Sentences with phrase «living in complex societies»

Humans live in complex societies in which people specialise in different jobs.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

Their learning should lead them to a greater understanding of themselves, their lives in a complex society and their ability to influence the world in which they live for the mutual benefit of all.

Not exact matches

For example, in March, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States sold Growers Square, a 191,000 - sf, three - building office complex in Walnut Creek, California, to Invesco Realty Advisors for $ 41 million.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

Rather, society is a never - ending work - in - progress constructed through the ongoing strivings of living and breathing human beings whose motives are psychologically complex and culturally specific.

Hence, even in this highly complex case, it is the collective agency of the entire structured society or overall field of activity which is at work to support a «thread of personal order» among the living occasions.

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

Mentality is not the novel capacity of a complex living society which is absent in its constituent occasions.

In contrast to suburbia, the traditional city is a complex institution designed to address and transform the unpleasant aspects of human life by means of community, culture and civil society.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

They give expression to a very contemporary and vibrant faith that is both simpler and much more complex than the complexifications cherished by those who know only that we live in a secular society.

The secondary freedom in the study of economics consists in the deployment of a variety of models of man and society, in order to gain a wider range of perspectives on the complex events of economic life and to experiment in imagination with new and possibly better ways of directing economic planning.

In moving from this well - ordered but repressive society to forms of social life which enable these dimensions of the human spirit to emerge in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettlinIn moving from this well - ordered but repressive society to forms of social life which enable these dimensions of the human spirit to emerge in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettlinin more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettling.

But in the complex society in which we live, such intervention often is the only way for citizens to make their moral and ethical concerns matter.

The complex of organisations and relationships that form civil society provide the environment in which we typically experience our everyday lives.

This Christendom was such a living, complex unity that it could be likened to an organism, in the way any healthy homogeneous society can be called a social organism.

The defining characteristics of personal identity reflect (and in some sense are the manner of) the resolution of this complexity.3 I think it follows that in the living person both the complex content of concrescence and the manner of integrating the content are dependent upon the environing society — so dependent that the disembodied soul appears to be in categoreal difficulty.

More accurately, life is a complex eternal object belonging to the objectifications of successive actual occasions in a special nexus in the interstitial «empty» space of a personal society.

Personally, I enjoy the challenges that come with living in a complex and diverse society.

At the American Physical Society meeting in March scientists reported that our makeup of complex molecules based on carbon and hydrogen is no fluke and that precursors to terrestrial life's distinctive chemistry apparently abound in distant space.

This effect on some genes may be a result of the buffering effect of living in a complex, interdependent society, where the «collective genome» is less vulnerable to dramatic environmental changes or other external threats, Robinson said.

To mimic the large societies of ants, the ant - spider travels in groups and lives in silken apartment complexes, with hundreds of individuals staying in nests connected by silk.

It has scenes of powerful emotion, but because of its large cast, it is more about ideas than lives, especially the idea that in a multicultural society, racism is more complex than we like to think, and doesn't sort its victims into the good and the evil but finds everyone can be a little of both.

The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be complex: in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests, in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young people to become adept in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to schooIn secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to schooin our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to schooin shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to schooin education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

Those «four C's» are essential to preparing students for life in a complex and technically oriented world, according to the participants in the survey, sponsored by the Society for Visual Education Inc. in cooperation with the Association for Childhood Education.

To live, learn, and work successfully in an increasingly complex and information - rich society, students must know, understand, and be able to use technology effectively.

However, life in our complex modern society also requires a broad range of knowledge and skills, including the ability to reason and solve problems.

Hosted by the Data & Society Research Institute, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the conference explored emerging civil rights issue connected to the rise in big data and complex algorithms used in our everyday lives.

Only during the past 10,000 years, with the development of agriculture, have our ancestors lived in more complex societies where the ability to think long - term and plan for the future was an advantage.

The complex layering of material in Önürmen's studies also references the chaotic and claustrophobic experience of living in contemporary society, specifically the city.

«We live in a complex and ever - changing society, and my art calls on people to question and engage with that reality, to respond to history as it happens, and to demand accountability.»

«Each work contains complex issues, of society, art and politics, and each artist uses the many layers of live performance to express their individual viewpoints, engaging audiences in the process.»

Works on Paper: Consuming War We live in a society based on consumption and increasingly, as Eisenhower warned in the fifties our military / industrial complex, is structuring what we consume and who consumes.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

These instincts worked well for survival in that era when the world was a very different place, and we were living essentially like any other wild animal, but they are hopeless for dealing with the problems of complex globally integrated societies that exist today.

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We live in an society which heavily relies on sophisticated and complex infrastructure.

It's hard to be succinct about universe - sized matters, particularly when you're innumerate, but as I understand it, this argument (made seriously by some serious scientists, I note) says one explanation for the absence of contact is that there's a flaw in the process that would otherwise lead to truly complex life forms and truly complex societies, such that intelligent life fails at some point short of its ability to manage interstellar travel or communication.

He said: «Accessibility to justice has become increasingly important in the complex society we live in today.

Through exploring human rights and Australian values, students learn to apply human rights to different situations related to their lives as well as more complex situations in their community, society and globally.

Breaking past challenges in living freely in a complex society has become increasingly difficult.

Children in societies where extended families live together in traditional styles tend to display more prosocial - cooperative behavior than children in economically complex societies with class structures and occupational division of labour.13 Early socialization of responsibility is associated with the development of prosocial - cooperative behavior.