Sentences with phrase «maintain social cohesion»

In this world in which every day it becomes more difficult to maintain social cohesion, we believe it is suitable to guide the training of future teachers to humanist education, that comes close to the needs and the reality of life of the inhabitants of the planet and educate the citizens aware of the context in which we live.

Visible and contagious happiness might have helped our ancestors maintain social cohesion.

«Uncontrolled, mass immigration makes it difficult to maintain social cohesion, puts pressure on public services and can drive down wages for people on low incomes.

It draws attention to the failure of Western societies to uphold popular sovereignty and maintain social cohesion, as the gap between «them and us» becomes far too great.

The question is whether we can continue to evacuate the meaning of oaths, honor, and duty — pietas — and maintain the social cohesion necessary for society to function as a whole.

Not exact matches

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

Anger can motivate us to punish a transgressor, for instance, which might help us to maintain social order and group cohesion.

While the same may be true for Mexico and Turkey (and for big non-OECD countries that took the PISA exam, like Brazil and Indonesia) as well, it's hard to imagine the U.S. maintaining its economic strength — or social cohesion — while miseducating such a large number of its youth.

Henry Stewart, from Local Schools Network, a campaign group that supports locally maintained schools, said it was «absolute nonsense» to claim free schools would increase social cohesion, and added: «These are spurious claims for setting up a free school.»