"Societal values" refers to the beliefs, principles, norms, and ideals that a society collectively agrees upon and considers important for how people should behave, interact, and live together.
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Some combination of these three approaches may be appropriate, depending on the physical realities and
societal values of a particular coastal community.
Public opinion polls may shed light
on societal values, for citizens express and influence institutional aims and goods.
Where society has evolved such that a range no longer
reflects societal values, there is reason to question the validity of the range.
How can our understanding of cognitive development avoid being influenced by our current perceptions regarding
contemporary societal values?
Firms are increasingly looking at their core products and services in the context of purpose: either to articulate how their offerings already
contribute societal value, or to innovate new ones that do.
«You could argue that if we spent the money in a different place we'd have a lot
greater societal value,» he contends.
Ultimately, we argue that the complexities of policy borrowing and implementation can be better understood when considered in relation to
democratic societal values, especially as they are practiced in the school system.
No longer are judges required to respect the choices of the executive or legislature when those choices violate
fundamental societal values.
The beauty, humor, and reflection
on societal values is derived from their humble materials.
And, researchers have found, the empathy we learn in our homes lead us to practice important
societal values such as trust, altruism, collaboration and charity.
«Your community and other religious communities and pro-values communities can still band together to
save societal values,» said Paladino, a businessman from Buffalo at a synagogue led by Rabbi Yechezkel Roth in 53rd Street in Borough Park.
@CoryHuff Cory, I think it is because artists don't subscribe to
societal values about making money, profit, fitting in, etc..
Ideologue seeks to conjure the subtle structures that
shape societal values, such as individual freedom, progress, nationalism, and identity.
What the new alignment is sure to bring, however, is an end to the historic dominance of large, pluralistic denominations, such as the United Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, which have presumed to speak broadly
for societal values.
A recent ruling — in which a judge said it would be a «wasteful» use of court's time to deal with a dispute over dog custody — highlights a disconnect between the historical jurisprudence and
societal values around pets, says Toronto family lawyer Steven Benmor.
Railroad companies made decisions on innovation based on the effects on their bottom line,
not societal values.
«It's entirely proper for the Chinese government to seek protection for consumers and prevent fraud, (but) confining capital raising to a specific established sector of finance... is to ignore the
enormous societal value that blockchain technology can present,» said Alex Bessonov of BitClave, a Silicon Valley - based blockchain company, which, he said, is now discouraging Chinese investors.
The problem with India is that is built on a system of cultural and
societal values based on Hinduism which is a cult.
The fact is that, God, being nothing more than a projection of
prevailing societal values, has changed, is changing and will always change — in perfect lockstep with the values of the society that created him.
Colin Diamond at Birmingham City Council claimed church lessons and other places of informal places of learning should be regulated in a similar way to formal schools, to manage children's exposure to «
non-mainstream societal values».
The Full Federal Court said that the consumer protection laws of the states and Commonwealth reinforce the
recognised societal values and expectations that consumers will be dealt with honestly, fairly and without deception and unfair pressure.
But many dads observe that a basic education in the
key societal values, and behavior by parents that reinforce them, certainly help minimize the chances that children will go astray.
New parents are thrown into a world of less sleep and higher emotions, preconceptions and
societal values which can cause any number of anxieties and guilts to arise in their minds.
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Sunday charged the practitioners and operators of radio stations in the country to be the vanguards of
societal values through the promotion of peace, unity, harmony, love and affection among the people in the society.
Magu described women as nation builders, stressing that their roles in ensuring the
right societal values could never be over-emphasised.
Speaking further on the site, the Governor said: «All over the world, monuments are erected as a way of preserving human history and
upholding societal values and ethics.
In the AIE Program, you will join a diverse cohort of visual artists, musicians, museum educators, nonprofit arts advocates, actors, teachers, and writers who believe that the arts not only have
intrinsic societal value, but also multiple roles in youth education and healthy development.
While the citizens deemed of
high societal value live in luxury at the summit, outliers and criminals are forced to live in squalor at the island's depths.
Investigating objects of monetary
vs. societal value, Andrew Lewicki's newest work plays with the artificial construction and destruction of an object's perceived worth.
Two animatronic sculptures in the shape of an egg and a box, father and son, recreate the globe 35 million years in the future based around
Finnish societal values.
This piece satirizes the
subjective societal values that condemn gay sex as immoral, an act of waste and a violation of prescribed heternormativity.
Mildred Howard and Judith Linhares are featured in Face Forward: Self - Image & Self - Worth, an exhibition that addresses issues of identity, race, gender, status, and
societal values at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA.
The physics prize has swung in past years from honoring basic scientific advances to rewarding inventors for breakthroughs with
broad societal value.
Ultimately what is needed are not more scenarios of Anthropocene Apocalypse but more ideas of how a «good Anthropocene» might emerge with the help of
new societal values, new economic rules, landmark political decisions, individual behavior changes and, yes, new technologies.
To make sound energy policy, policy makers may wish to consider and evaluate these results, and balance them with many
other societal values that the team was not charged to address in this particular study.
The United States Supreme Court has long recognized the importance of certain types of speech, and as a result, any law regulating speech of
serious societal value must survive strict scrutiny — an extremely rigorous level of constitutional review.
«The changes seem to turn immigrants into economic commodities and don't appear to take into consideration the family and
societal values immigrants who may be excluded under the changes could bring to Canada,» says Mario Bellissimo.
Complicating matters is the fact that different generations appear to have different notions of privacy and that may eventually play into what constitutes a «reasonable expectation of privacy»
since societal values form a foundation for an «objective» standard.
Often times, clients will divulge information to their lawyers that are of an incredibly sensitive nature and would
offend societal values and norms.
Whether scientists want to or not they typically end up weaving integrated,
habitual societal values into their research as analytical premises.