Sentences with phrase «microcosm of society»

From one perspective, churches can be seen as microcosms of society, constituted by lay and non-lay members within structures extending throughout Australia.

The worldwide toil to knit a human community out of disparate motives and symbols occurs in specific instance in the local church; the congregation, as was earlier suggested, is an immediate microcosm of all society's attempts to associate.

Our armed forces represent a microcosm of society, so don't make generalizations based upon your own personal beliefs.

The physical isolation of her chosen environments allows us to see a microcosm of society.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

«How sports leagues handle domestic violence is a microcosm of society,» she said.

Rio Bravo, Stagecoach, and Unforgiven illustrate how a microcosm of society actually functions.

The concept of a microcosm of society to demonstrate social unrest between classes is a well - worn idea — High - Rise may find a very close cousin in last year's Snowpiercer — but this is one of the more direct and slickly executed interpretations of the theme, only treading on the brink of science - fiction.

Much like the Canuck's psychosexual thriller Shivers from 1975 (the same year High - Rise was published, incidentally, marking a very strange time in architectural anxiety in the zeitgeist), the film takes place in a cold, isolated, Soviet - looking apartment complex and features the collapse of said building's microcosm of society.

Perhaps the classroom is a microcosm of society, and behaviour in the classroom reflects behaviour in society... but I've only just started my course.

It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama.