Sentences with phrase «societal attitudes toward»

Societal attitudes toward same - sex marriage are liberalizing fast, but not at the same rate across the entire country.

«This represented a significant shift in societal attitudes toward people with disabilities,» says Stephen Luke, Ed.D.» 03, director of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

In addition, a negative societal attitude toward performing activities in ways that might be more efficient for disabled people, such as reading Braille or using sign language, may add to educational deficits.

Not exact matches

As far as political activity is concerned, a variety of typologically different attitudes toward the state as the highest form of societal organization can be traced.

Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.

This amounts to an increase of over 2,000 % and reflects both a linguistic and societal change in attitudes toward lawyers and legal malpractice.

This closed course, hands - on education was adapted from existing law enforcement training in the United States as well as European instruction that led to a societal shift in attitudes toward driving in many countries.

As current societal attitudes shift toward established power structures, Kondabolu and others are edging for a reassessment of once beloved characters that are actually dehumanizing caricatures.