Sentences with phrase «social cohesion by»

The Lisbon Agenda sought to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion by 2010.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

Their defence of scrapping the cap follows another letter written on Tuesday to the Daily Telegraph by a group of 70 faith leaders, politicians and academics who warned lifting the cap would be «deleterious to social cohesion and respect».

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.

It would also help rebuild social cohesion and increase public spirit by helping the working poor to feel more a part of society and less the scapegoat for our country's problems.

And this needs to be underpinned by high levels of social cohesion, education, health and empowerment — qualities that facilitate national resilience.

A report published by the Centre for Social Cohesion today looks into how extremists have used the internet since the government's post-July 7th security crackdown.

With insights from neuroscience, this theory argues that human nature is characterized by emotionality, amorality, and egoism, and that working for social cohesion and sustainable history requires careful consideration of the dignity needs of human beings.

Adamu pointed out that the decision was in line with the university's vision of providing highly accessible and enhanced education anchored by social justice, equity, equality and national cohesion through comprehensive reach that transcends all barriers.

We need to foster greater social cohesion in our society, not divide and segregate children by their parents» religious beliefs and erect needless barriers to mutual understanding and respect.

The event was organized by The Yitzhak Rabin Center, an Israeli institute named for the slain prime minister whose goal was «to shape an Israeli society and leadership dedicated to open dialogue, democratic values, Zionism and social cohesion.»

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.

«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.»

The cause of social cohesion and a peaceful society will not be advanced by the special pleading of already powerful elites whose beliefs have no popular support, but by the creation of a shared national life that treats everyone equally, regardless of religion or belief.

Knowing who and where people are talking about an advertising campaign on social networks, warning of a forest problem by geolocation data; developing a map of air quality through a collaborative application; improving European territorial cohesion through the comparison of data or developing a sound map playing a battle against noise are just some of the projects developed by this group at the UJI thanks to geolocation technology.

In March 2000, European heads of governments and of states agreed in Lisbon that by 2010, the European Union (EU) should become «the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater 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.

A TOUCH OF SIN By Tony Rayns The New China's loss of social cohesion leads to violence in the four authentically grim tales that comprise Jia Zhang - ke's new film

A 2005 report by the Rand Corporation about the visual arts argues that the intrinsic pleasures and stimulation of the art experience do more than sweeten an individual's life — according to the report, they «can connect people more deeply to the world and open them to new ways of seeing,» creating the foundation to forge social bonds and community cohesion.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

«Growing up in a country that was struggling to re-build its social and human cohesion, I dream of changing education by re-framing what we want education to be.»

Thereby we wish to contribute to the capacity of people to build peaceful societies and be mindful of how humiliation may disrupt the social fabric and how social cohesion may be sustained by preventing humiliation from occurring.

«This means that the kind of social segregation experienced by children in selective areas in England, and the damage to social cohesion that ensues, is for no clear gain.

For at least two reasons, we initially suspected that the expansion of the Swedish voucher scheme would be accompanied by 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.

This 2014 report by Bruce Fuller, Anisah Waite, Celina Lee Chao with Iza Mari Benedicto begins to illuminate how teachers» ties to each other differ across small schools, and how social cohesion flows from site - run management.

The letter, which argues that the «divisive policy» is a threat to «social cohesion and respect», is backed by 71 signatories, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Professor Richard Dawkins, and joint heads of the National Education Union, Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney.

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.

Although such processes may be beneficial for communities whose goal is social cohesion (e.g., a religious or activist movement), they can be devastating for scientific communities by leading to widely - accepted claims that reflect the scientific community's blind spots more than they reflect justified scientific conclusions.

Disturbing ter see «doing science,» innovation of an open society, captured by the thinking of a tribal society, magical thinking and observing taboos that serve social cohesion but not truth.

Mark R. Jacobson, a Georgetown University professor and expert on Russian influence operations, said Russia strategically seeks to undermine U.S. political cohesion by promoting extremist views within opposing political or social groups, and hoping chaos — and violence — ensues.

Foster team cohesion by serving on the social committee team organizing quarterly team projects.

Additionally, PMTO children were rated by their teachers to have reduced their problem behaviors and increased their social competence relative to RS children and PMTO parents reported increases in family cohesion compared to RS parents at follow - up.

The narratives in this study show how poor neighborhood social capital is buffered by family cohesion and how poor family can be buffered by the marital relationship.

The conclusion in a new white paper prepared for CoreNet Global by Dr. Peggie Rothe, development director of Leesman, a UK - based workplace research firm, is that the «workplace plays a key role in the pursuit to foster social cohesion — but it can also prevent it from happening.»