Sentences with phrase «society and culture at»

Kippenberger's humorous works called into question the artist's role within society and culture at large, as well as deeper issues of general culture and humanity — commentary that did not go unnoticed.

Trockel has become best known for her machine - generated «knitted paintings» — knitted woollen material placed on a stretcher — in which she challenges traditional notions of painting, feminine roles in society and culture at large, as well as art making itself.

Not exact matches

Beth Pickens, Managing Director of Global Consumer and Retail at William Blair, explains how society has shifted from a «need culture» to a «want culture» when it comes to retail.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

Making the case that greater openness is good for both company culture and society at large was Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle - based writer, and Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments.

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of them.

«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

According to Dickstein, Arnold thought that «culture is conduct, or at least a firmer, more thoughtful ground on which conduct could be based» (Double Agent: The Critic and Society).

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

We learn to read the labels on medicines at the pharmacy, and follow the commonly - known health advice of society and culture.

Whatever may be the level of a given society, it can and does develop such sharing, such participation in agreed values, such mutuality in pursuit of them; and it leads to the appearance of a «culture» which expresses such agreements and aims at their implementation.

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

In our curious twilight zone between a Christian culture and a secularized society these positions are likely to be looked at askance by the intelligentsia and by church people alike.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

Experts fight too, of course, and professional cultures are also corruptible, but it avoids the very difficult task of teaching an entire society how to examine the issues, think them through, and arrive at a reasoned decision.

It takes for granted the culture of celebrity and affluence and overlooks the question of whether it is morally possible to live with integrity at any level of material comfort in our industrialized society.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

It largely won, although a culture war continues, at least in America, to try to restrain it, and to partially return society to some of the codes and decencies taken for granted in the 1950s.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a distinguished jurist and professor of law, will speak on the importance of Catholic schools for the Church and society - at - large in a secular culture.

Journalism, he concluded, «has been asleep at the switches,» because the Net is «not simply a story about technology, but it's a revolutionary change in the society and culture.»

«We tend to look at our institutions and their problems as separate entities, to be treated in piecemeal fashion, when what is needed is to look at society and its culture as an interacting whole.

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

When culture is in chaos and society is in upheaval, it may be important for us to step outside the religious categories in our heads and look for a moment at the process of social revitalization to see what that process might have to say to the church.

That question was at the center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.»

The Rise of the Technocratic Society New York June 24 A discussion on the history of contemporary Western culture with Dr. Michael Hanby, professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce.

At what point do the theological affirmations of process theology decisively differ from the common - sense beliefs of traditional Western culture and society?

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

That an animal body is first and foremost a society (as Whitehead reminds us) is a useful indicator that every rationalization of experience depends at bottom on a more or less happy conjunction of «naturing» and «culturing.»

What emerges is a vigorous sense of history and identity at the level of individual, tribe and nation» (The Nagas: Society, Culture and Colonial Encounter, 1990 p. 176).

In all of this, the church - society and church - culture relationships of mainline Protestantism have not changed at all from the situation I described in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies.

Though the voice of conscience is in part the product of social conditioning, it apparently is not entirely so; it may lead a person to express judgment on his culture and to oppose his society even at the risk of death.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

Parents, teachers and pastors all share the responsibility for seizing this opportunity, which comes at a moment when marriage and the family are crumbling in our culture and society.

Richard L. Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology and founding director of the Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of New Mexico.

If you're angry about abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty, you'll be motivated to support a culture of life at every level of society.

At the same time, society and culture press the reader for the basis of his prophetic protests, and this drives him back to the Bible and the Word.

The process by which the Church becomes really incarnated in every human group, society, culture and sharing, humble service and powerful witness to the Spirit of the Lord at work in the universe and dwelling in our heart.

At the end of their thesis, there is a description of what is happening now in the Naga culture and society.

It needs to be seen to be normal by society at large, and in the way it's portrayed in popular culture.

Ethnographic data from societies around the world confirm that mothers in traditional human cultures are in contact with their infants 24 hours a day, carrying them strapped to their bodies by day, sleeping beside them at night [5], and feeding at will.

I don't know if my question has more to do with history of US and its culture and society (perhaps in some other country or at some other time in future it's atheists who are pro free enterprise and the religious being against), or with human psychology?

As consumers and as citizens we have the power to change the poisonous culture that has infected Parliament and society at large.

Clinical Psychologist (USA) Dr Brooke Magnanti Feona Attwood, Professor of Media & Communication at Middlesex University Martin Barker, Emeritus Professor at University of Aberystwyth Jessica Ringrose, Professor, Sociology of Gender and Education, UCL Institute of Education Ronete Cohen MA, Psychologist Dr Meg John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Kath Albury, Associate Professor, UNSW Australia Myles Jackman, specialist in obscenity law Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University Justin Hancock, youth worker and sex educator Ian Dunt, Editor in Chief, Politics.co.uk Ally Fogg, Journalist Dr Emily Cooper, Northumbria University Gareth May, Journalist Dr Kate Egan, Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University Dr Ann Luce, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University John Mercer, Reader in Gender and Sexuality, Birmingham City University Dr. William Proctor, Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication, Bournemouth University Dr Jude Roberts, Teaching Fellow, University of Surrey Dr Debra Ferreday, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University Jane Fae, author of «Taming the beast» a review of law / regulation governing online pornography Michael Marshall, Vice President, Merseyside Skeptics Society Martin Robbins, Journalist Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn (University of Western Australia) Dr Lucy Neville, Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University Alix Fox, Journalist and Sex Educator Dr Mark McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University Chris Ashford, Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University Diane Duke, CEO Free Speech Coalition (USA) Dr Steve Jones, Senior Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University Dr Johnny Walker, Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University

[268] Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, writing in The Observer, stated that the riots were not caused by a broken society, but due to a group of young, alienated, disaffected youth who are outside the social mainstream and who live in a culture at odds with any canons of proper behaviour; he added that this is found in virtually every developed nation.

«We spend most of our time in buildings and they are central to our quality of life, yet few of us take the time to really look at our homes, offices and public buildings and consider the amazing diversity of architectural styles, as well as how practical and fundamental buildings are for society and what they say about our cultures.»

At 7 p.m., Declaration 17 will host a public reading by signatories of the «Declaration of Independence in Opposition to the Policies and Practices» of Trump, a document signed by hundreds of concerned citizens, Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St. and Central Park West, Manhattan.