Sentences with phrase «of knowledge society»
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Millian told ABC last July that he is «one of those very few people who have insider knowledge of Kremlin politics who has the ability to understand the Russian mentality and who has been able to successfully integrate in American society.»
«The researchers think pre-questions probably have this benefit because they act as an «orienting device», directing viewers to look out for specific information, and perhaps also because they reduce viewers» complacency and overconfidence in their knowledge, thus motivating them to pay more attention,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest's write - up of the findings.
«The patent system is based on a «bargain,» or quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention so that society can benefit from this knowledge,» the court said.
Because this knowledge is no longer egghead territory, what companies do with the consumer information that they collect, hold and sell is one of the most pressing issues facing society today.
Meanwhile, time pressure likely intensifies mid-career as colleagues try to leverage one's knowledge and experience,» reports a write - up of the findings in the British Psychological Society Research Digest.
The obvious danger of the situation is that free societies have little knowledge of the systems funneling information into their newsfeeds.
Whereas research accomplishes the transformation of money into knowledge, it is through a process of commercialization that one achieves the transformation of knowledge, as embedded in products, services and market understanding, into money and benefits for individuals, businesses and the society at large.
«Your success in a knowledge society depends on mastery of soft skills and practical intelligence — and yet they don't show up in college or high school curriculums.
The Knowledge Society (TKS), founded by tech entrepreneurs Nadeem (Next 36, 2011) and Navid Nathoo, is a first - of - its - kind after - school innovation program for students aged 13 to 17, which the...
Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.
With the help of knowledge we can enhance our abilities and qualities and at the same time we increase our amount of knowledge and information about the surroundings of the world and society.
They possess extensive knowledge of trends and developments in the industry and are active in several professional organizations including the Captive Insurance Council of DC, the Society of Insurance Financial Managers, the AIDA Reinsurance and the Insurance Arbitrators Society.
In a 2012 survey, Canada's Asia - engaged professionals gave top priority to two other competence - building activities: gaining experience in Asia through internships, co-op placements and study abroad; and building a broader and more solid foundation of knowledge about Asian societies and economies.
Posner observes that professions rely on mystique most heavily when they lack knowledge valuable to the rest of society.
The root of his bias is his «God of the gaps» approach to knowledge and the sentimental quest to «provide solace to those who feel their faith undermined by secular society and by science in particular».
He already has extensive knowledge and understanding of the College and House of Bishops, and a heart for those on the margins of society, who are often overlooked.
We've had blue laws imposing Christian beliefs on businesses, Prohibition, laws criminalizing sodomy, laws banning birth control, abortions, gay marriages, interracial marriages and more simply because arrogant Christians thought they needed to impose their «personal knowledge» of what God wants on our entire society.
In Process and Reality, Whitehead describes a knowledge of Greek in terms of an historic route of occasions which inherit from each other to a marked degree: «That set of occasions, dating from his first acquirement of the Greek language and including all those occasions up to his loss of any adequate knowledge of that language, constitutes a society in reference to knowledge of the Greek language» (PR 137).
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.
The best answer to the Anglican difficulties was found in the formation of two societies at the turn of the century, the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge founded in i688 (S.P.C.K.), and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (S.P.G.) in 1701.
The second part will assume this analysis of the transition toward a planetary society under conditions which approach the biological limits of the earth during a period of rapidly accelerating scientific knowledge and technological prowess.
According to them, these islands are at the origin of the «new information society» and are in the process of engendering the «knowledge society», the universe of dematerialised wealth and new knowledge.
The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge established 1,500 charity schools for such students, and George Whitefield and the Wesleys preached to them.
Often what churches need is not a better understanding of the faith, but a more adequate knowledge of the society in which they are trying to live it out.
In our industrialized society all kinds of professions and vocations, all kinds of skilled and unskilled occupations, tend to become wrapped in their own cocoon of specialized knowledge, and to have little more than superficial contacts outside their own mystiques.
Those who acquire power in the form of knowledge may find that it «separates them from the society of others, and the greater the knowledge, the less wise they are in the virtue of concord.
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.
Can society afford to set limits on the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge?
The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.
He called for a widening of western consciousness with a new knowledge of Asiatic societies and cultures.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
Agnostic (Greek: ἀ - a -, without + γνῶσις gnōsis, knowledge) was used by Thomas Henry Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1876 [9] to describe his philosophy which rejects all claims of spiritual or mystical knowledge.
Also, we find many societies throughout history who had NO knowledge of the Christian god who were quite moral and compassionate.
Critics such as James Burtchaell, whose book The Dying of the Light was reviewed in these pages by Ralph C. Wood (February 3 - 10), have simply not indicated realistically how, in the face of massive changes in society, church and human knowledge, church - related colleges could have maintained their traditional church - relatedness in all its 19th - or early 20th - century glory.
A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.
So also a university in a free society is devoted in intellectual freedom to the pursuit of the universal, liberating knowledge and wisdom that are objectives of the society; it is on the other hand a teaching institution where men are equipped to direct the affairs of the governmental, legal, cultural, educational and economic institutions of the society.
Islamic society did very much to destroy Hellenic traditions of learning in the Greek speaking territories and it is only because of the subjegated Greek speakers that the knowledge was eventually transfered to the West.
This in turn led to the commonly - held belief that the golden age of human society lay in the past, and hence true knowledge was to be gained by searching for the best that past ages had bequeathed.
There remains a strong tension between the university as a place to form students» lives who then contribute to society and the university as a place of the highest research that contributes to society by discovery and advancement of knowledge.
For, the makers of society to some degree use their knowledge of human behavior to guide their actions as social agents.
Under the aegis of religious tradition the pursuit of knowledge is assiduously cultivated in most societies, but in some instances it has led to a sharp antagonism between religion and science.
And as Berger has written in his famous work, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), what one knows often depends on what society one lives in, where one resides in that society, and how one «chooses» his parents or occupation.
Karl Marx's contention, that the aim of philosophy should not be the quiescent understanding and acceptance of life as it is, but rather the transformation of nature and society, strengthened the instrumental relationship between knowledge and power.
(NY: Prentice Hall, 1957); The Nature of True Prayer by F. L. Rawson (England: The Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer, 1918); Creative Prayer by E. Herman (London: James Clarke & Co., circa 1921); and probably Elwood Worcester, Samuel McComb, Isador H. Coriat.
Our point is that Whitehead, within the limits of his knowledge, might more properly have spoken of material electromagnetic societies, or have used some other term to acknowledge mass explicitly.
A good understanding of the true foundations of secular society and the nature of the Kingdom of God has been the experience of a few enlightened individuals since the time of Jesus and even before, but with many running to and fro, and knowledge increasing (a reference to Daniel 12:4) we are at a time when more people are coming to «hate the whore and her daughters» (as well as those pimps and johns).
Such a society is «one in which the organization of theoretical knowledge becomes paramount for innovation in society, and in which intellectual institutions become central in the social structure.»
In our success - worshiping left - brain society, we overvalue rationality, cognitive knowledge, control, analysis, and work, and separate these from aspects of ourselves that we undervalue — feelings, intuition, synthesis, body awareness, play, and other right - brain functions.