Sentences with phrase «of class society»

That movement had its unity not in a theology but in the conviction that the Christian churches had the responsibility to address the injustices of the class society being produced by industrialization and that the Bible, properly understood, required concern for these social issues.

However, at our stage of material development, there is no retreating to an agrarian society, and socialism is the only just route out of a class society.

Not exact matches

There are no official definitions of what it means to be rich, and many factors come into play for measuring where one falls in the often amorphous class structure of American society.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

He feared that he wouldn't live up to their intellectual height and yet soon found that he truly was a peer and his life's course had been permanently altered as society now accepted him as an elite member of the professional class.

«My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me — the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society,» the class of ’80 graduate said in a statement.

President Obama and the progressive ruling class of both parties believe in the collective planned society.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

«No one wants to say it, no one's proud of it, but this is a capitalist society, a capitalist system, with capitalist rules, and my investors expect me to maximize profits, not to minimize them, go half, or go 70 percent, but to go to 100 percent of the profit curve we're all taught in MBA class.»

It would be dishonest to blame everything on the middle class, although they should reasonably be expected to be the moral spine of any society.

First, it spends a majority of its time educating lawmakers, including giving classes to government staffers on how to send cryptocurrency transactions or informing congressional hearings of public blockchains» potential to create a better society.

We are living in a world where the financial sector is waging class war against al the rest of society.

The class mission is to give students an understanding of the sources and processes associated with creativity, innovation, and design - three interdependent capabilities essential to our own well being, as well as to the well being of society.

Banana Republics are societies characterized by their starkly stratified social classes and a ruling - class plutocracy composed of the business, political and military elites.

In 2012, dealer Craig Gates spearheaded Jolly John's Keep You Truckin, a foundation that provides money for sick «working - class, productive members of society.»

Ability of one class of society to insulate themselves from the immediate effects of bad outcomes and pass it on to others is a core cause of long term societal collapse.

Very soon, almost all classes of Dutch society were involved in tulip bulb speculation, with many trading all of their worldly possessions for a single tulip bulb.

Daniel graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class degree in Economics and Management and was previously the co-chair of the Value Investing Special Interest Group of the UK CFA Society.

These changes, Bloomberg argues, have further divided an already unequal society and decreased the number of middle class consumers.

«I think regulation is much needed for this new asset class because otherwise it'll run amok from society,» Bobby Lee, CEO of exchange BTCC, told CNBC's «Squawk Box.»

4 a: a body of persons const!tuting a special class in a society: estate 3 b plural: the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete: a person of high rank (as a noble)

Civil public dialogue goes to the heart of solidarity, the virtue that does not divide society into classes and groups but builds up the common good of all.

There are many in society from all classes who are lazy, make poor choices, and live a life that is the direct result of those choices.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

Still, people like this author clamor for more bureaucracy as a defense of the rest of society, the middle class and the poor.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

Thus a society is more than a set of entities to which the same class - name applies» (PR 89/137).

In point of fact one of the greatest obstacles to revolution is the lack of a class consciousness on the part of the exploited sectors of a society.

We have said that capitalist society produces a structure of antagonistic classes.

I believe that a careful investigation of the class structure of our capitalist society would persuade us that Peace is not attainable at the human level of experience without Justice.

Only by overcoming the class structure of society will love and reconciliation become just, And there is no way to overcome the class structure produced by capitalist production except to assume the class struggle of those exploited by the system.

When Christians move adoption from the periphery to the center of theological reflection, teaching and counseling, they will lessen the degree to which adopted children are assigned a second - class status in secular society.

Capitalism lives from and reproduces a class society in which the few live off the labor of the many.

If the emergence of a revolutionary class consciousness is such a miracle among the oppressed of society, the position of the oppressors is even more difficult.

For a Christian of integrity living in a class society, socialism is the only viable option.

We became a middle - class society only after the concentration of income at the top dropped sharply during the New Deal, and especially during World War II.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

To interpret cultural and religious differences in terms of a theory of interests works no better than to ignore the role of class interests within all societies.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

My argument is that we are called to project a vision of a just society that would be at once attractive to middle class North Americans and also get us off the backs of oppressed people who are seeking liberation.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

What has been interesting is that our political classes are, by and large, indifferent to the importance of family life for the well - being of society.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

He was conscious of the economic breakdown in Muslim society caused by the luxurious living of the rulers and upper classes among the Muslims.

Given the attitudes of middle - class people, the economic structures of society, the way political power is exercised, and the despair of the adults around them.

Worship through the giving of the religious tax is the best means of promoting the welfare of society, linking the classes of the community with reciprocal sympathy and compassion, and spreading throughout the people a sentiment of love and cooperation.

I ask only this: Let us apply the two commandments absolutely; let us apply them without sophistical attempts to weaken their binding power, without taking account of the established values, orders, salaries, classes — and then we shall see the whole society fall to pieces, without violence.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.