Sentences with phrase «major change in our society»

It all boils down to a major change in our society.

In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.

The worldwide movement to embed financial education into schools has gained impetus due to some major changes in society over the past decade, such as the Global Financial Crisis, an increase in youth debt (e.g. mobile phone debt) and research linking financial problems with low quality of life.

Not exact matches

She cites the fact that women are 57 % of today's college graduates, as well as the 4 million copies of Lean In sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American societIn sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American societin terms of how women are perceived in American societin American society.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

This framework is helpful for an analysis of changes in human societies based on changes in the major communication system.

Major changes in means of communication within a society will have profound changes in how that society perceives and organises itself, and in its meaning and value systems.

The anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace, in a little known classic on social change and culture, teaches that major transformations of thought and behavior happen in a society when a society discovers that a once common set of religious understandings has become impossible to sustain.

Each life stage and each major change in our relationships and in society feels strangely as if someone pushed the ejection button on the cocoon we constructed

What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.

Furthermore, the churches» leaders, while not at the forefront of the intellectual currents of the day, had integrated into their thinking the major cultural changes of the nineteenth century, such as the new historical consciousness, the analysis of society in terms of classes, and biological evolution.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways, but large cultural changes require a deliberate reorientation in consciousness at the grassroots level.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways.

Working with development personnel and faculty, he is raising endowments for chairs in Lutheran studies, evangelical studies and Christian ethics, as well as for the Center for Religion and Society (the name was changed so as to include the Jewish studies program for which the college received a major ongoing grant).

Grace Boyle, chair of the student union's Love Veggie society, played a key role in Ulster's adoption of MFM by starting a petition to gather support for the move, because of a lack of meat free and vegan options at Ulster, and because the university does not formally acknowledge that the meat and dairy industries are major contributors to climate change.

I do think rather than criticize the government for making mothers feel guilty for feeding with artificial milk, society as a whole must make major changes in thinking and policy, so that more mothers and babies can actually avoid the use of artificial milk in the first place.

A sudden halt to the use of such methods, due to issues such as major negative effects, would also lead to rapid climate change, to which ecosystems and societies would have difficulty in adapting.

The commissioner said that the new framework will also enable funding with the «scale and scope» to tackle the major challenges that European society will face in the coming years: energy, health and aging, food, and climate change and the environment.

A paper by Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, published in the November issue of Geology, a journal of the Geological Society of America, suggests a major tectonic event may have triggered the rise in sea level and other environmental changes that accompanied the apparent burst of life.

BETHESDA, Md. (September 18, 2012)-- Propelled by rapid growth in the field, Physiological Genomics, a specialty journal of the American Physiological Society (APS; www.the-APS.org), announced today that it was undergoing a major change in its editorial policy.

While the major focus of the book, and the news in it, is what has happened in Fishtown, Belmont has also changed greatly in 50 years, if not in the four virtues and civic behavior: Belmont, Murray argues, and in particular its higher levels (graduates from more elite colleges), has withdrawn from contact with the rest of American society.

Because yesterday's calendar was good enough for us, it should be good enough for our children — despite major changes in the larger society.

This again, according to the opinion of custom papers writing service, we must expect to continue unless major changes occur in the larger economic and social structure of American society.

Cats Protection's work over those years has played a major role in these changes in society.

Azure profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe and investigates design issues related to the changing society.

Azure profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe and investigates design issues related to the changing society.

«Hide / Seek» considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art — especially abstraction — were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment.

From the poodle skirts and New Look dresses of the Fifties to the bell - bottoms and afros of the drug - fueled Seventies and the padded shoulders and fingerless gloves of the Material - Girl Eighties, the past has dutifully furnished fashion with recognizable signifiers that reflected changes in society and were driven by major cultural undercurrents of their time.

Despite the publication of a major report, by the American Sociological Association titled Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives (Oxford 2015), there are apparently no ongoing plans to actively engage sociology in the development of the next assessment report.

Whether there is a divide between weather and climate scientists out in the field, the meteorological society's official 2007 statement on climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.»

One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.

... oh, I seem to have wandered a bit... I'd say approximately current amounts but not without major changes in the structure of society.

New Zealand's Royal Society has produced two major documents in 2016 which examine mitigation options for New Zealand and the likely impacts and implications of climate change.

All of these major changes came about because citizens got together in large enough numbers and society reached a tipping point, then the laws were changed by Congress.

After Britain's Royal Society sent a letter criticizing the company for spreading «inaccurate and misleading» views on climate science and funding denial in September, Exxon made what is believed to be its first public acknowledgement that fossil fuels are a «major source» of climate - changing emissions.

The social and natural sciences must be more closely integrated to respond to the transformation in society due to global environmental change, according to a major report launched today in Paris, France.

In a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioIn a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opchange: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opchange in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opChange, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin society is the major factor driving public opinion.

Taleb uses it with an additional condition that black swan events are unpredictable and change society in major ways.

Any major change will invalidate many of the assumptions behind any society's investments in process and plant.

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

If we do that for a couple hundred years, and take the free license to raise CO2, the day some major change in human society occurs that prevents continuing this operation, all those chickens will come home to roost in a disasterous way.

Over at the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in partnership with LexisNexis, at the Harvard Law School a major study by Gene Koo on what law students aren't prepared for.From a US perspective, not much has changed since the MacCrate Report on Legal Education and Professional Development Much of the study won't exactly be news to the readers of Slaw.

Azure profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe and investigates design issues related to the changing society.

A report has called for major change in the way corporate legal work is regulated.The independent report, Review of the Regulation of Corporate Legal Work, by former senior civil servant Nick Smedley, was commissioned by the Law Society and published last week.

Azure profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe and investigates design issues related to the changing society.

Family - based therapy is a powerful model for change, one that helps people cope with major life challenges and transforms how we live our lives, resulting in healthier communities and societies

The protection of the children was one of main reasons given for the major change in official policy along with a long - standing need to bring some international sense of fairness to a very multi-cultural society.

Azure profiles international designers and architects, reports on major trade fairs in North America and Europe and investigates design issues related to the changing society.