Sentences with phrase «of social mechanisms»

This exhibition focuses on an investigation of belief systems and power structures, exploring strategies of critique and ultimately the configuration of social mechanisms.

Some of these social mechanisms are good for humanity, and some are bad, such as war.

Strategies must not be limited to the level of social mechanisms and political devices, but must be aimed at creating a new consciousness, a vision of a good future powerful enough to open us up to new, more effective ways of solving our problems.

Economics describes the variety of social mechanisms by which the production and distribution of scarce goods and services may be regulated.

Not exact matches

«The Happiness Foundation focuses on social enterprises, an innovative model that addresses social problems by tapping into corporate mechanisms, and supports the creation of a social enterprise ecosystem,» said Chey Kee - won, President, The Happiness Foundation.

Some of our posts are related to social justice and making the world a better place, but we also use social media as a mechanism for recruitment and selling.

Innovations in distribution mechanisms (facebook, iphone / ipad, other «social») make it possible for startups to appear compelling without having to actually solve the distribution problem in a novel way, just assume garnering success on one of these platforms.

Online marketers who disregard customer satisfaction will be put out of business by these very customers, either indirectly through social proof mechanisms like Google + or Yelp, or directly through outright bans on major marketing channels like eBay, Amazon, and AdWords.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

His final explanation (note the «purely») of any religion refers only to what that religion does for its adherents, and only to the mechanisms of the evolution of social organisms.

This has resulted in creating social mechanisms which are uncontrollable, corrupt and which give birth to criminalisation of politics, degeneration of architecture and art in all forms, and the prevailing sickness of the body, mind and spirit.

The error of such free market economics is that it substitutes an automatic social mechanism for moral responsibility and thereby permits grave social injustices to occur.

The primary social question in regard to occupation is whether work is determined by the requirements of a sovereign economic mechanism or by deliberate social planning guided by an integral concept of human nature.

Interactive strategic alliances (ISAS) form the heart of making collaboration a social habit by institutionalizing collaborative mechanisms.

If the fundamental social mechanisms for renewal are diminished — marriage, parenting, productive work, interpersonal trust, and religious or communal involvement — then the social law of entropy takes over, which is what is happening today in poor American communities

While Sartre attempts to explain the mechanisms of dialectical reasoning in its social context, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag sets a limit to dialectical thought by demonstrating its ultimate moral failure.

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

What emerged was a deistic philosophy in which the ideas of sin and God receded in favor of new social control mechanisms provided by law and legitimated by conceptions of the lawfulness of nature.

In their view, the Constitution sets the basic structure for a society in which individuals compete for life's rewards, and the competitive economic market is the mechanism of social justice.

Finite human freedom can be realized only in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.

From such visions might also come insights relevant to the discovery of social strategies and political mechanisms and technological deployment that could help give concrete substance to the futures we desire to invent.

Institutions, principally governments, determined to achieve certain social goals require knowledge, both of the factors which are most likely to shape the future and of the mechanisms which will be required to direct these interacting forces into desirable patterns toward chosen ends.

The priorities now lie not with technological development but with social invention — the creation of new mechanisms of problem solving, novel forms of social organization, innovative life - styles, and so on.

In particular mechanisms would need to be set up to strengthen the position of the weakest countries or social groups.

More importantly, issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

«All religions have different mechanisms that would plausibly lead to higher well - being, including social networks and ways of dealing with stress, but we can't prove that,» he said.

To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

What mechanisms are necessary to maintain dialogue between the economic and institutional dynamics of media industries and their social role?

Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism in which the social objectives of the peoples are destroyed for the sake of economic growth.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

During the development of the Basin Plan, Basin water ministers requested an adjustment mechanism be included to allow for better social, economic and environmental outcomes than would otherwise have been achieved.

Back in 2009, when I started STFU, Parents, there were no articles or blog posts about how parents use social media, what kind of impact these attitudes and user mechanisms had on their kids (or their friends), or what we could learn from social media etiquette, including the benefits of curbing certain types of posting behavior.

Research regarding the details of what parenting behaviors contribute most to encouraging generosity is difficult because many complex psychological and social mechanisms at work in the parent / child relationship are not empirically observable.

She was the first person to identify the physiological mechanisms responsible for social monogamy, and her research interests focus on the neurobiological basis of behavior and the developmental and epigenetic effects of early experience.

Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19

More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related biases in their social - emotional information processing (i.e. attention biases to emotional facial expressions).

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

After going through the analysis of manifestation styles and reuse of social patterns, one could try to build a political theory regarding the most «important» parties in India on top of these recurring mechanisms (like Political Theory and Postmodernism from Stephen K. White tried it for Europe).

Through establishing a mechanism for the creation of collective discussion that would otherwise be prohibited, she argues that social media networks can serve as a voice to the voiceless and call for international assistance in crises that would otherwise go unheard.

Some even see rays of hope in local efforts in some communities to establish social coping mechanisms — whether soup kitchens, rubbish collection or free additional tutoring for poorer children.

Some workers may have their means of subsistence covered outside the market, thanks to some or other mechanism of social provision.

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday, tasked civil authorities to adopt effective mechanism towards fighting the ideological, social and propaganda of Boko Haram...

Imagine you were interested in biological mechanisms of social interactions.

The underlying mechanism might be related to the concept of «social priming,» where people's actions towards others are altered subconsciously due to exposure to particular words, cues, objects, or symbols.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.