Sentences with phrase «rapid changes in our society»

Many of these families have one or two parents with personality disorders — which are increasing during this time of rapid change in our society.

Since culture and gender relations are generally resistant to rapid change in society, centuries old traditional gender role attitudes should be found to continue to persist among significant numbers of Chinese youth.

If you consider the rapid changes in our society over the last few decades, it's easy to see that today's parents face much greater challenges than previous generations of parents.

Not exact matches

However, I am a Christian and I have seen vast changes in our society at a rapid rate.

In her work of evangelising the world, the Church follows attentively and discerningly the rapid cultural changes at work, which influence both her and society as a whole.

This class of people rarely feels disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system working for them.

Modernization theory has been applied most widely, of course, to societies in the Third World that have undergone rapid change in recent decades and experienced religious turbulence in conjunction with this change.

A sudden halt to the use of such methods, due to issues such as major negative effects, would also lead to rapid climate change, to which ecosystems and societies would have difficulty in adapting.

«The climate, biology, and society in the Arctic are changing in rapid, complex, and interactive ways, with effects throughout the region and, increasingly, the globe,» finds the report from the National Research Council (NRC) of the U.S. National Academies.

Yet the report also argued against a rapid shift to non-fossil fuel energy sources, noting that «making significant changes in energy consumption... amid all the scientific uncertainties would be premature in view of the severe impact such moves could have on the world's economies and societies.»

BETHESDA, Md. (September 18, 2012)-- Propelled by rapid growth in the field, Physiological Genomics, a specialty journal of the American Physiological Society (APS; www.the-APS.org), announced today that it was undergoing a major change in its editorial policy.

What is interesting about this industry is not only its rapid growth in a conservative society that frowns upon courting more than one person at a time, but also its potential to change the social norms that are part of dating both online and offline.

Political scientist Samuel Huntington argued in his 1968 book, Political Order in Changing Societies, that in societies that experience rapid progress quickly, citizens» demand for quality public services grows at a faster rate than the government's capacity to satisfy the expectations.

«Education today must prepare young people to flourish in a society awash with intelligent technology and to enter a job market shaped by rapid technological change, yet there are urgent challenges in the world that require human solutions from future leaders.

Religious leaders across practically every belief structure and faith can expound on the woes of trying to reach new generations of believers as the societies we live in change at rapid - fire pace.

He himself has observed up - close the shifting dynamics of society — as with his work on Pendulum — and has seen firsthand the rapid and long - term changes in the publishing industry and how content reaches today's varied audiences.

Its aim is to explore how rapid changes in Chinese society are being reflected through the work of modern female artists.

As society has changed, Asian contemporary art, particularly that of China, absorbed the long artistic history of the West with explosive speed and then underwent rapid changes and evolutions in its own right.

This in turn linked to her painted work Drowned Orchard / Secret Boatyard (2014) displayed in the nearby Biennale Hall highlighting the changes taking place in society as a result of rapid technological innovations and the processes of modernisation.

The works in this section of the gallery are all tied to the notion of modernity — a concept most often associated with rapid technological innovations that change society radically.

The titles suggest something sensual, even erotic, but they're meant to call attention to a tension in Indian society between strong, somewhat insular cultural tradition and rapid, volatile, political change.

«It is interesting to consider how rapid climate change may have impacted past societies, particularly in light of the rapid changes taking place today.»

Because of this, perhaps the most important immediate goal of climate change policy proponents is to help educate civil society and governments about the need to move urgently to make extremely rapid decreases in ghg emissions whereever governments can and to the maximum extent possible in light of the policy implications of limiting national ghg emissions to levels constrained by a carbon budget and in response to what fairness requires of nations..

«We trust The Climate Group's ability, together with their partners CDP on RE100, to bring together key stakeholders from business, governments, and civil society, to help trigger rapid changes towards a better climate,» said Xavier Houot, SVP Global Safety, Environment, Real Estate in our exclusive interview.

(e.g., how profound and rapid must be the changes especially in the most advance societies?)

(05/20/2013) Human - caused changes to our biosphere — the global total of the world's ecosystems — are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded.

This idea armed environmentalists with the threat that a changing climate would suddenly — rather than over the course of millenia — reach a point where climate change was so rapid that natural processes on which human society depends would in turn collapse, leaving us starved of resources, and unable to cope with the new conditions.

Past examples would thus inform the construction of adaptive capacities in modern societies dealing with rapid climate change.

And using the oceans as a sink causes acidification that scientists now think may cause the most rapid and disruptive change to life in the seas since catastrophic events tens of millions of years ago (see Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Royal Society, August 2005 and The other CO2 problem, New Scientist, August 2006).

A number of scientists have suggested that, although climate change imposed stresses on hunter - gatherer - forager societies by causing rapid shifts in resources, it also provided opportunities as new plant and animal resources appeared.

Paper co-author Yongsong Huang, professor of geological sciences at Brown, said: «It is interesting to consider how rapid climate change may have impacted past societies, particularly in light of the rapid changes taking place today.»

When I pause to reflect on where we are today, not just in the legal industry but as a business community and a society, I'd say we're in a period not just of rapid change but increasingly rapid change.

Lawyers interested in technology are usually at the cutting edge of their areas of practice and are cognizant of many of the rapid changes occurring in the practice of law and in society general.

Amidst the rapid pace of innovation and changing consumer expectations, Accenture has released Fjord Trends 2016, its ninth annual report examining the most significant emergent digital trends expected to transform design, organizations and society in the year ahead.

«We are on the cusp of incredible transformational change, not just in our industry, but in our society as a whole, and much of that is being driven by the rapid pace of technology advances,» says Yannaccone.

In a society of rapid change and no guarantees, resourceful university graduates will thrive working for the company called Me Inc..