Sentences with phrase «power in our society»

«The notion was there were three sources of power in society: government, business, and labor,» Mills, the Harvard professor emeritus, says.

Inasmuch as the essence of rulers and government is rule - setting, deregulation represents an undoing of public power in society's broad interests, on the ground that public power is inherently corrupt and run in the bureaucracy's narrowly self - serving interest.

The new development process will demand that women and men share equal power in society.

Also, there is nothing wrong with being sexually aroused by naked men or women, the disturbing thing with the unequal power of division (or lack of division) of power in society produces systems where women continuously lessened, by objectification (more than) men.

These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example, literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.

Yes, gender stereotyping damages men too, but it remains the case that the vast majority of positions of power in society are held by men; to claim that men are systematically oppressed is simply a lie.

Here's where I think the problem comes in: For generations, religion was a dominant power in society and politics.

In the prophetic application of New Thought principles, a just and compassionate world becomes possible not by simply shifting who holds power in society, but in shifting the paradigmatic framework that guides beliefs, policy, and action.

The fact that we lived in ignorance for millenia and allowed religion to get a position of power in society should not mean that we persist with that which was born of ignorance.

A sense of apprehension about a rapidly changing society with little knowledge and understanding of the dynamics, structures, and uses of power in that society produce in clergy a crippling anxiety.

Another emphasis is the notion that divine providence supports the dominant powers in society and sanctions the alliance of the church with those powers.

In the midst of that era the church acted to redress the balance of power in our society, to empower the powerless.

Now there is a political power in this society, and it often plays a positive role.

The authority they lose transfers to the «victims» of historical racism and becomes their great power in society.

It seems obvious to me that cultural power in our society has become far too concentrated in super-rich institutions with skewed priorities.

One hears echoes of Ruskin's nostalgia for the harmony of the medieval manor in contrast to the din of modern factories, or of James» preference for the Virgin over the dynamo as the central symbol of power in society, or of Schumacher's «small is beautiful» against the «great industrial city.»

Unlike the labor movement at its height, this policy initiative poses no threat to the structures of power in our society.

Zuckerberg yields tremendous power in our society, and he has been exceedingly reckless with it.

Voting was actually not a right in Sweden or the U.S. in 1910, it was a privilege that those who had the most power in society kept for themselves.

Indeed, they go directly to the heart of the questions the Great Charter Convention series has raised: how can we contest and contain arbitrary power in society when certain individuals or group systematically have more influence over political decision - making?

Because what has happened at Grangemouth shines a vivid light on the nature of power in our society today.

Excessive tax can do enormous damage - especially to the poorest families, whose power in our society is already so limited.

But a low sex ratio also lowers the living standards of women and causes turmoil in relationships, mainly because men typically have more power in society, which they tend to exercise crudely when there are extra women around.

«I thought about what women have to become in order to find power in a society where men are making all of the rules.

In addition to his research in education, Coleman launched the field of mathematical sociology, provided new models for understanding power in societies, and constructed a theoretical framework for human behavior amenable to both economists and sociologists.

One faculty member teaches about issues of power in society (gender and minority status, for example) by asking students to analyze their own cultural perspectives (such as their cultural history, language, and literacy).

Men have power in our society; women do not.»

But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else.

Robert Longo is a New York - based artist, filmmaker, and musician known for his photo - realistic drawings and works on paper which examine the role of politics and power in our society.

And I see Susan Meiselas's project as a way of trying to reformulate and resist images of women who are in positions of very low status and very little power in society, and to talk about them as fully realized subjects, without glorifying what they do to make a living.

The group exhibition «Might as Well» at Nest, Den Haag revolves around the role of power in society and in personal relationships.

Women are rising to great political power in societies around the world and we are just beginning to see a shift occur as more women step into positions of global leadership.

Curator Alex Gartenfeld offered, «Whether through corporate technologies or creative labor, images play a defining role in consolidating power in society and culture.

Bajar's practice engages with issues of representation and power in society.

«Feminism is a viewpoint that demands a rethinking of questions of power in society and thus has undeniable potency.»

There is a huge amount of brain power in our society directed toward making money and tilting the playing field so that more money could be made by doing the right things will unleash it.

No longer does the government, business, special political interests, proponents of a particular political leaning (I'm thinking of the US TV networks of old here), or any other major power in society control of communications.

Indeed, it might be argued that the existence of such a power in a society which long ago closed the Marshalsea prison and abandoned imprisonment as a remedy for the enforcement of debts, is anomalous.

Ultimately, as the Court rightly notes, the issue here is hurt feelings — people's outrage at the idea of a homophobic institution being allowed to freely operate not too far from the seat of power in society.

[21] It is a Canadian who has perhaps summed it up best: «Being without a lawyer means being without power in our society.»

Yet the case is easily distinguishable from worrying scenarios by the involvement of a minor and, more, a young woman victimized by sexual harassment, social facts notorious as the occasions for the abuse of power in our society.

For the government it is also a term that means practical measures to achieve practical improvements in the livelihoods of Indigenous peoples - an outlook that is more about giving Aboriginal people «a leg up» than challenging the imbalances in power in society.

Not exact matches

Until our country makes a distinction between money and governance, power and business, we will have an unjust society that preys upon itself and the world in the name of freedom, democracy, and the American way of life.»

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

He will first cite Microsoft's mission to «empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more» and acknowledge his own beginnings in India as a sign of the power of technology to democratize society.

In a society that equates time with money, many people couldn't imagine wasting 18 precious hours cooped up on a bus with limited connectivity and power.

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Granted the great power of the movies in the influencing of modern society and the great influence of Jews in the movies, it still remains true that the Jewish interest in journalism and advertising is extraordinarily small and that journalism and advertising also have their persuasiveness.

Despite the strides our society has made in reducing paper waste (no more fax machines), many industries have yet to embrace the power of paperless.

It affects us all in many different ways, but I'm very optimistic that the power shift can help create a stronger society for us all.