Sentences with phrase «general social attitudes»

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Softening attitudes among police lags general public acceptance but seems to confirm an inexorable social trend.

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.

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

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

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.

«My instinct is that general social values would not be very different across the UK in terms of attitudes to welfare, publicly provided healthcare, those kinds of things,» says Stephen Tierney, professor of constitutional theory at the University of Edinburgh.

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.

The researchers, who released their findings in a recent issue of the Social Science Journal, asked 152 college age students to fill out a 70 - question survey on their attitudes toward texting in various situations and their general texting habits.

The researchers compared the findings to attitudes held by non-experts, composed of close to 400 adults taking the biennial national General Social Survey.

In order to examine the relationship between prejudice and mortality, the researchers constructed a measure capturing the average level of anti-gay prejudice in the communities where LGB individuals lived, beginning in 1988, using data on prejudicial attitudes from the General Social Survey, one of the primary sources of social indicator data in the social sciSocial Survey, one of the primary sources of social indicator data in the social scisocial indicator data in the social scisocial sciences.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

It is important to consider larger institutional attitudes toward Twitter and social media platforms in general; at Michael Thompson's institution (University of New Hampshire), there was a university - wide push to engage on Twitter; Gretchen Kiser's institution (UC San Francisco) was concerned about branding and more hesitant toward strong engagement on social media at first.

People in the nationally representative General Social Survey were asked about their sexual behavior and attitudes about same - sex experiences.

[178] The report also said that online daters tend to have more liberal social attitudes compared to the general population.

Online daters may wevsites more liberal social attitudes compared to the general population in the United States.

It is now percolating into general culture and I expect that within our generation most people will be using fluently the new language of how the mind «computes attitudes,» or «encodes» social knowledge, or how a «heuristic» might make «evolutionary» or «ecological» sense, and so on, eventually replacing Freudian psychology which dominated 20th century's take on how the mind works.

Research findings indicate that learned behaviors in competence, motivation, general attitude towards learning, attention, persistence, social skills, and motivation have a distinctive and unique relationship with academic achievement beyond cognitive ability and academic competence.

Hemez used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to examine adult attitudes about marital infidelity, including changes in attitudes since 1973, as well as by age, gender, education, marital status, and race in 2014.

Important dimensions of school readiness include physical, motor, linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional development, as well as attitudes toward learning and general knowledge.

Additionally, even though the attitudes of youth have become more conventional, results from the U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) indicate that after a lull in the mid-90s, U.S. adults» valuation of gender egalitarianism has continued to increase since the mid-2000s (Shu and Meagher 2018).

Characteristics and behaviours associated with emotional disturbance and / or behavioural problems may include: aggressive or anti-social behaviour; inattentiveness; distractibility and impulsiveness; impaired social interactions; a general inability to cope with the routine of daily tasks; obsessive and repetitive behaviours; attention - seeking behaviours such as negative interactions or a poor attitude towards work, peers or teachers; and depressed behaviours such as withdrawal, anxiety and mood swings.

But it will tell us even more about the attitude of the new Congress towards the federal government's role in social policy in general.

Education and social presence of women influence women's perceived identity, awareness of women's rights; and their attitudes toward gender roles in general and in family life, in particular (Tohidi, 1994).