Sentences with phrase «larger social scale»

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His development team has a proven ability to build and scale large social platforms.
Founded in 1980, Ashoka is home to the largest network of social entrepreneurs on a global scale.
Starting a business that attempts to solve large - scale social problems is even harder.
What are some of the challenges of working with social media, when it comes to large - scale corporate structures?
EBay's recent stock spike ensured its founder, Montreal - born Internet mogul Jeff Skoll, added to his personal wealth this year while continuing his large - scale social investments — proving that you can have your philanthropic cake and eat it too.
And companies that don't implement large - scale social media campaigns built into the fabric of their businesses, he says, will fail.
In 2012, having spent several years refining its methodology, Stillwell's team began to publish its research, including the ominous - in - retrospect «myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large - scale social research.»
Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.
The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.
Macro-level refers to a large - scale view such as social, political, overall coin news as well as market sentiment as a whole.
Canadian embassies and trade commissions have aggressively promoted the mining industry's agenda on foreign soil, while large - scale public media campaigns, both at home and abroad, promote corporate social responsibility practices.
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.
The 2010 Skoll World Forum focuses on Catalyzing Collaboration for Large - scale Change, recognizing that social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to critical issues can not achieve impact at scale without forging cross-sector partnerships and alliances.
Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults» social attitudes conducted from the late 1980s through the»90s.
There was large scale social change and governmental reform in the 1960s and as part of that the Church lost a lot of its power and influence.
Nevertheless, there are good reasons for thinking that conservatism (as here and now understood) arose out of a reaction, first to the French Revolution, and secondly to the habit engendered by that revolution, of seeking large - scale social transformation as a remedy for the unhappiness of man.
Admittedly I have drawn attention to large - scale suffering, but the question is just as difficult to answer when we come to the hatred, lust, malice, greed, pride and selfishness which mar the national, social and family life of our own country.
That's my reading of a large - scale survey of political and social views by the Pew Research Center, «Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology.»
Pfuetze's comment is not so much a criticism of Buber's social philosophy as a reminder of the difficulties which would attend the attempt to apply it in any large - scale industrial society, difficulties Buber himself would be the first to recognize.
No theory need cover the entire range of social realities, of course, but it is worth noting that sociologists seem to have gained more mileage from this framework for their considerations of individual beliefs than for analyses of large - scale institutions.
We should not put any less emphasis than in the days of liberal optimism on the importance of large - scale events, of institutions, of the behavior of social groups.
When it concerns large - scale production we need to seek other formulae, new forms of social links between the workers going beyond what has been a sort of joint management aimed above all at integrating them into the logic of capitalist accumulation.
We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.
The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.
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.
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.
But the title of the book, the degradations identified, and their linkages all rest upon the common large - scale historical judgment: Christians began to argue and in so doing withdrew from the authoritative and cohesive social structures of common life.
«Gandhi was probably the first person in history to live the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force in a large scale.
Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental impacts of large - scale industrial farming on the region.
Unfortunately, conventional production has resulted in significant negative environmental and social impact, including large - scale deforestation that's endangering the future of orangutans.
About Bottlenotes Bottlenotes is the leading interactive media company in the U.S. wine and craft beer industries, educating and entertaining wine and craft beer enthusiasts with our email newsletters (The Daily Sip received daily by 300K wine enthusiasts nationwide and followed socially by over 250K people, and the Weekly Pint email received bi-weekly by 40K craft beer enthusiasts nationwide and followed socially by over 30K people); large - scale interactive events (the Around the World in 80 Sips national event series and Taste Around Town «Restaurant Week for Wine» program in partnership with Opentable.com); and social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter (@bottlenotes @thedailysip @weeklypint), Pinterest and Instagram (@thedailysip @weeklypint).
Monique started her blog in 2011 while working in PR, marketing and social media for both small and large - scale food brands.
Mass Audubon does not have a position on the moral, social or cultural implications of gaming or gambling, but we do have concerns and suggestions regarding development of large - scale casino complexes.
Established to conduct the first large - scale experimental social research project in the United States, Mathematica's commitment to innovation drives us to develop new methods, explore emerging fields, and apply new technologies in ways our early employees could barely have imagined.
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However large scale studies which show significant correlations like this, and do not include other pieces of social support data to help interpret those correlations, can be misleading.
So a user's data is itself being used to change the behavior of user - it's social engineering at large scale, but this data should be off the limit of a private company's servers.
More recently, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis Tsianos and Niamh Stephenson (2008) have written about clandestine migration as imperceptible politics, namely as a social practice that does not have an explicit political goal, but that brings about large - scale shifts in the political field.
As well as this large - scale direct challenge, MySpace also faces niche competition, since many companies and organizations are setting up their own social networks tied to an area, institution or cause.
Labour will either remain a broadly social democratic party, committed to a mixed economy and parliamentary democracy or it will evolve into a left - wing socialist party, committed to large - scale nationalisation and direct action.
He would use his mayoral powers to «encourage» more social housing and rented housing but attacked the large - scale projects of Mr Livingstone.
Some social science research uses large - scale research projects.
The first large - scale exhibition at the Southbank Centre of work by Jeremy Deller, innovative and unconventional social artist, will certainly illustrate his instinctively introspective «joy in people».
For instance, they suggest that organizations must plan to make personnel available for handling social media throughout and subsequent to any large - scale disaster.
However, by using a large - scale dataset of 73 million tweets collected from June 1 to September 1, 2016, Makse and his associates are able to investigate the temporal social networks formed by the interactions among Twitter users.
We highlighted a powerful conservation tool that simultaneously brings social security for local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation at large spatial scales.
They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.
Today, results of large - scale surveys identifying individual and community risk factors for HIV and other infectious diseases can take years to show up, so having a real - time look at the conversations happening on Twitter could prove to be very advantageous, Albarracín, Ungar, and their colleagues discuss on their Health and Social Media Group page.
Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.
Published in the October Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site study aimed at identifying specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months of age.
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