Sentences with phrase «social cohesion as»

The health benefits of the sport are obvious but it also reaches deep into communities, helping to deliver strong social cohesion as well as boosting people's self - esteem.»
A testing year for Australias social cohesion as multiculturalism.
As a prominent Tory backbencher dismissed Clegg's plan that the rich should face a time - limited tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as a pre-party conference «easy clap line», Osborne said the wealthy already paid more tax and the country should be wary of driving away wealth creators.
No Government can afford to underfund society's future; cuts in education undermine not only the economy, but social cohesion as well.»

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In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
Cohesion: In conversations with several B2B CEO's, a recent issue is that while there have been new approaches related to areas such as demand generation, content marketing, and social media, there is a lack of cohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer expCohesion: In conversations with several B2B CEO's, a recent issue is that while there have been new approaches related to areas such as demand generation, content marketing, and social media, there is a lack of cohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer expcohesion in these efforts that contributes to the overall buyer experience.
As a matter of civic health and social cohesion, the people we allow to work in the U.S., whatever their country of origin and whatever their skill level, should be invited as future citizens rather than as units of laboAs a matter of civic health and social cohesion, the people we allow to work in the U.S., whatever their country of origin and whatever their skill level, should be invited as future citizens rather than as units of laboas future citizens rather than as units of laboas units of labor.
The killing of the scapegoat provides a means for the formation of a new social unanimity and cohesion, as acquisitive mimesis is transformed into conflictual mimesis, which is resolved by the destruction of someone arbitrarily designated as the cause of the conflict.
In this way, social cooperation among human beings brings about the cohesion, and therein the unity, required of a society by interrelating the personal experience of individuals in such a way so as to emotionally bond those individuals together.
Neither Catholic speaker critiqued atheist philosophies and the dehumanising consequences they engender, the loss of freedom, hope and social cohesion, and the violence that often characterises not just Marxist atheism but humanist secularism, as in the French Revolution, for example.
But one thing is certain, and it appears to me that its recognition in theory, and acceptance in practice, must be the sine qua non of any valid discussion and effective action affecting the political, economic and moral ordering of the present world: this is that nothing, absolutely nothing — we may as well make up our minds to it — can arrest the progress of social Man towards ever greater interdependence and cohesion.
Social welfare policies which encourage marriage and family cohesion such as increasing the «marriageability» of men, through wage supports and the EITC, will be of more long term benefit than creating new programs and new services.
The question is whether we can continue to evacuate the meaning of oaths, honor, and duty — pietas — and maintain the social cohesion necessary for society to function as a whole.
It aimed to see whether the technologies delivered benefits such as increased productivity for rice farmers, improved livelihoods and food security, and bolstered social cohesion.
It is a distinctive national landmark that builds on Basque assets and special characteristics, positioned as a beacon of excellence for good quality of life, social cohesion, and an innovative and competitive region.
This national brand has strengths and singularities, positioning Euskadi as a global actor, mark of excellence, a model for quality of life and social cohesion, and as an innovative and competitive region.
As a clinical social worker in private practice, Annalise works within a broad systems viewpoint, balancing attention to culture, environment, family, and individuals to achieve a sense of harmony and cohesion.
As another study found, «Communities that have invested in infrastructure to promote walking or biking have shown increased property values, improved air quality, reduced urban heat injury (see # 3, below), and greater social cohesion
It draws attention to the failure of Western societies to uphold popular sovereignty and maintain social cohesion, as the gap between «them and us» becomes far too great.
A major factor in Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to voters in the recent leadership election — and potentially to the wider electorate as well — was his brave assertion that austerity was the wrong response to recession and was doing absolutely avoidable damage to both economic performance and social cohesion.
He has worked as a Research Assistant at Conservative Friends of Israel and previously worked for Douglas Carswell MP and the Centre for Social Cohesion.
I fully support ERGP's underlying principles - tackling constraints to growth identified as fuel, power, foreign currency, capricious regulation, skills and technology; leveraging the private sector; allowing markets to function; and promoting national values, cohesion and social inclusion.
