Sentences with phrase «social fact»

We have the capacity to examine our social identities, considering them in the light of our best understanding of other social facts and social relationships.

That is, consensus is a powerful descriptive social fact: it tells us about the number of people who agree on important issues (i.e., the norm within a community).

I also like to incorporate living social facts from a point of view that is shaped by the female experience.

Finally, there are social facts used to construct a frame of reference or background context for deciding factual issues crucial to the resolution of a particular case.

What concerns me, and has for a while now, is not so much whether this is licit or illicit conduct — that is, what the law has to say about violent video games — but the prevalence of violence in video games and their immense popularity as social facts.

The use of RU - 486, he writes, will have a dramatic effect on how people think about abortion, an effect that he describes in rather graphic terms: «It will establish as an admitted social fact that the human embryo is a mere product of debris.

The different reactions to the red star and swastika reflect a peculiar social fact about the postmodern West.

Such deterioration, should it prove in fact to be occurring, would constitute «the single most important social fact of the United States today.»

In conclusion, for us, the implication of the research conducted by Shearer et al (2016) is that the scientific community should make an effort to put to rest the public's erroneous concerns about the existence of a large - scale atmospheric spraying program by conveying an intuitive social fact, namely; that 99 % of experts agree that there is no evidence of a secret, large - scale atmospheric spraying program (SLAP).

Yet the case is easily distinguishable from worrying scenarios by the involvement of a minor and, more, a young woman victimized by sexual harassment, social facts notorious as the occasions for the abuse of power in our society.

«Christianity as a social phenomenon,» wrote theologian Lesslie Newbigin, «has always and necessarily been conditioned as to its outward form by other social facts.»

For this reason, recognizing the social fact of difference should not be mistaken as relativism.

When Newbigin wrote this in 1941, one of the main «social facts» in the United States was that public norms were dictated by a distinctly American Protestant culture in the white middle class.

The two are profoundly linked together in the biblical vision as parts of one covenant, so that, more and more, the disasters of nature become less a purely natural fact and increasingly become a social fact.

The spiritual environment of Man is shattered as a social fact and so it is inevitable that the dignity of both the individual and of the community is gradually degraded.

So, I hold that the idea of freedom and the social fact of democracy were far less at work in places like Cuba, Columbian coast, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc., than in our America.

However, he also believed that one of those social facts was that women were intellectually and socially inferior to men.

Ishida consents to this social fact and therapeutically communicates it through his paintings.»

It conveys both historical and social facts, lifestyle, inspiration, and feelings.

Susan discusses her exhibition «Social Facts» at OGR Torino (until 24 June) with curator of the exhibition, Barbara Casavecchia, and Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator of International Art (Film), on 4 May

Titled «Social Facts» and curated by Barbara Casavecchia, the exhibition runs from 24 March until 24 June 2018

Holland Cotter: «The artist Odili Donald Odita shaped this group exhibition around, among other things, a knot of prickly questions related to the idea of race as defined by skin color: race as a biological fiction; as a social fact; as a theme of art; as an aesthetic link between cultures, in this case Africa and its multihued diasporas.»

It's a mathematical fact, it's an ecological fact, it's a social fact.»

«7 The «high threshold» required to depart from binding precedent was not met in this case because it was «not evidence of changing legislative and social facts or some other fundamental change.

Thirdly, the very idea of integration in the directive is understood through the prism of social facts and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of nationality — not through the prism of cultural exceptionalism of a particular nation (see, e.g. Dora Kostakopoulou's Why Naturalisation?

The understanding of integration based on the recognition of the social facts — the fact that someone lives a life in a particular community she chose, having a network of friends and acquaintances and daily routine, which so much shapes our existence, is a totally different matter.

But ultimately these judgments rest not on the scientific or social facts as such, but on moral judgment calls about how one evaluates these facts.

And since it was only last month that the highest court in the land told us that the «social facts» had changed from when Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519 became law, it came as a surprise to some that the Margot Bentley decision came down the way it did.

Although evidentiary submissions may help answer it, the question is, like the question whether racial or sex - based classifications communicate an invidious message, in large part a legal question to be answered on the basis of judicial interpretation of social facts.»

The recognition by the Court that property, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, is a social fact involving relationships of power and legitimacy, is instructive in meeting the challenge of increasing the commercial utility of native title while retaining that which is valuable to Indigenous culture.

Separation is a social fact that only you can confirm in your own situation.