Sentences with phrase «social control by»

But it IS worthy to note that people continue to sheepishly believe absurdities about certain personalities that are put out there by people promulgating this or that ideology or simply trying to exercise social control by making people feel unworthy in comparison to ruling elites.

Repressive use of media Emancipatory use of media Centrally controlled program Decentralized program One transmitter, many receivers Each receiver a potential transmitter Immobilization of isolated Mobilization of the masses individuals Passive consumer behavior Interaction of those involved, feedback Depoliticization A political learning process Production by specialists Collective production Control by property owners or Social control by self - bureaucracy organization

In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.

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Of course, the social network is a corporation controlled by its shareholders (primarily Mark Zuckerberg), and therefore it isn't required to adhere to the free - speech dictates of the First Amendment.

ESI Media, which is controlled by Evgeny Lebedev, described the move as a «historic transition,» but much of the British press reacted with sadness and / or anger, and social networks like Twitter were filled with eulogies for the newspaper.

Some publishers have seen traffic from Facebook plummet by 40 %, which reinforces the risks of handing control over your audience to the social network.

A recent study done by two business school researchers says that social media really can influence the amount of money you spend to the point that you can't control yourself.

Owned media Owned media is content created, owned and controlled by you such as your website, blog, email marketing, online presentations, online videos, ebooks, white papers, your social media content and so on.

And Torstar is controlled by a trust comprising five families, who made a court commitment decades ago to promote social justice, a promise that analysts have long insisted eats away at margins.

This reinforces the need for small - business owners to take control by creating a social media policy.

Far too many people think that they can control the media, when in fact they only make things worse by giving an interview that is off - message or by posting inappropriate comments on social media.

In the assessments, mandated by a 2011 consent decree, PwC deemed Facebook's internal controls effective at protecting users» privacy — even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was improperly obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

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Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

«For people that are incredibly enthusiastic about markets and believe that markets should be the determining governance, crypto is the best place to be, because it is truly controlled by the market itself,» Kris Nelson, COO of Social...

In the realms of both cultural development and technical innovation, ignorance and inflexibility are the enemy; Giancarlo stresses that the upcoming generation «see virtual currency — along with social media — as a means to bypass control by a failed generation of leadership.»

But even that demonstrator — who brought out an effigy of Obama with texts declaring him a liar and murderer — was fundamentally critiquing large corporations and their control over politicians when he declared in a sign that «TTIP and CETA is social murder dictated by the US.»

It works very well as a method of social control, for it allows for discrete censorship and the reinforcement of socially enforced orthodoxies well disguised by the rhetoric of neutrality and tolerance in his day, and of diversity and inclusion in ours.

The simple truth is that the internet and social media has userped the power of the «church» to control the people, and people who once occupied pews now find it easier to find like minded believers (of all fathis and creeds) online and can be exposed to any theology they want by simply using Google.

Physical compulsion is thus largely replaced in social relationships by mental control.

This is an unconscious process by which normal social controls, which have had little meaning to Joe in the advanced stages of his alcoholism, are reestablished.

Usually, however, human behavior is not caused by the direct application of physical force, but is controlled by habit patterns acquired in earlier social experience.

The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

The loss of a compelling sense of otherness in social institutions is accompanied by a sense that the orders we participate in are transitory, relative, or artifically constructed and controlled.

The social norm of cerebral self - control and privacy was challenged by a new ethic of full disclosure.

There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

as a «social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly: control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.»

Yes, Phoebe is embedded deeply enough in the culture around her to want to lose weight, but she is a sparkling and animated young woman who mostly enjoys her life and refuses to be so controlled by her diet, or the social norms around her, that she won't defiantly consume a bag of buttery popcorn now and then.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Such controls are also the main reliance of non-democratic social orders — the means by which the techniques of public - making are reserved for the special purposes of those who hold the reins of power.

Also, let us not forget Justice O'Connor argument from Casey about liberating women from their baby making bodies so they can help boost the GDP: «The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.»

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

What emerged was a deistic philosophy in which the ideas of sin and God receded in favor of new social control mechanisms provided by law and legitimated by conceptions of the lawfulness of nature.

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.

Securing solidarity and cooperation for this agenda, however, requires extending reason's mastery and control over social relations of distribution as well, so as to ensure that the possibilities of self - transcendence are widely shared by «humanity.»

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

This sphere of freedom is threatened and secretly determined by anonymous powers determining public opinion without being controlled themselves, which produce mass psychoses, direct consumption and the ever more intricate relations of social life.

There are, however, social controls which are always necessary to defend the freedom of all, even if they have to be upheld by force against individuals or groups which protest against them.

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

Parental controls are weak and the scars from social competition painful, so Lower - UpperYoung people may try to escape from social discomforts by drunkenness...

As the architects of this secular society well knew, it could be built only by wresting from the Church control over two basic social institutions: marriage and the education of the young.

In long industrialized nations and newly industrialized nations alike, the social, political and cultural arenas of life are defined and debated in ways controlled by the media.

They emphasize this by rejecting the customs found in the Lower classes... Lower - Middle men and women are the most stringent in exerting social control over drinking.

It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

What is more, some protection against authoritarian control of the information environment has always been provided by a strong oral tradition which nourished articulate social criticism.