Sentences with phrase «social institutions on»

I suggest Whitehead is drawing an analogy from the microscopic level to explain social institutions on the macroscopic level.

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

Not exact matches

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

More people are willing and able to speak out on social media to hold powerful men and institutions accountable.

[The movie suggests that] the whole reason for making Facebook and building something was because I wanted to get girls or because I wanted to get into some social institution,» Zuckerberg told Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston during an on stage interview back in 2010.

That system includes not just the providers of modern medicine — the people and institutions we mostly focus on — but also our families, friends, social networks, search engines, online communities, and more.

«If you continue just to add institution - by - institution guidelines, you will not create enough of an umbrella to protect anybody from the social consequences of a cyber event and, therefore, almost definitionally there will be one,» said Poloz, who expects the issue to feature prominently on the G7 agenda when Canada plays host next year.

www.proxyimpact.com The Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) provides impartial analysis to help institutions make informed, independent choices on social and environmental shareholder proposals.

After all, the Cambridge Analytica debacle is far from the first time corporations and government institutions have used Facebook and other social media platforms to spy on the most vulnerable in our society.

Overall, our work suggests that stability in financial markets might be improved by considering how social, environmental and procedural factors such as the release of important financial information may impact the hormone levels of traders participating in those markets, and therefore could be of benefit to policymakers intent on developing more efficient institutions.

This means that social entrepreneurs, to make greater impact, must double down on the actions that create real, sustainable change: building stronger relationships with clients, partners, funders and institutions through empathy, listening, genuine understanding and the willingness to acknowledge failure.

A dossier on one of Wall Street's main command centers in the privatization drive, the Cato Institute; what Wall Street intends to gain from privatization; and the 19 financial institutions most actively promoting the looting of Social Security.

When a well - run business applies its vast resources, expertise, and management talent to problems that it understands and in which it has a stake, it can have a greater impact on social good than any other institution or philanthropic organization.

Social media is a staple of everyday life, and most financial institutions are spending time, money and effort to build their profile on social Social media is a staple of everyday life, and most financial institutions are spending time, money and effort to build their profile on social social media.

Many will read it as a sustained attack on our social and political institutions, but I fear it is far too conventional.

Hospitals, in particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been built.

Employing research on the worldwide drift of men from parental responsibility, Browning examines social, moral, religious, and economic dynamics that are weakening the family, and proposes both practical and theoretical resources for strengthening the institution of marriage.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

It is for this reason that Niebuhr could be moderately optimistic about the course of history and make comparatively high demands on social institutions (unlike, e.g., St. Augustine).

However, the claim that no social institutions should ever be put beyond the limits of Reform does not entail the idea that there are no such limits; it only implies that the limits on Reform are not of such a kind as to create insuperable protections for particular institutions.

If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive knowledge of God, righteousness and social reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel disocial reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diSocial Gospel diverge.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

Finally, most institutions apply criteria to the profile of the whole student body, hoping that their student bodies will incorporate a variety of experience and perspectives based on gender, race, ethnic ties, social class and prior occupations and involvements.

It is a full - scale, frontal attack on the application of market theory to social institutions.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

We may not agree on the definition of marriage, but we increasingly agree that the dissolution of marriage as a bedrock social institution is a bad thing, and hits the most vulnerable among us hardest.

Rather than finding God in institutions or in doctrine, Christians should encounter him and engage in the Kingdom of God by being on the forefront of social change.

Moving toward more modern social arrangements is presumed to entail a displacement or devaluation of traditional religious institutions, or at least some concessions on the part of such institutions to the secular environment.

from both Britain and the Continent have often failed to become involved in the discussion, even misconstruing its significance because of their radically altered historical context.5 In a recent article on evangelical identity, Gerald Sheppard goes so far as to claim that «inerrancy» is for American evangelicals «the official language of social identification, over against other so - called «nonevangelical» institutions.»

There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine religion by social and economic action rather than by direct confrontation with religious institutions and believers.

We reject slavery as absolutely immoral — such rejection of slavery on moral ground clearly has its roots in the Bible, yet is far beyond the way slavery, as a moral issue or a social and economic institution, is discussed in the Bible.

If we unpack the culture - wars argument carefully, we will see that the answer rests in large part on the differences between the institutions of politics and government and the social movements that are the focus of the culture - wars rhetoric.

We should not put any less emphasis than in the days of liberal optimism on the importance of large - scale events, of institutions, of the behavior of social groups.

[There is much to be said both] for the insistence on a radical and egalitarian individualism, and for the defense of complex institutions and social bonds....

We can not simply go on with our evangelical concern for the person, he implied, and let other people and other institutions take care of social justice.

Christian anthropology's emphasis on human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.

The reality is that «The greatest security will not come through armies or counterviolence, not through revenge or hatred, but through building a world of love and open - heartedness, a world in which the recognition of the sanctity of everyone on the planet shapes every economic, political, and social institution» [Lerner, 2001].

Perhaps I'll say more on democratic greatness achieved by this little show, and particularly what it reveals about the unique social institution that the American public High School is, later on.

Swedish social engineers declared that the family was a fundamental source of social inequality and determined to break its hold on children, shooing them into institutions and effectively regulating informal family day care, the care 75 percent of Swedish parents preferred, out of legal existence.

For some, valuing the congregation is an outgrowth of their Christian faith; for others, the congregation is simply the most interesting social institution that they've ever got their hands on; for still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human condition.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

but rather a vision of a social order based on explicit moral and religious values deeply embedded in the mental habits of the population and in social institutions.

Through their various mandates and mindsets, international institutions have put families and poor countries on the horns of a deadly dilemma: They can have social and political progress or they can have more than one or two children.

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.

The church is not the only social institution to complain about the difficulty of getting volunteer workers, Nor is the church the only social institution to express concern about the effect of violent or sexually explicit programs, particularly on children.

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

«Whites (and American institutions) must acknowledge historical racism to show themselves redeemed of it, but once they acknowledge it, they lose moral authority over everything having to do with race, equality, social justice, poverty, and so on.

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.