«The government must be vigilant, as hate speech and incitement can endanger social cohesion and threaten peace by deepening the existing tensions between Nigeria's ethnic communities.»
Is given a life peerage as Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury and becomes shadow minister of state for Community Cohesion and Social Action.
Given the risks to social peace and cohesion associated with stoking tribal fires and playing the tribal game for partisan gain, as well as its tendency to impoverish the quality of our democracy and governance, a weakening of the political salience of the Akan / non-Akan logic should be salutary for the progress of Ghana.
They highlight the detrimental effects of pervasive insecurity and career competition on social cohesion within research groups, as well as on training and collaboration.
The research suggests that, despite its unpleasantness, pain may actually have positive social consequences, acting as a sort of «social glue» that fosters cohesion and solidarity within groups:
«Looking stressed can help keep the peace: First research to suggest scratching may have evolved as a communication tool to help social cohesion
Research by Jamie Whitehouse from the University of Portsmouth, is the first to suggest that these stress behaviours can be responded to by others, and that they might have evolved as a communication tool to help social cohesion.
Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.
This programme embraces projects that deal explicitly with the conservation of resources, but they also address community issues such as social isolation and community cohesion.
So, just as the the style and music of hip - hop is hyperlocal, this curriculum is designed to provide hyperlocal lenses into different communities, and facilitate cohesion within these communities for social activism.
From this perspective, pastoral care can assist students to develop positive self - esteem, healthy risk taking, goal setting and negotiation, thus enhancing their strengths and other protective factors contributing to their resiliency as well as developing a sense of social cohesion that together can improve their overall health and wellbeing (Nadge, 2005 and Doll & Lyon, 1998).
While the same may be true for Mexico and Turkey (and for big non-OECD countries that took the PISA exam, like Brazil and Indonesia) as well, it's hard to imagine the U.S. maintaining its economic strength — or social cohesion — while miseducating such a large number of its youth.
Outcomes include educational achievement (with a special emphasis on mathematics and science outcomes), educational attainment, interracial friendships, intergroup relations, and adult life - course trajectories such as occupational attainment, the intergenerational perpetuation of racial stereotypes and fears, and social cohesion in democratic, ethnically and racially plural societies.
If a larger share of students attended private schools that did not teach civics as comprehensively, we would expect to find a decline in social cohesion.
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.
Officials should look closely at the work of the Tauheedul trust as inspiration for a decent social cohesion policy.
Shanker had long favored integrated schools as a way of promoting both social mobility and social cohesion.
As the court noted in the Sheff decision: «If children of different races and economic and social groups have no opportunity to know each other and to live together in school, they can not be expected to gain the understanding and mutual respect necessary for the cohesion of our society.»
Education is viewed as an opportunity to maximise human capital, abandoning education's role of creating cultural good and social cohesion.
Evolution Studios will no doubt be aware of these problems more than anyone at the current moment as the highly anticipated PS4 exclusive racer, DriveClub suffers from crippling network problems that prevent players from getting online with the game that has such a big focus on social cohesion and experiencing the game online.
His two most famous structures of the early 1960s, the Fun Palace (1961) and the Potteries Thinkbelt (1964) were both intended to foster social cohesion, and were executed as short - term structures.
The artist Hélio Oiticica once called Brazil «the country that simply doesn't exist» — meaning, one presumes, that there was no single essence that could lend his nation a unified identity.In the decades since those words were written, Brazil has become increasingly fragmented, as social cohesion has been sundered by widening disparities in opportunity.
As stated above, Article 1 of the Fiscal Compact declares for the treaty to aim at «improv [ing] the governance of the euro area thereby supporting the achievement of the European Union's objectives for sustainable growth, employment, competitiveness and social cohesion».
As a firm we recognise the power of sport to inspire young lives, to improve social cohesion and health and the role which it has, both nationally and internationally, to enhance co-operation between communities.
Economic opportunity and prosperity and social stability and cohesion; these goals I sometimes talk about [are] as relevant to our first citizens and to that Aboriginal child....
The intra-Indigenous conflict that arises as a result of these circumstances often leads to mistrust and suspicion between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples which can fracture the social cohesion of the group involved and impede self - determination.
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