Sentences with phrase «in social attitudes»

It is important to differentiate between changes in empirically validated legislative facts and ephemeral changes in social attitudes or popular opinion; the law should not sail on the winds of change.

When we see a similar shift in social attitudes to the fossil fuel industry, then we're going to see some real action on climate change.

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

It may simply be a sign of the times, but it is an important shift in social attitudes and is very effective here.

Contrasting patterns of responses to socially unfamiliar elephants in our initial tests of social knowledge could conceivably be driven by differences in social attitudes, if lack of opportunities to bond with kin in the original Pilanesberg population resulted in greater acceptance of unknown individuals [11, 29].

The sufferings of the Second World War and the spread of communism served to accentuate the note of sober realism in the social attitudes of the ecumenical movement.

We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

From the basic «master story» of a culture or community to the tiniest metaphor, our language results in social attitudes, behavior, roles, and structures.

Then and now, although much less now, sociologists and political scientists tended to ignore or downplay «the religious factor» in social attitudes and behavior, including politics.

The trust in government as expressed in the Social Attitude Survey has risen by 20 points - from 50 per cent to 70 per cent.

The name Fropper (short for «friend hopper») seems to underline a change in social attitude.

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With more and more people using social media during the workday, and people bringing home work at night, it's hard to keep boundaries between the emotions you experience in your personal life and the professional attitude you're supposed to have towards your work.

The European attitude is in line with the broader social trend of consumers focusing more on services rather than assets.

The social media giant also commissioned Ipsos to look at holiday shopping habits and attitudes among more than 21,000 people over the age of 18 in 17 countries.

Age, level of social support and amount of effort play a role in determining the effectiveness of attitude adjusting activities as well.

They hired a market research firm, polled 4,000 people in Frank + Oak's target demographic about their social values and attitudes, and used the data to build a profile of the prototypical customer.

«How wonderful would it be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social work, and became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples and countries.

Even if you're not running for the top job in the country, social media can still help you shape minds and change attitudes towards your business.

When it comes to success, it's easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust, but social psychologist Amy Cuddy knows first - hand how attitude can outweigh IQ.

CHANGING social attitudes in Japan are presenting goodopportunities for WA businesses operating in the aged care industry.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

His findings, including that 33 percent of female tech entrepreneurs reported facing «dismissive attitudes» from their colleagues and 15 percent said their abilities had been questioned, came in a presentation in which he decried the «arrogant young brats» — male, of course — getting venture capital funding for «silly social media apps» from investors who hope they will emerge as the «next Mark Zuckerberg.»

The early and high levels of «buy - in'to crypto in Korea is perhaps attributable to the advanced social and technological development of mobile payments as well as the government's attitude towards cryptocurrency, which has been relatively supportive of it.

Changing social attitudes have led to what China's leading sexologist, Li Yinhe, called a «sexual revolution» in her 2015 lecture to the Brookings Institution about changing sexual lifestyles in China.

Social Mental Models: this represents the collective insight into attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, ideas, and emotive thoughts that are learned, experienced, and acquired in a social and business coSocial Mental Models: this represents the collective insight into attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, ideas, and emotive thoughts that are learned, experienced, and acquired in a social and business cosocial and business context.

In just two or three generations, there has been a radical reversal of racial attitudes, something we see with especial clarity in one of the most intimate modes of social commerce — marriagIn just two or three generations, there has been a radical reversal of racial attitudes, something we see with especial clarity in one of the most intimate modes of social commerce — marriagin one of the most intimate modes of social commerce — marriage.

I've tried to operate with the same attitude: even if Satan was in control of the finances, social acceptance, culture, buildings, religion, the world — everything — we'd be okay.

All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward suffering in the contemporary world.

Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.

The next social study should determine if this attitude is found primarily in people who have had sexual intercourse outside of marriage and / or who are practicing contraception» two practices that deny the purpose of sexual intercourse, favoring selfishness over the perfect love that makes sacrifices in marriage a joy.

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

In fact, nothing else is so relevant to the preservation and growth of right social attitudes, and from these attitudes the establishment of the «good society.»

Nobody is immune to the dangers lurking in bad personal attitudes or social pressures.

[The] social structures and attitudes in our society draw legitimacy from the central assumptions of Western religion and philosophy.

The information comes from an analysis of data from the annual British Social Attitudes survey and the biennial European Social Survey carried out by Professor Stephen Bullivant in his report, The «No Religion» Population of Britain.

Even large and solid social institutions like AMP, for example, identified this changing attitude towards institutions (in research by Hugh Mackay).

The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.

A major concern in primary prevention is for the social and cultural attitudes which determine behavior.

The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather than social justice.

In May, the results of the British Social Attitudes survey showed that the number of people with no religion now outweighs the number of people who identify as Christians (See news, p11).

Perhaps the harder times ushered in by the recession can dent prevailing social attitudes toward poverty.

To understand how the Bible is true, therefore, we must understand its genres, recognize its attitudes toward the reporting of historical details, and consider the social context in which it was written.

Beliefs and ways of life, save in respect to certain minimal attitudes and practices without which social life could not successfully be carried on, are matters of private rather than public business.

On the other hand, there is always the risk, in the just - because - of nature of Buddhist realization which accepts everything indiscriminately, even social and historical evil, that one's attitude toward the world will be, because of a false sameness, indifferent.43

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

The latter examines the foundation of society — that is, the total and specific environment of the social being in both its positive and negative effect — and psychologically and sociologically meaningful attitudes, as manifested in communality.

Mary Fulbrook's comparative study of Puritanism and Pietism in England, Wurttemberg, and Prussia also contributes to the current reassessment of Weber's ideas.2 Asking why religious ideas favored absolutism in Prussia in contrast to a politically passive orientation in Wurttemberg and an anti-absolutist attitude in England, Fulbrook is led to examine the interaction between religious ideas and the social contexts in which they take shape.

This was a relatively new trend of thought originating in the first attempt to apply the attitudes and orientations of natural science to the social and political sphere when, in the 17th century, natural science began to take on the prestige that it has characteristically maintained ever since.

Such views, Simon argued, are the reverse of the truth and tend to give moderns an instinctively hostile attitude toward the very notion of authority and a superficiality in their grasp of the profoundly central place authority occupies in a healthy social life.