Sentences with phrase «periods of social reform»

As Timothy Smith, Donald Dayton and others have pointed out, evangelical Christians phyed notable roles in early periods of social reform in America.

Not exact matches

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

During the same period it has opposed, delayed and sought to reject almost all of the steps taken by former Labour governments to introduce social reforms, from the inception of the NHS to any changes to the House of Lords itself.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

Understands the sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period

As a product of its time, the 1999 principle reflected an idealistic belief in the potential of digital technologies to transform teaching and learning in social studies, during what O'Brien (2010) described as a «period of ambivalence» and «inertia... as the nation's attention turned to standards - based educational reform» (p. 212).

In the next breath, however, he confusingly characterizes progressive reform during that same time period as «radical» — the Common School movement, for example, in which education was first envisioned as the province of the entire public, regardless of money or social status.

The princess lived during an extraordinary period of Thai history; a time of modernization, social reforms and unprecedented Western influence through architecture, fashion and etiquette.

The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World War I to the Japanese Invasion in 1937.