Sentences with phrase «social homogeneity»

This represents another challenge for Hippie Modernism: disentangling utopia from connotations of idealism that stem from privilege and social homogeneity.

When civic engagement generates social capital that is outward - rather than inward - looking, when it leads to social ties that cross typical social boundaries rather than reinforce social homogeneity, many positive consequences follow.

Not exact matches

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

Cultural pluralism means that young adults do not experience the kind of Protestant homogeneity of moral and social values that their parents took for granted.

Believing rigidity, clarity, and homogeneity to be prerequisites for psychological and social peace «the middle class pessimism over the future of SMW 208).

Social planning that excludes certain groups for the sake of efficiency and homogeneity is in the long run completely unrealistic.

«Euclidean space is defined by its «isotopy» (or homogeneity), a property which guarantees its social and political utility.

The impact of political homogeneity on civic climate is about the same as that of the average parents» education, which is noteworthy given that education and the status it confers has long been recognized as a major facilitator of social norms generally and of civic engagement specifically.

The findings of scholars who study social capital, however, suggest one possibility that can be tested: homogeneity - whether racial, religious, or economic - seems to foster social capital.

When outsiders threatened to invade the bar's homogeneity, the profession reacted harshly and often without much reflection... By contrast, when social, economic or technological change was occurring around the profession, the profession's calm became intractability and myopia... In either event, the profession sought the status quo and resisted «innovation and change that was being demanded,» even when change was inevitable or desirable.

Consequently, there is a mismatch between the methodological traditions widely followed in the social and behavioral sciences, which presume homogeneity, and the expectation that antisocial behavior problems are causally heterogeneous and that, in fact, multiple subtypes and trajectories exist.

Previous research has further demonstrated that not only structural characteristics but also the quality of social ties determines ego - alter homogeneity in various health behaviors [18,19].