Sentences with phrase «social institutions»

There are several reasons for beginning our study of the ethics of social institutions at this point.

If we think about it, this happens much too rarely in schools and also too rarely in organized social institutions in their communities.

This is as true in schools as it is in other social institutions.

Among a more secular and mobile population, social institutions like churches and clubs have faded in importance.

We therefore need government and other social institutions on our side, because we never evolved to choose healthy lifestyles.

Thus camp meetings were also an important social institution in the west.

No one can consistently call for peaceful alternatives to war without reflecting on the ways in which one personally participates in and benefits from social institutions that cause violence.

The change is even clearer in other major social institutions than in government.

But social institutions affect what individuals do by providing ideals, limits, and incentives.

By doing so, he stepped into a centuries - old debate about the origins and future of the oppressive social institution.

The dominant theory of the media to this point has been one in which the media have been seen primarily as one social institution among others.

A primary consequence of this paradigm shift is that private sector corporations, especially global ones, have become the dominant social institution.

There could be such things as saved social institutions — state, economic systems, and schools.

The American civil religion is thus a product of certain ideas, but those ideas have been filtered through particular social institutions.

First, while the media are highly visible social institutions and the frequent targets of community concern, it is apparent that they also are products of the society.

It's not interested in tearing down cinematic much less social institutions.

Schools are one of the most significant social institutions where the development of knowledge and skills which promote health and prevent diseases can be addressed.

The starting point for the understanding of the purpose of the firm is therefore the corporation as an economic and simultaneous social institution interacting with abroad cast of stakeholders.

I also believe in marriage as a vital social institution and as a dynamic opportunity for personal growth.

If people of faith wish to address these issues, however, then we also need to recognize what is beneficial about the modern differentiation of social institutions.

Open markets are not the essence of capitalism, but they are an important social institution.

They are more often perceived as regional or worldwide institutions much like other social institutions, with bureaucratic structures and disciplines of their own.

The church has long been one of the major social institutions that has defined how people should see themselves and direct their behavior.

The good is defined as that in individuals and in social institutions which makes for the unfolding of full human possibilities.

For the Afro - British especially (as well as for African - Americans here), barbershops serve as social institutions for people who don't ordinarily have them....

Maclntyre underscores the point about identity being conferred by social institutions when he states that any conception of moral action must be accompanied by a sociology of the same.

All refer to the application of the principles of Christian ethics within social institutions.

Furthermore, while pious Jews throughout history have consulted rabbis on points of Jewish law, one can not imagine antebellum Southern Jews, whose observance of basic scriptural laws like the Sabbath and the dietary requirements was minimal, taking seriously any rabbinic judgment against such a basic social institution as slavery, even had one been offered.

To ask about the future of the identity «Christian,» therefore, is to raise questions not so much about individuals as about social institutions.

Maybe we do need some technological measures, such as miner voting, maybe proof - of - stake voting, but beyond that, it's really hard to imagine how you actually create durable social institutions when they're so easily undermined at protocol, almost by design.»

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

The great social institutions which have defended the weak against the strong — equality before the law, representative government, democratic accountability and the sovereignty of parliament — will be toppled.

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

The work is based around Kelley's concept of Educational Complex, or the invisible construction of cultural mythos through social institutions like school and domestic life.

Marriage and the family are valuable social institutions, especially important for children, but they need to be newly understood in nonpatriarchal and egalitarian ways.

Historicity signals limits within the economy of salvation, and an increase in the status of the monastic institution: divine graciousness calls for the transcendence of history and dependence upon social institutions.

New social institutions evolved with forms of cultural expression including street theatre, poetry and music and it was a hub for trade union activity and left politics.

At the same time, the film deals with a variety of transgressive subjects and presents an intense criticism against established social institutions.

The first American Association was founded in Boston in 1851, but the movements mushroomed during the war, and the Y's became one of the leading social institutions after the war.

Superficially regarded, the Church is merely one of the many social institutions existing within civilization.

We can have lives filled with emotionally or financially unavailable partners or domestic abuse, demanding and demeaning employers, self - involved friends and family, and even social institutions filled with racism, homophobia, or systems of poverty that keep us feeling lost or trapped.

Marriage is a fundamental social institution that by its nature seeks to be visible and demands public acknowledgment.