Sentences with phrase «social function as»

This method of application produces a veil of colour that glows as if lit from behind, reminding the viewer of painting's social function as a window to another world.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

There are international phone lines and beautiful interior designs which make the rooms far more homely than at your average hotel.The facilities at Grand Cempaka Hotel Jakarta are all of a very high standard and offer business travelers with all of the facilities which are all able to accommodate, seat and dine 1200 people in the main room and then there are numerous rooms of different sizes down to intimate board rooms all of which can be used for a number of meetings and are often used for social functions as well as celebrations.

They diminish or delay parents» capacity to successfully cooperate in the raising of their children after trial and increase the likelihood that the parents» legal dispute will have a lasting negative impact on their children, potentially impeding children's relationship formation and social functioning as adults.

The primary domains assessed included (1) depression symptoms as measuredby the clinician - rated HAMD and self - reported Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) 29; (2) global functioning as measured by the clinician - ratedClinical Global Impressions scale (CGI) 30 andC - GAS; and (3) social functioning as measured by the Social Adjustment Scale — Self - Report (SAS - SR).31 Higher scores on the HAMD and BDIindicate a greater number of symptoms; on the CGI and C - GAS, better functioning; and on the SAS - SR, worse functioning.

I work with children, adolescents, teens and adults with mood disorders, behavioral problems, emotional disturbance, impaired social functioning as well as abuse survivors (mental, physical, neglect, financial, medical, educational) and perpetrators.»

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The software also functions as an in - house social media platform to facilitate interaction and collaboration among team members.

Enter Anchor, which functions as a social network for people within a single company.

Kanvas users can also receive notifications about or search for streams within the app, which functions as a social network.

Delve's platform functions as a private social network for the employees of a given company.

In China's case, the principal function of the state will need to shift from making investments or running businesses to providing social services (such as health care, education, social security, and environmental protection).

But the Mueller indictment echoes subsequent findings that masses of false or misleading social media activity was engineered by Russia's Internet Research Agency, as part of a plan to «defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit» beginning as early as 2014.

It is also particularly prevalent on social media, functioning as a reinforcing variable of social divisions.

Social shares of your content function as secondary signals to Google's algorithm, but the real power here is the propensity for link building.

In fact, many leaders are applying social capabilities to standard business functions, such as customer care, sales, marketing and more.

You need understand and lead the way as your social capabilities become integral parts of the business functions within your organization.

As noted by leading thinkers on this topic, such as David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenAs noted by leading thinkers on this topic, such as David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas it relates to customer engagement.

It also plays a social function, being a form of companionship as people listen to their favourite hosts.

But as social animals, our evolutionary psychologists can't help but conclude, we are most of all natural parts; even our individualistic inclinations have some social or species function.

So long as the cultural revolution has the initiative, the social imagination of the masses overcomes even technical backwardness and transforms the function of the old media so that their structures are exploded.

As early as 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovAs early as 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of lovas a middle term between transcendence and acts of love.

Missionaries were heroic figures in our eyes, and, unlike today, when they often function as little more than ecclesiastical social workers, their animating purpose was to win souls for Christ.

Allow this center in a man to remain dulled by the crowd; allow it to continue dissipated by busyness; permit it to go on evading its function by a round of distractions, or to lull itself by a carefully chosen rotation of pleasures; abandon it to its attempt to drug, to narcotize suffering and remorse which might reveal to it its true condition; let it wither away the sense of its own validity by false theories of man's nature, of his place in the social pattern, of his way of salvation; in short, allow any of these well - known forms of domestication of man's responsible core as an individual, to continue unchallenged, and you as a thinker and a friend of men have committed the supreme treason!

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

In our work on Better Together, we discovered that computer - based communication contributed most to the building of social capital when it functioned as a supplement to face - to - face communication, not as an alternative to it.

Whereas in the West «truth» exists as a function of organized will and its eventuality in success, for Muslims the social, economic, political and military orders are all expressions of a fundamental religious truth.

This comes out clearly in one of his latest statements about the therapeutic» function of philosophy as applied to social issues: «helping people get out from under outdated philosophical ideas, helping break the crust of convention.»

As we saw, the early missionaries were evangelists and social reformers in one, because they believed that both functions belonged together in the message of the gospel.

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

Unfortunately faith has reduced as a definition of, in ethical categories, «what is» and it has assumed the social function of rationalizing the present.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

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.

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

«As pop culture gets away from faith,» White notes, «it... abandons its most important social function, confusing rather than uniting our humanity.

The way in which these are done may differ from age to age, as would be inevitable in any social process which belongs in the world; but the several functions remain constant in themselves.

That the fall of a nation is on the same level as the withering of a fig tree — functioning merely as a sign of the divine intentions — makes arbitrary the social quality of human life.

In most of the sermons I hear, questions are used in the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functions.

Likewise, careful attention to the social function of the materials in the sermon will enhance its result as a whole.

This renewal requires a commitment to fundamental values within a framework of belief - in this case Christian faith - that is in dialogue with other frameworks.49 From a similar perspective, Robin Gill sees the primary function of the church in society as that of generating «key values which alter the fundamental moral, social, and political vision.»

It further functions as a principle of social criticism; any idea or social reality in the present social order that does not conform to the vision of God's reign is to be rejected.

Therefore, preachers who become conscious of the social function of the language of the sermon can use language in such a way as to encourage social effects that are appropriate to the gospel.

marks the apex of new voluntary spiritual communities that have increasingly taken over the functions of family, extended family, and neighborhood, as well as the social functions of the church and workplace» (pp. 162 - 163).

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

Elsewhere in the world, religion functions primarily in its superstition modes (as in much of central Africa), or is used as a device for social or political control (as in Iran, India, and the Middle East).

As Yenor argues, the goods of family can never be grasped either from a standpoint that reduces all goods to personal satisfactions, nor from one that sees marriage and family as «social institutions» performing a necessary functioAs Yenor argues, the goods of family can never be grasped either from a standpoint that reduces all goods to personal satisfactions, nor from one that sees marriage and family as «social institutions» performing a necessary functioas «social institutions» performing a necessary function.

Martin also recognizes, though, that even in modern societies religion can be made to function as a vehicle for social integration and identity.

Moyer, Frank S., «Consultation as a Pastoral Function,» Occasional Paper, # 681, Lutheran Social Welfare Services of Illinois, January 1968.

It is «defined» as the changeable social roles of men and women, as opposed to their unchangeable reproductive functions.

Studies of judgment, stability, reliability, and social and vocational adaptiveness all show that gay men and lesbians function every bit as well as heterosexuals.»