This resolution is a concrete milestone amongst others for an ever - growing
association of social forces and citizens engaged in the struggle.
But the
impact of social forces and traditions is not always positive, sometimes individual person have to suffer in society as well.
For example, in social studies we have the option of either presenting history as the story of great individuals or as the
study of social forces, social movements, innovation and struggle.
The inescapable conclusion to which one is driven by observing it is that the national ethos is far more powerful in determining the shape of things to come than any possible combination
of social forces resulting from the appearance of a common world technical civilization.
The latter notion provides the essential public or social counterweight to radical imagination since, as Castoriadis points out, the proper contrast to society is not the individual — every individual is a
product of social forces — but rather the singular psyche.23 Thus the contrast of psyche - soma in the mindings of a singular individual evokes a parallel contrast of society - psyches.
I have no disagreements with Cobb on these broad matters, but something seems to be missing in his account
of the social forces at work behind the oldline's reduced vitality.
All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons of experience, beyond the realistic
analysis of social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations of common sense, and beyond the fragmented bits of data we get from daily life.
Faced with the
power of the social forces which dominate the global capitalist archipelago, appropriation of the future of the planet by its inhabitants will not be easy and neither will it happen overnight.
That is, while institutions are more powerful than individuals, exerting greater social force, their looser and intersubjective structures lend themselves to
manipulation of that social force by individuals.
Social movements, networks of associations and analysts are given a voice to show the evolution of the economic system, the potential for action and the
strategies of social forces and to formulate proposals and alternatives to the dominant system, supported by these movements.
All of these societal phenomena can be studied empirically by the social sciences, without the assumption that religion is entirely a
product of social forces or that only social functions are significant.
Here we represent two realities, that of the NGOs and their associations, but also
that of the social forces.
We have to bring together
all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.
To Marx the conflict was
of social forces.
While harsh competition between companies, countries, towns and workers generates exclusion and insecurity for the increasing numbers of people, in the North and also in the South, there does appear to be an awakening of citizens and
of social forces.
What are
some of these social forces and social logics?
Whereas Hegel's dialectic was one of concepts, Marx's dialectic was one
of social forces.
Her «rediscovery,» after her death, and recent touring museum exhibition, A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of HonorĂ© Sharrer (Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA), are similarly the result
of social forces that are now encouraging the reexamination of an under - recognized body of work and of major talents unfairly ignored.