Sentences with phrase «societal concern for»

The emerging societal concern for how enterprises treat our personal information - whether it is a gigantic, blue - chip tech power like Facebook, or a little - known data operation operating in small - town British Columbia - makes this an all too relevant story to recount.

That is why the issue of Abortion runs much deeper and hinges upon strong societal concerns for humanity and its core values.

Not exact matches

Private and foreign investors could be forgiven for having concerns over investing in the country at a time of economic and societal change.

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

Still other theologies are far more concerned with a theological response to societal struggles for justice.

Though they want to criticize government for the sake of reforming it, the editors deny any need for basic societal restructuring.27 It was this basic trust in the American system which caused Christianity Today to accept the president's word concerning Watergate - until Cox's firing and the tapes - and to back the president concerning his role in Vietnam as late as May 1972:

On the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholes.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»

Transformation, for Cobb, includes renewal, but fosters broader societal engagements and even global concerns.

However, it is also important to acknowledge the larger societal dimensions of our concern, for which we refer to the very different kind of work done by an anthropologist, C.D.F. Mosse in a study of a mixed Hindu - Christian village in Ramnad District of Tamilnadu.

Did not the needs for nurturing societal functionalities in matters of skin color become of racial concerns in such matters of wanting to lighten up one's skin tones?

As it has proved impossible to wholly separate political, economic, and social concerns in analysing the background to the riots, only a truly cross-disciplinary account — for instance, one rooted in a sociologically - informed theory of political economy — can hope to have the necessary tools to fully capture and interpret the societal phenomena from which the riots derive.

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

The authors measured these from the perspective of casual observers — to gain a societal perspective — because patients who seek out reconstruction surgery for facial defects often do so over concern about what others will think of their defect.

The consequences of this overall process, known as «ocean acidification», are raising concerns for the biological, ecological, and biogeochemical health of the world's oceans, as well as for the potential societal implications.

In one scene, she chastises Lady Bird for leaving her school uniform on the floor and then proceeds to explain exactly what financial and societal concerns have led her to stress this request so strongly.

However, monetary concerns and declining rates of teenage pregnancy are not the only reasons for the closing of many of these programs: changing societal norms also affect the demand for alternative schools for pregnant students.

Ubisoft's tagline for the game was presented as: «The city is your weapon,» and the fact that the game derives its gameplay from the excessive information overload which is becoming a growing societal concern is simply delicious.

For the Scottish figurative painters Peter Howson and Jock McFadyen, their specific focus on marginalized characters reflects a concern with the brutal nature of societal order, manifested in their use of exaggerated physicality.

You may come into this because of nationalistic concerns about energy security and maintaining national place in the world — frankly, I cringe every time the words «energy independence» are mentioned as the top motivation for developing greater renewable energy — but ultimately this has to be about greater social change, both at the societal and personal level.

At the heart of the issue, it would seem to me, is a fundamental market failure in the energy market concerning the pricing of electricity, namely that it fails completely to account for the societal cost of global warming brought about through emissions.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.

Precise predictions of hurricane tracks and intensity; heavy rain; severe storms; fire weather; air quality and chemistry, and climate change address societal challenges that include disaster mitigation, economic decision making, health concerns, travel and workplace safety, long range planning, and day to day decisions (an umbrella or a heavy coat, for example).

And that narrow reasoning itself ignores the bigger Supreme Court reasoning concerning the «ethics» of ignoring or honoring the potential Mother's own wishes, and the subsequent implications for her ability to properly raise the potential child, itself having major (negative) societal consequences....

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Where generating demand for dispute resolutions demands is concerned, those services come at an immeasurably great societal cost (the legal costs themselves, stress - related reductions in workplace productivity and access to medical care, frayed family and social relationships).

While bullying is a serious concern for the development and well being of children, condemning same - sex parents on the basis of societal prejudice instead of working to combat this prejudice is hardly logical.

Maternal depression is demonstrated to contribute to multiple early child developmental problems, including impaired cognitive, social and academic functioning.3 - 6 Children of depressed mothers are at least two to three times more likely to develop adjustment problems, including mood disorders.3 Even in infancy, children of depressed mothers are more fussy, less responsive to facial and vocal expressions, more inactive and have elevated stress hormones compared to infants of non-depressed mothers.7, 8 Accordingly, the study of child development in the context of maternal depression is a great societal concern and has been a major research direction for early childhood developmental researchers for the past several decades.

Perhaps most famous for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Hayes is equally passionate about social justice and societal concerns and his hope that psychology can leave the protocols behind and focus on the competencies.