Sentences with phrase «social controls based»

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.

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Musical.ly, a video - based social network popular with teenagers in the United States and Europe, is being sold for between $ 800 million and $ 1 billion to Bytedance, the company that controls the Chinese news aggregator Toutiao, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

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.

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.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Although Pope John Paul II has made clear his disagreement with the revolutionary approach of liberation theologians, Catholic social teaching is more radical than the popular opinion of the present Pope, based on his views about birth control and sexual morality, might suggest.

Christian ethics establishes the family as primary in all social relations based on the explicit teachings of Jesus and their implications that monogamy is the standard, agape the controlling factor, divorce a compromise, and our relation to God the foundation.

the right persons [that is, social scientists] to undertake the study of moral influences... in the right spirit as a basis for the scientific control of the individual.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community - controlled and biodiversity - based food systems

RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RIBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that the Company has entered into an exclusive strategic supply agreement for organic rice bran and an LLC Agreement for the formation of a jointly owned sales and marketing entity with the Bangkok, Thailand based Narula Group of Companies («Narula Group»), one of the world's largest growers of organic rice, which is controlled by social impact entrepreneur Arvind Narula.

PGS offer a complementary, low - cost, locally - based system of quality assurance, with a heavy emphasis on social control and knowledge building.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Hallas D, Koslap - Petraco M, Fletcher J. Social - Emotional Development of Toddlers: Randomized Controlled Trial of an Office - Based Intervention.

S - CAT ® games and goals (based on age and where the child is on the Social Communication Bridge ®) are used to help develop social comfort and ultimately progress into speech via the use of ritualistic and controlled meSocial Communication Bridge ®) are used to help develop social comfort and ultimately progress into speech via the use of ritualistic and controlled mesocial comfort and ultimately progress into speech via the use of ritualistic and controlled methods.

As Gina describes it, what makes a Ning - based social network «custom» is that it's functionally yours, since you generate the members and you control the community features.

The meetings served as a control for the fact that participants in the problem - solving therapy arm were seen in person on a weekly basis, and social contact of this nature can have a positive effect on mood.

Kahan and other social scientists previously have shown that information based on scientific evidence can actually intensify — rather than moderate — political polarization on contentious topics such as gun control, climate change, fracking, or the safety of certain vaccines.

Whole - brain connectivity approaches have also provided evidence of hypo - connectivity of social processing - related brain circuits in adolescents with ASD (Gotts et al., 2012), though a recent systematic investigation using both ROI - based and ICA - based analytic approaches found very few examples of functional hypo - connectivity in adults with ASD compared with age - matched control participants (Tyszka et al., 2013).

With more than 45 exciting mini-games,  Pac - Man Party provides a rewarding and challenging social gaming experience regardless of skill level. From the time - based trials of rolling a giant snowball and knocking your friends off a mountain top, to adventures that require more precision and endurance, players will be fully engaged as they use the Wii Remote's motion, pointing and button control capabilities.

One taught social studies using the project - based units we designed (the experimental or PBL group), and the other taught social studies as they normally did (the control group).

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

How do we design and deliver an evidence - based school discipline, classroom management, and student self - management (or positive behavioral support system) that increases all students» interpersonal, social problem - solving, conflict prevention and resolution, and emotional control and coping skills; that creates safe and connected classroom and school environments; and that maximizes students» motivation and their academic engagement, independence, and confidence?

The justification for zoning is superficially in terms of controlling externalities, but zoning is frequently put in place due to other motivations — the two main ones being a) fiscal zoning, which is intended to improve a local jurisdiction's tax base by attracting occupants whose tax contributions surpass their use of public services, and b) exclusionary zoning, which is meant to exclude or restrict a member of a racial, ethnic, or social class from occupying a jurisdiction (Pogodzinski, pg.

In response to his comments, over 50 California - based civil rights, social justice, and education organizations signed the letter below urging the Governor to continue the state's commitment to equity by not just narrowing, but closing the achievement and opportunity gaps, continuing the work of the Local Control Funding Formula, and supporting a strong accountability system.

However, she should have followed up with Wavy's situation on a regular basis and involved social services when she saw the issues that she couldn't control on her own.

In the last few years they have developed a system called Freetime, which automatically blocks access to the Silk Browser and Kindle content stores, disables location - based services, in - app purchases, or social features, and requires your parental controls password to enable or disable the feature.

Part of focusing that control should include your social media activity, because it's key to building your brand and your fan base.

Other new features include Goodreads integration for social reading and recommendations, Kindle Page Flip for maintaining one's spot when flipping ahead, Kindle FreeTime for parent controls and child reading monitoring, integrated reference and dictionary information via Smart Lookup, in - line footnotes, and a flashcard - based Vocabulary Builder, which is based on user word searches.

He detailed the system in five key points: a revolutionary control system, location - based entertainment, social connection, augmented reality features and PS Suite compatibility.

Hobby - based social network Hobzy, music game makers Soshi Games, social media monitoring tool Crowd Control HQ and play - based revision platform Zammer are just a handful of the other startups that call the Second City home.

