Sentences with phrase «resist changes to the status quo»
American liberals need conservatives to be racist as justification for resisting change to the status quo of our government in terms of social programs and «entitlement» spending.
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The authors identify four principal strategies that communities and institutions use to resist change and protect the status quo: maginalization, diversion, seduction and attack.
They resist change and try desperately to maintain the status quo by inflexible rules and by psychological or physical coercion.
According to an article on Psychology Today.com, «the word but allows you to take fewer risks, delay making vital changes, avoid intimacy, resist suggestions, rationalize the status quo, numb your brain with chemicals or mindless entertainment, and decrease your capacity to see opportunities and different points of view.»
While the status quo may resist change and new opportunities for teachers, AAE sees opportunity to serve hardworking educators in all settings.
But when a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be a reflexive instinct, and the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move.
«As with any success that threatens to change the status quo, there are those that will resist that change and take any measures necessary to maintain the existing playing field, even if it is to the detriment of the vast majority and the benefit of the very few.»
When outsiders threatened to invade the bar's homogeneity, the profession reacted harshly and often without much reflection... By contrast, when social, economic or technological change was occurring around the profession, the profession's calm became intractability and myopia... In either event, the profession sought the status quo and resisted «innovation and change that was being demanded,» even when change was inevitable or desirable.
Clayton Christensen's classic book, The Innovator's Dilemma highlights the fact that established businesses tend to resist disruptive change as they have too much invested in the status quo.