Sentences with phrase «like social control»

According to Collins, due to the many barriers that shape our perspectives of race like social control, mutual policing, and silencing victims, it isn't easy to achieve coalitions.

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ESI Media, which is controlled by Evgeny Lebedev, described the move as a «historic transition,» but much of the British press reacted with sadness and / or anger, and social networks like Twitter were filled with eulogies for the newspaper.

But such a service could also present the risk of publishers becoming even more dependent on social networking platforms like Facebook for readers and revenue, thus giving the tech giants an uncomfortable amount of control over the news industry's fate.

Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

And yet, with the advent of 24/7 news, constant social media notifications and a seemingly endless procession of Tweets, posts and updates, it can quickly feel like things are spiraling out of control.

In one recent study, Choi and several colleagues wrote that smartphone addiction, like other impulse - control disorders, can «interfere with school or work; decrease real - life social interaction; decrease academic ability; and cause relationship problems.»

Examples such as the Silicon Valley subscription - only newsletter The Information, the stripped - down newsletter service TinyLetter, or podcasting businesses like Gimlet Media, are all fringe examples of innovative businesses which are creating products away from the control of social platforms.

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The simple truth is that the internet and social media has userped the power of the «church» to control the people, and people who once occupied pews now find it easier to find like minded believers (of all fathis and creeds) online and can be exposed to any theology they want by simply using Google.

But Burtt plays down the importance of «ethico - social» concepts (such as «progress,» «control,» and the like).

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

Sounds like a social group trying to control other social groups.

In times like these, one of the greatest losses — other than loss of life — is loss of control, says Bev Clayton, a social worker with the American Red Cross.

And because under the Perry program teachers systematically reported on a range of students» behavioral and social skills, Heckman was able to learn that students» success later in life was predicted not by their IQs but by the noncognitive skills like curiosity and self - control that the Perry program had imparted.

By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

Cramer exposes how cultural ideas like the «rockin» post-baby body» are not only unattainable; they are a means of social control.

Women who feel more in control in the reading I have done relate it to things like ambulatory ability, acceptability of vocalising their pain, social control (i.e. who is present at the birth), environmental control and comfort — leading them to feel more mentally able to cope with labour and being more in control of themselves which is often highlighted as a definer of a good birth experience.

In times like these, «One of the greatest losses — other than loss of life — is loss of control,» says Bev Clayton, a social worker with the American Red Cross.

The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

Such initiatives have also been interspersed with attention to moderate social reforms, including gun control and paid family leave, dappled with more progressive policies like protections for transgender residents and a rejection of fracking.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

He says the Governor is liberal on social issues, like supporting gay marriage and gun control, but conservative on financial matters, like reducing government spending and promoting business.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

She decided, instead, to focus on aspects of her grad school program she does control, like how she spends her time in the lab, for example, and how she would respond — in the most measured, professional way possible, she decided — to her advisor's social mood swings.

«The ability to design the community's features and observe customer behavior is preferable to ceding control and insight of a brand's online social network to a third party like Facebook.

Gliding between his own story and a broader perspective, Stossel first describes what severe anxiety is like: in his case, it is an obsessive fear of vomiting, coupled with uncertain bowel control, crippling social anxiety and panic attacks.

Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

The findings give hope to social scientists trying to understand broader phenomena, like how rumors about a candidate spread during a campaign or how information about street protests flows out of a country with state - controlled media.

Once the botnet has grandma's router under its control, it uses the device as a proxy to make it look like its traffic is coming from that router's «clean» IP address when it visits a social media site to make a new account.

While personality traits like friendliness are probably shaped by hundreds or thousands of genes, these three genes appeared to play a surprisingly large role in controlling social behavior, said vonHoldt.

«The researchers controlled for a host of psycho - social factors, which greatly reduced the strength of these associations — this suggests that psycho - social factors (things like history of drug problems, parental loss (divorce or death), poor family environment, low self - esteem, social deviance, personality disorders) play an important role in mood and addictive disorders.

While it should go without saying that severe joint pain can cause serious psychological distress, research has also suggested that beliefs about pain control and feelings of helplessness, emotional factors like anxiety and depression, and social support all play important roles in how we experience and adjust to pain.

I pulled back from my social life and stopped working out, and I avoided any situation that I felt I couldn't control, like concerts or day trips.

Those most likely to lie during online dating experiences are «high self - monitors» — people who have an acute sense of what people like and control their behavior to achieve social ends.

The purpose of this study was to see if U.S. states that have more users of social networking sites, dating sites, and dating apps like Match.com, Ashley Madison, Our Time, Down Dating, Bumble, Zoosk, Hinge, Score, At First Sight, Plenty of Fish, Eharmony, Adult Friend Finder, Tinder, Grindr, and Facebook have more cases of STDs after controlling for population, race, age, income, education, and population density.

A fish - out - of - water or newcomer will be easy to control, socially, because they have low social capital and agency, especially relative to Like most single women over forty, I bought into «there are no good men out there.»

Myself, along with millions of others, have become controlled by things like Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.

It was like a Fredrick Wiseman documentary for public TV, with ever - present cameras that would, ostensibly, get past the social pose and formal control and see what's under the surface of suburban America through the lives of the Loud family.

In other words: Central human values like Peace, friendship, empathy and joy can hardly be adequately operationalized into numbers — neither for controlling purposes and nor for serious social research.

Our team also observed control - group classrooms to gather information about what business - as - usual social studies instruction was like, and to determine whether any control - group teachers used PBL (none did).

KIPP has identified a number of factors it believes are critical to raising its students» college - completion rates, including enhanced academic preparedness; a set of «character strengths,» like «grit,» self - control, and optimism; matching each student with the right college; social and academic integration once they arrive on campus; and college affordability.

They include: mindfulness training, through exercises like meditation or disciplined physical exercise, such as yoga; aerobic exercise, which has been shown to strengthen brain function; and cognitive behavioral programs, such as those used to help children learn impulse control, a type of intervention that falls into the broader category of «social emotional learning» (SEL).

New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can affect academic achievement (like learning to read).

He points to traits like «persistence, curiosity, optimism, zest, gratitude, self - control, and social intelligence.»

About five years ago, it started to become popular for schools to teach students social - emotional skills like grit, self - control, and perseverance after research showed that these skills improved academic performance.

BPS won a grant to advance its social - emotional learning programs, which teach kids things like impulse control and perseverance.

In Morning Meeting, children practice social skills like maintaining focus and self - control, asking thought - provoking questions, making caring comments, listening intently, shaking hands in a friendly manner, asserting opinions, and finding their place in the community.