Sentences with phrase «more social acceptance»

Creating better, more appealing ways to get pets adopted doesn't just help those pets or your shelter, either; it raises the profile of adoption in general and creates more social acceptance and awareness of adoption.

I think it's important to remember that when you break free of the intersection, you can go in either direction (more social acceptance, or more personal freedom).

Not exact matches

«It's indicative of the progress that LGBT people have made, both in terms of social acceptance so there are more LGBT people willing to live openly, and developments in the law,» she said.

They got cheaper, they got better, they became more unobtrusive — and then they became part of the fabric of our social acceptance.»

They got cheaper, they got better, they became more unobtrusive, and then they became part of the fabric of our social acceptance, we built social norms around them.

«Likes» on a Facebook page provide at the very minimum a type of social proof of brand acceptance and is just one more small nudge in the psyche of buyers that helps them pull the trigger at the ZMOT.

Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.

He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»

It's still very much an uphill battle, but even the minuscule time period of the last 100 years has seen dramatic changes in society's acceptance of more «modest» antisocial behaviors (racism, bigotry, bullying etc.) What is now coined «Political Correctness» is really just the fine - tuning of previously - accepted social norms.

Human beings seek more in life than food, water, shelter, and sex; more even than self - esteem, social acceptance, and love.

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

Those who come from the opposite end of the scale of social acceptance are more readily aware of such matters, for they experience them daily.

There's a lot of general talk and buzz about Foursquare — we've discussed it at length on the NMS Blog (At SXSW Last Year's Next Big Thing Was This Years Actual Big Thing) but with Foursquare and Gowalla gaining more traction and greater acceptance by small and big businesses, it's time to start thinking about the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for geo - social.

RealClearPolitics.com quoted openly gay Republican U.S. House candidate Carl DeMaio about how he's been received by opposite ends of the political spectrum: «I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.»

«Social acceptance more important than economic factors in fertility treatment availability.»

Hopefully online dating gains acceptance and popularity among Muslims in the area - thanks to technology, our social circles have expanded and we all are afforded more opportunities than ever before.

Increased social acceptance has also played its part in making more and more women to feel comfortable in becoming sugar mommies.

The transgender community is getting the recognition from the media it deserves, and an increasing number of people are willing to fight for equal rights of trans people, which results in better acceptance and more options when it comes to housing, employment, social interaction, and ultimately dating.

As the acceptance of the use of the internet as a way to start the meeting people becomes more than a social norm, the momentum of the online dating sites will continue to grow.

Whatever parents are seeking for their children — improved academic performance, more engaged teachers, social acceptance, freedom from bullying, special needs programming, and so on — they are more likely to find it when they have more than one choice.

There is more acceptance in using those classroom management strategies that incorporate social emotional learning for students who do not feel connected to their learning, and who can not move onto to exercising the freedom, power, and fun of choice in the classroom.

What sets it apart from more conventional design patterns is that it also scores 10 points out of 10 on the social acceptance scale.

Issue salience, I'm told over and over by social scientists, is the factor politicians watch — much more than answers to questions related to basic acceptance or rejection of the science.

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

Since this concept is quite broad and abstract, it may be helpful to define social competence in more familiar terms, such as interpersonal relations, social behavior, adaptive behavior, social interactions, social skills, adequate self - image, self - acceptance, initiative, and cooperativeness, all of which describe particular components of the concept of social competence.

There are the beginnings of an awareness of the role of peers in child development more generally (James et al, 1998; Valentine, 1997), and a move within social work practice to the importance of maintaining positive friendships for young people (this push to consider the role of friendships and peer relationships when planning care for children has much to do with the acceptance of resilience models of practice).

Gradually, they become more focused on the social aspects of play and are connected with acceptance by the group.

After some significant life changes, which included marriage, the birth of a beautiful son, and a divorce, I shifted my focus to social work to create more joy, peace, and acceptance in my own life.

We further hypothesized that youth more advanced in pubertal development would show increased neural response to peer rejection and acceptance (above and beyond the effects of age) in regions involved in social and affective processing.

The greater social and legal acceptance of shared custody in recent decades came about when parents began shouldering more equal parenting responsibilities.

The combined findings of mediation by loneliness but not by low perceived social acceptance seem to suggest that the acute awareness of being isolated from cliques — rather than the more indirect process of developing negative self - schemata concerning one's own role in this specific negative experience — underlies the association between clique isolation and subsequent depressive feelings.