Sentences with phrase «social attitudes toward»

The overall average change in attitude after the 10 - minute conversation was roughly equivalent to the degree that social attitudes toward gay people changed between 1998 and 2012.

The differences between immigrants and non-immigrants with respect to medical services seem to be a result of differences in access and social attitudes toward medical use.

(2) We have seen that the availability of alcohol and its attractiveness as a symptom, as determined by social attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness, have a great deal to do with the matter of symptom selection.

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.

Perhaps the harder times ushered in by the recession can dent prevailing social attitudes toward poverty.

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All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward suffering in the contemporary world.

This stress on the juristic aspect of Islam is plainly a reaction against the deviating Sufis and Muslim free - thinkers whose attitude toward Muslim law had loosened the bonds of social and religious discipline.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

To understand how the Bible is true, therefore, we must understand its genres, recognize its attitudes toward the reporting of historical details, and consider the social context in which it was written.

On the other hand, there is always the risk, in the just - because - of nature of Buddhist realization which accepts everything indiscriminately, even social and historical evil, that one's attitude toward the world will be, because of a false sameness, indifferent.43

Such views, Simon argued, are the reverse of the truth and tend to give moderns an instinctively hostile attitude toward the very notion of authority and a superficiality in their grasp of the profoundly central place authority occupies in a healthy social life.

One need not be a Freudian, however, to observe that attitudes toward sex, and especially variant understandings of the relationship of sex and the social order, mark out one of the important boundary lines of our political and cultural landscape.

These often reveal a somewhat different attitude toward various elements of the social whole than are held in Western lands, but the Moslem believes that they nevertheless represent Allah's holy will.

We have to see the church as a sacramental community, but this seeing is much more profound when we elaborate it in terms of social status, inclusiveness, attitudes toward change and false spiritualities (the Gonzalezes).

A familiar problem in the interpretation of the words of Jesus — a problem which has evoked interminable discussion and is basic to the most serious of all social issues — is the attitude of Jesus toward violence and hence toward war.

The current concept of «social engineering» reflects this mechanistic attitude toward human beings.

Several forces in modern societies worked not only to liberalize attitudes but to develop the social logics that created both modern homosexual identity and more tolerant attitudes toward it.

It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

This question has profound implications for other issues such as attitudes toward mission and even approaches to social - political matters.

According to Richard Cimino of the New School for Social Research, evangelical attitudes toward Islam have hardened since the attacks, positing that Islam is an essentially violent religion.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

(And today, on the brink of potential nuclear annihilation, such cynicism may even seem to be the most realistic attitude to take toward our social and political existence).

My early polemical attitude toward the Catholic Church had been modified when, in the days of the New Deal social revolution, the Catholic Church revealed that it was much more aware of the social substance of human nature, and of the discriminate standards of justice needed in the collective relations of a technical culture, than was our individualistic Protestantism.

Perhaps better than anything so far written on the subject, Henry Romney's two - part study of what he calls social conservation, which begins on page 72, illuminates a new and vastly encouraging national attitude toward the physical fitness of the nation's own resources.

In a systematic review of school - based interventions aimed at modifying knowledge, attitudes, social norms and intentions to breastfeed, researchers concluded that «Overall, these studies demonstrated positive effects on perceptions and attitudes toward breastfeeding and increased behavioral intention of breastfeeding later in life.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

That's one finding of a new UBC study published this month in Social Science and Medicine that examined attitudes toward children who haven't received all their vaccinations and their parents.

The influence of friends To try to better understand the ways in which social norms might be influencing social clusters of obesity, Brewis and her colleagues interviewed 101 Arizona women aged 18 to 45 — and 812 of their close social ties, including friends, spouses, family members, coworkers and others — about their attitudes toward body size.

The resulting statistical model revealed a link between participants» personal household income and their attitudes toward redistribution that was driven by average social - circle income.

Even when controlling for party identification, gender, education level, age, evangelical self - identification, and social dominance orientation — all factors known to predict Americans» attitudes toward Donald Trump — the Harry Potter effect remained.

The researchers, who released their findings in a recent issue of the Social Science Journal, asked 152 college age students to fill out a 70 - question survey on their attitudes toward texting in various situations and their general texting habits.

Why do people have the attitudes they do toward social issues such as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights, school prayer, and capital punishment?

It is important to consider larger institutional attitudes toward Twitter and social media platforms in general; at Michael Thompson's institution (University of New Hampshire), there was a university - wide push to engage on Twitter; Gretchen Kiser's institution (UC San Francisco) was concerned about branding and more hesitant toward strong engagement on social media at first.

Social physique anxiety and sociocultural attitudes toward appearance impact on orthorexia test in fitness participants.

Human sexual behavior has been shifting for decades if not centuries, and with the advent of internet dating and changes in social mores, notably more open attitudes toward sex, hooking up has become a «thing.»

Do his less progressive attitudes toward social issues like homosexuality and feminism make him simply a gentler vessel for the same old hard line?

The social and emotional learning programs also reduced aggression and emotional distress among students, increased helping behaviors in school, and improved positive attitudes toward self and others (Durlak et al., 2011).

In his 10 years as president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1955 - 65, during his tenure as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Johnson Administration, and recently, as chairman of Common Cause and Independent Sector, Mr. Gardner has developed a keen perception of shifts in public attitudes toward major social issues.

When entry routines are effectively established, they can bolster classroom community, students» self - esteem, productive social collaboration, and student attitudes and behavior toward school.

15 Schools that implement SEL programs tend to be safer16 because socially - emotionally competent students have more positive attitudes toward themselves and others, show more positive social behaviors in school, and have fewer conduct problems.17

Zins, Weissberg, Wang, and Walberg (2004) found that social - emotional learning improved academic motivation and commitment, school attendance, study habits, and achievement, and Durlak and colleagues» meta - analysis found that it improved students» attitudes toward school and decreased negative behaviors (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011).

Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200 studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10 points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including violence, diminished.

What are TCs» previous attitudes and experiences toward teaching writing and using social media?

We added to this literature by investigating the impact of the Swedish voucher scheme on a fundamental democratic goal of schooling, social cohesion, measured as civic attitudes of students toward ethnic minorities and immigrants.

A 2016 report highlighted the evidence linking social and emotional skills, such as self - control, to school quality.71 Furthermore, a 2015 study found that students with parents who were highly satisfied with the school environment, including the school's disciplinary practices, had higher levels of perseverance and better attitudes toward school.72 As a result, research - validated culture - climate survey tools may serve as a proxy for students» social and emotional skills.

This study of 65 elementary school teacher candidates enrolled in social studies methods classes examined attitudes toward currently contentious curriculum issues before and after participation in a practicum experience teaching an arts - integrated unit on Africa.

But the central idea of the model is the existence of a social architecture in school organizations that helps shape teachers» attitudes toward new pedagogies (Toole, 2001).

In the last 25 years, older Americans have grown much wealthier than the young — a gap reflected in their attitudes toward credit management, as well as political and social issues.

One last aspect of the credit card debt problem has to do with attitudes toward both debt and social standing.

To provide an historical perspective about social and legal attitudes toward animals, and how we got to our present perspective.