Sentences with phrase «larger social problem»

Others have focused on the student's display of disrespect for authority by refusing to comply with a request to put her cell phone away in class, and see it as representative of a much larger social problem that should not be tolerated.

If we wake up from our dreams we'll see what the postmodern left already sees, which is that the explosive growth of economic freedom in recent decades has created two very large social problems.

Not exact matches

Starting a business that attempts to solve large - scale social problems is even harder.

However, in setting these hard limits, Schrage is inadvertently getting at two larger problems the social network is facing.

MissionPoint Partners is a leading impact investing advisor and asset manager focused on solving large - scale environmental and social problems through the deployment of high impact capital.

Leaving aside the damage inflicted on the countries subjected to «democratization» — a large number of direct and indirect victims, the replacement of traditional social structures by chaos — we can see the problems the globalist utopia creates in the West.

Nothing could be said, for within a liberationist understanding of God's will there is little room for considering how, short of overturning society at large, Christians should respond to particular social problems.

In the cogent words of the Williamsburg Charter, however, «Far from denigrating religion as a social or political «problem,» the separation of Church and State is both the saving of religion from the temptation of political power and an achievement inspired in large part by religion itself.

A large part of the problem of social and political ethics lies in distinguishing between its use and misuse.

Concerning the quality of food, the problem is to a large degree one of social organization and control.

The problem of causal agency, i.e., the question of whether it is the larger social whole or the individual constituent which is the primary efficacious factor in society, is also relevant metaphysically.

In the name of freedom of the individual, we sacrifice them to that caricature of Christianity that some people call «the Protestant ethic,» an ethic that finds no way of dealing directly and massively with large - scale social problems.

Larger structural social problems, it is felt, can wait for the Second Coming.

With the emergence of large - scale industry in the mid-19th century the social and political implications of capitalist organization became manifest, though even today Americans tend to treat social problems as problems of personal morality.

Child abuse, neglect, and excessively harsh treatment of children are associated with both internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and later violent behaviour, 3,4,12 but again, the impact of child maltreatment on severe antisocial behaviour appears to be greatest in the presence of genetic vulnerability.13 Family dependence on welfare, large families with closely spaced births, and single parenthood are all associated with compromised social and emotional development in children.5, 6

Riots, Communities and Victims Panel Report Commenting on the independent report which emerged today from the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While many teachers are only too aware of the social problems and all too often grinding poverty that some of their pupils face, it has to be remembered that the key task of teachers is to teach.

If we made progress on these root problems, we'd see much larger savings to the social security budget than can be achieved by salami - slicing entitlement levels and further impoverishing children and families.

«Climate change is arguably the largest collective - action problem the world has ever faced,» said lead author Nick Obradovich, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science in UC San Diego's Division of Social Sciences.

It may be true that a child's zombielike stare at the TV set is a sign of focus, as he writes, but the positive implication inherent in this statement pales in the face of a large amount of research that links young children's excessive television viewing with attention, learning and social problems during childhood and teen years.

Opioids are a symptom of much larger social and economic problems.

«SOCIETY at large benefits when we create workplaces and other social environments which let people make use of what they're good at, instead of focusing on fixing what other people have problems with.»

According to Brooks, the decline in public support for government solutions to social problems during the Great Recession (2008 - 2010) was among the largest two - year changes during the 26 - year - period (1984 - 2010) he and co-author Jeff Manza, a Professor of Sociology at New York University, considered in their study.

The researchers found that as the rate of gas production in the colon increased, smaller proportions were absorbed by the body and larger amounts expelled through the rectum.19 Thus, it is no wonder that soy consumption can so easily become a social problem.

Blomkamp's social commentary will be more divisive this time around, since it involves current problems of society at large and not a closed chapter in history we all agree was flawed.

A study carried out in a large primary school in a deprived area of the Midlands confirmed that nursery children with social, emotional mental health problems, who attend Psychomotor Prevention improved not only their physical development and emotional wellbeing but also speech & language measurably more than pupils not attending.

The Purpose Prize honors Americans 60 and older and is the nation's only large - scale investment award for senior social entrepreneurs and creative problem solvers.

Bill Drayton is the originator of the term «social entrepreneur,» someone who seeks to drive large - scale ideas to tackle entrenched social problems — in a word, changemakers.

Making those academic gains would yield large increases in GDP, Peterson and Hanushek explain, which could allow the U.S. to address major social problems.

The unions argued that the lawsuit unfairly blames teachers for problems in the public schools that stem from much larger social and political forces, including poverty, inequality and racial segregation.

We recognize that each small problem is part of larger social issues and inequities that affect it, but that every large - scale change begins with deliberate, focused steps.

Educators are also calling attention to other problems with questions on New York's Pearson - created Common Core tests — some of which are being posted on social media despite efforts by the company, the world's largest education firm, to monitor students» posts on social media regarding the exams.

Collective Insights on Collective Impact This special supplement features the most recent thinking and learning about how to use the collective impact approach to address large - scale social and environmental problems.

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

The schools are a reflection of the social problems of the larger society.

A large - scale national study of Head Start classrooms found that the PATHS program improved outcomes in student emotional knowledge and social problem - solving skills among preschool students!

A large scale study of the assessment of the social environment of middle and secondary schools: the validity and utility of teachers» ratings of school climate, cultural pluralism, and safety problems for understanding school effects and school improvement.

Research by the College of Law found that failure to graduate is a precursor to larger personal and social problems, including a higher rate of criminal activity.

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

The «great society,» with its permeating influence of technology, large - scale industry, and progressive urbanization, presses its problems; the history of political and social liberty admonishes us of its lessons

It's part of a larger problem and a larger trend where a few large tech company platforms (Google with search, Facebook with social media, Amazon with e-commerce) have amassed so much power that it's become a matter of self - preservation for them to continue doing what they're doing.

You may be tempted to turn to someone else to help you resolve your problem, but many of these credit repair companies simply charge you a large fee for questionable advice (promises of «magically» fixing your credit, changing your social security number to have you start afresh, or «piggybacking» on someone else's credit are typical).

From mental health issues to family breakdown and homelessness, we're all affected by the large social costs that problem debt creates.

Perhaps it's due to dogs» larger brain size, which, according to a study by Oxford University, is necessary in more social creatures and allows them to be better at solving problems and engaging with people.

If Macdonald gave the audience a sense of where domestic cats fit into their larger biological context, Hadidian provided some social, cultural, and political context — framing the issue of free - roaming cat management as a classic «wicked problem.»

• Litter box is located in a remote, noisy or unpleasant surrounding • Litter box is inappropriate — covered boxes can maintain odors and large cats may not be able to move around enough in small boxes • Wrong type of litter or sudden change in litter type • Social changes, such as the addition of a new cat or the sudden presence of outdoor cats If you change your cat's litter box infrequently, travel a lot, or have multiple cats at home, you're more likely to experience a «house - soiling» problem.

The fact that serious social problems like inequality are discussed in the larger conversation about video games is completely acceptable and even a large victory for our medium.

Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.

That also applies the large number of social scientists, computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem.

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»