a way of building that argument, such as by demonstrating a pattern of inefficient results from existing doctrine, or detecting strong social objection to an existing law.

These findings highlight the importance of examining the multiple downstream effects of social anxiety on perceived social functioning in adolescence, and suggest that continuity may exist for maladaptive patterns of socialization, particularly across developmentally salient close relationships.