Sentences with phrase «important social movement»

I've probably made it pretty clear by now that I am a huge fan of the Transition movement - it may well be the most important social movement of our time.

This report examines the emergence of an organized abolitionist movement in Britain by 1787 and assesses how important this social movement was in achieving the passage of abolitionist legislation in 1807.

I agree about the climate camp being an important social movement, including for some of us slightly paler greenish non-vegans.

Many psychologists and scholars criticize his point of view, insisting that empathy drives important social movements, among them advocacy for antislavery and gay rights.

Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects» lives to some of the most important social movements of the era.

My province is the Canadian, and perhaps the North American, epicenter of two important social movements — environmentalism and rights activism by aboriginal peoples.»

Not exact matches

Even more important, liberals lack the «moral values» which must undergird «any serious movement of social transformation.»

But the movements, which have been built up on an international level are looking at social questions and we believe that it is important to use this as a starting point.

Certainly they were the most vital and popularly important religious movements in the social matrix where Christian worship took shape.

For years, the prestige TV movement has helped the medium of serialized storytelling become pop culture's most important channel for engaging big ideas and sparking social dialogue the way novels...

The experiment with strategies of social change through nonviolent action is an important movement in the modern history of love.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

In this context the large number of net - works of Social Action groups in India have a very important function in the discourse provided they have what Gramcie has called an «organic» relation to such peoples» movements.

Mr Evans added: «There is an important role for faith in social movements, particularly because all the major religions agree on this common tenet - «love thy neighbour.

«Rather than battles at Labour party conference over detailed constitutional amendments, it's more important to get this year a real discussion about how this party becomes a social movement.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

«That means we can now unravel the important role that social interactions play in guiding migratory movements.»

The test, which consists of measuring rapid eye movements, may indicate deficits in an area of the brain that plays an important role in emotional and social development.

Saren is the vibrant creator of The Glow Effect (TGE), a personal and sustainable development movement that believes women's leadership is the most important tool for social change, and...

«I guess the important thing to say is we're just very conscious of the fact that we're part of a broader movement that needs to figure out how to fund social services — and we're trying to ask people to see April 1 in that broader context,» CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday.

We will focus on the important historical and social impact of the civil rights movement throughout the month of February.

We feel it is important to stand with social justice movements that advocate community - based solutions to support students and public schools.

The Democratic Party has been called «the graveyard of social movements» for a reason, because once you accept the idea that defeating the Republicans is the most important political strategy, it makes sense to prioritize that over everything else.

It insists on the important historical role of black liberation movements for other pursuits of social justice and requires that attention be paid to the diverse experiences of blackness and American citizenship within our country.

The selection also illustrates some of the art - historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop art, the Conceptual art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual movements, and not least all the artists with a social and political engagement.

For years I have set my work in dialogue with forms of resistance, I followed different social movements, blockades of summits, workers» controlled factories, and tried to excavate and present existing concepts and models that might be important to imagine alternatives to capitalism and representative democracy.

While Bruguera's most recent work often uses the strategies of social movements and education platforms to address topical matters, this exhibition looks back to Untitled (Havana, 2000) as a crucial work at the turn of the millennium that symbolizes an important shift in Bruguera's oeuvre, as she moved from working primarily with her own body to considering active audience engagement.

As protests and discussions about race relations and police brutality continue to play out on a national scale, photography has played an important role in the social justice movement.

Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924), along with Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) considered one of the co-founders of the Russian style of Constructivism (a school concerned with space, new materials, 3 - D form, as well as science and social reform) was another important member of the Suprematist movement.

It's more important than ever to learn from the successes and failures of past political movements so that we can generate future social change without leaving anyone out.»

The established historical cannon focuses more on world leaders, and less on the figures who toil in fields, fight in wars, and help drive important social and political movements.

While you could write the movement part off as gimmicky, it's important for a device that's designed to be easily understood and which is also, in the words of Skuler, meant to act as a «social companion.»

As the decent work movement gains momentum in Ontario and around the world, it is important that RECEs and early years» staff become part of this broader movement for social and economic justice, fair work and compensation.

Michaelman carefully reviews the very important and longstanding contributions of CASEL — the Council for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning — to this movement.

The movement received an important boost starting in the early 1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues — Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszormenyi - Nagy, Paul Watzlawick and others — at Palo Alto in the United States, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication (see Bateson Project).