Sentences with phrase «social crises as»

Psycho - social counseling: In work and family stress situations, Helmholtz Zentrum München employees can consult the HZm psycho - social counseling office to receive assistance for mental health problems, psycho - social crises as well as team conflicts.
The FT disapprovingly quotes our manifesto «The conservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general public...».

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Johnson & Johnson was lauded in its response to the crisis, but this occurred in the days before social media, the Internet, and 24 - hour cable news, when careful consideration as to the tone and content of public communication could be timed to a daily, weekly, or monthly news cycle.
Victor Bostinaru, vice chair of the Social Democratic group in the European Parliament and Romanian MEP, said on Thursday he had evidence that the Russians had interfered in the Catalan crisis, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.
A social media crisis with Facebook that may also affect other social media stocks and Alphabet potentially as well.
Accordingly, as the European economic crisis continues to fuel nationalist ideology, STRATFOR expects the tension created by globalization and its social and cultural effects to be an important element in the European political scene in the coming years.
Still, in the wake of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, he started thinking that the way of the future for financial institutions might be a different kind of business model — one that emphasized social good as much as turning a profit.
The social network is undergoing its worst crisis in its 14 - year history as it faces a torrent of criticism about its privacy practices and the way it handles user data.
And this situation is becoming worse as pensions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, life expectancies along with accompanying health care costs are increasing, and even social security is facing a crisis point.
The social network feasted on burgeoning data and devices, just as banks gorged on easy money before the crisis.
Facebook Inc. hasn't been «fully forthcoming» as Congress probed Russia's attempted meddling in the 2016 presidential election, U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said Sunday as the social - media giant faced continued fallout from an ongoing data crisis.
«My background in the law really drove my desire to do this, and once I saw all the confusing and inaccurate advice people were getting about Social Security, and realized the extent of the growing retirement crisis, I knew it was important to ensure that my system be as comprehensive as possible.
With experience handling some of the most visible crises of our time, we expertly navigate important communications channels, including traditional as well as digital and social media, to protect corporate brands and reputation.
In a circumstance of real social crisis, however, the irrationalists might be isolated and prevented from spreading the poison of debonair nihilism throughout the culture, as they do at present.
The relationship... is seen as one that fluctuates with the changing needs, growth of family members, changes in family composition, and stress and crisis» «Marital Conflict: Its Course and Treatment — As Seen by Caseworkers,» Social Case - work, April, 1966, p. 212as one that fluctuates with the changing needs, growth of family members, changes in family composition, and stress and crisis» «Marital Conflict: Its Course and Treatment — As Seen by Caseworkers,» Social Case - work, April, 1966, p. 212As Seen by Caseworkers,» Social Case - work, April, 1966, p. 212).
On Christmas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released a statement praising Jesus as «the messenger of humanism and grace» and noted, «I believe that the sole way to save the man from severe moral, social and cultural crises is returning to the exalted teachings of the great messengers of God.»
Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.
As a social scientist, I also question the assertion that fundamentalism arises or gains prominence in times of crisis, actual or perceived.
The churches have failed to see that the challenge of world hunger (and the whole complex of related peace, liberation and development issues) constitutes a theological crisis for the church as well as a political, social and economic crisis for the world.
My procedure will therefore involve listing certain key concepts in Girard's thought, such as mimetic desire, envy, the social crisis, etc., followed by a search for parallel ideas in Kierkegaard.
Christian Lalive d'Epinay proposed a similar sociological argument explaining the growth of Pentecostalism as a function of the social, political, and economic crisis in Latin America produced by the rapid urbanization of traditional rural peoples.
Reforms such as higher taxes, lower benefits and delayed retirement are designed to put Social Security on a firm financial footing, so that the sheer passage of time does not force future payees and retirees into a crisis that would severely hurt both groups.
He said, «In my parish duties I found that the simple idealism into which the classical faith had evaporated was as irrelevant to the crises of personal life as it was to the complex social issues of an industrial city.»
