Sentences with phrase «not social norms»

Perhaps not the social norm, but certainly the physiological norm, for all babies, all around the world.

In settings where breastfeeding is not the social norm, support can increase women's belief in breastfeeding, and give them confidence to continue breastfeeding in the face of societal and family pressures that might undermine breastfeeding.

«[Still] it was interesting to establish that pirating is not the social norm amongst Australians aged 12 to 17 despite the anecdotal assertion that «everyone does it».»

Not exact matches

«Social norms, which are people's beliefs about what institutions and other people consider acceptable behavior, powerfully influence what people do and don't do,» the pair wrote.

In this «multi» world, it's the norm, not the exception, for inordinate amounts of emails, websites, mobile sites and apps, coupons, seasonal promotions and social messages to pour in across all channels.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

If a group excludes me [an evolutionary tool adapted to enforce social norms] and I try to break my way back in, the group may not try as subtle an exclusionary behavior the next time.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

Habits once erratic and highly individual ultimately became the social norm» Now, I understand that basic logic 101 keeps me from implying the following but hey I am not getting a grade on this; This explains why the vast majority of people beleive in God.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

Put an objective observer (I know, there's no such thing) into a community and in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity of that community, you will be able to describe their political (not a bad word) and social structure, you will uncover their norms and mores, their rules, very often unspoken or only spoken and not written.

Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.

It's not the ideal of sexual purity, per se, that causes these challenges, but purity culture, a social system of norms, rewards, and punishments that presents perfection as the sole ideal.

Its founder Sampson Raphael Hirsch's sectarian decision to break with the organized Jewish community was in line with his general philosophy — that Judaism was eternal, not based on history, social development, or people's mores and norms.

Insofar as freedom can not be so defined, a proscription on external coercion requires a substantive principle or norm of social action.

In contrast to some forms of rule - teleology, I understand indirect applications to mean that the comprehensive telos justifies social practices, that is, institutions or patterns of coordination in which the participating social actions can not be described independently of constitutive norms or principles that bind actors whatever the consequences (cf. Rawls, «Two Concepts»).

Still, the case against teleological ethics may here offer this response: Granting the difference between direct and indirect applications, this yields only the familiar distinction between «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology, «3 is problematic for the following reason: Social practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to prSocial practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to prsocial cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to produce.

No, we don't all have absolute ethical moral standards, but that doesn't deny us the ability to criticize the horrific actions of regions with different social norms.

I guess it's true... rednecks aren't really all that religious, they just claim to be so because it's the expected social norm down there.

Yes, Phoebe is embedded deeply enough in the culture around her to want to lose weight, but she is a sparkling and animated young woman who mostly enjoys her life and refuses to be so controlled by her diet, or the social norms around her, that she won't defiantly consume a bag of buttery popcorn now and then.

Secondly I argue that the New Testament's seeing Jesus as example is a necessary correlate of what later theology calls his divine sonship (the other side of the «incarnation»), in such a way that those who downgrade the weight of Jesus» example, on the grounds that his particular social location or example can not be a norm, renew a counterpart of the old «Ebionitic» heresy.

«It should not be for the state to decide which parts of the Bible can and can not be quoted during preaching, nor to dictate that verses that some may find unpalatable should be interpreted to fit with current social norms.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

Niebuhr said that the relevant norm for political decisions and social policy is not love, as the liberals had claimed, but justice.

If my analysis is fundamentally accurate, liberalism's endgame is unsustainable in every respect: It can not perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms, nor can it continually provide endless material growth in a world of limits.

This is particularly relevant when considering honesty in robots: «If robots are going to be present in everyday situations, then there is a host of social norms which humans know about but which a robot won't.

In his classic text The Individual and the Social World, psychologist Stanley Milgram warned against overstating the case for urban incivility: «In some instances it is not simply that, in the city, traditional courtesies are violated; rather, the cities develop new norms of noninvolvement.»

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

Our norms for moral action are not drawn from a disinterested study of objective reality, but are absorbed from the social environs of our childhood.

David Landry does not hesitate to speak directly to corporate social issues about abortion, drug abuse, ecological rape, or minority rights in Metro City and beyond because he understands social contextuality as the norm for the Word realizing itself.

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

It doesn't matter if the Pig is a brilliant Social Justice Warrior — they are self - centric well beyond the norm.

To proclaim certain moral norms to be universal — whether because they are rooted in the psychological predispositions of the human person, the anthropological constitution of all human civilizations, or the social contract of a human community — means that these norms are not controversial and will not be contested.

And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the common consensus in matters of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings of relying on man's own inferences about the nature of life, the universe, and the meaning of existence.

However halting, despite the hiccoughs and errors, it's hard not to be strangely warmed that many churches aspire to replicate the work of the early church, stunningly summarized by Rodney Stark in one of my favorite quotations: «Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

This process of secularization is deeply connected to the rise of a neo-liberal economic and social consensus, one not based on traditional norms but united by a search for ever - greater utility.

There are a lot of debates in the humanities about the relative influence of agency (the will and power of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more abstract concepts including things like social norms and expectations which are not formalized).

Scalia insists repeatedly that malleable judicial standards» reflected not only in the Court's appeals to evolving social norms, foreign courts, and living documents, but also, in some cases, in its reliance on authorial intent» give the Court carte blanche to impose its arbitrary will.

Contemporary biblical studies persuasively indicate that the major theme of the story and concern of the writer were not homosexual activity as such but rather the breach of ancient Hebrew hospitality norms and persistent violations of rudimentary social justice.

Moore did not appeal directly to Scripture and tradition for teen - age sexual norms; rather, he appealed to an ethic of social justice and fulfillment.

He went on: «But including Christian in our list [of principles] does not imply any requirement for individual faith, but it reflects the Judeo - Christian classical and enlightenment origins on which our laws, our social systems and our cultural norms have been built over two millennia.

(According to Krugman, changing social norms, not economic productivity, explain these obscenely large incomes.)

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.

09) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms, just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service - sector economy, or longer life spans.

Ha ha,» than «Social Norms in Baseball: How Kant's Science of the Moral World Informs the Decision to Cheat,» but that doesn't change the fact that Bonds had an advantage.

Don't let social norms and middle - aged white men in the media guilt you into it, though.

... These vocabularies do not invite consideration of what the pattern of transgression of norms at a social, collective level might indicate about those norms.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

And what about these other rules that aren't laws, but they are so ingrained in our culture that we don't even need them to be laws because the citizens keep them alive through social norms?