Sentences with phrase «more urban societies»

Not exact matches

Yet urban living offers many opportunities for society to craft a more sustainable way of living and working.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

This is hardly to suggest that everyone must open a farm (although perhaps there's something to be said for the ever - more - visible urban gardening movement), or that our society had better embrace radical policy shifts all at once or else!

The human species could survive without the city, and indeed a less urban and less industrial society would have a more promising relationship to the rest of nature.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

With such a moral heritage, combining both high value and narrow limitation, the tribes of Israel entered Palestine and, after a long conflict with the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conquered.

There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

This localisation (or, urbanisation) of citizenship may be expected to correlate more closely with the increasingly more place - specific nature of civil society in urban areas, offering better scope for «getting involved» in governance than at the more distant, «homogenised» notion of national level.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

They reflect the reality of what the UK has been becoming for some time - a more urban, educated and cosmopolitan society but also one that is more unequal and socially unjust.

«If there has been a more harmful urban legend circulating in our society than the vaccine - autism link,» University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer, «it's hard to know what it might be.»

They look at the perils and possibilities of mushrooming urban societies and how city life can be made more livable, from more urban gardening to better mass transit (complete with budget estimates).

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From Hell was directed by the Hughes Brothers (Albert and Allen), who are mostly known for more gritty, urban works like Menace II Society and Dead Presidents.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

The disconnect between real life and the high school experience and the absence of any real connection to peers and teachers causes many students on the margins to give up: More than 30 percent of U.S. students who enter high school never finish, according to a recent report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, the Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York, and the Civil Society Institute.

These students are drawn to TEP for its focus on urban public education and its commitment to creating a more just and equitable society through better teachers and better schools.

It is telling that the 1990s and 2000s saw a proliferation of civil - society activity associated more with urban public education than with urban private education.

In fact, according to an analysis by Urban Institute, students in Colorado's poorest districts receive only an additional $ 401 per student relative to more affluent districts, a ratio that has remained relatively unchanged for the past 20 years even as we get smarter about the impacts of income inequality and stratification across society.

As our society becomes more urban, the number of people who have extensive experience in animal husbandry is dwindling.

Some of the more privileged members of Belizean society perceived that increases in juvenile delinquency, crime, and drug use among Belizean urban youth were directly attributable to breakdowns in family structure.

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In the Western societies, it was the abundance of advertising and mass media and in China and the Soviet Union it was the omnipresent symbolical universe of propaganda (read more on the (un) changing nature of Pop Art in Is Urban Art The New Pop Art?).

Brazil has a consolidated democracy, with strong institutions (that have been recently tested and have withstood the pressure), a very large economy (one of the largest in the world), and a society that, in spite of dwelling with urban violence, has been spared from terrorist acts, civil wars and regional conflicts, and is better educated, less unequal and more vigilant and conscious about its rights and roles.

The premium rates for urban cooperative societies are comparatively high as People in urban areas visit hospitals more often than those in rural areas.