Sentences with phrase «on societal concerns»

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

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Standard Life Investments cited a recent poll of UK residents that showed that only 39 percent of 18 - to -24-year-olds and 35 percent of 25 - to -34-year-olds were «more concerned in investing in a company that provides high returns on investment than societal / environmental issues».

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

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But the assumptions underlying Putnam's claim should inspire faith communities, and all those who value witness in the public square, to reflect on how — or how effectively — we have responded to the societal changes Putnam is concerned with.

Entitled Social science and epigenetics: opportunities and challenges, the symposium will seek to examine how multidisciplinary research into epigenetics — the science of the lasting marks that modify the expression of the genes encoded in our DNA — might help provide answers to societal concerns including why deprivation has such a marked impact on child development and on health outcomes.

He is concerned about the huge cost and says the money would be better spent on pressing societal needs.

We can no longer ignore the influence of climate change on a wide range of issues of societal concern, including peace and security.

It is our mandate (no pun) as men, our responsibility in this evolutionary stage to fearlessly act on love, without concern of rejection by women, or fellow males in their reaction to false societal rules.

In one scene, she chastises Lady Bird for leaving her school uniform on the floor and then proceeds to explain exactly what financial and societal concerns have led her to stress this request so strongly.

He went on to develop a formal language all of his own, while concerned with the media and consumerism, also calls into question the role of the artist vis - à - vis specific societal and economic conditions.

And to further contextualize these innovative new practices, Cassel Oliver will turn to the often overlooked, with the two - part show «Black in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the formal.

Lee's early work focused on depicting societal concerns through realism, such as his first major project in the United States in which he painted portraits of San Francisco's homeless community on found boxes.

For the Scottish figurative painters Peter Howson and Jock McFadyen, their specific focus on marginalized characters reflects a concern with the brutal nature of societal order, manifested in their use of exaggerated physicality.

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

Depending on the answers to these questions, long - term climate change may be a more pressing or lower priority societal concern.

Environmental, energy, and global warming concern well may be on American's minds — as recent opinion polls Climate Progress is parsing bear out — but collectively we're barely past admitting we have a problem, let alone starting the depth of societal soul searching the activist community would (rightly) like to see.

Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel of France is chairing the CCW meeting of experts and has recruited Brazil and Germany to serve as «friends of the chair» to chair respectively the sessions on ethical and societal concerns and technical issues.

While bullying is a serious concern for the development and well being of children, condemning same - sex parents on the basis of societal prejudice instead of working to combat this prejudice is hardly logical.

Perhaps most famous for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Hayes is equally passionate about social justice and societal concerns and his hope that psychology can leave the protocols behind and focus on the competencies.