This may be because fertility rate usually serves as proxy for the degree of social integration and a decline in fertility can be interpreted as an increase
in social disintegration and exclusion;
Not exact matches
With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt
in all sectors; hostile demographics;
social and political fracturing and
disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times
in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work
in times of dislocation.
The greater freedom we enjoy
in Western society has created an environment where the misuses of freedom have produced
social disintegration.
The personal histories of the fathers and sons are miniatures of the larger black - white confrontation
in South Africa, the pattern of
social disintegration and the hope for its moral restoration.
But parabolic hiddenness is what predominates, I believe,
in the stories of the fathers and sons, and because Paton has shown the reader through dramatic personal growth the pattern of
disintegration and restoration, he has created an extended metaphor of the experience of coming to belief
in the workings of the gracious transcendent
in both personal and
social realities.
During its plenary sessions the recent conference «Families 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that
in response to family
disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the
social landscape.
If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible
in spite of the
social misery and disorder or family
disintegration in which his life may be lived?
When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the
social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge
in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith
in immortality.
Such a tendency has always existed within the church, but
in the challenge for individuals to develop self - discipline, to exercise personal sacrifice, and to perform
social or community service, the church has always offered a supportive, affirmative group within which these characteristics can be sought without total loss of personal worth or personal
disintegration.
They can not readily adapt themselves to a
social pattern that is
in such a condition of
disintegration.
Speaking at his government's inauguration, Oresharski restrained from making any concrete promises and offered a rather bleak perspective for his country's citizens: «Bulgaria is
in a deep institutional crisis, continuing economic depression and worsening
social disintegration.
This is the way to combat the violence that increasingly contributes to the
social disintegration of the world
in which we live.
Gardner wrote: «The neighborhood
in which delinquency and
social disintegration are universal conditions can not create an atmosphere
in which educational values hold a commanding place.
«Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s is an exhibition devoted to the development of the arts
in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis, political
disintegration, and
social chaos.
On March 8, 2018, Neue Galerie New York will present «Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s,» an exhibition devoted to the development of the arts
in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis, political
disintegration, and
social chaos.
Bachelor of Arts (Maîtrise)-- University Studies Diploma, English Department, 2004 — 2005 Thesis:
Social Disintegration in Achebé's Things Fall Apart.