Particularly animals who can cause significant harm to each other - like dogs - have developed
a social mechanism for preventing conflict through interpersonal ranking.
The error of such free market economics is that it substitutes an automatic
social mechanism for moral responsibility and thereby permits grave social injustices to occur.
Both the free market and the communist economic philosophies should be rejected, because both substitute
a social mechanism for moral responsibility.
If the fundamental
social mechanisms for renewal are diminished — marriage, parenting, productive work, interpersonal trust, and religious or communal involvement — then the social law of entropy takes over, which is what is happening today in poor American communities
Not exact matches
Some of our posts are related to
social justice and making the world a better place, but we also use
social media as a
mechanism for recruitment and selling.
Innovations in distribution
mechanisms (facebook, iphone / ipad, other «
social») make it possible
for startups to appear compelling without having to actually solve the distribution problem in a novel way, just assume garnering success on one of these platforms.
But we argue that the underlying
social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without
social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative
mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments
for, and against, doing so.
«The
social sector has faced several issues around de-risking from banks which has caused several NGOs to look
for alternative
mechanism to ensure that their work is not associated with money laundering or terrorism financing.
His final explanation (note the «purely») of any religion refers only to what that religion does
for its adherents, and only to the
mechanisms of the evolution of
social organisms.
In their view, the Constitution sets the basic structure
for a society in which individuals compete
for life's rewards, and the competitive economic market is the
mechanism of
social justice.
The plight today is that we experience an enormity to
social evils, but we have no
mechanism such as «original sin» to account
for them theologically.
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.
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.
The primary
mechanism for mediating between the «internal» self and the «
social» world is language.
So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the
mechanism of attack and defense between economic and
social classes who were struggling
for power.»
Our insurance,
social security and welfare
mechanisms must be rescued from their present
for - profit, entrepreneurial captivity and devoted to broader human service.
Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of
social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit
mechanism in which the
social objectives of the peoples are destroyed
for the sake of economic growth.
Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market -
mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room
for objectives like
social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.
However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of
social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served
for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense
mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement
for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.
In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old
social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need
for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and
social mechanisms which oppress him.
The Murray Darling Basin Plan's (the Basin Plan) Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) adjustment
mechanism enables the Basin - wide SDL
for surface water (10,873 GL per year) to be changed up or down by no more than 5 %, as long as environmental,
social and economic outcomes are not compromised.
During the development of the Basin Plan, Basin water ministers requested an adjustment
mechanism be included to allow
for better
social, economic and environmental outcomes than would otherwise have been achieved.
So if you're looking
for a fun and competitive diet program that proffers cash incentives,
social and expert - based support, online tools and resources, goal - setting and tracking technologies and other helpful support
mechanisms to better assure your pound shedding success (and monetary earnings related thereto), HealthyWage.com just may be
for you.
She was the first person to identify the physiological
mechanisms responsible
for social monogamy, and her research interests focus on the neurobiological basis of behavior and the developmental and epigenetic effects of early experience.
Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences
for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother)
mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant
social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19
What's more, many
social media sites have
mechanisms for reporting abuse.
After going through the analysis of manifestation styles and reuse of
social patterns, one could try to build a political theory regarding the most «important» parties in India on top of these recurring
mechanisms (like Political Theory and Postmodernism from Stephen K. White tried it
for Europe).
At that moment, the questioner seemed to be looking
for some grand sweeping
mechanism, but I think the reality is much more complicated: how you measure
social media depends on what you're trying to make it do.
Through establishing a
mechanism for the creation of collective discussion that would otherwise be prohibited, she argues that
social media networks can serve as a voice to the voiceless and call
for international assistance in crises that would otherwise go unheard.
Some even see rays of hope in local efforts in some communities to establish
social coping
mechanisms — whether soup kitchens, rubbish collection or free additional tutoring
for poorer children.
The policy is a framework which seeks to provide
social justice, equity and inclusive growth using a transformative
mechanism for mitigating poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.
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Social dialogue and negotiated settlements are tested mechanisms for resolving social conflicts, not senseless violence in which innocent Chibok girls are victims.&
Social dialogue and negotiated settlements are tested
mechanisms for resolving
social conflicts, not senseless violence in which innocent Chibok girls are victims.&
social conflicts, not senseless violence in which innocent Chibok girls are victims.»
The paradox is that David Miliband's recent article in the New Statesman advocates moving away from the idea he atributes to Roy Hattersley, that the «
mechanism...
for furthering
social democratic goals is the central state».
Historically Labour has seen the British state as a
mechanism for promoting equality and common
social entitlements.
Brain research is helping scientists better understand the neural
mechanisms underlying language processing in infants and young children, as well as the
social interactions necessary
for honing those skills.
The findings suggest that the TPJ plays an important role in perspective - taking, which Ruff describes as «a very basic
social mechanism» that is essential not only
for helping us figure out what other people may be thinking and feeling during
social interactions but also in self - control, as we weigh the needs and desires of our current self against the needs and desires of our imagined future self.
The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and
social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear
mechanisms had been percolating
for almost a decade.
Disgust is the
mechanism for doing this — causing us to shun people who violate the
social conventions linked to disgust, or those we think, rightly or wrongly, are carriers of disease.
More specifically, it illustrates that third - person judgment situations, such as those used in their study, may rely on similar neural
mechanisms as two - person economic and
social exchanges, and highlights rDLPFC as a candidate
for the neural suppression of impulsive reactions in these situations.
«Given users» need
for collaborative privacy management, next - generation
social networking platforms should consider built - in
mechanisms to support group effort,» said Jia.
The book also reviews innovations in water pricing, such as new reform
mechanisms, achieving
social objectives via water pricing achieving revenue recovery, water - use efficiency and customer equity, and schemes
for charging the poor.
«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain
mechanisms for processing the
social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»
«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate
mechanisms that depend on
social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing
for food and space at the smallest scale.»
«Future investigation of the exact
mechanisms responsible
for activation of this interesting circuit may provide insights into autism spectrum disorder and other
social behavioral disorders.»
«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment
mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive
social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account
for positive adolescent substance use outcomes.»
Some of these
social mechanisms are good
for humanity, and some are bad, such as war.
The researchers speculate that because mice need seeds
for sustenance and use urine
for social communication — via «urine posts,» a form of territorial marking — they might use this
mechanism to find food and spot neighbors.
Microbiologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have just discovered that a
social amoeba, a unicellular microorganism living in the soils of temperate forests, also uses both these
mechanisms, and has done so
for over a billion years.
This clever evolutionary
mechanism allows the pathogen to hijack the
social communication networks and connect to animals across
social groups, where due to territoriality, contact necessary
for transmission would not normally be identified.
Students in the UBC program engage in a wide range of research: molecular
mechanisms underlying cell proliferation in cancer or cell death in stroke; relating gene mutations to disease
mechanisms; the
social factors that determine access to health care
for women living on the street.