Sentences with phrase «levels of coercion»

Misled parents and young manipulated students have no True North (to use the last post's metaphor) to be a tip off to the presence or level of coercion.

It is assumed that PMTO reduces the level of coercion, which sets the stage for a massive increase in positive social interaction.

Not exact matches

Hence, what Hare and Madden seem to expect from a loving God is a more direct and bold use of coercion on his part in controlling certain low - level aims and desires in the interest of the higher level.

More specifically, I want to discuss the following question: When, if ever, is it justifiable for a process theist to use, or condone the use of, coercion of this sort on the human level?

I have not argued that process theists can not consistently allow for the justifiable use of coercion at the human level.

But if process theists really do believe that some coercion would not only be preferable but required at the divine level if it were possible, then it appears that they must also acknowledge that the God of process theism would coerce if this were an option.

This is why God sometimes approves of (lures us toward) coercion on the human level even though such coercive power would never be used by God even if it were available.

Moreover, it certainly does create a strong theological justification for the type of coercion many process theists believe is necessary on the human level.

Coercion is readily understood on the experiential level of social or physical behavior, but its proper metaphysical definition is difficult to ascertain.

At the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.»

It is certainly possible that God, at the level of creativity - characterization, may have other powers in addition to persuasion and coercion.

To prevent the exploitation or coercion of research participants, universities and other organizations conducting or sponsoring research require that all researchers who intend to use data collected from human subjects be familiar with national and state - level guidelines for working with human subjects data.

On one level a genre mash - up revelling in influences as diverse as John Carpenter, Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives, it also ambitiously holds a mirror up to the history of modern America, confronting not overt racism (that would be too easy, not to mention predictable) but a more insidious narrative of coercion and white supremacy whose legacy stretches back across the generations.

For one thing, what began as incentives for states to adopt common standards in English and math has risen to the level of what may well be illegal coercion.

Obviously, at that level of cognition no external coercion is required to get people to choose the best alternative.

We have sunk to Soviet levels of professional coercion.

But this amounts to massive coercion for example by coercing future inhabitants of Florida to abandon half of their state when sea levels rise.

A much wiser approach would be to allow the US market for electricity to determine whether more or fewer solar panels are needed without any subsidies or coercion since the basis for fearing catastrophic effects from increasing levels of carbon dioxide is scientifically invalid.

Also, this level of petty coercion is an indicator that the consensus is losing the political battles.

Immediate post-treatment factors predicting negative outcomes (delinquent acts) were maternal reports of behavior problems and observed mother — child coercion, indicating that in families where levels of parent - child coercion are still high post-treatment, further intervention may be warranted to prevent future problems.

This pathway is characterized by three elements: the onset of conduct problems (such as developmentally excessive levels of aggression, noncompliance, and other oppositional behaviour) in the preschool and early school - age years; a high degree of continuity throughout childhood and into adolescence and adulthood; and a poor prognosis.1, 2 The most comprehensive family - based formulation for the early - starter pathway has been the coercion model developed by Patterson and his colleagues.3, 4 The model describes a process of «basic training» in conduct - problem behaviours that occurs in the context of an escalating cycle of coercive parent - child interactions in the home, beginning prior to school entry.