One of the reasons why I am so insistent on this point is that the Church is up against very powerful
social influences which promote the «values» of the «sexual revolution», undermining the capacity for young Catholics, and young people generally, to hear and receive the teaching of the Church.
Our own reading suggests, however, that Yukl is correct in claiming that almost all definitions assume leadership entails at least some form of
social influence which might be «viewed as a property of an individual or a property of a social system» (1994, p. 3).
Not exact matches
«
Social norms,
which are people's beliefs about what institutions and other people consider acceptable behavior, powerfully
influence what people do and don't do,» the pair wrote.
While
social influence behaviors like ingratiation are typically thought of as a dyadic phenomenon (that is, involving two people — the ingratiator and the ingratiated), these behaviors are actually embedded in a much more complex and dynamic work environment,
which includes many other people.
That much
influence comes with enormous
social responsibility, on
which you have failed to act and to protect and to consider.»
Brands as
social influencers: Thanks to platforms such as Pinterest, Facebook and Foursquare, we've seen brands build followings of unparalleled size,
which has left them with legitimate
influence over consumers.
A
social media influencer is someone with the credibility in the specific niche and the ability to
influence the target audience of that niche (
which is also their audience as well).
Third, in addition to the Facebook data, we had information regarding the respondents» real - world
social networks,
which would allow us to directly compare the two
influences (face - to - face networks and online interactions).
From content marketing on
social networks to optimized press releases to link bait, search marketing consultants can help organizations acquire links that drive traffic directly and
influence better search visibility,
which also drives traffic.
Highly critical of New Labour but strongly
influenced by Scandinavian
social democracy, Compass is advancing themes and policies
which will resonate on the progressive left in Canada — a relentless focus on -LSB-...]
In June 2014, we ranked # 10 on Restaurant
Social Media Index's top 250 restaurant brands,
which is measured on
influence, sentiment and engagement.
Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with
social media's growing
influence on U.S. elections and the ways in
which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow
social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.
Rep. Rush to #Zuckerberg: «[This] much
influence comes with enormous
social responsibility, of
which you have failed to act and to consider.
All of the these individuals exert significant
influence within the Bitcoin community as well, but here are recognized for their
influence on
social media outside the community
which is leading to increased adoption.
The plight of the young doctor's question illuminates a distinction
which Harvard psychologist Herman Kelman famously made between two common forms of
social influence: normative and informative.
But it became the centre of a widely - dispersed religious commonwealth
which was, as we have seen, a unique form of
social structure, and has had an incalculable
influence in history.
We observe the
influencing factors from history and today, educate ourselves on current knowledge about health and various other issues to help form our opinions,
which then may become part of collective,
social opinion if we allow ourselves to be represented.
Despite all
influences to the contrary, it lifted a standard of judgment in the light of
which the Christian conscience at its best could not be content with
social evil.
A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive
influence of ghetto culture
which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «
social buffer.
In doing so this group is positively
influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the
social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of
which they speak.
The liberal elite who occupy the positions of
influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or
which prevail in the
social environments in
which they live, are educated and work.
The distinct twist —
which is what made the
Social Gospel so effective in preserving the
influence of mainline Protestantism — was that Rauschenbusch implicated older forms of Protestantism in this history of corruption.
For the kinds of «publicness» achieved by different theologies are strongly
influenced by the distinct kinds of
social realities (or publics) from
which theologies emerge and to
which they speak.
Meanwhile, Protestant thought,
influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in
which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human
social institutions.
Marty has also
influenced the ways in
which I think about
social ethics.
Theological education needs to take more seriously than it has that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith, not just by the media's presentation of religious issues, but by the
influence the media are exerting on perceptions of
social reality within
which religious faith is understood and experienced.
The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and
social morality and therefore the
influence of the church in society should produce a larger community
which also may be spoken as a first fruits of the Future, God intends for human beings.
We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement
which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the
influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their
social life in the immediately following period.
As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular
social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the
influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church
which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.
This is a sad fact of
which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however
social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the
influence of some form of affective energy
which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.
Social criticism is the true purpose of the Church's magisterium,
which must seek engagement with the modern world rather than walling off the Church from outside
influences.
The fifth criticism,
which is Preston's own, is that the WCC is not realistic enough and does not sufficiently analyze the complexities of
social and political decisions.13 Preston's criticism may be fair, but it highlights the difficult question of how religious bodies can
influence world affairs.
Writing in 1982, after a decade in
which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the
influence of the
social and ecological context of the church's inner life.
What we American Protestants call the
Social Gospel,
which flourished from around 1890 to 1950, had reemphasized the prophetic tradition, partly under the
influence of Marx.
The theory of evolution is considered too pervasive by the Catholic Church,
which seems above all to beworried about the
influence of «
social Darwinism» and the evolutionist theories concerning economic matters and medical ethics.
He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German
social thought,
which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from
influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide»
social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.
Out of them has come an impulse within Christianity toward honesty in the acquisition and philanthropy in the use of economic goods
which through the centuries has had great
social influence, and
which ought never to be disparaged or lost.
The term usually signifies the process by
which religion loses
social significance, but the emphasis may be on the relationship of Church and State or on the
social influence of religion, or used to speak about individual belief and practice.9
Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in
which the shared valuations of a cultural group,
influenced by the whole matrix of
social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.
Although Pius XII was
influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the
social teaching of the Church
which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.
It must be, rather, that their conflicts are so significant that the types of education
which one receives under their
influences differ radically — and with decisive
social consequences.
There are a lot of debates in the humanities about the relative
influence of agency (the will and power of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more abstract concepts including things like
social norms and expectations
which are not formalized).
What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith
which is in the main
influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and
social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.
There is an accumulation of
social wrongdoing
which influences us; there is the easy availability of less adequate satisfaction of desire.
To describe the Divinity School faculty's perception of the problem in this way is to say little more than that it participated in the
Social Gospel movement
which was gaining wide
influence at the time.
Theology must be formulated in the terms of the
social mind of the time,
which meant, for the Chicago thinkers, in democratic categories and thought forms shaped by the
influence of modern science.
Now this tendency, through the
influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of
social life, in the ten thousand questions
which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.
Once raised to the status of a
social trend, obvious examples of evangelicalism's existence and
influence were frequently featured as news items, thus reinforcing the public perception and lowering the barriers of skepticism
which usually accompany new movements.
Given the small margins
which typify many elections, this small
influence could have a major
social impact.
Finally, living as we do in an increasingly interdependent world, we would do well to pay closer attention to the ways in
which social processes at the global level may be
influencing the quality and location of the sacred.