Sentences with phrase «particular social norm»

So the pressure to conform to this particular social norm is enormous.

Not exact matches

It is one thing teleologically to validate a particular action «separately taken» and another to validate it by appeal to a system of norms or a social practice that is itself validated teleologically.

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

Secondly I argue that the New Testament's seeing Jesus as example is a necessary correlate of what later theology calls his divine sonship (the other side of the «incarnation»), in such a way that those who downgrade the weight of Jesus» example, on the grounds that his particular social location or example can not be a norm, renew a counterpart of the old «Ebionitic» heresy.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

When you go to live in a particular country, you enter with the knowledge that you are going to be exposed to their values, cultures and even their peculiar social norms.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

We placed particular emphasis on establishing and sustaining a community of learners (Winograd, 2000) and developed a sense of social presence (Garrison et al., 2000) through peer interaction related to participants» mathematical representations and by establishing norms for effective communication.

Simply obtaining a social science degree does not guarantee that a scholar will continue to meet scholarly norms within any particular social science field, because knowledge within fields is constantly evolving and scholars at all levels continue to hone their skills through extensive peer interactions of many kinds.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50