His story, and that of other Chinese Indonesian Christians, has much to teach us as we consider whether or not to embrace Rod Dreher's Benedict Option (retreat in order to rebuild), or instead seek
positive solutions to social problems in an America that judges us on the wrong side of history.
Before concluding that it was partisanship that caused public support for government
policy solutions to social problems to decline during the Great Recession, the researchers ruled out several other possibilities.
Gastronomy can be understood as another link in the food chain, and as a change factor that offers a different perspective to the conventional outlook, and
seeks solutions to social problems which, after all, affect all of us.»
Atheists say, «well, if we try
religious solutions to our social problems, then we've seen what happens: teen pregnancy and STD infections skyrocket, womens» health drops to intolerable levels, science and learning get put on the shelf, creative culture is bounded and curtailed into its most non-challenging and stagnant expressions, and individual freedom is sent into the gutter along with intellectual development and economic growth.»
According to Brooks, the decline in public support for government
solutions to social problems during the Great Recession (2008 - 2010) was among the largest two - year changes during the 26 - year - period (1984 - 2010) he and co-author Jeff Manza, a Professor of Sociology at New York University, considered in their study.
UPDATE: In 2016, Marcus was elected as an Ashoka Fellow, «leading social entrepreneurs who we recognize to have
innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society.»
The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies Located at George Washington University, the Institute is dedicated to finding
constructive solutions to social problems through morally informed policy analysis and dialogue.
She cited an example of a lesson in Utah in which «students use their voices to
advocate solutions to social problems that they care deeply about» and a middle school in Florida that apparently took a Junior Scholastic quiz called «what kind of party animal are you?»
significantly decrease conduct problems and the percentage of aggressive / violent solutions to social problems
It was one of the winners of this year's RSA Student Design Awards (you can see the other winners here,) an annual competition for students and recent graduates run by the RSA, a charity that's «committed to finding innovative,
practical solutions to social problems.»
Washington, DC About Blog Justice Policy Institute is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a society with safe, equitable and healthy communities; just and
effective solutions to social problems; and the use of incarceration only as a last resort.
Sheilah has spent over 30 years as an activist, working with organizations dedicated to developing and advocating for grassroots -
developed solutions to social problems, ranging from environmental issues to sustainable agriculture to public school reform to improving school food.
Similarly, socially incompetent children are often more interested in «getting even» with peers for injustices than they are in finding
positive solutions to social problems, and expect that aggressive, coercive strategies will lead to desired outcomes.
«We found it surprising that as the Great Recession emerged, the American public moved quickly toward lower levels of support for government
policy solutions to social problems,» said Clem Brooks, lead author of the study and the Rudy Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
Any senseless use of force is
no solution to social problems.
An analysis of the pros and cons of the Bush Administration's «faith - based»
solution to social problems.
«Adoption, as we have known it, is
a solution to a social problem: a child is in need of parents.
It is touted as part of
the solution to social problems from online bullying to police brutality.
Even as classical economists and every politician, local and national alike, continue to hold onto the idea that
the solution to every social problem under the sun is more economic growth, there's thankfully an increasing amount of pushback, on environmental grounds.