Sentences with phrase «many social prejudices»

A Christian charity has said that Nottingham City Council is «reinforcing social prejudices» towards... More

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

Locus Corporation wishes to apologize regarding the first elements of our marketing campaign (in the form of a Cannes billboard and a trailer) which we realize has had the opposite effect from that which was intended... Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty.

Through the adversity and social prejudices, she understands that mothers in their 20s aren't «kids having kids».

And yet his political views and his social prejudices were more complex than this.

If parents were to engineer their children to have such traits, «I think we would be inscribing those kinds of social prejudices in biology,» she says.

Deep - seated social prejudices are hard to dislodge and can affect length of sentencing.

Actually, I was merely falling prey to the social prejudice that a woman isn't believed when she's abused — instead, she's blamed.

But the best part of this age group is being free from social prejudice.

As social prejudice comes with having STD, getting adequate support from folks who understand what you are dealing with is very crucial.

Love at first sight has a wonderful ring to it and has conquered many social prejudices, but love at first text doesn't happen quite so often.

We did get to see a little bit of the dirty stuff behind it, such as the social prejudice.

A Fantastic Woman is a moving study of grief and inner strength, as a transsexual woman has to cope with grief at the loss of her lover in the face of social prejudice and family disapproval, something she does with quiet but persistent dignity and grace.

The human nature of social prejudice is explored in «The Greatest Showman,» as the locals don't take too kindly to Barnum's performers.

Kernell's sharply written, sobering script explores adolescent concerns common to every nationality and generation while also mining the social prejudices of an era and the culturally specific oppression of the indigenous Sami people.

Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) are farmers with grand ambitions whose faith is tested by circumstances beyond their control, while neighbours Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J Blige) endeavour to build a small dream of their own — despite the harsh social prejudice they face.

Casting aside personal and social prejudices, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy must unite on the blood - soaked battlefield to rid the country of the zombie menace and discover their true love for one another.

When completely described, the trials are a tale of land disputes, social prejudice, bitter family rivalries, intimidation, sexual repression, and the Reverend Parris's attempts to hold onto his job.

The social prejudices and the accounts of how things were done according to the unwritten laws of society were intriguing as well.

Huckleberry Finn Essays Huckleberry Finn is an interesting book covering the adventures of a teenager who is free of social prejudices and sees the world with the widely open eyes.

Through subtle processes of image reconstruction, African - American artist Hank Willis Thomas complicates seemingly simple meanings behind image - based adverts, revealing their capacity to have much greater power than selling products but also play a disturbing role in constructing and reinforcing social prejudice — with an emphasis on the portrayal of black men and white women in America.

Just recently, we saw how US artist Jordan Eagles has joined the protest over the gay blood donation ban, and there are numerous contemporary examples of the artists working against the social prejudices triggered by AIDS crisis all over the world.

Her work seeks to expose the structural biases, social prejudices, and economic underpinnings of cultural institutions.

These negative beliefs may lead to stereotyping, social prejudice, and acts of discrimination.

Not exact matches

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

With the company climbing toward $ 100 million, winning plaudits from social - venture types, and eyeing an outpost in irony - drenched Manhattan, I decided it was finally time to swallow my prejudices and wrap my mind around the Life Is Good phenomenon.

Expected to be more politically active and socially conscious, this new generation of young people are fired up about changing laws, ending violence and prejudice, and screaming loudly in the name of social justice.

BS: Well, for me, the core of it comes down to the harm created by leveraging personal information and the social graph to enable political advertisers peddling this information to manipulate your prejudices in the same way that a retail advertiser would attempt to manipulate your consumer preferences.

The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

If God is one, there can be no prejudice and no bigotry, for every act of discrimination, whether it is economic, political, or social, reveals that we have different standards by which we judge the creatures of God's creation.

People are forced by social arrangements and expectations based on prejudice into situations that make the intrinsically irrational and arbitrary racial distinctions to some degree justified.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

It is of course true that careful observation requires the use of controls, the elimination of the possibility of social cuing, guarding against uncritical projection of the observer's prejudices and presuppositions, etc. (MA 83 - 98).

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

And, if all you narrow minded folks who are prejudiced against Catholics can handle more truth: Pedophilia occurs much more commonly among Male teachers, coaches, social workers, child care workers.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condSocial Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condsocial discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condsocial inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condsocial location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

Happily, today those who are not blinded by uncriticized religious prejudice (including misuse of certain biblical passages) or conventional ideas of proper sexual behavior (as if morals were a matter of counting noses or following some social pattern without question) are ready to accept the fact of the homosexual orientation, and many religious groups are now prepared to adopt this positive attitude.

There are three zones or dimensions of awareness: inner awareness of one's organism and its needs; awareness of the outer world as experienced by the senses; and a middle zone (Perls called this the DMZ) composed of our fantasies, imagination, memories, beliefs, interpretations, prejudices, and our total social programming by our culture.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

And while racial prejudice creates the most obvious form of discrimination, a Christian conscience must be on guard also against economic injustices caused or perpetuated by family status, social stratification, political «pull,» or even by church connections.

Social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

In any of those cases there would be social pressure to conform, and those who may have sincere reasons for absenting themselves would often be subject to prejudice or even scorn.

Which is why they stated social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

Your prejudice and bigotry is hysterical because the experts have already stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

This is how scary I country has become... the fact that this pastor can feel so comfortable in his insane rantings is because the right wing and their attempt to social engineer now that they got some power thru their fear mongering and the tea party types is just putting us into a free fall to the dark ages of prejudice and social control we fought so many decades to evolve from...

This concern with prejudice against blacks or women was not pervasive among social gospel adherents, many of whom championed labor, for example, but had little to say about sexism or racism.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

«They are keenly aware of the need for social and economic justice, the stewardship of creation, and equality of opportunity; they are equally aware of the need for a society free from any form of prejudice rooted in anything which is part of the individual identity, gender, race, origin, religion or orientation of anyone.»