Sentences with phrase «how societies and culture»

In technology, the big question is how societies and culture shape, and in turn are shaped by, the technologies they create.

It appears to deny how societies and cultures evolve.

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 cultuHow 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 cultuhow 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 mCulture 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 mculture (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.

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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.

The goal is to develop a model that can predict how cultures and societies respond to geopolitical and ecological events.

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.

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?