Sentences with phrase «for social attitudes»

Damian Murray, Tulane University About My Research: The effects of environmental threats for social attitudes and behavior; contextual predictors of moral and political attitudes; predictors of formation and satisfaction in close (romantic) relationships.

The same difference in response holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at a church, and for social attitudes such as upholding the traditional role of women, being dissatisfied with today «s moral climate and holding traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

Not exact matches

While the very earliest stages might just call for an attitude adjustment, a bit later on physical interventions, such as more social interaction, might be more helpful.

Even if you're not running for the top job in the country, social media can still help you shape minds and change attitudes towards your business.

CHANGING social attitudes in Japan are presenting goodopportunities for WA businesses operating in the aged care industry.

He rocked the charts for social media and SEO analytics for our little country of Belize that day and his «Real - Time» action plan and king of content attitude kept our audience on the edge of their seats.

His findings, including that 33 percent of female tech entrepreneurs reported facing «dismissive attitudes» from their colleagues and 15 percent said their abilities had been questioned, came in a presentation in which he decried the «arrogant young brats» — male, of course — getting venture capital funding for «silly social media apps» from investors who hope they will emerge as the «next Mark Zuckerberg.»

All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward suffering in the contemporary world.

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

Yet the weekly reiteration of the entire service (including the sermon) is the church's most - used method of shaping people for attitudes and acts of ecclesial and social justice.

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

That is an inward matter, and you sometimes feel that with regard to many contemporary moral attitudes and social customs you are a «yes man,» not an independent character standing up for your own convictions.

For the first time, more than half of Anglicans now believe same - sex relationships are acceptable, according a new British Social Attitudes survey.

Even large and solid social institutions like AMP, for example, identified this changing attitude towards institutions (in research by Hugh Mackay).

This corresponds to the attitude of those who responded to the refugee by saying they felt no responsibility for social injustice because they were not directly oppressing others.

A major concern in primary prevention is for the social and cultural attitudes which determine behavior.

The political and social attitudes of its members and the message of its pulpit have not been particularly progressive, but the tolerance for diversity carries over to these areas as well.

The author shows the significance of this attitude for such fields as ethics, social philosopohy, psychotherapy, and education.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

Oppressed Black Americans and other members of marginalized social groups can not afford to enter into the discussion with a take - it - for - granted attitude that the Whiteheadian metaphysical foundations are applicable to their experience.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.

Utilitarianism seems to mark not only the attitude of the political powers that use religion for the sake of social control and transform it to suit their purposes, but also the attitude of many who oppose them.

It remains to be seen whether that tolerance for diversity will extend beyond strictly doctrinal issues to the points at which religious concerns clearly interact with social attitudes.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

This question has profound implications for other issues such as attitudes toward mission and even approaches to social - political matters.

According to Richard Cimino of the New School for Social Research, evangelical attitudes toward Islam have hardened since the attacks, positing that Islam is an essentially violent religion.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

Once you develop an attitude of defiance, you see that these concepts of staying in church, staying in a marriage, and staying in a job even if they're bad for you were created to keep you there and maintain social stability.

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.

This combination of social attitudes made blending into the general television milieu relatively friction - free for the paid - time broadcasters.

Lewis Mumford has served us well in drawing our attention to the way in which such architecture reflects vulgarity in social life, a lack of sensitivity in human awareness, a willful assertion of cheap attitudes, and contempt for those who must be exposed to such building and have their feelings offended and their taste degraded.

Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self - security but not self - criticism.

26 % of men in paid employment have at some point changed their hours or working arrangements to look after someone (mainly children), with 9 % giving up work altogether for this purpose (British Social Attitudes Survey, 2002).

Studies have shown that those children who appear the most successful have parents who believe they play an instrumental role in fostering their children's social relationships, deliberately create opportunities for peer interactions, encourage keen observational skills, and coach their young children in constructive attitudes and skills.

The General Social Survey, which has tracked Americans» attitudes and opinions since 1972, for instance, still asks whether children would be better off with mothers at home, and whether working mothers can form strong bonds with their children.

Anyway RM - in answer to your question, a meme is a belief or attitude or a form of social behaviour which exists for no obvious genetic purpose, brings no evolutionary advantage, but nevertheless spreads throughout society with alarming rapidity.

Parents also wonder if the practice will harm their child's social skills in the long run, ingraining a «what's in it for me» kind of attitude... [Read more...]

With society's propensity for blaming social issues on «kids these days,» and with struggling, frustrated parents seeking support by sharing stories of their teens» attitudes and ingratitudes, it's not surprising that adolescence gets a bad rap.

The letter calls for improved social attitudes towards breastfeeding to help reduce the barriers so that women are more able to sustain breastfeeding.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Although regression analyses indicated an IQ difference even after controlling for social class and the mother's education, the decision to breastfeed may reflect intellectual and other parental factors, such as parenting skills and positive health attitudes that may be responsible for the higher IQ scores.

Our inequality attitudes work suggests this broad «quality of life» case for fairness and greater equality has quite a lot of resonance across social groups, and often more than a «who's got what» argument about fairness.

US Hispanic voters showed signs of staying away from Obama due to his race - hence their support for Hilary Clinton in the Democrat contest - and liberal social attitudes.

It is clear that altering social pattern is particularly hard, especially in a single four - year term, yet it may be argued that if a party promises to cut taxation, it can redeem this promise depending on the realities of the period.But it is quite possible for politicians to encourage attitudes and expectations which are mutually incompatible.

Luke Taylor, TNS BMRB's head of social and political attitudes, said: «Time will tell if these poll ratings are a honeymoon effect for a new Prime Minister or a lead in the polls that can be sustained through to the next General Election.