Sentences with phrase «own social structure»

Also, I based Artemis» internal economy — and kind of its social structure that emerges as a result — on resort towns, tourism towns.
«Currency alone doesn't buy you the ability to create new social structures,» says Vinay Gupta, an Ethereum project manager best known for inventing the hexayurt, a makeshift shelter that dots the landscape at the Burning Man festival each year.
Building a global community that works for everyone starts with the millions of smaller communities and intimate social structures we turn to for our personal, emotional and spiritual needs.
Similarly, polygamy has been popular in Africa, also because of largely patriarchal social structures.
The essays collected in the latest of the pop culture and philosophy series offer insights about how Nietzsche's exploration of the positive power of active forgetting can illuminate the Draper, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson characters; a comparison between the social structure of Sterling Cooper and an Aristotelian definition of friendship; and a glimpse into the Existential Void of Roger Sterling.
R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.
Restaurants are a part of the millennials» social structure, and they choose to spend less at meals so that they can eat out more often, says Darren Tristano, executive vice president of Technomic, a food - service research and consulting firm.
Last year, Facebook's first president Sean Parker and former executive Chamath Palihapitiya both expressed serious misgivings about Facebook and how it messes with people's psychological and social structures.
Those early human tribes that learned them and incorporated them into their social structures survived.
His comments reveal a broad intellectual delusion that covers religious belief, public governance, and social structure.
In Japan, for instance, there is a whole etiquette about how far and how long to bow to whom depending on their and your place in the social structure.
We do not know whether persons in this group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.
Put an objective observer (I know, there's no such thing) into a community and in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity of that community, you will be able to describe their political (not a bad word) and social structure, you will uncover their norms and mores, their rules, very often unspoken or only spoken and not written.
The «MAD» of social structure.
The most humane individual may participate, whether boldly or unwittingly, in the most inhumane social structures.
That can be shown by the changing social structure of america.
Finally, there remains one pressing objection: Is not an appeal for an activist movement of direct, albeit nonviolent, confrontation with evil social structures fundamentally incompatible with Jesus» call for nonresistance?
They know it's ridiculous, but just try not to think about it because it's a deep - seeded part of their social structure.
To foreigners, however, we all appeared to be following a religion, and so they started calling our social structure Hinduism.
And so, much of the social structure that provided an incentive to be good, moral, generous, honest, and so on in the past simply doesn't exist in society today.
Leaving aside the damage inflicted on the countries subjected to «democratization» — a large number of direct and indirect victims, the replacement of traditional social structures by chaos — we can see the problems the globalist utopia creates in the West.
Obedience to God, these texts suggest, can not take place in isolation from social structures; faith in the living God demands not only love of neighbor.
Many liberal / progressive / emergent types claim to focus on broken social structures, but are woefully unprepared for the task.
The Middle Ages brought about a great flowering of Christian culture: the cathedrals and the philosophical systems (especially in Thomas Aquinas), as well as Christianity's development of social structures.
I don't think it necessarily means leaving the family, but no longer subscribing to its rules, conforming to its pressure, or defining our lives by that social structure that is so firmly entrenched.
But it became the centre of a widely - dispersed religious commonwealth which was, as we have seen, a unique form of social structure, and has had an incalculable influence in history.
Even as we contest these false gender scripts, the scripts have a total hold over our existence, shaping our language, our values and the social structures that we all participate in.
These texts say that we as individuals have responsibility not only to our neighbors but to our social structures, but they do not spell out what that might mean in specific cases.
Most of us suffer quietly the built - in conflict of loyalties endemic to life in social structures.
We have built our entire social structure around these presumptions.
This is the more notable because Ezekiel was the advocate of a restored church state on Zion, and was one of the most effective forces in reestablishing the social structure whose breakdown had encouraged individualism.
This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.
Both are found in prophetic preaching that seeks to alter social structures, and in premillennial prognostications of the anti-Christ that reinforce the desire to hold on until Jesus comes.
In a country where the state's incursions into the family sphere is vigorously resisted, a call for a liberating reordering of social structures by the church would realistically demand a Christian alignment with policies many might consider «protofascistic.»
It has built its legislation on the recognition that a man has a personality independent of his compatriots and his community, a personality which forms an element in the social structure.
The claim that just social structures would make charity superfluous «masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live «by bread alone» — a notion that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.»
But it never affects the roots of injustice — social structures, the bases of an economic system, the foundations of a society.
Even if we deny that Jesus worked for transformation in the explicit sense of deriving the dialectic of individual and society from social structures, or beginning the process of transformation with changes in property and social relationships, it can not be overlooked that in an indirect sense, the manner in which Jesus thought and acted de facto broke open and transformed the social structures of the world in which he lived.7
They created greater freedom for the middle class but on the whole, at least initially, undercut the social structures that gave some security to the poor.
[The] social structures and attitudes in our society draw legitimacy from the central assumptions of Western religion and philosophy.
For the self - realization of the formerly anonymous Christianity is demanded, first, by the incarnational and social structure of grace and Christianity, and, secondly, by the fact that a clearer and more reflected comprehension of Christianity offers a greater chance of salvation to the individual than his status as an anonymous Christian.
In fact, however, the Christians as the pilgrim people of God have been given the absolute command to hope, and this includes that they must always abandon also fossilized social structures.
The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.
This advisor is basically saying, «she is a threat to the social structure of our society.»
Many also address problems tangential to ethics: social structures, political organization and control, economic systems, the ethos and the world view of the people, theological interpretations of moral issues and much more.
On the level of male - female relations, the mythic account of the fall in fact describes the patriarchal society of the early people who created this Genesis myth, which in its turn confirmed the social structure of male dominance and female subjection.
Although Whitehead seems to reject the Marxist idea of the class war (AI 35), he knew that society built on iniquity resulted either in its self - destruction or a correction built on the insertion of some new theory into the social structure (AI 14).
In revealing to us the social structures, categories and expectations by which we exclude those most in need of acceptance, it unmasks our pretensions, our unjustified feelings of contentment and self - satisfied smugness in the face of a world characterized by injustice, hunger and depression of the human spirit.
His entire upbringing has lived in this social structure and rev. Wright simply put a Christian name on the ideas.
Church is a HUGE social structure that provides that to generation after generation of sheeple.
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