As the depression deepened and human suffering on a massive scale ensued, it became increasingly evident that the nation was in the grip of a grave economic and social crisis — one that would not soon abate.
Its culture first becomes clear to its members in a trying crisis and is, as usual, associated with social predicament.
(15) It is important to recognize that sociology arose as a distinct discipline in response to a specific social crisis.
The reluctance of some people to separate themselves from their social system and this crisis at the Seminary influenced missionary goals by making missionaries more determined to remove caste distinctions as a prerequisite for becoming Christian.
They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.
Under the circumstances,» he continues, «this was amazing progress, reflecting as nothing else did the impact of the social crisis upon conventional modes of religious behavior.
As the great French social philosopher Pierre Manent has pointed out, the modern secular nation state is itself in a crisis of transition; and the Catholic Church, having made its peace with and given its support to democratic experiments, is necessarily concerned with a corrosive «privatizing» and relativizing of conscience.
The ecological crisis is accompanied by a social crisis brought about by economic globalization as a new form of colonialism.
Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a food bank voucher.
Corne, who spent 28 years at the helm of Louis Vuitton Australia, led it to a position in the global top 15 (the locations where luxury retail is the most successful) and through curve balls such as the rise of online shopping and social media, economic crises and tourism changes.
The CCC report emerged during the same period as notable World Bank publications and an IMF paper that were among the first to identify the economic and social problems in Kona origins that would be the basis of the Kona crisis that more fully unfolded early in Kona 2000's.
Company Description: Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families offer kids hope and help them overcome difficult family - based situations such as abuse and neglect, social and behavioral disorders, and family crises.
Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.
As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 200As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 200as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 200as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.
The current crisis is worsening the economic situation and seriously endangers the ambitious — and often popular - social programmes launched by the president in the past ten years such as the exemption of health - care user fees from pregnant mothers and children below five, free schools, a reform of primary school, and a new health insurance scheme.
The big banks, having caused the crisis in the first place and led governments to borrow vast sums to come to their aid, have successfully redefined the resulting fiscal deficits as entailing cuts to public spending and social protection.
Always more pleased with itself than its record would warrant, social democracy must now make a true reckoning with that history if it is to emerge from the current crisis as a continuing force for progressive change.
There are many questions and much political and social discontent to come as the EU struggles to emerge from this crisis in any positive way.
During the DiploHack, embassies discussed possible crisis scenarios, where social media could be used as a tool to connect with citizens abroad, as well being viewed as a method to engage with relevant political actors and to have their foreign policy positions heard online.
In the belief that «brutality must be purged in the social rhetoric of crisis management» (p. 195), we respond with marches, flowers and slogans such as «I am Charlie» or «Pray for Paris».
Through establishing a mechanism for the creation of collective discussion that would otherwise be prohibited, she argues that social media networks can serve as a voice to the voiceless and call for international assistance in crises that would otherwise go unheard.
Increasing riots, mostly in the rural regions, seem to exacerbate a social crisis whose fundamental causes stretch back as far as the 1988 October riots.
There are indications that the camp of the Social Democratic Party is in disarray as the news of the resolution of the crisis in the All Progressives Congress broke on Monday.
However, as a way of challenging the complex array of social and economic ills implicated in the financial crisis, and emanating from it, a republicanism based on the 99 per cent slogan will not work.
What he has, too, is an urgent sense of economic and social crisis - a sense of what has gone wrong in social democracy as well as in wider society (he talks not of a broken society but of a «social recession»)- and the desire to do something about it.
However, more must be done to find solutions to the housing crisis and it is concerning that the Office for Budget Responsibility predicts there will be 14,000 fewer affordable homes built as a direct result of social housing rent cuts.
With rising unemployment and fewer job vacancies, the current financial crisis has seen renewed policy emphasis in both Europe and the UK on volunteering as a route to employment, according to a new report from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC.)
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