Sentences with phrase «prevailing social order»
Review — Düsseldorf - born Hans - Peter Feldmann started up an artist in the late 1960s, at a time when young people in America and in Europe were beginning to challenge authority and the prevailing social order.
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They are designed, first, to produce profit, and second, to reproduce the status quo — the prevailing social order.
And since the news operations are themselves part of vast conglomerations of business power, the management of these corporations, through their selection of staff, their promulgation of policy «guidelines», and their intricate and subtle system of rewards and punishments, oversee and maintain a news environment that fosters not so much facts and understanding, as profit and the prevailing social order.
Despite her isolation from the prevailing social order, creation and the God behind it stand with her as the «pines whisper to Jesus.»
Remember that all the great prophets were courageous and outrageous folks who railed against the powers - that - be, challenged self - satisfied piosity, threatened the prevailing social order, and would find you falling short in some significant ways.»
It is precisely the encounter with the gift and demand of God's love that puts the prevailing social order under radical judgment and requires a fundamental transformation of its structure.
Not exact matches
The characters about which Toomer writes are caught up in the social order of Jim Crow and yet they manage to tap into the deeper, spiritual rhythms that stand as a bulwark against the prevailing order.
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.»
George Rupp: The vote in the U.K. in favor of Brexit, the rejection by referendum of the peace agreement in Colombia, and the 2016 U.S. election all illustrate the power of democratic processes to register forcefully how the prevailing wisdom of a social order may not be in touch with substantial segments of the population.