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.
Critics claim that the Church is enjoying newfound wealth and
social privilege in exchange for supporting the Putin regime.
Not exact matches
«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 di
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 di
Social 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 marke
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 marke
in 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.