Sentences with phrase «social affirmation»

I just try really hard not to use my kids as a means for social affirmation.

This would work on condition that political evolution in the north and the south of the Mediterranean and the Sahara strengthens the potential for democratic and social affirmation of the people concerned.

Yet many do, regularly, and with purpose: They are uninterested in a rational discussion about the issue, but rather at any cost want to achieve their goal of full legal and social affirmation.

Users can see and comment on one another's responses to the challenges, but unlike Facebook, where users collect «likes,» or Instagram, where favored posts rack up hearts, Maverick doesn't use social affirmation as a currency.

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Because I reasoned that feelings of threat pose a barrier to transgressors» willingness to offer comprehensive apologies, I examined whether self - affirmation could buffer against this threat and consequently promote more effective apologies,» Schumann explains on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog.

To make it even easier, it appears that self - affirmation can help you have more self - control when you're running out, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Positive group dynamics are important, but people actually yearn for affirmation and praise on social media.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the people.

The affirmations to be negated in Pius IX's 1864 Syllabus became affirmations to be affirmed in Leo XIII's famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum — positive statements of Catholic teaching on modern social and political issues.

Ideally, we should find this within our families, but short of that» and we almost always fall short of ideals» we seek affirmation of our unique value through social means.

Indeed, it seems to me that the monistic affirmation of Christ's Lordship is the best defense of the pluralism of the social order.

He is trying to force us to recognize that in spite of what appears to be orthodox christological affirmations, we are embedded in social practices that deny that Jesus's life, death and resurrection make any difference.

Rejection of social and political monism has as its corollary an affirmation of institutional pluralism.

From a sociological perspective, Campos asserts that Latin American Pentecostalism offers symbolic mediation for what he calls the «the affirmation of popular hope,» because it is both a spiritual movement which transforms the individual and a movement of symbolic protest in a society which denies the dispossessed the chance to achieve or to participate in social organization.

Nonetheless, for those wanting to explore their own religious beliefs (or non-belief) by reading an honest and skeptical affirmation of the Christian faith by one of the world's best thinkers and social scientists, this book recommends itself.

The report shows a sort of tortured desire for some kind of good, some kind of affirmation of human dignity: Wonderfully, it calls on Member States to «implement policies and measures aimed at preventing people from having abortions for social or economic reasons and providing support to mothers and couples in difficulty.»

Rather the Universal Declaration's affirmation of rights to social security, to work, to rest, to an adequate standard of living, and to education are rooted in religious values and in the tenets of social democracy.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

When according to critical study, that text is set in the Exile as an affirmation to Israelites and a polemic against Babylonian imperialism and Babylonian gods, the social function of that equilibrium emerges.

This point of view has been popularized by the phrase «Do your own thing,» and it has resulted in an affirmation of just about every goal imaginable within the plethora of possible objectives that people could choose — pleasure, power, wealth, prestige, even violent activism for social betterment.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

The Koran, by way of contrast, is the product of one single mind; not so the New Testament, which has all the variety of the Old, and is a «social» product, a «traditional» book — that is, a book enshrining traditions, letters, anecdotes, revelations, sayings, stories — and its unity is found only in its central affirmations, convictions, loyalties, and the general way of life which it reflects.

Pannenberg shared this understanding of the Bible, but he grounded his theological affirmations also in philosophy, historiography, and the social sciences.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

Indeed, while he might not put it just like this, I think Hauerwas would wish quite strongly to agree with Muray's own affirmation that «the self is a relational or social self... Any human is constituted by his or her personal past, the past of the universe, and more immediately the cultures and environments of which we are a part» (91).

Or are they «united» by common affirmations yet separated by doctrinal and moral idiosyncrasies, geography, social status and so on?

In the process, however, it has tended to be strong in its affirmation of the social and political status quo.

In his early work, Turner thought of religion as the affirmation of communal unity in contrast to the frictions, constraints, and competitiveness of social life and more rigid organizations.

Her apparently firm affirmation of certain rights is a self - conscious social construct, culturally specific and thoroughly post-modern.

The programme therefore had to be dressed up with the strong affirmation of great words: speeches on «open society, the sign of equality automatically placed between Market and Democracy, the elegy of the so - called deregulation which had come to be the synonym of liberty (without clarifying whose), the anti-state speeches, the state which was considered to be the obvious synonym of bureaucrats, autocrats and idiots, no longer the possible instrument of the management of historic social compromises, founded on democracy.

Each Slumberkin is developed around a social skill and has an accompanying Sleepytime Rhyme and keepsake Affirmation Card.

The immediate, peer - to - peer feedback can be addictive for those whose self - esteem depends on social media affirmations.

Reward good behaviour - as learners in the business of social interaction, toddlers need constant reassurance that they are doing the right thing, and affirmation that they are loved.

Share your cloth diaper affirmations with us via social media on February 2nd by writing them on a piece of paper, take a picture of you holding the sign, and share it with the #clothcommunity hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

The power very often is not intended in the democratic sense of a service to the others, but as a mean of personal affirmation in itself, without any interest for the social cost that this behavior may have.

These findings are an affirmation of the many initiatives the Department of Social Services has implemented in CPS over the past year, and this report is a testament to the hard work and dedication of CPS workers.

Thanks to social media's Motivational Mondays, there's been a rise in affirmations and mantras going viral.

Social learning leads to better learning and improved self - affirmation — a mandatory personality feature to maintain motivation.

Franklin elementary leadership team finds support and affirmation of their social and emotional Focus in William James College program.

They are exploring the role of social - emotional wellness, identity affirmation, and executive functioning in service of preparing students to solve complex problems and make positive change in their communities.

ProfessorJBA — What are effective ways teachers can help improve the social acceptance and affirmation of girls in schools?

Engage like crazy using more social collaboration, energizers, participation and affirmations.

Study 2, a field experiment in a «weed - out» biology course, tests the effects of a randomly assigned affirmation intervention on students» social networks and persistence in STEM.

I really think most of them simply need affirmations from the social world and like the attention!

The Curious Tale of an Unexpected Visit is a side scrolling adventure game about the balance between self - affirmation and social expectations.

Yet while the official art - historical narrative of that generation — Basbaum's peers include Beatriz Milhazes, Leonilson and Barrão, who came of age during the emergence of Brazilian democracy — highlights an almost postpolitical identity in which art is primarily a mode of self - expression as opposed to a form of social consciousness, Basbaum's sculptures, drawings, photographs and actions see the artist tie self - affirmation to the notion of the (still) political subject.