Sentences with phrase «power of the social forces»

Faced with the power of the social forces which dominate the global capitalist archipelago, appropriation of the future of the planet by its inhabitants will not be easy and neither will it happen overnight.

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Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and assault, Harvey Weinstein — one of the biggest executives in filmmaking — was forced from his place of power in Hollywood while a wave of empathy and solidarity with those who spoke out swept across social media via the #MeToo campaign.

Now in America, where be has acquired social power, his distrust of the Christian community leads him to align himself with the secularizing forces whose dominance, he thinks, will afford him a security he has never known.

«It disregarded the role of the spiritual authorities and of all those intermediate social forces which enframe, protect, and control the life of man» and which thereby check the growth of Power.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

We can talk about the «power of God to transform lives,» but we are no longer talking about the political power of the state, which by definition refers to instituted social authority which enables the state to force compliance upon its subjects regardless of their volitional relationship to the state's demands.

Most people were prone to perceive multiple influences and causes, including supernatural intervention, social and cultural forces, the functioning of heredity and will power, economic conditions, and luck.

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

Whereas in the primitive society it was the power of nature which controlled man, in the modern world it is the forces of the social system which exercise this external dominance:

However, any realistic approach to social issues must recognize the power struggle that pervades society and the resulting necessity of force.

I am not minimizing the power of social and psychological forces that mold a congregation's conservative outlook and behavior.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

In view of the grave dangers that accompany the irresponsible use of power, the people who best understand the sources and uses of the forces they help to unlock have an obligation to work for the right employment and social control of natural energies.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

Keystone Pipeline, Coal Mining, Birth Control, Equal Justice,... Now we have an appointed clergy to define, redefine, mandate, and even get Executive Orders to impose upon and force the citizenry to be compliant with the Social and Political Doctrine of the Faction in power.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

By taking this approach to understanding social forces, a way may be open for developing a social ethic and pastoral praxis that recognizes the complex character of collective power in black people's experience of oppression.2 As McClendon has made clear, the idea of a «social ethic» must not stand alone.

My use of «principalities and powers» refers to the idea that social reality is an integration of spiritual and material forces that circumscribe human existence (PAP).

The principalities and powers language of the Bible can help us see that forms of social reality such as institutions are not reducible to material forces.

Gerbner also charged that violence and sexual violence tend to vindicate existing inequities in the social order, especially to force «integration of the many into the prevailing hierarchy of powers.»

As a founding B Corp member, we are committed to using the power of business as a force for social and environmental good.

He relishes food experiences every day, old and new, and looks to good food and the power of mealtimes as an all - encompassing social force.

Asquith's controversial social welfare programme and Lords reform, which restricted the legislative power of the House of Lords, came after the Upper House successfully blocked the «people's budget», forcing a general election.

Far from the revolutionary force the Arab Spring was initially heralded as, Bahrain has used the aftermath of social unrest to rigorously cement the Sunni minority's governmental power.

It is ordered that the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the Office of the Erie County Department of Law, and with the requested assistance of the Erie County Comptroller's Office, shall recommend to the County Executive the methods and procedures to create a Medicaid Anti-Fraud Task Force and the members, powers and duties of such Task Force; and it is

By investigating these questions, social psychologists were able to gain a greater understanding of the power of societal forces such as authority, compliance, and obedience.

With Oscar nominee The Square out in UK cinemas, MUBI celebrates with a Ruben Östlund double - bill, introducing us to more of the Force Majeure director's work, from his visual storytelling to his sagacious observation of social power dynamics.

Where it could be a boring read to someone who is not into social theory and the power dynamic of mass media, it is very tantalizing in forcing a reader to become more critical about processing thing

One of the most fascinating chapters is titled In the Jungle: The Power of the Group in the Lives of Children, which reveals the social hierarchies and underlying forces exerting pressure on children (and adults as well) in group situations.

Pace believed strongly in the power of art as a vital social force and she believed that this 14,000 - square - foot (4,300 square metres), two - story building will move this mission forward.

An heiress to Pace Foods, Pace believed strongly in the power of art as a social force that should be available to all.

The entrance room houses the installation Spoiled Foot, which fills the space with a large, obstructing black and red mass hanging from the ceiling and which forces the public to walk in a narrow passage and brush against the side walls as a metaphor of the contrast between those who live at the margins and a centralized social power.

Tania Bruguera is an installation and performance artist whose works expose the social effects of the power of political force.

«Force and Form» brings together a group of artists whose practices recognize a shift in visual culture as it addresses issues of identity, gender, class, power, and the values that contribute to our social fabric.

The invited artists adopt magic as a filter to chart, re-evaluate and disrupt the immanent and circular exchange of power forces through given social, economic and political structures.

His procedural, time and image - based artworks explore the hidden forces of power, identity and social order within the mediated psyche.

Tania Bruguera (b. 1968 Havana, Cuba) is an installation and performance artist whose works often expose the social effects of the power of political force; she lives and works in Havana, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

The report anticipated «radical changes» from the «revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization,» an allusion to using taxation as a tool to influence social and industrial policy.

Maugham said that, without this power, the UK would be forced to take whatever deal Brexit Secretary David Davis managed to achieve or leave with no deal on important economic and social issues, including access for British firms to the single market, and the rights of British citizens living, travelling or wishing to retire in Europe.

In an effort to express sovereign power, the US is considering forcing visa applicants to disclose five years» worth of their social media information — something previously only required for applicants from terrorism - affected regions.