In contrast to Western «art for art's sake,» tradition - based African art served as an agent of religion, social stability, or social control.

Sarah Charlesworth's recontextualized newspapers, a comparison of The Family of Man by Edward Steichen and Steve McQueen, typologies by the Bechers, Karl Blossfeldt, Dan Graham, and others, the photographic archive as a tool of social control, series - based portraiture by artists August Sander, VALIE EXPORT, Claude Cahun, Bea Nettles, Annette Messager, and Sophie Calle, the passage of space and time in works by Ed Ruscha, Duane Michals, Minor White, William Christenberry, and Atta Kim, photographic documention of artistic process, observation and experimentation, the photobook as a traveling idea, the slide show as performed sequence, Eadweard Muybridge and the illusion of motion, sequential narrative in works by Jan Groover, Eleanor Antin, and Chris Marker, compressing time in video works by Andy Warhol and Paul Pfeiffer, and more...

Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment, investigating correlations between the mechanisms of social control and the unethical aspects of public works infrastructural projects including large water dams and reservoirs.

Even Cass Sunstein has calculated using current models that the SOC in the US may be as low as US$ 5 / MT or even less, but because their might be some global disbenefit, potentially based on poor social attitudes over which we have no control, the calcluation is still «legitimate» under US law.

Attempts to significantly influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human - caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all other environmental and social threats.

There concern is maintaing social control in the wealthy elite and ensuring the continued existence of a class based society.

Participants were then randomly assigned to one of three social norm conditions (control vs. average - norm vs. rank - norm) and given further information about CO2 emissions (based on grams of CO2 emitted per kWh from electricity and heat generation).

CCD / CACL concur with Professor Montero's conclusion that an a posteriori control system, vague criteria in the hands of physicians with a wide range of opinion on AS / E [54] and a social ethos or philosophy based on autonomy prevailing over all other considerations mean it is «illusory to think [AS / E] can... be narrowly circumscribed.»

Based on a book that's been written, re-written and edited by various human beings (mostly male) over many years in order that it conform to what that particular human being or group of human beings happened to think at that time or that was expedient for social control at that time?

Chain - reaction — the evolution of social media with blockchain Following Facebook's ban of cryptocurrency and blockchain - related material, many believe that there will be a growing demand for blockchain - based social networks where affiliates can promote more freely and each social media account is in better control of his own data and is directly rewarded for selling their own data.

Certainly in terms of careers, people more in control of their emotional responses will face significantly fewer social hardships on a daily basis.

• Track record of providing instructional support within special and general education classrooms as required to meet the students» needs • Skilled in student evaluation and need assessment • Substantial knowledge of and ability to cater for students» age related developmental cognitive, social and psychological needs • Proficient in facilitating the teacher in conducting classroom related activities • Expert in developing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and colleague teachers • Effective in devising interactive supportive learning activities to reinforce the lesson being taught • Well versed in filing in for the lead teacher in case of leave or absence and implementing the devised lesson plan effectively • Particularly effective in supervising the children during lunch and playtime, ensuring ample and healthy social interaction among peers • Competent at lesson planning, classroom control, assignment marking, lesson reinforcement and activity facilitation • Profound ability to develop need based individualized educational plans and implement the same in light of pre-determined long term learning objectives for each pupil individually • Proven skills in record keeping, developing individual student progress charts and portfolios along with demonstrated ability to maintain open communication channels with the students» parents and teachers to discuss progress • Track record of providing excellent teacher support in all classroom and lesson planning related activities • Committed to delivery of highest standards of classroom support, maintenance of an interactive atmosphere and provision of specially designed AV aids for special needs students

Effectively managed time and caseloads based on 20 sessions per week.Efficiently gathered information from families and social services agencies to inform development of treatment plans.Documented all patient information including service plans, treatment reports and progress notes.Collaborated closely with treatment team to appropriately coordinate client care services.Interacted with clinical staff and external resources such as school or community personnel.Developed comprehensive treatment plans that focused on accurate diagnosis and behavioral treatment of problems.Taught clients anger management techniques, relaxation skills, impulse control, social skills, emotional coping skills and functional living skills.Consulted with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications.Created and reviewed master treatment and discharge plans for each client.Referred clients to other programs and community agencies to enhance treatment processes.Evaluated patients to determine potential need to transfer to specialized inpatient mental health facilities.Led patients in individual, family, group and marital therapy sessions.

Responsibilities will include: Dealing with incoming queries for the office Creating contracts for candidates Managing staff attendance and holidays Social media Ordering stationary and other office supplies Assisting with bids and proposals Processing invoices Ensuring hours are processed on a weekly basis for temporary candidates Credit control CV formatting Ensuring the company database is up to date We are looking for someone who is well organised, can work under pressure and meet deadlines while taking responsibility for their own workload.

The efficacy of the computer based Treatment Program for Children with Aggressive Behaviour (Soziales computerunterstütztes Training für Kinder mit aggressivem Verhalten, ScouT) which is a child focused social competence training delivered in an individual format will be evaluated in a randomized controlled trial with children aged 6 to 12 years with peer - related aggressive behaviour.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.