Sentences with phrase «values of our society most»

But it is with regard to money and property that the apparent values of our society most obviously conflict with the values of Christianity.

Not exact matches

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Far fewer cite these as examples of what society values most in women.

While pensions are not nearly as common as they once were, they are a very important part of the retirement plans for many of society's most valued workers: teachers, police officers, fire fighters and more!

Our biggest architectural accomplishments are highly visible symbols of what society values most, and those values have changed over time.

The Odyssey Network reports that «LDS Democrats, many of whom were formerly Republican, say the Democratic Party now best represents their core values, including caring for the most vulnerable in society.»

The most unsettling part of this book is Le Rider's gentle hint throughout that when the Viennese modernists hurled themselves against the norms and values of their society, they were chafing against mere gossamer chains and bridles of cotton.

The Community of Christians would bring together the most fertile minds from various fields for the express purpose of defining Christian values for society at large.

The manifold forms through which society's most essential values are communicated are not, therefore, of secondary importance.

Le Goff's championing of urbanism and the medieval city was a manifestation of the republican values he inherited while his singling out Christianity as the single most important source of medieval society evinced a deep Catholic impulse.

«We live in one of the most affluent cultures in history where many of the values of an increasingly materialistic society stand in direct conflict with the gospel vision,» they charged.

In most instances, basic Christian values were affirmed, and there was some acknowledgment of the positive role of the church in the society.

This is because these shared values are a necessary component of society, even in its most primitive form.

By economism I mean the conviction that economic values are the most important and the restructuring of society to express that valuation.

In most things we reflect the values of our society.

«For a society premised on the inherent worth of the individual as its prime value, the most disturbing element is the evidence of a growing contempt for human beings.

I do not think that is going to happen to the same extent because in spite of material progress, religiosity, spirituality and values remain strong in Asia even in the most economically progressed societies.

Clearly we find ourselves living in a society which through its most powerful medium communicates a set of values, assumptions, and worldview which are completely at odds with the religious values, assumptions and worldview professed by more than 70 % of its citizens.

Further, it has become captive to the commercial broadcasting system and its demands, and the values implicit in most of its programs are actually the values of the secular society it pretends to reject.

Allow me to put this in sociological terms (sociology provides a limited but useful «grammar» here): Every human society has its own corpus of officially accredited wisdom, the beliefs and values that most people take for granted as self - evidently true.

These characteristics of the mainstream of general television are significant, because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, if not the most powerful, cultivator of our society «s over-all values, attitudes, and behavior.

- Are the values implicit in most successful electronic - church programs actually the values of the secular society it pretends to reject?

This massive shift has had a devastating effect on the once - deep cultural values that exerted their force upon most of society's institutions — values of truth, duty, discipline, reading, beauty, family, tradition, justice, among many others.

Second, society tends for the most part to judge the fruits of a person's life in the light of its own values and priorities.

The former believe that the most important consideration is to nourish a new consciousness — values, attitudes, goals, commitments, and life styles which will gradually remake society as the new vision takes hold of crucial segments of the population.

We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which most people in our society profess to believe.

Today the environment within which most of us live and work is a media environment, an over-arching web of mediated symbols, processes, stories and values that surrounds, gives shape to, and interprets most things we do as individuals and as a society.

Even in capitalist societies — which are supposed to know the price of everything and the value of nothing — it turns out that the most important things in life are still understood as goods that can not be bought and sold without reducing their value to zero.

Certainly one of the strongest and most evocative values undergirding the belief that a good society cares for all its members is the religious conviction that each human life has a sacred origin and a sacred destiny.

Puritanism was one of the most effective forces in colonial America in «mobilizing the general mood» and effectively organizing both ideas and actions in opposition to Crown and Parliament.21 Puritanism had consistently pointed to, preached, and attempted to live out the central values and beliefs that gave coherence and meaning to Puritan society.

In a society that flaunts sex (its pleasures more than its serious hazards, problems and spiritual values) in all the media, makes it difficult for the young to avoid unwanted pregnancy, and does little to help them with the most difficult of all problems of self - discipline, we tell young persons that they are murderers if they resort to abortion.

In terms of societal values and tort law, it's interesting that states had abolished those torts while most people in society still claim that marriage and family is important and should be protected.

Respect for one's elders in such societies was one of the most important values instilled in children from a very early age.

A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.

In most societies, the value of breastmilk is well - known, but the value of breastfeeding is not.

I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower the chances of poverty and crime, and modern western societies have placed a lot of value on being employed (or working in general, as in being self - employed or even owning and running a business - but most people still work regular old jobs).

In England and Wales, members of literally dozens of religions from Scientology to Methodism and from all the denominations of Judaism to the Spiritualists and the Aetherius Society can all have a legal marriage in the place most special to them, conducted by one who shares their beliefs, and in the form that embodies their most deeply held beliefs and values.

Their modern stranglehold on the understanding of freedom means that they have managed to lay claim to one of society's most cherished values.

Not so, Sturgeon took care to say, it's all been costed, but she also went on to say that of course «a fair society must be paid for», and that it would be «right to consider how our limited tax powers might help us protect what we value most».

As the government reviews this policy, and detention conditions as a whole, it's vital that politicians of all parties stand up for basic human rights values, and ensure that some of the most vulnerable people in society receive the right protection.

Sullivan said she is most concerned about the «apparent decline in society's confidence in science as an enterprise of special value to society and of scientists as respected and trustworthy people.»

The book's most important asset is the author's genuine concern with the values that ought to help structure the role and the function of universities in a society where the influence of private markets and their associated materialistic values is ever more pervasive.

«Webased the price on a number of factors, most importantly the value Gardasilbrings to individuals and society,» says Jennifer Allen, a spokesperson for Merck.

«Although sleep scientists have generally accepted that the average sleep duration of Americans has been declining in parallel with our transformation to a frenetic 24 - hour society,» Quan wrote, «most sleep clinicians would consider those values indicative of sleep deprivation even by current standards.»

I am not a bullet to be fired from the gun of society; into the body of consumerism and affluence, money holds no value; for the most valuable asset is a free soul.

Prof. Javier Collado Ruano was invited to attend Rio +20 after his proposal «THE VALUE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION AS AN ENGINE TO PROMOTE POVERTY ERADICATION AND TO ACHIEVE A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT» was the most voted by civil society around the world.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, ensuring that teachers are viewed as professionals who are valued and listened to by policy makers and society as a whole is absolutely essential to the health of the profession and the schools and children it supports.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

Michelle Molitor is the founder and CEO of The Equity Lab, formerly Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education (FREE), an organization with the mission to support individuals and institutions as they take on our most intractable race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) problems, accelerating our transition toward a more liberatory, community - centered society that values the gifts and potential of all of its members.