Sentences with phrase «functions as a society»

In each period the dominant institution — church, government or the economy — develops an ideology that functions as that society's «shared religion.»

The system functions as a society with personal order.

In other words, a society of paranoids and cynics would not function as a society.

Refute the risk assessment that: given temps are rising, given they will continue to rise for 1k + years even if we had zero emissions starting today, given the risks of rapid climate change and long - term temp rises are real and threaten our ability to function as a society, etc., we should act to mitigate these threats, particularly since the actions to be taken will lead to a healthier existence for humanity even if AGW / ACC turns out to be wrong.

Conversations about repatriation of powers when caught up in issues of «national identity» (for the nationals of the UK) tend to ignore how we function as a society.

It was a fundamental attack on the humanity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and our capacity to function as a society, community and family.

Not exact matches

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense as a benchmark for debate over how society should function?

Then, in the period of the 1920s to»40s, we saw the emergence of management as a fundamental function and discipline in society.

Representative trust, on the other hand, is an uneven exchange that produces the results that allow society to function — such as between professionals and clients or employers and employees.

Even if your job isn't as exciting as a NASCAR star, it most likely serves a vital function in our society.

Government cuts would affect the various services we take for granted, ceasing us to function as a successful society.

As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my homAs I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my homas «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my homas equal members of a society, on the television screen of my home.

Characterizing the problem of the ghetto poor as a function of white racism is one variant of the «society is guilty» argument.

If indeed «Sharia» is meant to function as it takes into consideration what would be best for society on a whole through a lens of compassion and mercy», it should also ensure that animals will be dispatched «kindly» — as humanely as possible.

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

Asian American Christians are usually bi-cultural — we have to be in order to function in both our families, as well as in broader American society.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

The Institute's proximity to the ruins of the Anasazi civilization provides an appropriate setting for the program's serious and admiring reflection on the successes of past societies to function as complex adaptive systems within their environments.

Yet the basic structure of the divine interpersonal process, as we have seen above, is that of a democratically organized structured society; even more generically, it could be described as a self - sustaining unity in totality of functioning parts or members.

So, Bill Nye believes, if you don» believe in evolution, you can not function as a useful member of society?

They function as the unheralded eyes and ears of the episcopate in the multicultural and marginal societies.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

The essential point is to decide on the fundamentals: a restructuring of society as a League of Leagues, and a reduction of the State to its proper function, which is to maintain unity; or a devouring of an amorphous society by the omnipotent State....

The function of the state as the most general institution of human society is to order properly our mutual fulfillment of the needs of self and others.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern society.

In the generic sense, for Whitehead, the customs of any given civilized society function as the requisite «patterns of relationship,» which not only define but also substantiate the particular order of that society.

This renewal requires a commitment to fundamental values within a framework of belief - in this case Christian faith - that is in dialogue with other frameworks.49 From a similar perspective, Robin Gill sees the primary function of the church in society as that of generating «key values which alter the fundamental moral, social, and political vision.»

The first, superficial impression is that the Protestant theological schools in the United States and Canada do not consciously count themselves members of one community but function as though they were responsible to many different societies.

A major function of parish story, therefore, is the formulation of a larger setting for the self, one that situates the individual as part of a society and a world.

But in such a case it can have no true existence as a church; it can function only as the religious institution of a revolting society, serving the interests of the society in the same way that a capitalist church serves a capitalist society.

Before I had any content for the title, I thought of myself as a practical theologian whose function it was to integrate theology and the various dimensions of ministry as they relate to church and society.

These differences between the «mainstreams» cultivated by religious and general television are significant because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, and perhaps even the major, cultivator of our society's values, attitudes and behavior.

Martin also recognizes, though, that even in modern societies religion can be made to function as a vehicle for social integration and identity.

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

These characteristics of the mainstream of general television are significant, because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, if not the most powerful, cultivator of our society «s over-all values, attitudes, and behavior.

The myths that underpin an ideology generally function as guides: they express what a society is trying to make of itself.

In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.

The very great advantage to this «system» was that society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order, as a function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.

As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestAs the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestas a world society, undivided by race, class and national interests.

Advanced capitalism functions in a society in which a sizeable majority of people are relatively content with their roles as producers, consumers, and citizens.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

As the apostolic Church it is the function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all things to all men, that the center and heart of all things, the first and last Being, is utter good.

The Church discharges its responsibility to God for society in carrying out its pastoral as well as its apostolic functions.

of varying degrees of organization and unity and why it is that physical laws have a statistical character as a function of such societies.

However, the economy would be market socialism, that is, a civilization in which the society as a whole insisted that its comprehensive well being be the goal of all of its functions.