Sentences with phrase «other social facts»

We have the capacity to examine our social identities, considering them in the light of our best understanding of other social facts and social relationships.

«Christianity as a social phenomenon,» wrote theologian Lesslie Newbigin, «has always and necessarily been conditioned as to its outward form by other social facts.»

Not exact matches

This topic came up recently at a meeting where everyone was bemoaning the funding cutbacks in social services in many cities and the fact that outreach efforts, awareness campaigns and other marketing initiatives were among the first things to be dropped.

The social network may argue that it doesn't tell its publishing partners what they should be creating for that money, but the fact that it is pushing video — and that its algorithm clearly favors certain kinds of video content over other kinds — helps determine what gets promoted.

Because cable news networks can't hope to compete with the «instant media» of news on social media, he says, CNN and other networks need «to put the facts together in such a way as to make them comprehensible to the audience.»

The fact that some social networks are Mondays and others are Tuesday is really interesting.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

The problem lies in the fact that the internet grist mill of gargantuan marketing campaigns by the newsletter community are now inundating inboxes with every other form of social media blitzkrieg designed to pump and promote designated junior names for a «fee,» which has been escalating sharply as the stakes behind «distribution» are recognized.

Social networks and other crypto discussion boards have recently exploded with dozens of reports on the fact stating that their virtual coins have been stolen from MEW accounts.

But just increasing our numbers won't solve our issues if we don't successfully integrate — in fact, it may severely compound other social issues.

Perhaps one upside of so much volatility is the fact that many emerging markets are so undervalued at present relative to other sectors (social media, for instance), that many commodity - based investment opportunities now exist.

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

They have contributed to and allowed stereotypes about themselves to persist, when in fact atheists are, as youareallmissingthepoint said, as diverse as any other social grouping.

When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

Clergy have to accept the fact that they are human beings with the same basic social needs as other people, and to take those needs seriously.

The other limitation on freedom in language follows from the fact that communication is a social and not an individual function.

Whether we assume that each of us is essentially an individual who chooses to join others in various forms of social grouping or that each of us is primarily and inescapably social, the fact remains that death is a shared experience that ironically unites or confirms us in some social dimension.

On the other hand, the very fact that they claim if not a monopoly of supreme values and motivating forces, yet a unique relation to them, makes it impossible for the churches to participate in promotion of social ends on a natural and equal human basis.

It is important, on the other hand, not to lose sight of the fact that though the world of It is a social world which is derived from the world of Thou, it often sets itself up as the final reality.

Its sociality, as a result, becomes largely «technical dialogue» with the social understood either as an organic, objective whole or as the mere communication and interaction between human beings who may in fact relate to each other largely as Its.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

On the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholes.

The fact that this activity is carried out with others is one reason for designating it as a specific type of justice; it requires a broader range of social skills than do acts of individual justice.

«Fullness of life» may mean many things; but what is meant here appears from the fact that it is something which other faiths also offer in an inferior or equal manner and that it is elsewhere declared that «our dedication... is to the progressive realization of the dignity and worth of man in every area of life — political, economic, social and religious.»

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

As «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of love.

It is one of the encouraging facts of our time that in the churches there is a growing sense of the need for Christians to be involved in political and other forms of social action.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same cultural and social context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.

In fact, there could no longer be any social or religious demarcations at all that would elevate one group to superiority over others.

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

The dual thrust of the book of Deuteronomy should not surprise us in view of the fact that in our own time political and social insecurity appears to be giving an impetus to a revival of religion which is in part marked by moral discernment while in other aspects it is perfunctory and external.

I am sure John Gager is largely correct when he accounts for the success of Christianity in the competition with its rivals by the fact that it was social as well as religious.62 That implied, among other things, total care for the neighbors to whom the mission was brought.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&rSocial development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&rSocial Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&rsocial welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

The Dolan Project, in other words, is much less a matter of new facts than of new interpretive filters, of «a tendency to endorse as theological liberalism what the old [historiography] endorsed as social and procedural liberalism.»

In fact, Robert Kingdon argues that Geneva's resourcefulness in finding effective ways to cope with the tide of refugees and students from other countries, providing housing and practical programs of economic and social integration of the newcomers, was essential to the success of the international program of Calvinism.

Like so many others, the Augustinian cloister had in fact taken on a life of its own as a social and economic unit in a society devoted to the maintenance of the policy and economy of the Church with all its complicated and expensive structures.

this value derives from the simple fact of existing and is not dependent on an individual's age, abilities, social acceptability or any other characteristic;

You can know one another for years via computers, smart phones, and social media and get to know each other quite well, yet not know the little everyday details you might know about a friend when you know them in person — like their favorite color or what kind of car they drive or where they were born or the fact that you carry almost identical pink and white iPhone cases.

There will be other clubs looking to sign the talented young attacker, but the fact that he recently posted a picture of his good friend Sead Kolasinac's Arsenal shirt on social media certainly makes you think.

This kind of thinking in the U.K!!!! the fact you have your own site makes that statement incredibly contradictory, you want everyone to hear your views but get upset when others express theirs, I would suggest this type of attitude is on the rise, the me me me culture of social media and the taking yourself to seriously culture, Tony your are certainly part of this.

In other words, her friends don't have to come from just one social group, in fact, they probably shouldn't.

I circle back to the fact that Badinter's book and all the others like it are distracting us from addressing the real issues that, unlike co-sleeping and breast - feeding, truly do undermine the social and economic status of American mothers: issues like the inability to find and pay for quality childcare and the lack of paid maternity leave.

In fact, latest research shows that kids who visit and take part in the physical activities in the clubs develop by: a) Expanding their social circles b) Displaying enhanced prosocial skills c) Fostering their sense of pride d) Improving their willingness and ability to work together with others

The fact your twins will basically always be with each other during childhood, will serve to make them incredibly social creatures.

For me the standout fact was a comment he made about MyBarackObama.com — namely, that it had a completely separate user base to other social networking sites online.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.