Sentences with phrase «of social decay»

Rosalind Davis conjures up a world of social decay with her portraits of deprivation and dystopian landscapes.

But could evidence of social decay, even at the mild level of littering, also affect our unconscious discriminatory attitudes towards other people?

Earlier this year the Fox network, showing either the effects of the writers» strike or the signs of social decay, offered a gem of televised exploitation — the kind that repulses you but you can't help watching.

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Dr.King was a social conservative and would be «disgusted» at the decay of morals of the Black community and family thanks to the Federal Gov welfare hand - out system now and everyone» as a baby daddy...

Alongside Novak's picture of the abundance which capitalism produces there needs to be placed another equally significant image — that of decaying, broken - down bus and railway systems; underpaid teachers, policemen, firemen and social workers; overcrowded and understaffed public hospitals; jails and rehabilitation facilities extended far beyond their reasonable capacities.

The fecundity of industry is one of the good fruits of the modern turn towards the world, a turn that has also fertilised many weeds of social and spiritual decay.

I humbly submit that the mantle of blame rests directly on the shoulders of those who have forgotten (or never fully appreciated) how many sacrifices have been endured to prevent social decay.

It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay and death, or the scale of essences by which all things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their places in the natural and social order.

Corporate life loses its vigor and appeal, traditional symbols are emptied of their meaning, and confusion and anxiety arrest social advance and condemn the culture to stagnation and decay.

Good manners express and help to conserve sound social values; bad manners manifest social decay and hasten the disintegration of civilization.

There is a moral decay, a social emptiness, a «homelessness,» to borrow Berger's phrase, that is rushing into the space which the church has left — all of which is leading in the direction of the decay of the social fabric and not the advent of a socialist order.

It is conventional to say at this point that we have greater technological capabilities than we have social wisdom to deal with the complexities of the human factors involved in the problems of war, race, and the decay of the cities.

Some readers will doubtless complain that this conservatism is too Romantic, too English, one that can not be sustained over the course of a life, and certainly not in times of crisis or moral and social decay.

Lest someone object that profits ought not always be blamed for social decay, then what of the downfall of the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990?

To seek one's humanity in a person of the same sex is to seek «a substitute for the despised partner,» and as such it constitutes «physical, psychological and social sickness, the phenomenon of perversion, decadence and decay.»

Only in its underdeveloped forms and its stages of decay is religion found to be essentially tied into social communication, i.e., as a «tribal religion» or as, in Whitehead's formulation, a phenomenon of «sociability» (RM 20ff.).

They accuse him of obstructing social betterment, just as other regressive types once opposed fluoridation for the control of tooth decay.

And the character of a group's story represents a reaction to anomie, social decay that evokes both the Latin sense of «no name» and its Greek cognate of «no norm.»

The consensus has been found on the «common ground» of One Nation Conservatism, whether this is confronting the «age of anxiety» (David Davis); the mending of a «broken society» (Liam Fox); tackling the «coarsening and vulgarising of society» (David Cameron) or the need to reverse Britain's «social decay» (David Willetts).

Sadly, the debate about knife crime remains full of hand wringing about moral decay, and not enough focus on the social conditions which underpin it.

«Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.

Indeed, he portrayed himself as «a product of its decadence and decay, a social mutation born of its toxic muck.»

Once the social tipping point of a campaign has passed, momentum can decay quickly.

The researchers suggest that local authorities could therefore counteract social discrimination by diagnosing and removing signs of disorder and decay in public environments.

Social scientists refer to this gradual loss of interest in a topic as attentional decay.

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.com, the self - appointed arbiter of correctness in the fields of medicine and nutrition, describes Weston Price as «a dentist who maintained that sugar causes not only tooth decay but physical, mental, moral, and social decay as well.»

Featuring a memorable lead performance from Guy Pearce and strong support from Robert Pattinson the film follows in a long tradition of Antipodean sagas involving social decay and dog - eat - dog.

This growing segment of American society is marked not just by economic poverty, but also by social and cultural poverty: the decay of bedrock institutions like marriage and organized religion, as well as the erosion of cohesive social standards like the two - parent family.

These artworks range from romantic depictions of the South's agricultural history to scenes of African - American life that address themes including social justice, emotional response to place, and rural decay and degradation.

Whether operating locally or further abroad in South Africa, Gerald Machona, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Michele Mathison are receiving the attention their work merits, as a result of their continual investigation of pertinent contemporary, cultural themes such as democracy, intolerance, social trauma and the decaying urban environment, all which exist as a consequence of the progressive development of Southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular.

The American city of the 1960s and 1970s experienced seismic physical changes and social transformations, from urban decay and political protests to massive highways that threatened vibrant neighborhoods.

At PPOW, Anton van Dalen's stark, precisely drawn cartoon images from the late»70s and early»80s chronicle a time of urban decay and social unease on New York's pre-gentrification Lower East Side.

Working primarily in painting, sculpture and photography, the artists address a variety of concerns in their work including issues regarding our decaying industrial society and contemporary social structures.

Smashed hopes, lost love, inevitable decay and social dissolution, all within a seamless Mobius strip of passing time — Doug Aitken's work in sculpture and immersive video installations during the past 20 years has taken a romantic view of life's predictable unraveling.

Moore photographs places that have undergone accelerated cycles of growth and decay, due to political, economic, or social upheaval.

Finally the problem with government involvement in managing the risk is it tends to ignore the benefits of ownership and discount them in favour of any residue risks that might apply to itself (liability for having permitted improvements, maintaining utilities and social costs of decaying communities, cleaning up the mess etc).

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

Hemp's positive environmental and economic impact on farmland as well as rotational crops will illustrate the importance of efficient land use as it promotes political, social and economic stability, whereas wasteful and inefficient land use contributes to fluctuations and decay.

With Ripple contributing an enormous worth of its coins for a good cause, more cryptocurrencies may forward to support more social causes despite the recent decay in the cryptocurrency market.

In fact, extreme punishment is one of the most blatant symptoms of decaying social order.