The pledges» reward is not
just social acceptance but a presumed lifetime of «leadership, scholarship, compassion, and brotherhood» among well - connected graduates who ran the same gauntlet.
Not exact matches
«Likes» on a Facebook page provide at the very minimum a type of
social proof of brand
acceptance and is
just one more small nudge in the psyche of buyers that helps them pull the trigger at the ZMOT.
Just as the book powerfully exposes the myth that
acceptance of gay marriage would have no significant
social consequences, so too the authors could have made the further argument that, to varying degrees, all sexual unions outside marriage (as traditionally understood) are harmful to society.
It's still very much an uphill battle, but even the minuscule time period of the last 100 years has seen dramatic changes in society's
acceptance of more «modest» antisocial behaviors (racism, bigotry, bullying etc.) What is now coined «Political Correctness» is really
just the fine - tuning of previously - accepted
social norms.
It may well be said that the [
acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the
just - because - of [human sin and selfishness
acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all
social and historical levels.
I'm
just a regular guy, not a specialist in the field or anything but well in my 50s so I've seen a few things, generally straight men get married for sex (we imagine that once we get married we will get sex EVERY night), and closeted gay men get married for
social acceptance.
They have a shorter attention span and less
social acceptance — all problems that can affect academic achievement, health and well - being, not
just during their school years, but also stretching into adulthood.
By encouraging empathy, respect, and
acceptance and giving students tools for communicating their feelings and confronting conflict positively, an effective
social - emotional learning curriculum will likely improve school climate and culture beyond
just the mitigation of bullying.
Creating better, more appealing ways to get pets adopted doesn't
just help those pets or your shelter, either; it raises the profile of adoption in general and creates more
social acceptance and awareness of adoption.