Sentences with phrase «social attitudes towards»

Hunter Institute Suicide Prevention Acting Program Manger, Sara Bartlett, is also pleased with the opportunity to support the highly - regarded awards and recognises the important role screenwriters play in influencing social attitudes towards and perceptions of suicide and mental illness.

The social attitudes towards issues like labour supply, gender, wealth, property ownership, death, indigenous rights and so many others have changed substantially during the development of the common law and, in many cases, in the last 50 or 100 years.

Social attitudes towards the use of nude models were complicated by the issue of morality during the latter part of the 19th century.

However, modern - day consumers who comprehend the escalating negative social attitudes towards «the haves and have nots» may seek a car exactly like the Kia K900.

Making learning fun can also have widespread effects, changing social attitudes towards education.

The letter calls for improved social attitudes towards breastfeeding to help reduce the barriers so that women are more able to sustain breastfeeding.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

She's outlined her main priority as changing social attitudes towards LGBT people and creating equality.

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With more and more people using social media during the workday, and people bringing home work at night, it's hard to keep boundaries between the emotions you experience in your personal life and the professional attitude you're supposed to have towards your work.

Even if you're not running for the top job in the country, social media can still help you shape minds and change attitudes towards your business.

The early and high levels of «buy - in'to crypto in Korea is perhaps attributable to the advanced social and technological development of mobile payments as well as the government's attitude towards cryptocurrency, which has been relatively supportive of it.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

If the social patricians of ancient Rome regarded work as below their status, it has to be said that a spiritual aristocracy appears to have developed within early Christianity with equally negative and dismissive attitudes towards manual labor.

Even large and solid social institutions like AMP, for example, identified this changing attitude towards institutions (in research by Hugh Mackay).

To our attitudes towards and practice of friendship and group social life and, especially, eros.

But over the past few years, I have been so disappointed by our City Hall and their attitude towards our homeless * community and their inability to begin to move our community forward with a social conscience on this issue.

It is funny that each generation tends to disparage the younger generations but never - the-less attitudes towards social justice tends to increase generation by generation.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

And, finally, because prevailing attitudes towards concussion symptom reporting and reporting behavior are deeply entrenched in our sports culture, we encourage, as Step Five, that coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors, and parents continue working over the course of the sports season to create and maintain an environment in which athletes feel safe in immediately reporting concussion symptoms (both their own and their teammates) by sharing and reinforcing positive messages about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting via social media, by maintaining open lines of communication and an ongoing dialog about concussion safety among and between and among coaches, athletes, medical staff and parents.

KS4 pupils might benefit from investigating the social and cultural factors that underline attitudes towards parenting in Finland (www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,404715,00.html), Denmark and Iceland (news.bbc.co.uk / 2 / hi / europe / 4629631.

Many campaigners had hoped that the tragedy at Grenfell would mark a change in attitudes towards social housing tenants.

What's much harder to fix is the attitudes towards social housing tenants that exist within local authorities and the chronic lack of housing available to those in need.

Hard - line sections, associated particularly with Maria Corina and Leopoldo Lopez, were disappointed by Capriles» lukewarm claim in last year's election campaign that he would continue the «missions», the social welfare programmes initiated by Chávez, a startling claim given his negative attitude towards these programmes as governor of Miranda state.

Attitudes towards sex, gender, homosexuality, race, abortion and drugs have moved towards a more liberal, social democratic position.

It's vital that all these people are provided with permanent decent housing - that this still hasn't happened is a national disgrace - but it is also vital that attitudes towards all social housing tenants and those in need of housing changes.

Labour has always been a broad church, but a move towards the liberal attitudes of its metropolitan voters has in turn alienated a working class with genuine social concerns.

The pair also say that correlations with attitudes towards social issues like gender or racial equality could explain the differences, with those interviewed on the phone seemingly more socially liberal than average, while those polled online are more socially conservative.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

A 2010 study found that when ingrained smokers see morbid health warnings, they strengthen their favorable attitudes towards smoking in order to maintain their self - esteem (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jesp.2009.09.007).

But could evidence of social decay, even at the mild level of littering, also affect our unconscious discriminatory attitudes towards other people?

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

This reflects the increasing approvals mixed dating get, the changes in attitudes towards couples of mixed races and the declining social barriers between different racial groups.

Thanks to a noteworthy shift in societal view and attitudes towards dating as well as an upward climbing trend for people over 50 to use the different social media channels like Facebook and Instagram as a launch pad to enter the online dating arena, more and more people over 50 are starting to find love thru the help of the digital cupid's arrow.

Instead, it's more interested in recreating and, in a way, celebrating the 1970s for its gaudy fashions, prevalent social drinking, and lax attitudes towards smoking and sex.

So L&D teams would be well advised — if they're serious about social learning — to examine their own and their organization's attitude and response towards the tools that are in common use day - to - day.

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tested 125,000 15 - year - olds in 52 countries and economies to analyse how well they work together as a group, their attitudes towards collaboration and the influence of factors such as gender, after - school activities and social background.

This covers a lot of ground from attitudes towards good and evil, to Baby P and Social Justice.

Participation in quality physical education has been shown to instil a positive attitude towards physical activity, to decrease the chances of young people engaging in risky behaviour and to impact positively on academic performance, while providing a platform for wider social inclusion.»

As I pursued these substantive interests, I found myself particularly intrigued by challenges around how we might measure abstract concepts like teacher - student relationships, students» social perspective taking capacity, or youth's attitudes towards the environment.

The rest of the form / evaluation is thorough, and gives weight (more or less) to every factor that any parent, teacher or administrator has ever considered, including size and motor coordination (which it finds a minor issue), behavior, social participation, both inside and outside school activities (separately counted - they think having outside activities that aren't affected helps a lot), even attendance, motivation, self - concept and attitude towards learning.

Further highlights include a series of photographs from conceptual artist Amalia Ulman's four - month Instagram project Excellences & Perfections (2014 - 15), which examines the influence of social media on attitudes towards the female body.

These works may employ disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.

Taking the view that museum directors are critical in determining the excitement or resistance towards the new social media communication paradigm, Booth asks: Can we talk about museum directors «types» as a way of making sense of museum attitudes towards social media?

Liu's work reflects his attitude towards the turbulent and problematic economic and social changes in China.

Though sometimes explicitly tied to the artist's own history, Sameshima's work often calls to mind societal attitudes towards «the other» and functions within a framework of internal struggles between social normativity and feelings of alienation.

The artists will also explore how different formats of exhibitions, contexts and conditions of appearance can reflect individual attitudes towards our social constructions.

Although nearly one hundred years have passed since the birth of Dada in Zurich and much has changed in terms of the initial purpose of the movement (which was founded to diminish social pretensions, ridicule the human situation, and force audience self - awareness by attacking their common assumptions about art), there are contemporary artists, like Boller, who employ similar forms, gestures and attitudes towards materials which like a steady heart seem to keep the beat of the movement alive.

Dan Kahan has researched the links between social and political identities in the USA and attitudes towards many issues, climate change included, where opinions sometimes divide along political lines and sometimes don't.

And shouldn't the vast changes in formerly orthodox social attitudes over the past half century — attitudes towards non-whites, towards women, towards gays, and so on — remind us that a lot less is morally certain than the majority might think?»