Sentences with phrase «social institutions like»

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.

We are becoming increasingly cynical of long - standing social institutions like the media, the police, and certainly politicians, and a pernicious skepticism is establishing a strong foothold in our political systems and forums of democracy.

I believe schools should equip and empower students to navigate and shape society in order to deconstruct oppressive social institutions like racism and classism by being places that model democratic decision - making.

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

For example, neighborhoods that have a high degree of poverty and residential instability tend to have fewer social institutions like synagogues, churches and community organizations — and this can make it difficult for residents to get to know each other.

Even large and solid social institutions like AMP, for example, identified this changing attitude towards institutions (in research by Hugh Mackay).

Not exact matches

A more well - rounded assessment of a trade deal like TPP would also look at whether important social institutions, including manufacturing unions, would be negatively affected by more openness to trade, and what changes to labor law we would need to make to soften the blow.

So if you could make a reasonable case that the FTA and importing or exporting more apples would cause Canadian social / economic institutions to become, well, like North Korea, then OK.

That scenario of injustice became systemic, social injustice in a wicked institution like slavery, in which the very opportunity of the enslaved to reflect the imago dei (image of God) was compromised by exploitation and violence.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

Within all social institutions interest groups multiply like amoebas.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

The historical context of Jesus, therefore, reflects a social and economic situation in which exploitative urbanism, powerful redistributive central institutions like the Roman state and Jewish Temple, concentration of land holdings in the hands of the few, rising debt, and disrupted horizontal relations in society were becoming the norm.69

The first year and a half after the Hijrah were entirely devoted to purely pacific and constructive activities, to the development of religious and social institutions such as fasting, almsgiving, fraternization of the immigrants with the original inhabitants, agreements between tribes, and the like.

Given my lack of faith, the key question is whether religious and non-religious supporters of traditional institutions like marriage can find common ground or, indeed, whether there is any coherent non-faith-based case to be made for social conservatism.

Karen I like what you say about individuals being abused while at the same time being abuser but the social conditioning of an institution.

The church itself, in its worldly shape, is an institution among others, subject like any other to social and political forces.

The relations between people, especially in institutions like marriage, are far too subtle to allow the assumption that social equality will be translated into the kind of equality that Aristotle deemed necessary for friendship.

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).

But something like a purification of Christianity, the beginning of its removal from any final dependence on other social institutions, had now been set on foot.

Not only is it the nature of Catholicism generally, or at least until quite recently and in certain countries like the United States, to express itself in particular social and political forms, but above all because the papacy, with its ineradicably political implications, has been for centuries an Italian 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 condition insured at least subsistence, and to this extent it may be considered, like the institution of blood revenge, a progressive social measure for its time.

As Frye puts it, «man is constantly building anxiety - structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions» (p. 232).

The first is that «science is a social institution, with a mission and «baggage» like all other social institutions created by human beings,» he said.

That's also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society's scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu.

«I would have encouraged someone doing this type of study to look for indicators of social cohesion and connections — for institutions like churches,» whose members, for example, might have social contacts who can shelter them in emergencies, explains Jason Corburn, who directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities at the University of California, Berkeley.

While formal attempts like diversity awareness training in the workplace and in learning institutions like colleges have had only mixed results, bringing two families of two or even more diverse culture through marriage may provide a more natural and effective way to end social segregation.

We should not be surprised, then, if this weekend sees both the Los Angeles and New York groups throwing their weight behind «The Social Network» — already cast, despite the patronage of a beleaguered middlebrow institution like the National Board of Review, as the cooler, more credible alternative to «The King's Speech» — in a concerted effort to keep the ball in its court.

This growing segment of American society is marked not just by economic poverty, but also by social and cultural poverty: the decay of bedrock institutions like marriage and organized religion, as well as the erosion of cohesive social standards like the two - parent family.

Fabio, like his social entrepreneur peers, stepped out of existing institutions, challenged the status quo, and built his vision for a better future.

Companies like Copia have kept the focus more squarely fixed on the educational opportunities that social reading presents, such as allowing students around the world and professors at different institutions to all come together within the ebook to foster discussion and understanding; at the same time, companies like Readmill just enjoy the possibilities of connecting readers of fiction titles in what amounts to almost a virtual book club.

Lack of access to financial products — like credit cards, loans and deposit accounts — is an issue plaguing millions in the U.S. Traditional financial institutions, like banks and credit unions, depend on credit reports and Social Security numbers (SSNs) when evaluating applicants.

This includes the new dome that was just completed in the Sandy - damaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens; several education programs, including some online and more performative programs staged by the magazine Triple Canopy; two Francis Alÿs videos; and support for EXPO 1: New York, a «festival - as - institution» that tackles issues like environmental protection, social justice, shortages of resources, and population growth.

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutilike the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutiLike any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

Those who like contemporary photography, they will certainly enjoy works by Candida Hofer, a photographer known for her large - format images of architectural interiors, which address the psychological environment of social and cultural institutions by acknowledging how public spaces are designed to accommodate and inform the public.

But Don't Get Greedy and Use the Flash — In light of more and more museum attendees sneakily skirting «No Photography» signs with surreptitious cell phone usage, institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago are loosening their limitations on visitor photography, though the practice does come with some copyright complications, if not a social - media boost.

'» Left out of the mainstream, Chicano / Latino artists had to invent their own institutions — like New York's El Museo, founded over forty - five years ago by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz to create a sense of identity for New York's Puerto Rican community, or LA's Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), which has been advocating for Latino / Chicano artists since 1976.

Smaller institutions like the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Queens Museum of Art, which is acknowledged as a pioneer of social - practice programming, have also begun bringing the movement into the spotlight.

This strategy may not seem like a very effective one (try it for a while, it won't work for you over the short term) but if a social institution does it for, oh, 800 years or so at every opportunity it tends to stick.»

Give the oversight institution teeth regarding government or corporate science that has social impact, yet make the institution the servant of society, not of themselves like the current scientific societies, or the government or corporations.

In addition to social movements and family farmers, the group was composed of representatives of the different sectors involved with the subject, like the rural and forest producers, research institutions, and environmental NGOs.

Not just individual sciences but science as an institution is in dire straits because the idea of understanding reality at a fundamental level has been discarded in favour of far more mundane attractions like money, social allies, and political support where a genuinely scientific granting body would ignore or reduce support in order to foster wider research.

«Osgoode benefits a lot from this image of being a social justice institution and a lot of students don't feel like they're able to live out those ideals,» she says.

This lecture seeks to open a discussion of the question: What would law — particularly criminal law — be like if we regarded love (agape) as the first virtue of social and legal institutions?

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Specifically, the company is attempting to highlight ways in which social media platforms, like Facebook itself, could be not only be beneficial but actually harmful to democratic institutions and basically any open society.