Sentences with phrase «social privilege in»

Critics claim that the Church is enjoying newfound wealth and social privilege in exchange for supporting the Putin regime.

Others worry that the Church has become just another institution scrambling for social privileges in the post-Soviet system, thus turning people off to its message.

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«It is a privilege to practice again, and we want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good,» Edwards said.

Meanwhile, social networks realize that brands will pay big money for access to the millions of users in their online communities, and they're going to charge more and more for that privilege.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

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.

The universal message of divine empowerment is particularly potent in situations of social injustice and political privilege.

But a truly social doctrine of the Trinity contains the vision of a community of women and men in church and society without privilege or subjection to each other - or to God.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

Work was carried out largely through a system of slaves, so that the privilege of play and the obligation of work were mutually exclusive social functions performed by two distinct groups in society.

But the prophets had failed; instead of telling the truth, they deceived and distorted: «When the people build a wall» (the wall of the city; Wall Street; walls of finance, defense, security and privilege; walls that divide and protect; walls that include and exclude; walls of policy which are highly doubtful in their social implications and in their theological presuppositions), «the prophets paint those walls with whitewash.»

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

On this basis we must oppose all social systems that create wealth and privilege for some by impoverishing, degrading or eliminating other people, whether they be the systems of domination that repress or assault women, or the systems that plan nuclear annihilation in a futile search for security based on competitive world power.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.

There are, of course, no structures or procedures that can be devised to guarantee that a school's interest in its social and cultural privileges will not bias its education, legitimate those privileges religiously, and then subtly but systematically obscure the bias.

Precisely because a congregation has «material» bases and is necessarily located at some point in conflicts within a society which may tend to privilege its access to the material resources it needs, a congregation's practices are always in danger of serving to preserve the social arrangements from which they profit and of obscuring the inequalities inherent in those arrangements.

It also makes the beneficiaries of privilege the victims — instead of trying to challenge them to see beyond their own position as someone in a demographic majority that traditionally holds social and economic power.

Levine, who has written a book titled «The Price of Privilege,» is part of a wave of therapists, researchers and social observers who argue that many of today's parents have found a new method of screwing up their kids: ask too much of them in some ways, not nearly enough in others.

For most 14 - year - old teens gaining more privileges and freedom from parents and «little kid rules» become front and center in their social and emotional development.

This ontological turn has opened up space for new ways of thinking about democracy, but in my view it has some troubling entailments too — it culminates in the effective detachment of political dynamics from social relations of power and results in the unvindicated privileging of the former over the latter.

The tension between these two views, emblematic of the polarization of contemporary American politics, is that while the former sees social goods and access to them in terms of dessert and relative privilege, the latter conceives them as an inalienable right.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

«The further suggestions in Lord Carey's statement that recent court judgments which have not upheld claims of unlawful discrimination against Christians in the workplace are a threat to the social order and a step away from barring Christians from any employment is scaremongering, and a desperate cry from those unrepresentative few who are trying to retain the kind of privileges for religion that have no place in our society.»

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

I have endeavoured, in my social and political life, to treat everyone with whom I have had the privilege of meeting, big or small, famous or not, with the utmost respect and reverence.

There is of course a strong religious lobby with deep roots in and outside of Labour which does not wholly share our values of social justice, human rights and equality and which is desperate not to lose its privileges nor one of its best recruiting grounds through running schools.

In this relationship, the ladies are entitled to amazing privileges as they can live a posh lifestyle and older men get to hang with great looking younger women and even take them to social parties or keep the affair private, whatever they wish.

Retirements and social privileges are getting bad in most of the countries.

Privileges of virtual dating platforms You don't owe anything to anyone - totally free online dating UK sites are capable of curing even Divorced, looking for love, (or just a decent person to date) in the age of Internet social media?

You might think they're talking about current American politics: There is no money in the national treasury for more social programs like orphanages and vaccinations; The military budget must be cut; The rich are intent on keeping their tax privileges; Members of the legislature continue to beat down all proposed reforms of the leader; The conditions of the poor are getting worse; Some religious leaders insist that the Earth was created in six literal days; Foreigners must be deported.

Candyman deals with transgression: the interracial romance; the intrusion of the white woman from the ivory tower into the ghetto of poor, inner - city blacks in their industrial oubliette; and eventually the invasion of institutions of economic and social privilege by a vengeful wraith from America's colonialist past.

To go up against the ideological state apparatuses (that also have coercive practices such as non-promotion and systems of privilege for those who follow the rules) and the repressive state apparatuses (that are also coercive in that they secure internal unity and social authority ideologically via patriotism and nationalism) is not an easy task.

In all countries that adopted socialist planned state economy, the formation of a class or ruling elite, linked to the State, which held greater social privileges was observed.

One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.

NASP has developed and identified resources to help schools and families engage in constructive dialogue and action regarding social justice that affect children's learning and well - being, including issues of poverty, race, privilege, violence, and economic isolation.

Erin has worked extensively with administrators, teachers, mental health professionals, parents and students in the field of Social and Emotional learning and continues to be inspired by the dedicated people she has had the privilege to work with.

In my near half - decade at TouchArcade, I've had the (some would say dubious) privilege of watching the social RPG genre grow out of barely - interactive card - collecters like Rage of Bahamut into the flourishing and surprisingly - varied dominant force that it is in today's mobile markeIn my near half - decade at TouchArcade, I've had the (some would say dubious) privilege of watching the social RPG genre grow out of barely - interactive card - collecters like Rage of Bahamut into the flourishing and surprisingly - varied dominant force that it is in today's mobile markein today's mobile market.

There are varying reflections in the different playgrounds, based on the divides of social class and privilege.

His work reveals the concept of value as a cultural construct borne through hidden ties to morality and privilege, by exposing the cultural and social techniques employed in value construction.

Anna C. Chave (Professor, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College, New York) will speak on «Frankenthaler's Fortunes,» and how social privilege may have affected her position — and self positioning — in the art world.

Last year Vélez was featured in the Whitney Biennial, and a version of this piece was a prominent part of his display (which referred to the path that a review he wrote, «White Privilege in Criticism,» took through social media over the course of a year in which NATO protests, outrage over the Trayvon Martin verdict, and other political flashpoints occurred.)

The piece immersed the gallery in stress and hopelessness, creating in a space of privilege an aural, almost physiological, experience of social polarization and inequality, of our unfair justice system and its failure to rehabilitate lives.

The artist toys with the social and economic implications of taste and the decorative impulse, of home - making as privilege, even, without necessarily staking a foothold in a larger political conversation.

And as for relating to institutional art world structures, she sees the work of public folklorists concentrating in the arts as having anticipated «relational aesthetics» and «social practice,» but «done so on its own terms and by privileging the voice of the artistic tradition - bearer rather than the curator or artist / interpreter.»

Yoga and Vita Coco coconut water and cleaners are examples of real - world references that make their way into Murillo's work as signifiers whose meanings extend into notions of privilege, access, and the understanding of the body in different social strata.

Murillo's work indirectly addresses social relations and privileges, something which is obliquely reflected in his titles, such as his recent solo exhibition Dinner at the members club?

This study considers the policies and strategies that were adopted to help manage the decline in employment.In particular, it focuses on two measures: the Mining Social Package and Special Privileges for Mining Communes.

As Dietz (2013:42) writes «Social scientific expertise can be useful in describing the value positions that exist around an issue and how prevalent they are... But scientific expertise does not have any special privilege in determining what values should be favored and what values should be harmed when a decision is made.»

The right sees its social concerns about «rights and freedoms» as manifest in the security of property holding and privilege.