Sentences with phrase «urban society in»

Best known for his large - scale abstract paintings that examine the class -, race - and gender - based economies that structure urban society in the United States, Bradford's richly layered and collaged canvases represent a connection to the social world through materials.

Often incorporating references to place and geography, these works not only extend the possibilities of contemporary painting but also offer an unusual and highly individual reflection of the class -, race -, and gender - based economies and realities that make up urban society in the United States.

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Quebec, where home ownership rates have been rising, remains a renting - friendly society, at least in the urban centres, and Montrealers who move to Toronto are often shocked by the pressure they feel to buy.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

The same intellectual currents that led some clergy to founding roles in the social sciences led others to insist that education in those sciences was the key to effective ministry in an urban, industrial society.

In face of the urban needs too great for any single denomination, thirty - some Protestant mission societies sprang up after the war to work exclusively in the citieIn face of the urban needs too great for any single denomination, thirty - some Protestant mission societies sprang up after the war to work exclusively in the citiein the cities.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

Recreational gun use is commonplace in many urban societies.

«Why put responsibility upon the scientific community for the decline of urban society and public morality in the United States?

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

The pressures for efficient collection and distribution of foods in urban society and the demand for short cuts in food preparation in high - speed civilization have brought into being a vast food - processing industry.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

Basic theology for the laity, the nature and mission of the church in an urban society, social ethics, ecumenics, and approaches to Christian social action are some of these.

With such a moral heritage, combining both high value and narrow limitation, the tribes of Israel entered Palestine and, after a long conflict with the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conquered.

Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The group has a strong sense of being in a particular place, urban America, and at a particular time; born in the twenties, just old enough [usually] to get into World War II, products of the affluent society, very conscious of being white.

This is important for a number of reasons, such as overturning the predominate idea that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such literary activities, but for believers today my book helps us understand why there was such an emphasis on reading communally in the New Testament (1 Tim 4:13; Col 4:16; 1 Thess 5:27; Rev. 1:3; etc.).

Perhaps the current dissolution of democratic patterns in our industrial and urban society can be checked by shifting our ideology away from rationalism to biblical realism.

For example a Westernized urban elite may rule over a traditional rural society without encouraging any changes in that society.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

These three in combination can move modern land - users and linked urban societies to the idea of all Countries being «nourishing terrains»; of «Land Care» in perpetuity.

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There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

In today's urban lifestyle everyone is going techno friendly or what to upgrade their self with latest technology to enhance the standard of living in society, so why not you can give a hi - tech stroller to your babIn today's urban lifestyle everyone is going techno friendly or what to upgrade their self with latest technology to enhance the standard of living in society, so why not you can give a hi - tech stroller to your babin society, so why not you can give a hi - tech stroller to your baby?

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

Given that American society is one of the most urbanized in the world — 82 percent of Americans live in cities or in the suburbs (a number on the rise)-- the slump in urban population support should be a wake - up call for the GOP to immediately change direction.

This localisation (or, urbanisation) of citizenship may be expected to correlate more closely with the increasingly more place - specific nature of civil society in urban areas, offering better scope for «getting involved» in governance than at the more distant, «homogenised» notion of national level.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

He is currently in the process of completing comprehensives in the areas of «State - civil society in the global South», «Theories of class and class formation», and «Labour movements and urban space».

Cuomo said as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary in the 1990s, he often sparred with then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who envisioned a «home - centered society» where people conducted all of their affairs online.

A study conducted in 2001 by Jerold Hayden, a Harvard professor of urban planning and design, with the Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society, found that 40 percent of these parks «were and are practically useless, with austere designs, no amenities and little or no direct sunlight.

Without GPS or cameras, seismic systems could allay privacy concerns by tracking urban activity in an anonymous way, researchers reported today at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis.

«If there has been a more harmful urban legend circulating in our society than the vaccine - autism link,» University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer, «it's hard to know what it might be.»

It's a tale in which herders and nomads are streaming to urban centers while resources are being exploited without long - term environmental planning, and people, individually and as a society, have no choice but to adapt.

Violence and cultural sophistication may in fact have gone hand in hand in creating the first urban societies.

Openly disseminating findings is likely to be a key point in any guidelines SCJ might adopt, says the society's president, Takashi Onishi, an urban planner and president of Toyohashi University of Technology.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia from 5300 to 3300 years ago, at about the same time as urban civilisations developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Urban society can be studied through housing types over a long time period, for example, but here they only appear to any extent in the medieval chapter, reflecting the preoccupation of architectural historians with this period.

A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia — a complex, sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000 people in all.

From an anthropological point of view, our urban Western society is strangely unmusical, except when bursting into song on the rare occasions when the need for collective grooming becomes overwhelming, such as cup final matches or in pubs.

It led to profound changes in society, including greater population densities, new diseases, poorer health, social inequality, urban living, and ultimately, the rise of ancient civilizations.

Their paper, «The Effects of Urban Form on Ambient Air Pollution and Public Health Risk: A Case Study in Raleigh, North Carolina,» was recently posted electronically in the journal Risk Analysis, published by the Society for Risk Analysis.

Once they learned to grow enough food to nourish those not directly involved in its production, it was not far to civilization — broadly defined as a society endowed with government, social classes, urban centers, extensive trade, and widespread cultural influence.

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