Sentences with phrase «of social privilege»

Even where it is, I take it as a very minor compensating disadvantage for the huge degree of social privilege we get just by being male.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

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«It is a privilege to practice again, and we want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good,» Edwards said.

It's a privilege to learn from the awesome strategies of others to see if we can improve our social media marketing.

Meanwhile, social networks realize that brands will pay big money for access to the millions of users in their online communities, and they're going to charge more and more for that privilege.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

«I've had the privilege of working with Marsha Collier for the past year, to discuss strategies for delivering spectacular online and social customer service.

The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

Each social position carries with it certain rights, privileges, and responsibilities, and the pattern of social positions determines the power structure of the society.

For ancient Israel, it was the end of privilege, certitude, domination, viable public institutions and a sustaining social fabric.

If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive knowledge of God, righteousness and social reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel disocial reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diSocial Gospel diverge.

For too long, I think, we have counted on our social privileges as a religious monopoly and maintained that by the suppression of alternatives.

Open up any social media platform, and you'll likely be confronted with entrenched opinions on the topic of privilege.

But none of those was entitled, on account of being acquainted with books, to any special social privileges.

The universal message of divine empowerment is particularly potent in situations of social injustice and political privilege.

But a truly social doctrine of the Trinity contains the vision of a community of women and men in church and society without privilege or subjection to each other - or to God.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

Work was carried out largely through a system of slaves, so that the privilege of play and the obligation of work were mutually exclusive social functions performed by two distinct groups in society.

29: See also G. F. Lenski, Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification (New York: McGraw Hill, 1966), pp. 276 - 77.

But the prophets had failed; instead of telling the truth, they deceived and distorted: «When the people build a wall» (the wall of the city; Wall Street; walls of finance, defense, security and privilege; walls that divide and protect; walls that include and exclude; walls of policy which are highly doubtful in their social implications and in their theological presuppositions), «the prophets paint those walls with whitewash.»

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

The church has set up programs of social justice, preached utopian ideals, adopted resolutions, urged charity, proclaimed good will among men; but neither the progressive impoverishment of the life of the many nor the growth of the privileges of the few has been stayed by its efforts.

Today some Christians argue that the development of contraceptives makes even the social prohibition against extramarital intercourse passé — which is to say, they are prepared to extend to women the privileges which the Old Testament freely accords to men.

On this basis we must oppose all social systems that create wealth and privilege for some by impoverishing, degrading or eliminating other people, whether they be the systems of domination that repress or assault women, or the systems that plan nuclear annihilation in a futile search for security based on competitive world power.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.

• The rejection of social and economic privileges which discriminate between different groups of people, which prevents the emergence of a class system.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

And to truly have social maintenance of the status quo — that is denial of rights and privileges to those Not Like You — you need laws that allow you legal right to deny others outside of the church arena.

There are, of course, no structures or procedures that can be devised to guarantee that a school's interest in its social and cultural privileges will not bias its education, legitimate those privileges religiously, and then subtly but systematically obscure the bias.

Precisely because a congregation has «material» bases and is necessarily located at some point in conflicts within a society which may tend to privilege its access to the material resources it needs, a congregation's practices are always in danger of serving to preserve the social arrangements from which they profit and of obscuring the inequalities inherent in those arrangements.

The framework of The Bee's «joke» is partly that addressing a concept like privilege is problematic because it makes the party that benefits from social privilege feel bad.

It also makes the beneficiaries of privilege the victims — instead of trying to challenge them to see beyond their own position as someone in a demographic majority that traditionally holds social and economic power.

And even though this was the twilight period of aristocracy, still the conception of learning verged on the ideal of universal knowledge, and was almost the exclusive privilege of the upper classes, automatically conferring prestige and social status on the educated man.

If you don't think that the essence of Trump's support from a not - so - small chunk of his base comes from those who feel that their «white privilege» is being threatened by an increasingly multi-cultural society that will confer fewer and fewer relative social benefits from just being white, then I don't know what to tell you.

For example, you can take away electronics, the use of the family car, the privilege of attending parties or special events, social media use and even the ability to stay home alone.

Levine, who has written a book titled «The Price of Privilege,» is part of a wave of therapists, researchers and social observers who argue that many of today's parents have found a new method of screwing up their kids: ask too much of them in some ways, not nearly enough in others.

Susan Newman, social psychologist and author of «Little Things Long Remembered: Making Your Children Feel Special Every Day,» said parents should discourage bad behaviors by taking away privileges such as dessert, or setting an earlier bedtime.

This ontological turn has opened up space for new ways of thinking about democracy, but in my view it has some troubling entailments too — it culminates in the effective detachment of political dynamics from social relations of power and results in the unvindicated privileging of the former over the latter.

The tension between these two views, emblematic of the polarization of contemporary American politics, is that while the former sees social goods and access to them in terms of dessert and relative privilege, the latter conceives them as an inalienable right.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

White Privilege can be interpreted as a derivation of Max Weber's sociological concept of «social stratification» - describing how inequity within society forms and is perpetuated.

«The further suggestions in Lord Carey's statement that recent court judgments which have not upheld claims of unlawful discrimination against Christians in the workplace are a threat to the social order and a step away from barring Christians from any employment is scaremongering, and a desperate cry from those unrepresentative few who are trying to retain the kind of privileges for religion that have no place in our society.»

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

The announcement of the campaign comes from advocates and elected officials as Comptroller Stringer and the Fiscal Policy Institute release comprehensive reports highlighting the significant social and economic benefits of extending driving privileges to undocumented immigrants.

I have endeavoured, in my social and political life, to treat everyone with whom I have had the privilege of meeting, big or small, famous or not, with the utmost respect and reverence.

There is of course a strong religious lobby with deep roots in and outside of Labour which does not wholly share our values of social justice, human rights and equality and which is desperate not to lose its privileges nor one of its best recruiting grounds through running schools.

The former Tory leader, who found a new lease of political life through right - wing prescriptions for social problems, tried to seize on the recent rioting as further proof that government policy should privilege stable families.