Sentences with phrase «western societies value»

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Structured societies got beaten up, too, but they adopted Western ways anyway, because Westerners got the best and sanest laws and systems with Judeo - Christian values.

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

Maybe a more positive valuing of human sexuality, which is evident in contemporary Christian thought, may help to combat the trivializing of it in Western society.

> Actually, it is the liberal Western society which has no qualms about invading, bombing, and destroying > societies that do not comfort with so - called Western «values.»

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

o) In the Western societies too there is an alienation in consumerism, in work that neglects human values, in various forms of exploitation of humans, manipulated by the means of mass communication.

Deterrence ranks as a religious issue by invoking absolute measures in order to protect a relative (though undeniably genuine) good: the survival of Western society and values.

This represents a refreshing and welcome change from the physicalist and «value free» programmes which abound in Western societies.

Most women in Western Society use contraception, are seeking education, are seeking leadership positions and do not have the same beliefs and values because they simply have more options now.

Reason, or more properly «secular reason», needs faith, because it is faith that will save the values and convictions of civilised western society from being trodden under foot by ahistorical pragmatism, relativism and totalitarianism.

Christianity brought about amazing changes in Western Society, values we often take for granted today.

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

Though many Western societies have seen changes in their social demographics and living standards, one thing has remained relatively constant: the value they place on having pets.

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).

«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.

Combined with our family and relationship histories, Western society's focus on instant gratification, unrealistic expectations (thanks, Hollywood) and valuing independence over interdependence leads us to behaviors and perspectives that limit our ability to become and stay connected.

If western societies had these values, women would also behave differently.

Greek society is one of the two primeval influences on the Western world: While Jews gave us our value system, the Greeks set the foundation and framework for our intellectual lives.

Since around the middle of the twentieth century, society has witnessed a marked decline in spiritual and moral values throughout the Western World, including a distinct weakening of traditional sexual mores.

Nugroho's work represents the daily life of Indonesian society, which is on one hand strongly hierarchical and Muslim - influenced and on the other hand influenced by globalization and the western value system.

Amanda Heng (b. 1951, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the clash of eastern and western values, traditions and gender roles in the context of a multi-cultural and fast - changing society of Singapore.

According to article, «Gender has become fluid as never before in Western society, and art - makers find themselves remarkably unconfined by medium in an era that values ideas articulated by the most effective means possible rather than with a more traditionally rigid separation between disciplines.

What makes radical Islam (at least in the context of Western societies), part of the far left is that it seeks a revolutionary overthrow of the established society, order and values.

The ability of law societies to affirm a commitment to Charter principles and control membership on the basis of those values will be further explored by the Court in Trinity Western, and may shed greater light into the limits of these powers.

For example, it is common in Western industrialised societies like Australia for parents and carers to value children's independence, whereas parents and carers from other cultural backgrounds sometimes give more emphasis to family responsibilities than to children's independence.

For example, it is common in western industrialised societies like Australia for parents and carers to value children's independence, such as personal responsibility for interactions, whereas parents and carers from non-western cultural backgrounds frequently give more emphasis to joint family responsibilities and togetherness.