Sentences with phrase «perspective on society»

In general, though, by looking to the future, post-apocalyptic fiction offers a perspective on society as it stands today.

Hard to decide which mini-sitcom is most ludicrous, but it's clear the broader canvas hasn't afforded Curtis a longer perspective on society.

Again, value - judgments are less directly involved in the details of work in the natural sciences than in many other fields; in the social sciences, for example, a scholar's work is more strongly affected by his views of the nature of man, his values and goals, and his perspective on society.

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On Monday, Zuckerberg cited two important reasons to pursue diversity: Because it's good for society, and it's beneficial for companies from a commercial perspective too.

By providing students in all disciplines with concepts of sustainability, universities are taking on a more essential role — giving students a broader perspective for whatever profession they choose and helping to create a more inclusive, responsible society.

It is also important to keep in perspective the very real problems that beset our society in other respects, including adolescent depression and the terrible cost it can extract on young lives, on families and on all of us.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

Most process theologians, Cobb suggests, are likely, reluctantly, to follow Whitehead in this judgment because their perspective is based on the «realism» of the actual viable alternatives confronting a society.

We must be willing to hear and be curious about other people's stories and perspectives, especially those people who find themselves living on the margins of society.

Precisely because Troeltsch understood the forces that were and are shaping 20th - century religion and society, he can provide us with needed perspective on contemporary theological and religious movements.

The articles weren't actually addressed to the Pope directly; they were just written in the «open letter» style as a way to examine issues going on in society from the perspective of a religious skeptic.

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

Supporters of the Weberian perspective have countered that this is, indeed, an extreme view, based more on a narrow reading of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism than on an understanding of Weber's more extended and mature works, especially Economy and Society.

In short, from our perspective, it depended on an extremely parochial and naively optimistic view of American society and of the power of human rationality.

This ploy highlights the fact that Smith's advice runs counter to conventional thinking about the economy and society it is also a reminder that anyone can have a valuable perspective on economic problems.

They can provide a perspective on the larger society as a whole that may prove illuminating and renewing to that larger society.

This means that, on Holloway's perspective, they also flow out of the structure of nature and of human society as it is fulfilled in the direct and personal enfleshment of God the Son.

The secondary freedom in the study of economics consists in the deployment of a variety of models of man and society, in order to gain a wider range of perspectives on the complex events of economic life and to experiment in imagination with new and possibly better ways of directing economic planning.

After his careful analysis of the roots of Augustine's thinking on the just society, he leaves it to the reader to speculate as to how his perspective relates to the larger questions posed by his theme.

(Incidentally, since Azumah has singled out the PC (USA), I would point to the various statements that the denomination has made about the problematic ways that sexuality is treated in contemporary society to remind him that there is no more a single «Western perspective» on matters of sexuality than there is a single African perspective on matters of homosexuality.)

While religious perspectives have nothing to do with the technical content of a lecture, they are relevant to a number of aspects of the academic situation.1 Where appropriate to the objectives of the course and closely connected with the subject matter, some of the questions which we have raised about the effects of an invention on society or the ethical dilemmas faced by the scientist can legitimately be mentioned in the classroom.

As a matter of fact, from a neo-liberal perspective, strengthening civil society can also mean destroying the State, on the pretext of privatisation to strengthen.

A Canadian, Baum is well known for his work on theology and society and his sympathy for a liberationist perspective.

The author reviews how three different authors, each with a different perspective on the hold that the consumer society has over kids.

Into the mess of American materialism step three authors with very different perspectives on the hold that consumer society has over kids.

Hartshorne consequently raises the following question regarding the aim of life: «Be the aim Nirvana, the Classless Society, the Welfare State, Self - Realization, the query is never silenced, what good is it, from the cosmic and everlasting perspective, that one or other or all of these aims be attained for a time on this ball of rock?»

From this perspective, the reduction of persons to a multiplicity of «actual entities,» and their reconstruction as «societies,» strikes one as an afterthought forced by a «cosmological» or perhaps a «physicalistic» tendency on the part of Whitehead.

This article is adapted from a chapter in the forthcoming book Perspectives on Evangelical Theology: Papers from the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Society, edited by Kenneth Kantzer and Stanley Gundry (Baker Book House).

Like Habermas, he has immersed himself in the growing literature on language, discourse, and communication, coming increasingly to conceive of society itself as a vast system of communicative action, and this perspective has given him a number of novel ideas about the nature of religion.

With same - sex marriage, on the other hand, most of the victims (from society's perspective) are theoretical.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

The perspectives are both sympathetic and skeptical, examining the impact of school vouchers on American society, church - state separation, and the Jewish community.

Yet the Reformed perspectives on the nature of the person and of society can actually support a realistic form of pacifism — a version that has received too little attention in either the «peace churches» or the «war churches.»

In evaluating the influence religious television has or may have on its audience and society, one needs to be aware, therefore, of the perspective from which the subject is being viewed.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

Looking at the Bible from a Academic perspective you can not dismiss its effect on helping an individual control selfishness to the benefit of society.

The conflict perspective, on the other hand, claims that society is made up of competing groups that struggle against each other for scarce resources.

British Social Attitudes, the 23rd Report: perspectives on a changing society.

I very much look forward to listening to Kim John Payne's teleseminar on October 19 — to find validation and gain perspective on the direction I should take with my daughter and the increasingly overscheduled childhood that our society promotes.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

Lewis Baston's report on AV for the Electoral Reform Society is the best piece of analysis of AV from a pro-PR perspective.

Our comment section promotes challenging and provocative perspectives on controversial issues and brings together experts from across society to provide an inside account of the stories in the news.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

«Don't just look at it as an opportunity to raise revenue from a tax perspective; look at the impacts on society both now and long - term.»

Humanists have long been excluded from Thought for the Day, the daily scripted slot on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that offers «reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news», yet humanists and the non-religious have played an important role in shaping our laws, championing human rights and a fairer society for everyone.

As a physicist and an eight - term member of Congress before taking the helm of AAAS, Holt has a unique perspective on the critical role science plays in a democratic society.

Making the global information society good: A social justice perspective on the ethical dimensions of the global information society.

We aim to provide new perspectives on the interactions between science and public policy, and build a collective sense of responsibility necessary to positively affect society.

For centuries, they also offered a perspective on how societies viewed themselves in comparison to the rest of the world.

The books by Ophuls and Lane offer two perspectives on how Plato might help us develop an ecologically sustainable society.