Sentences with phrase «toward social change»

For example, the stag can be interpreted as a spiritual leader, while the notion of healing in this tale anticipates the artist's practice of leveraging art toward social change, which began in the 1970s.

In the 70's, she was the first artist working on a prison art project in San Quentin, and many of her early public art works «geared toward social change.»

I believe that mindfulness provides a deeply needed seed for sustainability in our efforts toward social change.

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

The trends in business are to move toward social change that good business brings a win for all involved.

Not exact matches

But regardless of which side you lean toward, there are entrepreneurs leading the way in social impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a psocial impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a pSocial Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a profit.

Software for Good, is a Minneapolis - based for - profit, public benefit corporation that develops software for organizations «working toward positive environmental and social change.»

In this talk, Michelle reveals how to cultivate rational optimism, change the social script using verbal and nonverbal cues, guide the negative toward the positive, and be perceived as strong, deep, and optimistic female leader.

Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

Blockchain has the potential to change incentives from material value toward social values, from extraction into generation, and from ownership into stewardship.»

If he's trying to change the meaning of the word toward a social goal he should be upfront about the motivation.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

What is important is not to know whether violence is required, but to know whether the use of violence, when it is absolutely necessary, is oriented toward a strategy of continuing struggle for limited changes, or whether its objective is the total destruction of the social order.»

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

Social change as a result of personal growth toward wholeness is inevitable and

We have to see the church as a sacramental community, but this seeing is much more profound when we elaborate it in terms of social status, inclusiveness, attitudes toward change and false spiritualities (the Gonzalezes).

In addition, I believe there is a need for specialized institutions that will bring together a group of theologians and a variety of secular futurists trained in the various sciences and the humanities to anticipate future developments, to elaborate visions of ideal futures, and to devise strategies for effecting social changes leading toward their attainment.

We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

The trend toward more serious desire for social change may seem to be contradicted by the highly publicized conservative political expression of the past few years.

There was a streak of radicalism in the South» secessionism was itself a radical act» but Southern religious leaders generally inclined toward organic models of social change, the ideal being a gradual civilizing process emanating from traditions of civility and gentility.

One reason is that denominational and judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private» issues as education and toward public policy and social change.

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«A lot of the changes in the DSM - 5 have been geared toward decreasing ED - NOS as a diagnosis for folks who don't fit into the other categories because it's a catch - all bin,» says Espra Andrus, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in eating disorder treatment.

The overall average change in attitude after the 10 - minute conversation was roughly equivalent to the degree that social attitudes toward gay people changed between 1998 and 2012.

«Because of their unique position at the juncture of school, neighborhood, and home, afterschool programs may be particularly important for youth on a path toward school disengagement or risky behaviors,» said study author Elise Cappella, associate professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and director of NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

Their understanding changes when it comes to disgust toward a food, with infants expecting such reactions to transcend the boundaries of social groups.

This ongoing awareness of the emotional wellness challenges in body acceptance drive Ivy toward changing the face of wellness from skewed social standards to love and appreciation based lifestyle choices for people of all sizes.

Human sexual behavior has been shifting for decades if not centuries, and with the advent of internet dating and changes in social mores, notably more open attitudes toward sex, hooking up has become a «thing.»

As «Mad Men» begins to wind down toward its conclusion, the goings - on in the show move through the «60s at a relatively rapid clip, with social change being seen in the workplace even as Don Draper seems trapped forever as a guy who can't be happy at home, no matter how hard he tries.

«As a result, your approach to social relationships and the emotions you have toward role models, teachers, and peers will change the way you think about non-social concepts like math or democracy or political issues like the death penalty.

Inspired by his own experience, Jin began working with ELL students as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities when his involvement with social change theater led him toward education and neglected communities.

They will transform the territories in which they operate, toward economic, social, environmental local and global changes.

While surveying the landscape and statistics as our inaugural graduating class headed toward commencement, we realized immediately that in order to hold true to our efforts to create social change and increase the opportunities for young Black men, it was imperative to create something that would extend and expand upon the comprehensive supports that our schools offered students.

Children whose teachers taught a high number of lessons in the conflict resolution curriculum demonstrated positive changes in their social - emotional developmental trajectories and deflections from a path toward future aggression and violence.

Congress and the Clinton administration are barreling toward changing both the form and function of the country's social safety net, a system of programs that is cumbersome at best and broken at worst.

FSG, a social change - focused consulting firm, will release case studies with more information about the journeys toward personalized learning in Henry County, District 51 and CICS West Belden this winter.

This study reveals the multiple and sometimes contradictory stances young people hold toward inequality, individualism, power, and social change.

Many charters in underserved communities have taken a huge step toward changing these social injustices.

The change is indicative of the trend toward private sharing as the preferred means of connecting with friends, versus larger, more public social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Toward the end of his career, Poynter published a sequel to his Self - Publishing Manual entitled Self - Publishing Manual, Volume 2 to reflect recent changes and innovations in the publishing industry, such as online eBook publishing services and online marketing using social media.

Starbucks used a social object to engage me on a cause but also it helps change a brand that I do not have the most favorable feelings toward.

Conference: The Brooklyn Conference at Brooklyn Museum In these politically fraught times, when many are calling for art and social justice to intersect more regularly, the Brooklyn Museum will host a multi-day event toward that end titled the Brooklyn Conference, which bears the subtitle Inspiring Social Csocial justice to intersect more regularly, the Brooklyn Museum will host a multi-day event toward that end titled the Brooklyn Conference, which bears the subtitle Inspiring Social CSocial Change.

On this conversational tour, explore African American artists» outstanding contributions toward artistic, political and social change, from the days of the New Republic through the nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, and up to the present day.

«Hide / Seek» considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art — especially abstraction — were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

There are proven highly cost - effective means of lowering fertility rates: providing access to contraceptives, keeping girls in school, ending child marriage practices, and changing social norms (including attitudes toward women and desired family size) through entertainment media.

Analysis of immortality projects as one of the proximate barriers to addressing climate change is both cautionary and hopeful, providing insights that should be included in the cross-disciplinary quest to uncover new pathways toward rational, social change.

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It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

Social scientist Michael LaCour was caught faking data for his claim that attitudes toward homosexuals could be easily changed.