Sentences with phrase «societal shift»

A large - scale societal shift in thinking is the ultimate driver of innovation.

As a societal shift, no.

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.

A recent article in The Guardian called «We don't hand down family recipes anymore [and] that's not a bad thing» suggests that our societal shift away from traditional family recipes to new cooking styles is due to the recent significant improvement in personal circumstances.

However, in addition to our efforts to encourage a societal shift around profound ecological issues, we also get in the weeds, as it were, with our efforts to understand, measure, and minimize the environmental impact of our operations at the Institute.

You only need look at recent studies that reveal that 9 out of 10 millennials approve of interracial relationships to see the societal shift firsthand.

Rising individualism in the United States over the last 150 years is mainly associated with a societal shift toward more white - collar occupations, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The legislation has stalled in the state Senate in recent years, but supporters this session hope the focus and societal shift on sexual misconduct and abuse could reframe the debate over the bill at the Capitol.

While the nation has been grappling with the fallout and societal shift on sexual harassment and misconduct in the workplace, Albany has had its own share of bad behavior by lawmakers and top aides.

Advocates for the bill hope this year will be different in Albany given the societal shift and reckoning surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct.

This promising trend may be due to nutritional improvements instituted by restaurants, a societal shift away from fast food generally and / or a decrease in portion sizes.

And who are the biggest beneficiaries of this cultural and societal shift?

He attributes any increase in divorce past midlife to the size of the baby boom, rather than any societal shift.

The Whole Child health report brings together a comprehensive picture of the effects to mind, body and spirit of the societal shift toward growing up indoors, including not only epidemic childhood obesity but also precipitously rising rates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood diabetes, and pediatric depression.

How can companies stay on the upside of this societal shift?

Generally, societal shifts only happen when pressure is brought to bear on those in authority.

Simple societal shifts: «This increase that we are seeing could be arising from changes in sexual behaviors that have occurred over time in the United States,» Chaturvedi says.

Moreover, tenable views of «good» and «bad» that arose in the last few centuries are being radically challenged, most notably by the societal shifts spurred by digital media.

As a former business reporter who loves reading about societal shifts, I got the same thrill while reading this that I did with Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, the palpable sense of a sea change in an industry that also had cascading effects on the rest of the world.

In the postwar era, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women to work professionally as artists, yet their work was often dismissed in the male dominated art world, and few support networks existed for them.

how artists create new ways of working and living in response to their historical and socio - economic conditions, often foretelling and epitomizing societal shifts and providing insight on influential forces in contemporary life that relate to us all.»

Expressionism emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as an artistic response to their Modernist malaise, an increasingly apathetic relationship with the physical world as a result of industrialization, urban growth, and other sometimes drastic societal shifts.

With the societal shifts in the United States after World War II, more women took on the role of working artists.

In the decades after World War II, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women to pursue careers as artists.

In the decades after World War II, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women than ever before to pursue careers as artists.

This supports the hypothesis that a positive trend in the increase of flood losses should be attributed to societal shifts in the exposed areas.

Societal shifts happen all the time.

According to the latest SCE Housing Survey, part of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 72.3 percent of renters «prefer» or «strongly prefer» to own a home rather than rent one, and 55.9 percent view homeownership as «a good investment» — findings that dismiss a commonly held notion that they have become averse to homeownership as a result of societal shifts.

Not exact matches

Monday Morning offers a GPS system for leaders to navigate in shifting market trends, changing societal values and modes of organization.

What are the 10 most significant investment, policy, technology, and societal trends and developments that both defined and propelled the worldwide shift to clean energy in 2014?

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Not to confuse the psychological issues with the separation of church and state, we obviously need to keep religious interference and favoritism to a minimum in government, while shifting the societal paradigm to discourage fervent religiosity while fostering evolved secular morals and ethics.

At more proximate levels, one can also focus on domestic societal dynamics and on the shifts internal to religious organizations themselves.

These shifts were spurred by a new American affluence, by the Pill, by the flood of women into the work force, by the destabilization of traditional values during the war in Vietnam, and by a new societal emphasis on self - fulfillment.

It is the ever shifting sands of societal whims and supposed norms of the current time.

Ending the stigma that surrounds someone who seeks to find support or treatment for the wellbeing of their mental health will require a societal paradigm shift.

It's moreso how societal norms have shifted to the bizarre.

As we consciously opt out or creatively reimagine marriage one loving couple at a time, we'll be able to shift societal expectations wholesale, freeing younger generations from some of the antiquated assumptions we've faced (that women always want to get married and men always shy away from commitment, that gender parity somehow disempowers men, that turning 30 makes an unmarried woman into an old maid).»

Twenty four countries in the world have banned physical punishment and have seen amazing shifts in behavior and societal expectations.

In our society, fewer people are having kids than ever before, and there are many cultural and societal reasons for that shift.

This feeds in to the theatre's new season which looks to respond to the seismic shifts in the political, societal and cultural landscape.

Of course, given the ever changing political structure and nature of political completion, given the societal change, given the changes in the electoral framework, a shift in party configuration all leads to the conclusion that INEC is absolutely vital for Nigeria's Democracy.»

Yet, treating trauma in batterers remains an emerging discipline, Voith said, because the concept represents a fundamental shift in mindset that faces societal headwinds: helping violent men in way that does not condemn them.

The increasing availability of marijuana, along with shifting societal opinions about it, lends a timeliness to the findings and provides potential for further study, Epstein said.

Reducing weight discrimination requires shifting societal attitudes and challenging stigma in multiple settings.»

«Regardless of the cause,» the authors note, «the poleward shift of the jet streams and the associated subtropical dry zone, if it continues, could have important societal implications.»

«These trends reflect shifting societal attitudes,» she says.

Thanks to a noteworthy shift in societal view and attitudes towards dating as well as an upward climbing trend for people over 50 to use the different social media channels like Facebook and Instagram as a launch pad to enter the online dating arena, more and more people over 50 are starting to find love thru the help of the digital cupid's arrow.

Beyond the newfound hazards and tired stereotypes, there can be no denying that senior dating represents a shift in both demographics and societal opinion.

That said, older woman / younger man relationships have become increasingly visible in recent years, though that visibility hasn't necessarily translated into a shift in societal norms.