Sentences with phrase «modern social problems»

«Lack of parental discipline» and «declining family values» were cited most often as the cause of modern social problems.

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Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

There were the economic, political, and legal problems of modernity — the aspects of modern life that made necessary the development of «social doctrine.»

In the broadest sense of the term, they are political problems, as the social problems associated with the explosive successes of capitalism have always been in the modern era.

«We do not here advocate an unheard - of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.»

That a genuine social revolution can only take place from below will first become convincingly clear, writes Heinz - Joachim Heydorn, when we are able to free ourselves from the predominance of a purely political thought that does not understand the long - term problems of our modern life.

All of us alike face the same issue of understanding our own tradition in the light of our modem cultural and social situations — only let us, in assaying that problem, not forget the present precariousness, the moral temptations and the religious requirements of that infinitely risky modern situation!

For all of us alike face the same issue of understanding our own tradition in the light of our modem cultural and social situations — only let us, in assaying that problem, not forget the present precariousness, the moral temptations and the religious requirements of that infinitely risky modern situation!

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

Whitehead's thought developed in close relation to science and mathematics and in the context of modern social and political problems.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of ourSocial Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of oursocial revolutions of our time.

The social gospel, the relationship of Christianity to socialism and Marxism, the problems of modern warfare, nationalism and imperialism are standard themes.

The conference dealt with Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism and tried to generate discussion on four topics: (1) World - Religions and Modern Scientific Thinking; (2) World - Religions and Modern Social - Economic Problems; (3) World - Religions and Inter-Cultural Contacts; and (4) the Task of Modern Religion.

I wonder if this may be part of the explanation for the more serious social and psychological problems of various kinds the modern world seems to be saddled with.

The problem, however, arises when this social sphere, which traditionally transcended the boundaries of the public / personal distinction, and which preserved, until the dawn of the modern age social integrity and conventional values, becomes encroached by the intervention of the new social — in the sense in which Arendt used the term.

Yet if the young are demonised in rural England, as Butterworth's play suggests, they are under even greater threat of containment or dispersal in the modern city, where the presence of young people in groups is today perceived to be a social problem.

She argued that the problem of the modern is brought about mainly by the intrusion into the public and private spheres of the social sphere, which subsumes in itself all human activities.

«Modern computers were originally designed for three fundamental problems: business applications, such as billing; science, such as nuclear physics simulation; and government programs, such as Social Security,» Modha states.

Psychologists extensively study the problem of loneliness in the modern world, with social scientists trying to explain the background and reasons for divorces and failed marriages.

She took on serious issues through her dramas, putting a face to the social problems she addressed, and brought nuance and complexity to her stories of struggle and hardship in modern American life in the 1910s.

A modern version of Romeo and Juliet that deals with how social media is causing our youth problems.

Unfortunately, nowadays, we do not pay the proper attention to such problem as world hunger; we speculate about different car and plane accidents that take away people's life, we are afraid of different natural disasters about which we hear day and night; we speak of terrorism as of a social scourge of modern society: http://customcollegeessays.com/blog/terrorism-essay.

Depression, loneliness and feelings of social isolation are all too common problems for people in the modern world.

Although they face the same troubles as all women in modern times, they have also to face the historical opposition force of a recent colonization social mentality and have to overcome economic and lack of education problems that result from their parent's immigration origin.»

Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s comprises two portfolios of etchings and photographic works mixing text and image to reinforce the artist's belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art. 07 Mar 2011 Philip Taaffe at the Irish Museum of Modern Art A survey exhibition of the work of the Irish - American artist Philip Taaffe, one of the most significant painters working in America today, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 23 March 2011.

I keep hearkening back to this, from Teresa Nielsen Hayden: «I wouldn't want to live in Tomorrowland, where the social patterns and infrastructure are all so spiff and modern and rational and well - designed that any remaining problems must needs be insoluble, and so a cause for despair.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Meanwhile, modern science is beset with structural and social problems that modern science is ill - equipped to address.

Given the complexity of the modern world, the federal government and the provinces must often work hand - in - hand to solve difficult social, cultural and economic problems.