Sentences with phrase «social acceptance so»
«It's indicative of the progress that LGBT people have made, both in terms of social acceptance so there are more LGBT people willing to live openly, and developments in the law,» she said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ Not exact matches
He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»
Just as the book powerfully exposes the myth that acceptance of gay marriage would have no significant social consequences, so too the authors could have made the further argument that, to varying degrees, all sexual unions outside marriage (as traditionally understood) are harmful to society.
Hillary Mantel is a very talented, very bitter ex-Catholic who's said that the Church today is «not an institution for respectable people» (so much for the English hierarchy's decades - long wheedling for social acceptance).
I'm just a regular guy, not a specialist in the field or anything but well in my 50s so I've seen a few things, generally straight men get married for sex (we imagine that once we get married we will get sex EVERY night), and closeted gay men get married for social acceptance.
Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).
Whatever parents are seeking for their children — improved academic performance, more engaged teachers, social acceptance, freedom from bullying, special needs programming, and so on — they are more likely to find it when they have more than one choice.
So if there's one thing this console generation has done that I thinks is worth remembering, then it's the introduction (and social acceptance) of gaming as a group event.
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/05/ipcc-on-renewable-energy.html» The IPCC does note that there are obstacles — both social and technological — that must be overcome, and appears to make some key assumptions about how this might occur (p. 12 — exact details will have to await the full report, but track records for forecasting technological innovation and social acceptance are not so good)»
During the meeting it was reaffirmed that in order to achieve the required social acceptance for the energy transition in MENA countries it would be mandatory to develop it along the needs and interest of the civil society stakeholders who have, so far, only gained little traction in the debate.
But, inasmuch as certain firms and companies sincerely attempt to present an environment of social acceptance, it's possible and likely that there are others that don't necessarily do so, where such realities are typical, acceptable and standard.
«My business is very relationship - oriented, so I like to meet in a professional and social environment that conveys acceptance and warmth,» he says.