Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal
societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.
In the generic sense, for Whitehead, the customs of any given civilized
society function as the requisite «patterns of relationship,» which not only define but also substantiate the particular order of that society.
Cat Welfare
Society functions as a self - help network of dedicated volunteers, caregivers and fosterers who actively sterilise, rehome and rehabilitate thousands of cats in Singapore every year.
The choice of the Contemporary Art Society as adviser was motivated not only by their undisputed expertise in the field of international contemporary art, but also by the way the Contemporary Art
Society functions as a non-profit organisation.
For many years,
the Society functioned as an orphanage and unwed mothers» home.
Not exact matches
Slower growth — a
function of structural changes such
as an aging
society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.
What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense
as a benchmark for debate over how
society should
function?
Then, in the period of the 1920s to»40s, we saw the emergence of management
as a fundamental
function and discipline in
society.
Representative trust, on the other hand, is an uneven exchange that produces the results that allow
society to
function — such
as between professionals and clients or employers and employees.
Even if your job isn't
as exciting
as a NASCAR star, it most likely serves a vital
function in our
society.
Government cuts would affect the various services we take for granted, ceasing us to
function as a successful
society.
As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my hom
As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such
as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my hom
as «Gordon» and «Maria»)
functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my hom
as equal members of a
society, on the television screen of my home.
Characterizing the problem of the ghetto poor
as a
function of white racism is one variant of the «
society is guilty» argument.
If indeed «Sharia» is meant to
function as it takes into consideration what would be best for
society on a whole through a lens of compassion and mercy», it should also ensure that animals will be dispatched «kindly» —
as humanely
as possible.
For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured
societies and only specified that their unity
as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured
societies altogether, at least insofar
as they
function as compound individuals rather than
as simple aggregates of occasions.
To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human
society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves
functioning both
as agents and acted - upon.
Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least
as much a
function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square
as of any concern about a loss of
society's fundamental moral character.
And
as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our
society find themselves alone, deprived of a
functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.
Asian American Christians are usually bi-cultural — we have to be in order to
function in both our families,
as well
as in broader American
society.
Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and
functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global
societies have profound implications for churches (
as profound, some have suggested,
as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).
The Institute's proximity to the ruins of the Anasazi civilization provides an appropriate setting for the program's serious and admiring reflection on the successes of past
societies to
function as complex adaptive systems within their environments.
Yet the basic structure of the divine interpersonal process,
as we have seen above, is that of a democratically organized structured
society; even more generically, it could be described
as a self - sustaining unity in totality of
functioning parts or members.
So, Bill Nye believes, if you don» believe in evolution, you can not
function as a useful member of
society?
They
function as the unheralded eyes and ears of the episcopate in the multicultural and marginal
societies.
the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of
society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the
function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role
as pastor to persons.
The essential point is to decide on the fundamentals: a restructuring of
society as a League of Leagues, and a reduction of the State to its proper
function, which is to maintain unity; or a devouring of an amorphous
society by the omnipotent State....
The
function of the state
as the most general institution of human
society is to order properly our mutual fulfillment of the needs of self and others.
It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice,
functions as a militant element in the realm of human
society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,...
functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.
His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension
functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted
society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role
as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern
society.
This renewal requires a commitment to fundamental values within a framework of belief - in this case Christian faith - that is in dialogue with other frameworks.49 From a similar perspective, Robin Gill sees the primary
function of the church in
society as that of generating «key values which alter the fundamental moral, social, and political vision.»
The first, superficial impression is that the Protestant theological schools in the United States and Canada do not consciously count themselves members of one community but
function as though they were responsible to many different
societies.
A major
function of parish story, therefore, is the formulation of a larger setting for the self, one that situates the individual
as part of a
society and a world.
But in such a case it can have no true existence
as a church; it can
function only
as the religious institution of a revolting
society, serving the interests of the
society in the same way that a capitalist church serves a capitalist
society.
Before I had any content for the title, I thought of myself
as a practical theologian whose
function it was to integrate theology and the various dimensions of ministry
as they relate to church and
society.
These differences between the «mainstreams» cultivated by religious and general television are significant because for many years general television has been
functioning as a powerful, and perhaps even the major, cultivator of our
society's values, attitudes and behavior.
Martin also recognizes, though, that even in modern
societies religion can be made to
function as a vehicle for social integration and identity.
The exultation of Science is still evident in modern
society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such
as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility
function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»
In each period the dominant institution — church, government or the economy — develops an ideology that
functions as that
society's «shared religion.»
These characteristics of the mainstream of general television are significant, because for many years general television has been
functioning as a powerful, if not the most powerful, cultivator of our
society «s over-all values, attitudes, and behavior.
The myths that underpin an ideology generally
function as guides: they express what a
society is trying to make of itself.
In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble
function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu
society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so
as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.
The system
functions as a
society with personal order.
The very great advantage to this «system» was that
society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order,
as a
function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.
As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interest
As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it
functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interest
as a world
society, undivided by race, class and national interests.
Advanced capitalism
functions in a
society in which a sizeable majority of people are relatively content with their roles
as producers, consumers, and citizens.
Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate
as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating
function in the wider
society.
As the apostolic Church it is the
function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human
societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all things to all men, that the center and heart of all things, the first and last Being, is utter good.
The Church discharges its responsibility to God for
society in carrying out its pastoral
as well
as its apostolic
functions.
of varying degrees of organization and unity and why it is that physical laws have a statistical character
as a
function of such
societies.
However, the economy would be market socialism, that is, a civilization in which the
society as a whole insisted that its comprehensive well being be the goal of all of its
functions.