Sentences with phrase «only social attitudes»

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

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He often echoes King's attitude that this generation not only must stand against the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but also must rebuke the appalling silence and indifference of the so - called good people who enable social stagnation.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

Utilitarianism seems to mark not only the attitude of the political powers that use religion for the sake of social control and transform it to suit their purposes, but also the attitude of many who oppose them.

Several forces in modern societies worked not only to liberalize attitudes but to develop the social logics that created both modern homosexual identity and more tolerant attitudes toward it.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

And yet an unflagging trust in the divine promise of social fulfillment is, even from the point of view of «practicality,» the only attitude that can adequately respond to our «impossible» dilemma of utopian naivete on the one hand or cynicism on the other.

The British Social Attitudes Survey published earlier this year revealed that only 55 per cent of the public believed there was a democratic duty to vote.

It's also possible that the race is closer to the results of larger surveys like the British Social Attitudes survey which suggest that only around one - in - four voters are unequivocally in favour of withdrawal from the EU.

«The Minister's views are deeply misguided and he is simply incorrect — only a minority of people in Britain are practising Christians and over half of the population sees itself as non-religious according to the latest British Social Attitudes survey.

It survives in spite of the Church of England commanding little public support, with only 16 % of the population professing to affiliation according to the 2013 British Social Attitudes survey (and only 1.4 % being in Church on any given Sunday, according to the Church's own attendance figures).

While the nice and perky Kathleen is clearly better than the ever - frantic Patricia, it is easy to see why Joe would be with her; her high social station makes for a «comfortable» choice, and it is in line with his hard - as - nails attitude — which, of course, hides the truly gentle soul that he bears only to «Shopgirl.»

Opposing attitudes were found for two clusters: first, grouping practices (with educators of the gifted favoring ability grouping and middle school educators opposing such grouping) and second, social development (with only middle school educators seeing the «gifted» label as creating social adjustment problems).

One thing however is clear: for a woman to opt for a career at all, much less for a career in art, has required a certain amount of unconventionality, both in the past and at present; whether or not the woman artist rebels against or finds strength in the attitude of her family, she must in any case have a good strong streak of rebellion in her to make her way in the world of art at all, rather than submitting to the socially approved role of wife and mother, the only role to which every social institution consigns her automatically.

This show includes paintings that evoke a multitude of social and philosophical ideas, as well as a multiplicity of attitudes to nature, not only its changing moods, but also the feelings called forth by them in the painter's own mind — from the effusiveness of Spring Rain to the tumult of Stormy Sea and the dense melancholy of Damp Autumn.

His social role is asocial; his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

In my view this comment exemplifies a problematic attitude not only in climate science but in the social sciences as well.

Not only do we take it for granted that the tobacco industry should take responsibility for their product — but the credibility of the industry has plummeted — changing social attitudes to smoking the world over.

«Twitter's relevance continues to grow — not only as a social platform, but also as a window into consumer attitudes and behaviour in real time,» says Sorrell.

After all they have their job for a reason, I am sure only the best rise to the top of the Corporate ladder and social connections and attitudes also have no impact.

For example, when a child with a history of maltreatment, several out - of - home placements and anxious and / or disorganized attachment is adopted into a family, the focus becomes not only the child's history of problems, but also the constellation of family - related issues: parents» attachment histories, marital relationship issues, sibling issues, parenting attitudes and skills, relationship patterns and dynamics and external social systems.

Compared to control groups, not only do students who participate in SEL programs demonstrate significant gains in their social and emotional skills; they show higher levels of prosocial behavior, more favorable attitudes toward school and others, and better academic achievement.