Sentences with phrase «kind of society»

This is again about attitudes and the question of what kind of society we want.

It will conclude by exploring the possible emergence of a new kind of society — a global society, whose cohesion and harmonious life rest upon the rise of a global culture.

I was completely convinced that we would have a very different kind of society as a result of the protests that I was part of, and I think that's partially true.

As we consider how to deal with the world of television, a basic question becomes, What kind of society do we really want?

It is great to be there for holiday, but making business in a foreign country gives you the chance to get deeper in the foreign kind of society.

Nowadays, there are some people who will tell you that because capitalism is here to stay there aren't really any choices any more about what kind of society we need.

How do we live together, what kind of societies do we create, and what happens in the margins and in the transitional process from one society to another?

We have been abandoning our strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods, and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.

Most of these came during the Blair years as part of a policy, according to a speech - writer for New Labour ministers, to transform Britain into a new kind of society where British attributes would have no greater status than any other culture.

«Alex Katz practices a very particular kind of society portraiture.

As long as there are people with the values who yearn for a different kind of society then you're going to have a party that tries to put those values into practice.»

Italy is on no one's time but its own, which can be decidedly frustrating for anyone used to an instant gratification, customer - is - always - right kind of society.

The first kind of society can seem especially dystopian, and the secular anxiety that we live in one of them powers books like Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.

Now it is again necessary to create and organize a radically new kind of society engaged in a perennially necessary task.

Responding to Reddit CEO's Yishan Wong's declaration that the site was «a new kind of government» devoted to free speech (but then admitting that it deleted a sub-reddit devoted to sharing nude pictures of celebrities by citing existing DMCA notices), Sarah Jeong writes, «What kind of society accepts that copyright is a more compelling dictates that sexual victimization and invasion of privacy?»

The church has been abandoning its strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

My own guess is that postmodernists wouldn't like to live in any other kind of society.

However, I think it's valid to ask «What kind of society do we want?»

As Birch suggests (above, p. 15), this view of «emergence» does not in Whitehead's view allow us to suggest that new explanatory categories (such as «subjectivity» or mentality») emerge partway along the evolutionary way; but Dobzhansky's belief that evolution is «emergence of new patterns» (above p. 21) certainly can be accepted as a statement about new kinds of societies of societies, and new grades of actual entities within these societies.

Just as what our society experienced with La Leche League International's breastfeeding revolution, begun more than 50 years ago, we at Attachment Parenting International (API) hope to be looking at a different kind of society in coming generations — one where disconnection is discouraged and healthy, securely attached relationships are valued above competition and shame.

In overhauling the tax code, Congress today faces the same question it faced a century ago when creating the modern tax system: What kind of society should America be?

«Taking sustainability initiatives to their logical conclusion, we are looking to create a world in which there's no need to go to war over oil, hunger becomes less of an issue because food can be redistributed better and grown locally at the source, and every little facet of life - transportation, agriculture, housing - all add up in gradual increments to a very different kind of society.

You must not have been born into any kind of society, or you were indoctrinated into a society which claims to know that nothing created the universe.

The ADD - Ritalin issue reveals something about the kind of society we are at the turn of the millennium — for no country besides America is experiencing such a rise in Ritalin use.

What kind of society will emerge if we begin eyeing each other's children as we do each other's cars, clothing and houses, mentally calculating «what that one must cost»?

«We have become,» said William Bennett, «the kind of society that civilized countries used to send missionaries to.»

But does that mean that theoretical work about the kind of society that would minimize injustice (and other evils) is irrelevant?

Much of the literature that was being discussed came from Sufism or Islamic Mysticism but, again, the focus was on how the writings of leading Sufis revealed the kind of society in which they lived and the relationships between Muslims and Hindus.

What kind of society have we become where you would actually defend a man who bailed on his wife and young children?

They are reluctant to go beyond this to propose, as Christian theologians, what kind of society is to be sought.

They decide where people should live, what they should eat, drink or wear and what kind of society their children should inherit.

A period of seeking, when one tries out various options, would seem normal in our kind of society, but I would not recommend my protracted process.

This last claim smacks of the dictum of Marx and Lenin that it is not necessary for the revolutionary to know what kind of society will follow the revolution.

Those four days gave us a preview of the kind of society Orwell envisioned.

I'm not arguing here that this kind of society is right and just, far less that it is the biblical pattern — although I could point to Joseph's anti-famine measures in Egypt as a parallel.

For example, use of the mass media to incite rebellion against the established government or the publication of military or diplomatic secrets are obviously inadmissible in any kind of society, on the grounds of corporate self - preservation.

In this kind of society essential qualities of human nature are sacrificed to productive efficiency (and to the consequent consumptive abundance).

In this kind of society, small, lively groups in a church offer sorely needed opportunities for persons to drink deeply from the fresh springs of relationship, discovering the reality of the New Testament experience of being «members one of another.»