Sentences with phrase «social dislocation»

Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living.»

When this is the case, it may be unsound policy to effect complete indiscriminate desegregation in the schools at once; to do so might seriously impair the quality of education available to children of the more favored groups and might result in major social dislocations as the parents of the better - prepared children sought to forestall such impairment.

One way to help companies tackle this is to focus research on how issues like human rights, inequality and the impending energy transition are connected to international strategy, and on how businesses can operate in weak states and settings characterized by social dislocation.

have commented extensively on the tax subsidy being made available to speculative buyers in competition against homebuyers, who have no such tax subsidy, leading to significant social dislocation.

This was a time of great cultural and social dislocation borne of new technologies, a time in which one can find parallels with much of the dislocation we feel in this age of meta - information, the growth of A.I. and the blinding speed of the digital revolution.

Current efforts at energy conservation are inadequate; while the need for more appropriate patterns of individual and corporate energy consumption is clear, the statement also recognizes the necessity of avoiding unnecessary economic and social dislocations in the transition to energy efficiency (e.g., unemployment or increased costs due to lowered volume).

Sweeping aside the suffering and social dislocation of Indigenous people is no answer to ongoing problems that exist particularly in remote communities.

The authors of Our Common Future feared that a hyper - transformation of the economic orders of developing countries would bring new forms of poverty, social dislocation, and environmental degradation.

The market economy comes with a price, and the Pope is deeply concerned about unemployment, social dislocation, and the «whole ultra-liberal, consumerist system which is devoid of values, and introducing it with the power of propaganda.»

Within a single society, the social dislocations attendant on these broader strains may look very similar to the observer who focuses only on that society and the observer who emphasizes world - system dynamics.

One view argues that a shortage of gas and oil, whether resulting from an embargo or from a longer - term depletion, «would produce severe economic and social dislocations.»

A second perspective maintains that «nuclear energy, and to a lesser extent coal, have such severe social and environmental impacts that they not only threaten serious economic and social dislocations, but also place at risk the entire life - support system (the biosphere) on which all people depend.»

The reproductive revolution unleashed huge forces of economic activity, social dislocation and liberation — for women in particular.

Scafaria, making her feature debut as writer - director, scores numerous laughs off the social dislocation that follows as people realize the apocalypse is imminent (there's a funny sequence at a suburban house party where no taboo goes unbroken).

There is a growing concern on the part of youth specialists, educationalists, parents and the public that many young people are retreating into a virtual world and are losing contact with reality, leading to social dislocation and isolation.

That shift is inseparable from the broader agrarian transition, which has brought rising prosperity, social mobility, and opportunity for women and children along with new forms of economic inequality and social dislocation.

- continue to address the unacceptably high level of disadvantage and social dislocation being experienced by Aboriginal Australians living in remote communities throughout the Northern Territory;

The Australian and Northern Territory Governments to recognise the continuing need to address the unacceptably high level of disadvantage and social dislocation being experienced by Aboriginal Australians living in remote communities throughout the Northern Territory.