Sentences with phrase «social acceptance within»

Mean acceptance ratings are calculated across respondents for each student to provide an assessment of their social acceptance within the classroom.

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We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gsocial planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social GSocial Gospel.

They are regarded from within the movement as the next sexual minority in line for liberation and social acceptance.

But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.

Art teacher Sara Merkel and school social worker Kristen Reichert thought it was important for their students to hear positive messages about kindness, acceptance, and inclusion within the school.

Within limits, they can modify their behavior for good or ill to cope with human idiosyncrasies while still meeting their own need for social acceptance.

In Ontario Human Rights Commission v. Simpsons - Sears Ltd., [1985] 2 S.C.R. 536, at p. 554, McIntyre J. observed that a «natural corollary to the recognition of a right must be the social acceptance of a general duty to respect and to act within reason to protect it».

It's an issue being increasingly discussed between health and social services, to challenge what VicHealth has described «the cultural acceptance of high smoking rates within marginalised communities».

There are the beginnings of an awareness of the role of peers in child development more generally (James et al, 1998; Valentine, 1997), and a move within social work practice to the importance of maintaining positive friendships for young people (this push to consider the role of friendships and peer relationships when planning care for children has much to do with the acceptance of resilience models of practice).