Sentences with phrase «social ills»

A great number of social ills of our times can be laid at the door of capitalism and nationalism, and at the door of the church for failing to teach how to be critiques of capitalism and nationalism.

The «morality» taught in the Bible advocates violence, slavery, misogyny, and a host of other social ills.

Since its founding in 1985, the Bradley Foundation has been at the epicenter of reactionary policies, including welfare reform, opposition to affirmative action, and claims that «moral poverty,» rather than structural inequity, is the source of social ills in poor urban communities.

Some scholars even contend that the genetic code predetermines intelligence and is the root cause of many social ills, including poverty, crime, and violence.

Others have countered that teachers can't be held responsible for solving social ills that inevitably spill over into schools.

McGonigal points to a recent project in which she helped the World Bank Institute create a free online multiplayer game called EVOKE (video) that challenges people around the world to solve major social ills like hunger and poverty.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

As such, it provides a language for talking about social ills without attributing them to the economic system itself.

Because we want to expand society, not the state, we focus on curing social ills so the state is no longer needed.

Church people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the poor.

The ability to read and solve even rudimentary mathematical problems will increase their worth not only economically but socially allowing girls more say in regards to marriage, pregnancy and even helps to combat common social ills such as domestic violence.

It is they who are reminding voters that casinos redistribute wealth from the poorest in society up the ladder towards the most affluent, make no contribution to long term economic growth, and cause social ills in the communities where they are built.

Together, these works tell a powerful story of myriad social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century, and offer inspiration to a contemporary generation of artists looking to make new lines of inquiry.

If we respond positively to this new sense of humanity, then we will work with intentionality toward the realization of genuine social pluralism — the type of pluralism which avoids racism, sexism, and other social ills which perpetuate forms of social injustice.

The year after his death, the PGA christened The Stanley Kramer Award, presented annually to a member whose films address social ills.

Their whine included inadequate school funding, the usual dumping on charter schools and blaming ALEC for various social ills.

It was a vote of protest against his party, and many of the perceived social ills of Israeli society, which have been festering since well before Netanyahu became prime minister four years ago.

The strategies differed as well, with Graham and company focusing on the conversionism that had been central to evangelical awakenings as the means to transform society and the liberal Protestants rallying behind an all - out assault on social ills.

Because Labour always want to expand the state, they focus on treating social ills leaving the state with an ongoing role.

While traditional industries can get away with ignoring broader social ills or hot - button political issues, tech companies are expected to solve the former and speak out on the latter — a position t

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

Insisting that emotional attraction (often linked with pleasure) constitutes marriage doesn't just overlook the fact that same - sex relationships simply are not biologically comprehensive; it also ignores social ills that would result from such a view of marriage.

However, the lack of «morality» has a direct correlation to most social ills in any country.

#Blacktivist (2016), a music video for the Brooklyn rap group Flatbush ZOMBiES, offers a rebuke to American social ills like gentrification, rampant gun violence and racial discrimination.

Paying attention to a Sugar Baby grumbling concerning social ills and daily tensions could be a real turn off.Just having a vague understanding of human interest stories and world events can, generally, supply you an excellent beginning.

So, I think the discussion about how public policy on things like climate change should be crafted to also address broader or additional social ills

Solving Social Ills Through Early Childhood Home Visiting Pew Charitable Trusts (2013) Presents 12 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting.

Experience of suffering, poverty, political disfranchisement, economic exploitation, racism, sexism, and other social ills create a different context for appropriating process metaphysics.

There is widespread disillusionment both with the characteristic reliance of liberals on government and of conservatives on the market to combat social ills.

Or Wingman, «the dating... guns at a great social ill: loneliness.

Also, as is common in urban settings, poor health, drug addiction, mental illness, and violence in the home — all of the traditional social ills related to poverty — were creating an assortment of problems that interfered with students» educational pursuits.

You can't plausibly take aim at a hundred different social ills and presume to find the cause of them all in the single word «greed.»

With trust imploding everywhere, innovation stalls, civic participation falls, violence and political partisanship increase, brand loyalty weakens, consumer confidence is shaken, and countless other social ills befall a public demoralized and disoriented by their inability to parse what can be trusted from what can not.

An influx of gentrification can lead to costly social ills.

But the language spoken by modern marketing, the institution of advertising, may cause social ills unforeseen or unplanned, perhaps even unapprehended, when it works as common expectations suppose.

Until the left owns up to its mistakes, Genovese argued, it will lack credibility in addressing current social ills.

The issue, then, is this: most contemporary analyses of sin begin with the personal, and transfer it to the social, but individual analysis seems hard - pressed to account for the gravity of social ills confronting us.

Khaled tasked youth to pitch charity plans and formulate solutions to region - wide social ills such as unemployment and poverty.

They attacked many of the same social ills — alcohol, sloth, swearing, crime, adultery, communism.

We suffer from a great many social ills nowadays.

Lenow first catalogues the many marital and social ills born of the contraceptive revolution, and provides a scriptural foundation for the immorality of certain types of birth control.

The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was symbolic of the death of all those rosy hopes that gradually social ills would be overcome and prosperity and justice would reign everywhere.

George answers that no parent alone can shield children from exposure to violence, drug use, pornography, and other genuinely social ills.

Others will erroneously cite statistics linking single motherhood to a variety of potential social ills for their children.

In other words, according to absent father statistics, for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children, father absence is to blame.

As such, they alleviate social ills better than other courses of actions do.»

It is, in his mind, nothing short of a panacea for some of the worst social ills of our time, reducing crime and the sense of hopelessness.