Sentences with phrase «social consensus on»

Indeed, social consensus on values and beliefs has broken down.

Not exact matches

As word of mouth floods on social media, will general - audience consensus match how the critics feel, or will repeat viewings begin?

Whether on social media or in our social circles, we often rise or fall based on consensus of the crowd.

The speakers had a variety of views, but the consensus on the panel was that an alliance is indeed forming on social and cultural issues, specifically gender and sexuality, and that this alliance will have a serious influence on domestic and global politics.

On a third crucial point we also found ourselves in genuine consensus: «evangelism,» in the Wesleyan spirit, must speak of justice as earnestly as of justification, of Christian nurture and discipline as emphatically as of conversion, of Christian social action as boldly as of personal salvation.

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

Some scholars interpret this general consensus on Social Security and Medicare and cognate programs as evidence that Catholic social teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progressSocial Security and Medicare and cognate programs as evidence that Catholic social teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progresssocial teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progressivism.

To ensure a viable future for the country, the new order would have to rest on a foundation of truly reasonable norms, about which a stable and healthy social consensus could cohere.

And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the common consensus in matters of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings of relying on man's own inferences about the nature of life, the universe, and the meaning of existence.

This process of secularization is deeply connected to the rise of a neo-liberal economic and social consensus, one not based on traditional norms but united by a search for ever - greater utility.

Can we ever achieve consensus on divisive social issues?

In this view, social change is gradual and evolutionary, and achieved on the basis of consensus.

The Constitution was based on a wide social and political consensus at a time when Spanish democracy was at the stake.

The consensus has been found on the «common ground» of One Nation Conservatism, whether this is confronting the «age of anxiety» (David Davis); the mending of a «broken society» (Liam Fox); tackling the «coarsening and vulgarising of society» (David Cameron) or the need to reverse Britain's «social decay» (David Willetts).

This consensus was in reaction to comments by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), that his outfit will consider banning social media on Election Day, November 7.

The second edition of the «Y - Dialogues Vote on Issues» Campaign held in Kumasi ended with a general consensus by the teeming youth present to generate positive conversations on social media concerning the elections.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on EU reform were dealt a blow this week when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on limiting access to Britain's welfare state were dealt a blow yesterday when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

European Council president Donald Tusk yesterday warned David Cameron there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement were dealt a blow this week when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

But European Council president Donald Tusk yesterday warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

A new research study in the International Journal of Business Environment suggests that content providers must take a pragmatic view based on social consensus to persuade illicit downloaders that their behaviour is economically and ethically unacceptable behaviour among their peer group or other social group to which they belong.

It's also used on social media wherein astroturfers create several false accounts to espouse opinions, creating the illusion of a consensus when actually one person is pretending to be many.

Likewise, certain aspects of group structure and social behaviour distinguish humans from other primates and almost certainly emerged through major evolutionary events, yet there has been no consensus on how to detect aspects of group behaviour in the fossil or archaeological records.

That is, consensus is a powerful descriptive social fact: it tells us about the number of people who agree on important issues (i.e., the norm within a community).

It is called Social Proof, a phenomenon that occurs when the consensus of others has an influence on the thoughts of a person.

The critics» first social media reactions to Deadpool 2 are actually on - line, following the preliminary spherical of press screenings, and it kind of feels the overall consensus is reasonably sure, with some even hailing this film as being higher than the primary one.

A real impact of civic and intercultural education implies «moving away from a focus on individual (identity) difference / s towards a focus on finding, through principled intercultural discourse, consensus for social action to redress injustice and inequality in the multicultural society» (Ohana & Otten, 2012).

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

Reviewing approaches to psychosocial support work in international humanitarian assistance, Zaveri (2011) found that a lack of consensus on what should be included delayed the insertion of standards on mental health and psycho - social support in the earliest Sphere Handbooks published in 1998 and 2000.

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

While there were programmatic initiatives underway (the elementary mathematics program, a federally - sponsored program intended to motivate high school students to pursue post-secondary studies, and a government - funded after - school program to provide positive alternatives for teen social behavior), there was no overall consensus on needs, goals, and a strategy for improvement.

There seems to be some consensus that teacher effectiveness centers on student growth — the amount of social, emotional and academic progress a student makes over the course of a year.

Ms. Maloof's mirror the popularity of animals on social media, where, despite disagreements on virtually every other topic, we can usually reach consensus on cute animal antics or admire cross-species friendships.

Or is Paul defending against the charge by making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side as the consensus, so to challenge any aspect of global warming science or politics is to make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?

Corollaries of this fallacy include peer review, publication in professional journals, consensus, and conformity to social mores, all tenets of Post Modern Science, all attributable to Karl Popper, and widely practiced among AGW sources and their academies, including especially the issue reverberating on this thread: the unsound conjecture of ocean acidification from anthropogenic CO2.

Recent social - science research has shown that the acceptance of the existence of the expert consensus on climate change is a gateway belief.

The overall objective of the consultation was to enable key regional stakeholders to assess and, through consensus, prioritize research needs regarding public health adaptation to social, environmental and climate change impacts on vector - borne diseases in Africa.

«focusing on consensus building» — physics is on the way down, social engineering is on the way up.

These ought to be their halcyon days; once they were a mild joke, but now that consensus is being offered as a token for irrefrangible fact they could be leading the discussion on what we mean by «consensus» or «precaution» and the social construction of reality in general.

The rather heated debates we have had about the likely economic and social damage of carbon emissions have been based on that idea that there is something like a scientific consensus about the range of warming we can expect.

But cultures are not only able to enforce a consensus on the unknowable, it a major part of why cultures exist in the first place (super social cohesion is an advantage).

For the rest of us, communicate the existence of the consensus to your friends, family, on social media, in article and blog comments — everywhere you can.

The fact that even the green movement is itself so split — pro- and anti-capitalist, pro- and anti- technology, pro- and anti- humanity itself — should demonstrate to Lynas the scale of the task of uniting the entire world, never mind a nation, in a social consensus, never mind a treaty under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is well and truly beyond his abilities, or the abilities of climate science.

And as we have learned lately, there is nothing in the blogosphere keeping corporations or governments from using social media like blogs, twitter, facebook and the like from trying to create a false sense of consensus (like climate skepticism) on matters of public concern or interest — or lack thereof.

This denier pre-emption of social science research echoes Frank Luntz» infamous 2002 memo advising Republicans to attack the scientific consensus on climate change in order to erode public support for climate policies - long before social scientists began researching the link between perception of consensus and support for climate action.

The draft conclusions from the Advanced Working Group on Long - Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) REDD - plus negotiating text are similar to the previous version from the last round of talks in Barcelona, the so - called «non-paper 39», but negotiators this time around have removed brackets (in UN speak this means consensus has been reached) from the principles (paragraph 1), scope (paragraph 3), sub-national approaches (paragraph 7 and 13) and social and environmental safeguards (paragraph 2).

Social scientists have coined the term «consensus gap» to describe the large discrepancy between the actual 97 % consensus, and the public perception that just half to two - thirds or experts agree on human - caused global warming.

in which the growing scientific consensus on the human impact on climate change is characterized as folks just following social trends, or that the IPCC position on global warming is based on the «hockey stick».

«Scientific knowledge is the intellectual and social consensus of affiliated experts based on the weight of available empirical evidence, and evaluated according to accepted methodologies.