Sentences with phrase «not social criticisms»

These are not social criticisms per se, but systematic analyses: representations of the artist's understanding of ours as a world in which nature, humanity, and technology controlled and nurtured each other in a closed circuit.

Not exact matches

Trichotillomania isn't dangerous, but it has some social consequences in that the more you pull your hair, the more bald patches and absence of hair you have, which can lead to social ostracization or criticism.

Hastings also discussed how criticism of Facebook over its Cambridge Analytica data - harvesting scandal was «not completely unfairly,» adding that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was «leading the charge on fixing» the social network's issues.

Criticism of a thing, a piece of media, or something inanimate is OK if you know what you're talking about, but criticizing individuals opens a door that you don't want to walk through in social media.

While the car company clearly wants to take a stance on and do something to ameliorate the gender pay gap, the commercial has garnered criticism on social media, with some saying that Audi's hiring practices don't reflect the message of the likely well - intentioned ad.

«Because they didn't belong to the social world, they didn't have to obey its rules, freeing them to develop bold ideas and stick with them even in the face of criticism,» she says.

The Republican National Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the social conservative criticisms of the party on Thursday.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

This opening exercise is designed to enable students to engage in critical reflection on their background not as the only place that needs criticism, but in comparison with another — equally relative — social setting.

His criticisms of Buddhism was not theological but social.

To admit the principle of classification is not to deny the need for democratic criticism of actual social class arrangements.

Pfuetze's comment is not so much a criticism of Buber's social philosophy as a reminder of the difficulties which would attend the attempt to apply it in any large - scale industrial society, difficulties Buber himself would be the first to recognize.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

We don't live in a secular society; we live in a pagan society that is resistant to the gospel, a gospel which calls the church to perpetual criticism of the social and political order.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

It further functions as a principle of social criticism; any idea or social reality in the present social order that does not conform to the vision of God's reign is to be rejected.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

The fifth criticism, which is Preston's own, is that the WCC is not realistic enough and does not sufficiently analyze the complexities of social and political decisions.13 Preston's criticism may be fair, but it highlights the difficult question of how religious bodies can influence world affairs.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

I would advance still another criticism: the social - political community is assumed by the three authors to be a constant that requires neither maintenance nor effort; the survival of culture does not concern them, and its forms are generally seen as villainous.

He not only anticipated some of the now - dominant theories in human sociobiology circles but identified the principles that are now the explicit basis for celebrated feminist social criticism.

Our church leaders shouldn't need to live in fear of harsh criticism; our church councils don't have to accommodate bullying and intimidation and our culture need not threaten social exclusion for those who don't fit easily into any one box.

A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.

Part of the attack on suburban conformity had included precisely the criticism that churchgoing was but a social ritual, not a sign of deep commitment.

This criticism does not apply to the advocates of the social gospel.

Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self - security but not self - criticism.

But anyway, I realise that there is great advantage to social - scientific criticism in helping us understand the Bible, but sometimes I've read interpretations put forward by such scholars and I've sort of thought, «Hmmm... that would be a good interpretation that would fit with the apparent social context... but I can't see how it fits with the literary context.»

It became clear that not much is said in the Arsenal dressing room if things aren't in favour of the Gunners and it thus seems like a fair few players are responding strongly to the criticism from the fans and those on social media.

If any of the players, football or basketball, can't manage to dispatch with the socially kitschy «I'm loyal to my coaches oorah!!!!!» cliche that's such a beloved social ornament to young kids playing sports and / or can't get beyond the narcissistic idea that performance - based criticism doesn't always have to do with them, then whatever.

Poulter was not happy with the criticism from Chamblee and naturally took to social media to lay a bit of sarcasm on the opinionated winner of the 1998 Greater Vancouver Open.

Arsenal fans weren't impressed with Alex Iwobi's performance against Newcastle, but the criticism on social media may be too harsh when looking at his statistics.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

To be clear, my criticism of social weightlessness isn't a criticism of abstraction per se, because all kinds of theorising — even those attuned to empirical practice — rely on abstractions to make sense of the complexities of social life.

Similarly, an attempt by John Swinney, the dry - as - dust education secretary, to rebut recent internal criticism that the Scottish government lacks a radical edge amounted to little more than claiming the SNP sat «firmly astride Scotland's social democratic centre», while elsewhere he said the currency proposition won't «necessarily» have to be any different from that offered up in 2014, a so - called «currency union».

«That is one of the developments in our politics that is most unpleasant, we can't take criticism, we can't take news that is positive about somebody we don't like, and so we have a lot of insults on social media and actually distracts from the issues and instead of dealing mainly with the issues, people rather take the route of trading insults.»

I do not aim to use this criticism to justify social conservatism or conservationism «on the sly», since this reifies immutability to just as damaging an extent as materialism glorifies innovation.

David Cameron's wife Samantha raised eyebrows with her decision not to wear a hat, prompting a wave of criticism on social media platforms.

What is infuriating the Tory machine is not only Boris's criticisms, but the language that he is used — which makes Labour's talk of social cleansing sound positively moderate.

The reason that the social work profession has reacted with such ire to this particular Govian speech is not that social workers can not take criticism - far from it given the constant pummelling from politicians - but because it is so utterly dishonest.

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).

It could also be used to dilute criticism that by dropping the promised social care bill the government is not doing enough to help the most needy in society.

President Mahama who believes most of the criticisms on social media are not backed with evidence, emphasized the need for Ghanaians to «check the facts, and let's not destroy the opportunities presented by social media.»

Twitter provided some limited disclosure on the Russian activity leading up to the 2016 presidential election, sparking criticism the social media company was not being forthcoming.

Discussions about the inherent complexities and uncertainties, and about desirable futures, should be opened up to a whole range of social groups, not least those who have anxieties and criticisms.

Lander, 58, told STAT that, while he does not peruse social media, the criticism that he's aware of «does not feel personal in any way.

Now, I realize posting things on social media leaves you open to all manner of criticism or opinion (welcome or otherwise) and that the veil of the internet allows people to say things they might not otherwise say.

Also, remember, the millionaire you had been eyeing can be literally too busy for love, or it can happen that you ought to change the pre-existing social circle to fit in or face criticism from society, but don't we actually know, love conquers everything.

It is not a criticism of those who like Harry Potter to say that the writing here is of the formulaic and melodramatic sort, with artificial language and an abstract moralistic view of social life.

It's un-nerving in the extreme — not just for the garden variety scares it delivers, but for the social criticism it also weaves in.