Its field of activity may be literary, scientific, religious, political, economic, cultural, athletic, and so on, across the whole spectrum of
human social activities.
However,
human social activity — that is, historical activity — is inescapably purposeful.
Not exact matches
Your
social media
activity needs to do the same - in a word, it needs to be more
human.
So, to make maximum impact, make sure you avoid the broadcasting trap and focus your
social activity on making a
human connection.
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational
activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the
human and
social environment as well.»
Like Weber, Berger adopts an interpretive approach to
social life, emphasizing the meaningful character of
human activity.
To be specific, a
human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of
activity, subordinate layers of
social order, within the organism.
Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received
social meanings,» has served only to further the
social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of
human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.
When we say that a
social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to
human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.
Other
social sciences, concentrating on certain limited kinds of
human activities, together afford a more detailed picture of man's culture and
social organization.
Human activity is always shaped by cultural patterns and
social structures.
Some are inclined to look upon it as the fountainhead or the matrix of all cultural and
social activity of a group of
human beings.
This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of
human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the
social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves
human activity.
Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of
human and cultural
activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a
social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?
The Biblical writers do not understand
social ethics in terms of one or the other of these
human values, but in terms of the nature and
activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.
The embodied nature of
human existence requires that both our awareness (intake) and our
activity (output) be anchored in
social interaction and public performance.
And even though for Whitehead
human social interrelationships are primarily instinctive (owing to the «sympathetic» nature of
human experience), nonetheless it requires the repetitive occurrence of inherited
social activity to establish a
social order stable enough to secure the continued
social interaction of individuals, and therein the endurance of society as a whole.
The factor in
human social experience which Whitehead identifies as responsible for generating this correlative kind of «continuity» is routine, namely, the repetitive
activity of daily
social intercourse.
Nevertheless,
human pride being what it is, some exponents of this prophetic
social gospel seemed to lay more stress on the
human builders than on the
activity of God in the process.
To return to a metaphor already employed, a civilized society is, in effect, an ensemble of separate but variously interrelated
human constituents and
social activities, a «
social assemblage» of many voices acting in consonance with one another.
Thirdly,
human self - consciousness (in
social activity) is seen as the theoretical form of that being whose living form is the community.
Confined within the geometrically restricted surface of the globe, which is steadily reduced as their own radius of
activity increases, the
human particles do not merely multiply in numbers at an increasing rate, but through contact with one another automatically develop around themselves an ever denser tangle of economic and
social relationships.
Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of
activity for their
human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the
social whole.
This demands a fresh and compelling apologetic which demonstrates to this scientifically sophisticated yet spiritually conflicted age a new intellectual, moral and
social synthesis which once again places God at the heart of
human thinking, planning and
activity.
You can be a fully formed
human being, with goals and a career and friends and
activities of all kinds — and still be open about your
social media and unafraid of being exposed.
Even more perfectly than the
human soul with its field of
activity can be said to overlap the field of
activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of
activity within the
human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of
activity with the universe as an all - encompassing
social totality.9
It is true, of course, that the
social sciences go as far as they can toward formulating «laws» governing
human activity.
The humanists and
social scientists can adopt the same commonsense philosophy while concerning themselves solely with the
activities of
human beings.
As both a temporal and spiritual being, (one can not) be involved in a purely «horizontal» or purely «vertical»
activity; the horizontal / vertical, the
social / spiritual dimensions meet in
human nature and in all
human aspirations and
activities....
The
human expression of sexuality is always indicative of the personal quality of those who engage in such
activity; and sexual acts which help to develop genuine personal life, but without destroying or damaging healthy
human social relationships, must be evaluated in terms of the tenderness, mutuality, and faithfulness they display, even if they may seem to violate some inherited code.
We may conclude, then, that goal - setting and purposive
activity is a fundamental factor in cultural evolution, and that final causes — in the form of externalized teleologies — play a significant role in the
activities and
social relationships of
human beings.
In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old
social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of
human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the
human person over all the economic and
social mechanisms which oppress him.
The focus generally has been on the individual as the basic unit of analysis, with
human activity explained in terms of motives, personality, and
social and cognitive traits and capacities.
«Winning the world for Christ» was no longer synonymous with occupying all geographical areas with missions and churches; that there are vast unevangelized regions was beyond all dispute, but the missionary responsibility was equally seen to mean the bringing of all areas of
human activity and
social life under the sway of Christ.
Though there are «
social» or
human sciences that attempt to go as far as they can in achieving a scientific understanding of
human activity, there is always a residue of the
human that eludes scientific prediction, namely, our freedom.
Hence it deals with the theory of preaching, of Christian education, of
social action and of worship as well as with the theory of divine and
human nature, of God's
activity and man's behavior.
Yet, because
humans are
social creatures, we shall continue to value opportunities for fellowship and interpersonal
activities, whether in sport, culture or spirituality.
Social interaction is a typical
human activity that helps us to meet our emotional needs.
Considerate fathers encourage their sons»
social activity by paving their way to the
human society.
She argued that the problem of the modern is brought about mainly by the intrusion into the public and private spheres of the
social sphere, which subsumes in itself all
human activities.
This paper summarizes four Canadian National Roundtables on Corporate
Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries held in response to a recommendation that the government «Establish clear legal norms in Canada to ensure that Canadian companies and residents are held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and / or
human rights violations associated with the
activities of Canadian mining companies.»
Physical
activity is well known to benefit elderly
humans, but working out in a
social setting with younger people seems to be especially valuable.
UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain
activity that is key to complex
human social interactions:
activity that may be atypical in people with autism.
The need to foresee the probable consequences of
human activities has generated new techniques for monitoring environmental change and for assessing the impact of present and proposed actions upon the natural and
social environment.
This could help unravel the brain
activity underlying the process of «joint attention», thought to be key to complex,
human social interactions.
That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that
human activities can disrupt the
social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.
The researchers found evidence that the impact of consumers» exposure to a company's
social media
activities is strengthened by the level of «
human voice» in the online communication of companies, and that this results in a positive effect on a company's reputation.
This study is the first to demonstrate causal evidence for a positive effect on corporate reputation of consumers» exposure to a company's
social media
activities, and the crucial role of a company's «online
human voice» in these
activities.
To be able to improve perception of corporate reputation by employing
social media
activities in a «
human voice» has high managerial importance.»
The second wave took 1,969 of these respondents and asked them about their perception of the corporate reputation of KLM, the perceived level of «
human voice» of KLM on their
social media channels, and the level of exposure of respondents to the
social media
activities of KLM.