Sentences with phrase «of modern industrial societies»

Its rise paralleled the emergence of modern industrial societies.

As he once wrote his mother, «I need scarcely indicate that everything that is especially hateful and devilish and inhuman about the conditions and strain of modern industrial society is not only Protestant in origin, but it is their boast -LRB-!)

Like the English pre-Raphaelites before them, Benois and his friends were disgusted with anti-aesthetic nature of modern industrial society and sought to consolidate all Neo-Romantic Russian artists under the banner of fighting Positivism in art.

Not exact matches

There is also, undoubtedly, a kind of neo-paganism among many Charter supporters, whose antipathy to modern society in all its aspects, from industrial to religious, has led them back to a radical premodernism, a pan-religiousness that appears to be some (partly imagined) basic form of religious life before the destructive divisiveness of the historic religions appeared.

Technique — process, treatment, «schooling» — is modern industrial society's typical way of tackling its problems, as Ivan Illich and others have lamented, only to create monstrosities of modern life together.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

Since all or nearly all members of society share in these responsibilities, universal education to a high level is essential for the security and progress of modern industrial civilization.

One hears echoes of Ruskin's nostalgia for the harmony of the medieval manor in contrast to the din of modern factories, or of James» preference for the Virgin over the dynamo as the central symbol of power in society, or of Schumacher's «small is beautiful» against the «great industrial city.»

I sincerely wish society as a whole would go back to using coconut oil in baked goods instead of modern industrial oils — it would make a tremendous difference!

They found evidence of decay in more than half of the surviving teeth, a prevalence of dental disease comparable to that of modern, industrial societies with diets high in refined sugars.

One of humankind's oldest industrial partners is yeast, a familiar microbe that enabled early societies to brew beer and leaven bread and empowers modern ones to synthesize biofuels and conduct key biomedical research.

His studies have led him to the conclusion that industrialized farming and industrial food products are the reason for the lack of wellness in our modern society.

His investigation led him to the conclusion that industrialized farming and industrial food products are the reason for the lack of wellness in our modern society.

The paradox of modern schooling after World War II, he found, was that just as our complex industrial society made formal education more important, adolescent culture was shifting teens» attention away from education, prompting adolescents to squeeze out «maximum rewards for minimal effort.»

In an effort to rapidly convert the country from a peasant agrarian society to a modern industrial one, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had pulled millions of people away from farms to build roads, canals, railroads, and steel plants.

He pointed out that a modern industrial society requires, «conformity to the time of the train, to the starting of work in the manufactory.»

As a former technological person myself, who'd participated in the early commercial phase of the computer revolution, I had long been fascinated by its predecessors: that handful of scientific entrepreneurs who, inspired by the Enlightenment and living though the American and French revolutions, had then gone on, on their own, to spearhead the Industrial Revolution that has transformed modern society.

Movement members were promoting industrial production and multiplication of works, the new art containing to them an ideal of modern democratic society.

One socio - historical explanation that has been offered for the growing prevalence of the abstract in modern art — an explanation linked to the name of Theodor W. Adorno — is that such abstraction is a response to, and a reflection of, the growing abstraction of social relations in industrial society.

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

Is there any indication that humans (and modern industrial capitalist society in particular) will use any vast new sources of energy any more wisely that we have used the ff and nuclear we have already expended?

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

A thought from someone posting via a computer, plugged into a highly condoned electrical grid, using technology that represents the zenith of post industrial societies, advising others to sacrifice modern life, all the while enjoying there very things he derides.

The scientific establishment, as has been discussed on this blog, has not sought to intervene in the debate — since GM — to emphasise perspective on risk, and the potential of the fruits of modern, industrial society.

According to Beck, the modern era — technological, industrial society — had exposed society to ever greater, global risks, and that our awareness of these risks and the scepticism of modernity's achievements marked the beginning of a new historical era, in which this awareness of risks and their amelioration would become the basis of politics.

But crucially, even among those who disdain fossils and nukes, there is a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between those who say that solar and wind power have unstoppable momentum and will eventually bring with them lower energy prices and millions of jobs, and those who say these intermittent energy sources are inherently incapable of sustaining modern industrial societies and can make headway only with massive government subsidies.

The Internet of Things has long been hailed as the third industrial revolution, but it's application in modern - day society is often still difficult to grasp.