The goal is to develop a model that can predict
how cultures and societies respond to geopolitical and ecological events.
Not exact matches
Beth Pickens, Managing Director of Global Consumer
and Retail at William Blair, explains
how society has shifted from a «need
culture» to a «want
culture» when it comes to retail.
My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a piece today on The Public Discourse in which he outlines
how Princeton's Anscombe
Society has had success in responding to the hook - up
culture on college campuses: by arguing for chastity, marriage,
and the family on rational grounds.
Our behavior in
society and how humans judge «right»
and «wrong» is based in the
culture in which we are raised.
«Dear
Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra
and underwear, grabbing her crotch
and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy,
and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent
and propagating rape
culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards
and your belief in stereotypes about
how men vs. women «should»
and are «allowed» to behave.
They'd actually learn about the reasons people develop belief systems
and how those beliefs systems affect the
culture and society.
So
how, in a
society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental
and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic
culture?
We are seeing several foundational truths from Genesis 2 about
how to understand life, theology, Scripture,
society, religion,
and culture.
Is there something in our communication in church,
society and culture, which we should have clocked by now — something about
how Jesus structured his communication to trigger his listeners» brains?
How are people seeking to dismantle the divides between Jew
and Gentile, slave
and free, male
and female supposed to live in a
society where these divisions were so central to the
culture and where doing so my arouse even more suspicion
and persecution?
Experts fight too, of course,
and professional
cultures are also corruptible, but it avoids the very difficult task of teaching an entire
society how to examine the issues, think them through,
and arrive at a reasoned decision.
To welcome mature conversations, to reflect on
how our
society has advantaged some while disadvantaging others based on skin color
and culture and address the spiritual implications for life, is to agree with God that we are our brother's keeper.
How many children people should have, and how parents (and society) can ensure that only genetically fit children are born, have been enduring questions in American cultu
How many children people should have,
and how parents (and society) can ensure that only genetically fit children are born, have been enduring questions in American cultu
how parents (
and society) can ensure that only genetically fit children are born, have been enduring questions in American
culture.
Some
how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds
and reject bad deeds
and to build a faithful
societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed
cultures and beliefs... Laws or God
and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make
and take the decisions while the beliefs
and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed
culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
So Muslims in the U.S. should expect respect
and kindness, but there must be limits to
how much we alter
society which is bound together by traditions
and culture.
... So the question for us is
how to offer a coherent vision of
society,
culture and the human being to people who would like to understand where to put these dimensions - the spiritual
and religious
and the scientific.»
Its categories — such as «Christ against
culture»
and «Christ of
culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics
and in debates about
how Christians
and the church should engage matters of politics,
society and culture.
If the point of religion is to bring peace
and guide a
culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order
and the preservation of the good qualities of
society, then
how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?
The education — whether in formal schooling or not — of youth in every
society and culture addresses such questions of
how we should live
and what we should live for.
The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical
cultures had,
how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated
and frustrated in authoritarian
societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism,
and militarism.
Please tell me
how many women gets this honor of being wife in Christianity or any other religions
and how many children are being born out of good luck
and being a father less in the
society (fyi in some
culture they call these types of children as bustard)
and many more...
This is a great book, with groundbreaking information that will transform
how you read the Old Testament
and the New Testament,
and how you understand the role of religion in
society and culture.
How can they maintain institutions
and programs that were born out of an establishmentarian impulse when they no longer enjoy the dominant position in
culture and society?
Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it m
Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good
and beautiful), of customs (about
how to behave
and relate to others),
and of the institutions which express the
culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it m
culture (government, church, law courts, family, school
and so on)-- all of which bind the
society together
and give it meaning.
It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies,
and 2) understanding
how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our
cultures, our
societies,
and our selves.
Seminaries, especially, need to devote much more attention to the task of working out what it means to proclaim the skandalon of the gospel to a generation which has no background knowledge of the gospel,
how to create community in a
society where the old forms of community have become fragmented
and dysfunctional,
and how to communicate within a
culture where the mass media have devalued genuine communication in the name of communication.
