Sentences with phrase «social disintegration»

Form, color and space are the architectural building blocks with which the artist tackles recurring issues of social disintegration in urban spaces of his native South Africa — mostly performed in front of Rhode's «Broken Wall» in the crime - ridden Newclare neighborhood of Johannesburg.

For a study of factors involved in social disintegration and their negative impact on mental health, see People of Cove and Woodlot, by Charles C. Hughcs et al (New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1960).

The greater freedom we enjoy in Western society has created an environment where the misuses of freedom have produced social disintegration.

It has set up schemes of moral and religious education, seeking to inculcate brotherly love, to draw forth sympathetic good will, to teach self - discipline; but the progress of individual and social disintegration goes on.

Because of this and the fact that, unlike Gamma alcoholism, social disintegration tends to occur subtly and gradually, the Delta alcoholic is often able to hide his problem for many years.

Alcoholics who become open to help at this level of minimal social disintegration are called «high - bottom» or «high - high - bottom» alcoholics.

Speaking at his government's inauguration, Oresharski restrained from making any concrete promises and offered a rather bleak perspective for his country's citizens: «Bulgaria is in a deep institutional crisis, continuing economic depression and worsening social disintegration.

This is a group of intelligent men, with families, responsible and moderate, some of them dyed - in - the - wool left wingers, who know that accepting the rocket fire on Israel's population centers is tantamount to political bankruptcy and social disintegration.

Between the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegration.

Economic globalisation is widely acknowledged to be the major cause of poverty, social disintegration and environmental degradation over the past decades.

Finding Israel in a state of social disintegration and great political weakness, at a time when it was being brutally defeated by the Philistines, David became the creator of new institutions — social, governmental and religious.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Moreover, conspiracy theories — themselves symptomatic of social disintegration and incipient fascism — have exfoliated at both ends of the political spectrum, gaining credence among wide sectors of the population.

The terms «high bottom» and «low bottom» refer, as has been suggested, to the degree of social disintegration that has occurred by the time the person «hits bottom» or becomes open to help.

The Skid Row alcoholic who becomes open to help is sometimes called a «low - bottom» alcoholic, indicating that he has reached a low point of social disintegration.

The film, a black - and - white, score - free period drama studying the social disintegration of rural German community, was written with the collaboration of master scripter Jean - Claude Carriere, and is now inspiring repeated comparisons to the work of Ingmar Bergman.

Gardner wrote: «The neighborhood in which delinquency and social disintegration are universal conditions can not create an atmosphere in which educational values hold a commanding place.

It hasn't succeeded because it takes a village to overcome the challenges of poverty and social disintegration.

Lee brilliantly and wisely dramatizes class stratification and social disintegration, deprivation and sustenance both physical and psychic, reflecting, with rare acuity, on the evolution of legends and how, in the most hellish of circumstances, we rediscover the solace of art.

As middle - class populations shifted to the suburbs and new highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, many cities began to experience economic and social disintegration, especially in Black, Latino, and working class communities.

Bachelor of Arts (Maîtrise)-- University Studies Diploma, English Department, 2004 — 2005 Thesis: Social Disintegration in Achebé's Things Fall Apart.