Sentences with phrase «societal forces»

By investigating these questions, social psychologists were able to gain a greater understanding of the power of societal forces such as authority, compliance, and obedience.

They have little prospect of seeing their graph lines go up radically in a time of decline in the rate of population growth and in the face of numbers of other contrary societal forces.

Despite societal forces that test integrity, children deserve a world that values truth, honesty, and justice.

Jesus was always speaking against societal forces that beat the hope out of people and rendered them helpless and hopeless.

If we just wait for more and more of those things to be taken from us by societal forces over which we have little control, we shall not even save for the future what was good in our past.

Collective insecurity is a powerful societal force.

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.

If a preacher does not possess the spiritual consciousness to speak out against these paralyzing societal forces, they are nothing more than a self help speaker with fans who shell out big dollars for books and CDs.

So for him, the March for Science is just another data point in understanding the interplay of those broader societal forces.

McDonagh has a long history with characters reacting against oppressive societal forces.

Stephen A. Feinberg, M.A.T.» 72, director of national outreach in the education division of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., says a complex combination of societal forces accounts for why it took more than three decades for that history to reach the classroom.

Ji is interested in the ways in which people enact their agency both individually and collectively in the face of these larger societal forces, often through subtle but willful acts of resistance.

She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in the Australian public domain as an Aboriginal «problem», with controversial government responses critiqued as racist and paternalistic.

She is devoted to highlighting destructive societal forces through communication, advocacy and...

Dunmore's brilliance lies in her ability to pare down the sweeping drama of Soviet Russia into small, clear descriptions of how average families are affected by societal forces.

Although it would be false to reduce an individual to the societal forces that shape his behavior, it would be an act of blindness to ignore their influence.

We all want our children to eat healthfully, but sometimes it feels like the societal forces aligned against us are overwhelming.

«However social scientists as well as social justice advocates argue that societal forces may also be involved in why African American women in particular use vaginal douches, including pressures to conform to societal beauty norms and targeted advertising to the African American community.»

We derive pleasure from her burgeoning affair with Buddy as it builds to a climax no less synthetic — and no less invigorating — than, say, The Karate Kid's, because the elements surrounding Mary are in place: Estelle, the perfect foil for their happiness; societal forces (discrimination turns Buddy and Mary into a latter - day Romeo and Juliet); and Rispoli, a magnetic actor who needs his teddy - bear physique to store outsize humanity.

But it takes a strong, focused family — if there is a hero in this account, it is Ben's wife, Melissa — to withstand the societal forces constructed by Hollywood, Silicon Valley, schools, and entitlements.

While the demonstrations in Brazil and Chile will eventually subside, their roots will surely remain a societal force.

King Author has travelled to the present day in order to fight, along with his son Sir Lance, the societal forces and government institutions that trap foster children in dangerous homes.

It would run against the societal forces that push us to the cushy, comfortable middle.