How the early church pioneered inclusivity
Culture wars
and our pluralistic, multifaith
society can be... More
How are we to make of Jesus, God, the Sprite, the church
and its task
and mission in a
society shaped by religious
cultures other than that of Christianity?
In every cultural context, no matter
how benevolent or hostile the governments
and societies around it, the church is called to demonstrate an alternative
culture and an alternative politics, an alternative ethics, in dialogue with the surrounding
cultures.
A Careful Approach
Culture is a difficult term to pin down
and OTWTL offers an engaging
and thought - provoking attempt to analyse
how best the Catholic community can respond to what it frequently calls «modernity», now conceived in post-modernist terms as a
society that has both privatised spirituality
and championed the «needs» of the individual for such things as freedom, autonomy
and self expression.
How does Hume's emphasis on form
and procedure (as opposed to Plato's emphasis on education
and character) affect political
culture and the development of political agents within such
societies?
I have seen with increasing sadness
how many are not content with merely adapting the language of the gospel to our
culture, but seek to change the very message itself
and trim it to fit in with
society's prevailing norms
and appetites.
This is
how the church transforms
and redeems
society and culture.
Process thinkers encourage sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, historians,
and scholars in other disciplines to take a more holistic approach, taking into account
and doing justice to
how human organisms interact not only with the human environment of their
cultures and societies but also the non-human environments of which they are a part that are throbbing with life, energy,
and creativity.
The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural
and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian
and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship
and why);
and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist
and the ethnographer [3]
and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp
how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship
and patterns of education
and mutual nurture,
and by the «logic «of its discourse);
and (c) those of the sociologist
and social historian (to grasp
how the congregation's location in its host
society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).
Dr. Meredith F. Small, author of «Our Babies, Ourselves:
How Biology
and Culture Shape the Way We Parent,» reports that in a survey of 186
societies, researchers found that «infants are carried most of the time in nonindustrial
societies, 56 percent of the time in less traditional
societies,
and 25 percent of the time in the United States.»
Gender is determined not just by biology but by a number of factors, including what
society considers masculine
and feminine behaviors
and how male
and female attributes are reflected in media
and culture.
What's shocking is
how much our political
culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany
and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms,
and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents),
and they pull few punches about what leads a
society away from freedom.
A new report by the Electoral Reform
Society argues that the future for parties can be secured by reaching out beyond traditional memberships, thinking differently about
how they relate to other parties
and shifting the
culture of politics.
«We spend most of our time in buildings
and they are central to our quality of life, yet few of us take the time to really look at our homes, offices
and public buildings
and consider the amazing diversity of architectural styles, as well as
how practical
and fundamental buildings are for
society and what they say about our
cultures.»
This
culture of disbelief has a huge impact on
how our
society deals with rape
and sexual assault.
She offers a fascinating history of
how catastrophic natural events — including the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Iceland's Laki volcanic eruption in 1783 (SN: 2/17/15, p. 29)
and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — have shaped politics,
culture and society.
The competition calls for graduate students studying science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics to submit proposals describing
how they would improve graduate education, whether by overhauling student
and faculty training policies, modifying funding structure, bridging connections to professional
societies, or changing the
culture of graduate school.
«Our session is about communicating across different sectors — university, government, nonprofits — each of which has its own sets of structures,
cultures and expectations for
how information is presented,» said Don Engel (2006 - 07 Legislative Branch Fellow sponsored by American Physical
Society).
Tim Trevan, founder of CHROME Biosafety
and Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, says that an open
culture is important to keeping BSL - 4 labs safe,
and he questions
how easy this will be in China, where
society emphasizes hierarchy.
In technology, the big question is
how societies and culture shape,
and in turn are shaped by, the technologies they create.
While we can't change
society as a whole, we can change ourselves
and how we contribute to
culture.
I learned about sexuality throughout history,
how different people
and cultures define sexuality
and have sex,
and society's impact on it all, among other things.
How does the algorithm take into account differences in
culture and societies?
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