Sentences with phrase «social control over»

Religious and cult influence and social control over the population may also have been inportant.

Instead of judging acceptable risk, we could ask what would count as an acceptable and plausible social control over potentially hazardous activities.

In southern Colombia, armed groups exert strong social control over large areas, impeding any information, including on human rights violations, from leaving the region.

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.

Some social control over the excesses of the high caste landlords was exercised through the threat of Pulaya black magic in Travancore.31

Not exact matches

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

But such a service could also present the risk of publishers becoming even more dependent on social networking platforms like Facebook for readers and revenue, thus giving the tech giants an uncomfortable amount of control over the news industry's fate.

«The central government will still need to take the social impact (notably unemployment) of these reforms into account, and it also is keen to maintain its control over these SOEs, and as such, their full scale privatization is unlikely.»

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters)- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday sparred with lawmakers over how much control users of the world's largest social media network have over their data in a sometimes fractious five - hour hearing.

«For Chávez to have control over PDVSA meant a huge cash cow for the sort of social programs he wanted to implement,» says Maxwell Cameron, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

If you have control over when your content goes live, consider testing different publication dates to maximize social engagement.

What many of these social media companies intend to do is to create «walled gardens» within the open internet — meaning that they will enact significant control over the content consumption of the people using their platforms.

The company has been in a constant state of damage control over social media, and the other day, it replaced a temporary CEO who had been in the role for less than a month.

This refers to the digital assets that your brand or company owns — whether that's your website, social media profiles, blog content, or imagery, owned channels are the things your business has complete control over.

Over 60 percent of individuals in a recent survey said they lost their chain of thought because they read and replied to an email, while more than 50 percent of people who check emails and social media when trying to work indicated a lack of impulse control.

It also examined policies that would enable Canadians to exercise greater control over their own economic development and to retain and increase Canadian ownership of business where feasible or desirable for economic, social, cultural or other reasons.

Even operators of personal websites or owners of social media pages that exercise control over content might be considered publishers when they host ads or solicit engagement with their content.

Fully customizable to a user's social network and preferences, SlingRide gives users complete control over who they ride with.

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.»

Organic social media, on the other hand, has little to no targeting potential, since you don't have much control over who sees your posts.

Everypost makes it easy to curate visual content from a variety of sources, customize and schedule posts, and take greater control over your social pages.

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.

As social relationships and boundaries are redefined due to social change, less attention is paid to lesser spirits, and the Supreme Being takes over as dominant reality which helps the converts to understand, predict and control events.

Underlying this practice was the assumption that poverty and need were due to a breakdown in the equitable distribution of community resources or to a social status over which an individual had no control (widows, orphans).

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.»

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.

He feels his impotence in the face of mass social forces over which he has no control.

«Legacies» are owned by the living, expressed by the living, and can simply be defined as all the effects your life had on the world when you were alive — which you have very little control over even while alive considering all the physical and social aspects.

In this purified Logic (Henry Adams would have seen it as another sign of the triumph of the Dynamo over the Virgin), one sees that fear of loss of rational control over the sensible universe that led the seventeenth - century rationalist Fontenelle to tolerate poetry only as a social amusement.

They also address issues such as the unequal distribution of harm and benefit of applications among social actors; the control over technology and its administration; and the uncertainty about the future impacts of technology.

The era of women's busy and important civic service, however, wound down as domestic helpers grew scarce, and as professional social workers and administrators took over many of the activities that had previously been controlled by unpaid volunteers.

«Once women were able to get control over the «what and whether» of motherhood, we approached it as a choice rather than a biological or social necessity,» Granju says.

It does make you wonder, doesn't it, the huge increase in children on medication for ADHD, the children who have poor social skills and the children who have no impulse control, which we've seen increase dramatically over the past 20 years, since we have had more screens in the household — be they TV, DVD, computer, X-box etc — makes you wonder....

In reaction, social movements and other expressions of civil society have engaged in strategies to regain people's control over food and nutrition.

Providing individuals with the requisite understanding of their place in our contemporary, globalized world and giving them the autonomy to have greater control over their own lives should figure high on our list of enshrined social and political rights.

On the other hand, there is «social mutualism» involving a particular approach to the organisation and delivery of public services, where both employees and those using public services can acquire greater control over their management and operation.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

But, but, but: The Post's in - house pollster, Scott Clement, flags a 2013 Pew Research Study, which found that people who prioritize gun rights over gun control are four or five times more likely to contribute money to advocacy groups, contact public officials, sign petitions and express their views on social media.

You CAN involve your supporters without completely surrendering control over your message — social media isn't an all - or - nothing proposition.

That there will only be a single question is a good example of something well known to those that study social choice theory: the power that someone with control over the agenda has over the outcome of voting.

I have written about the egalitarian social vision, including collective control over property and work, in an earlier post for OpenDemocracy.

The next point, «Governmental control over morals and social life» would be better placed under the left.

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

It's not just Iraq, but a series of decisions that have not stood the test of time over PFI, private contractors in public services, central control of power and money stymying councils from building social housing - the list goes on.

Working families want a social security system that is fair and affordable: - one that meets genuine need and rewards responsibility, - while keeping costs under control over the long term.

He is moderate on social issues — he has no plans to roll back Cuomo's gun - control law, supports same - sex marriage and abortion rights up to the third trimester — and endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.

This upshot was an initial media blackout on an hours - long sit - in protest by Democratic lawmakers over gun control legislation, which had coalesced on social media around the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.