Sentences with phrase «part of our social action»

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That could help curtail a true drug crisis with devastating economic and social impacts — and which was sparked, in large part, by the actions of huge pharmaceutical companies.

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

tr., edited by G. E. G. Catlin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Talcott Parsons, The Structure of Social Action (New York: McGraw - Hill, 1937), Part II, chaps.

A major function of Part I is to discover to what extent formative figures belong to evangelical or social action party types.

In the first of a three part series on Christian involvement in social action, Sam Hailes investigates the ways in which today's Church is joining the fight against...

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

Although reconciliation with man is not reconciliation with God, nor is social action evangelism, nor is political liberation salvation, nevertheless we affirm that evangelism and socio - political involvement are part of our Christian duty.

Many ministers discerned the vital need of social action in the time of the liberal social gospel in the earlier part of this century.

But more important is that the discrete region of Christian social action has foundations in a certain way of interpreting the Christian faith, a way which is native to theological schools and for the most part foreign to Protestant congregations.

The development in the civil rights movement of doubts about the full effectiveness of non-violence may represent in part a yielding to emotions less disciplined by ethical considerations; but it also reflects the discovery of some complexities of effective social action.

There were, of course, excesses in the «60s on the part of many Christians who seemed to believe that social action was the only legitimate expression of the Christian life.

By the 1960's, however, this movement had won respectability so thoroughly that it is sometimes regarded by the current crop of social action leaders as simply part of the Establishment.

WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations of philosophy and psychological benefits of religious ritual, along with other social sciences, as part of science... instead of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.

In the first of a three part series on Christian involvement in social action, Sam Hailes investigates the ways in which today's Church is joining the fight against UK poverty.

Their decline is in part the result of their taking the faith seriously by engaging in prophetic social action, thus making the church pew an uncomfortable place for many who had once found it easeful.

In Jones» words, «An agent's description of her actions, if they are to be intelligible, will be situated in the context of her beliefs» beliefs drawn from the social contexts in which she lives and the traditions of which she is a part.»

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

The British Safety Council is supporting the #iwill campaign that aims to make social action part of life for as many 10 to 20 years olds as possible by the year 2020.

And taking part in social action — things like campaigning, fund - raising and volunteering in health and social care - means young people benefit at the same time as improving the lives of others.

Then there's the individual as the vector of social change, the perception that Society is immanent in each individual action and can't simply be hypostasised as the State, imposed from above or evoked through fugitive concepts such as «public opinion» It's a view that's been quite strong since the late 1960s and is shared (the «desiring subject» for example) by what remains of the libertarian part of the Left.

Because even if there's no such thing as a soul that's separate from the brain and that somehow pushes the buttons of behavior — even if we are nothing but our brains — it's undoubtedly true that there are parts of the brain that are responsive to the potential consequences of our actions, that are responsive to social norms, to reward, punishment, credit, and blame.

The researchers call this action a sign of social intelligence on the part of the humans.

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In fact, while the film never excuses their actions, it gives the characters context with a bit of social introspection — not a huge part of the film, but it does add a bit of depth and relevance.

We are inspired by Jane Hart's call to «Walk the Social Talk», and consider this as the most significant «action» required on the part of learning designers to get equipped for handling the challenges of designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workpSocial Talk», and consider this as the most significant «action» required on the part of learning designers to get equipped for handling the challenges of designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workpsocial learning interventions for today's workplaces.

Jason Riley challenges the value of affirmative action and liberal social reform precisely 50 years after their birth as part of the «Great Society» conceived by President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration in 1964 and 1965.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

We also document that although public - interest lawyers were initially motivated to expand student legal rights as part of a larger strategy to reduce social inequality, legal challenges to school disciplinary actions are disproportionately the province of white and higher - income students and their families.

A goal for the latter part of the book is to try to reconstruct a thicker view of how to connect knowledge to public action, one that recognizes the importance of values, welcomes democratic decisionmaking, is aware of the limits of different forms of knowledge, and is not utopian in its aims but is still hopeful about how we can make public progress on a range of social problems.

The work forms part of the government's commitment, set out in the recently published [Social Mobility Action Plan], to identify and spread «what works» so that successful approaches can be adopted more widely.

This is part of the government's social mobility action plans «Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential», which was published on 14 December.

This schools pilot is part of a major # 134m four - year action plan to help to transform mental health in Greater Manchester, announced in July by Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.

Integrity is part of the Compass Advantage (a model designed for engaging families, schools, and communities in the principles of positive youth development) because integrity is the basis of social harmony and action.

Social - emotional learning (SEL) should be part of the conversation around preventing the next school shooting, but the solutions are far more complicated, which is why we've taken three actions.

There is a growing belief that youth social action — for example, volunteering in the community, taking part in Scouts or the Duke of Edinburgh Award, or...

In the 2015/16 academic year, 90 pupils took part in the programme, consisting of a student leadership conference, a social action project in their own schools and a final graduation ceremony.

This Storify aptly captures the story of many of the schools who took part in the Friday day of action through the social media posts of those involved.

February 2015: CWC Schools Co-Founder and CEO Kriste Dragon, as part of the Aspen Action Forum, pledges to develop social and emotional learning skills to improve academic performance in more than 10,000 students over the next 15 years.

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The federal government can withhold all or part of a tax refund and up to 15 % of monthly Social Security benefits to pay back defaulted federal student loans.3 (These federal «offsets» do not apply to private student loans, but private debt collectors may threaten to take such action.)

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An interest in this artistic current forms an important part of Marte Johnslien's artistic practice and her research on the relation between abstract art, spirituality, politics and social action.

If you can start to see below the superficial level of events, and into the social system of which we are all a part, then you will be able to write better articles that ask deeper questions and give readers deeper insights to effective action.

My job was to describe the empirical social science that, in part, explains why more climate science hasn't led to more climate - smart energy action, but also hints at paths forward even in an era of intense political polarization.

10/14/17 — As part of its drive to overturn the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency recently released significantly lower estimates of the so - called social cost of carbon dioxide, a measure widely used to weigh the value of actions aimed at stopping climate change.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

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Jennifer is part of a «Resilience Circle» in Greenbelt that meets to learn about the economy and the environment, engage in mutual aid, and take social action.

This may in part be due to the fact that action on climate change is widely seen as a progressive goal, says Hulme, and being a generally progressive sort of bunch, social scientists might be reticent to impede proceedings, or to be seen to give succour to right - wing «denialists».