Sentences with phrase «social change movements»

David Farber, a history professor at the University of Kansas who has studied social change movements, said it is too soon to know what effect the protests will have.

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

Social studies projects might compare today's anti-bullying campaigns with other social change movements in history.

Do we want them to know more about social change movements — in the USA and elsewhere, because young people need a perspective that goes beyond their own nation?

Her experience in social change movements and managing charitable organizations has been extremely helpful when working with schools and community organizations to implement yoga and mindfulness programs for children.

A world - renowned marketing consultant and multiple - award - winning 8 - time author, hes participated actively in major environmental and social change movements.

A world - renowned marketing consultant and award - winning 8 - time author, hes participated actively in major environmental and social change movements.

Beginning with a one - toddler action against smokers at his parents» party at about age three, Shel has been involved in environmental and social change movements his whole life.

Beginning with a one - toddler action against smokers at his parents party at about age three, Shel Horowitz has been involved in environmental and social change movements his whole life.

Animal welfare is starting to look like a social change movement!

On the whole (not entirely of course), the social change movement in the States remains elite, largely due to cultural and financial resources available.

This is a guest post by Ted Glick, who has devoted 42 years of his life to the progressive social change movement.

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Political advocacy is a critical part in building a social movement around change, Zuckerberg said in the statement about Plouffe's new role.

To create a social movement, you need to get people talking about — and willing to accept — the need for change.

Nguyen [Color's founder] has visions of fundamentally changing some aspects of social interaction and local discovery with the app, which he considers part of the so - called Post-PC movement.

Critics assume that classic social movement tactics such as rallies and demonstrations represent the only effective model for collectively pressing for change.

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

«Plan Canada is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social...

Alejandra contributes to movement building as a facilitator, trainer, mentor and strategist with various social change efforts.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee kicked off the 2018 Women in the World Summit in New York on Thursday evening with an all - encompassing worldview on how to effect social change, bringing the wisdom she gained from helping to topple a dictator and end a civil war in Liberia to the social movements sweeping the United States today.

Yet there is a larger social movement afoot, and, contrary to his presumption and hope, the majority's sentiments may be changing.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

We believe that His Gospel» as an essential foundation for any other social or political movement or philosophy» has the power to change us and change the world, so that we all may be the good, strong, capable, dignified, and faithful women that we aspire to be.

The problem of power becomes the central problem of any movement that attempts to change the social order.

The charismatic experience is a «sensation of surrender to an immersion in a larger reality: an experience perceived as self - fulfillment and enhancement of individuality rather than the loss of it» (Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine, People, Power, Change: Movements of Social Transformation [Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1970], 124).

Allyson Dylan Robinson is an entrepreneur and movement strategist who advises organizations on the vanguard of social change.

If by «liberation» people mean that Christian thought and life are to be socially engaged, committed to those forms of systemic change necessary for the greater actualization of social justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation thesocial justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theSocial Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theology.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

On a deeper level, the sudden and dizzying changes taking place in the American economy, combined with the even more bewildering changes brought by the end of the cold war, foster radical social movements of every description.

Perhaps the most effective mobilization of church power for social change in recent decades has been on the part of black churches in the south in support of the civil rights movement.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

It is also a popular movement that has emerged as traditional societies have undergone rapid transition, thus becoming a medium for profound social change.

The Social Gospel movement tried to change America's unjust social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the Social Gospel movement tried to change America's unjust social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the social systems by convincing the men who controlled and managed the systems to live by the Sermon on the Mount.

Fundamentalist Hindu opposition to change of the traditional Hindu social order had played a large part in the creation and strengthening of the RSS ideology of opposition to other religions and to movements of Hindu reformation.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

Institutions stagnate without social movements» pressures to change.

Many movements for social change, while seeking to halt violence or injustice, too often simply recast who is right and who is wrong, who is «us» and who is «them,» without challenging the paradigmatic assumption of duality.

This example suggests that Christian missions are better seen as a translation movement, with consequences for vernacular revitalization, religious change and social transformation.

Christian missions are better seen as a translation movement, with consequences for vernacular revitalization, religious change and social transformation.

It will also be interesting to see if increased participation of New Thought adherents in movements for social change alters the discourse and the strategies of those movements.

The Nicaraguan people's overthrow of a U.S. - backed dictatorship in 1979 and the existence of popularly based movements for social change throughout the region had caused great concern in Washington.

Student participation is a reality in many movements of social change.

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

At this point, the movement is still about individual, not social, change.

Social tensions will continue to build and explode as economic injustice gives rise to movements for social cSocial tensions will continue to build and explode as economic injustice gives rise to movements for social csocial change.

It is not possible for them to take a first - hand look at U.S. policies or at liberation struggles that might help inspire their own movements for social change.

In fact, the power of the sermon to initiate and sustain movements for social change has often been overlooked because sermons were «words, words, words.»

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

The experiment with strategies of social change through nonviolent action is an important movement in the modern history of love.