Sentences with phrase «society and culture shape»

In technology, the big question is how societies and culture shape, and in turn are shaped by, the technologies they create.

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The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence the shaping of human history.

There is a related way of thinking about society, one that shaped the founding cultures of Greece and Rome: namely, the morality and politics of the common good (bonum commune).

Christianity is no longer integral to American society and its churches no longer shape American culture.

It may be defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

With the aide of the Spiritual Exercises, which members of the Society of Jesus are required to periodically revisit, a steady stream of Jesuits from nearly every country and background have shaped the culture, politics, and events of their day.

How are we to make of Jesus, God, the Sprite, the church and its task and mission in a society shaped by religious cultures other than that of Christianity?

When they called America a Christian nation, they referred to the obvious fact that the vast majority of Americans were Christian, and to the equally obvious fact that Christianity had shaped American society and culture: its traditions, ethics, educational and charitable institutions, art and commerce.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Dr. Meredith F. Small, author of «Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent,» reports that in a survey of 186 societies, researchers found that «infants are carried most of the time in nonindustrial societies, 56 percent of the time in less traditional societies, and 25 percent of the time in the United States.»

She offers a fascinating history of how catastrophic natural events — including the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Iceland's Laki volcanic eruption in 1783 (SN: 2/17/15, p. 29) and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — have shaped politics, culture and society.

And that, more than ever before, scientists are emerging as an intellectual force in our society and shaping our cultuAnd that, more than ever before, scientists are emerging as an intellectual force in our society and shaping our cultuand shaping our culture.

Cultures and societies that are shaped by fear will without a doubt not get a grip on the future.»

With its thatch - roofed skyscrapers and bird - shaped hovercrafts, its pastel - hued, Zulu - inspired costumes and bulletproof, energy - absorbent suits, the Wakanda of the film exemplifies this vision: it looks and feels like a society where scientific advancement occurs not at the cost of, but in harmony with tradition and culture.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

In the end, she directs our attention to our American society, the strains that are changing it, the shift in its values, the distance from onetime practices and habits, and the sustainability of the culture we have shaped.

This country has a complex and fascinating history that has shaped the lives and cultures of its modern society.

Described as «a master at balancing elegance with grittiness, [Nari] Ward articulates multi-layered issues that affect all communities — economics, poverty, race, culture, and how these factors shape a society.»

«A master at balancing elegance with grittiness, [Nari] Ward articulates multi-layered issues that affect all communities — economics, poverty, race, culture, and how these factors shape a society.»

A master at balancing elegance with grittiness, Ward articulates multi-layered issues that affect all communities: economics, poverty, race, culture, and how these factors shape a society.

I believe the museum has a vital role to play in inspiring imagination and thoughtfulness and in shaping discussion and debate around the place of art and artists and culture in our societies.

The artist's often witty and sardonic pieces investigate American culture through the juxtaposition of symbols and imagery in an effort to better understand the society that has influenced and shaped the artist.

In her work, Aleksandra Domanović takes a probing look at a wide range of phenomena of contemporary society, among them cultural techniques, scientific and technological developments, history and culture, popular culture and the shaping of national and cultural identity.

We believe digital media plays an important role in shaping our society as well as our creative culture and should be celebrated in a space where the medium is literally the message.»

Exhibitions, artist residencies, collection development, publication of limited - edition prints and sculpture multiples, commissioned public art works, lectures, symposia, workshops, and special events are designed to foster awareness about the role of Contemporary artists in shaping our culture and society.

Featured works frame the conversation on the role that Black Contemporary Artists play in propelling culture that shapes our communities and impacts society.