Sentences with phrase «while social power»

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While it might not seem like an individual is prominent enough to justify receiving complimentary goods and services in exchange for videos and posts on their accounts, beware of the power and reach of social media.
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Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and assault, Harvey Weinstein — one of the biggest executives in filmmaking — was forced from his place of power in Hollywood while a wave of empathy and solidarity with those who spoke out swept across social media via the #MeToo campaign.
While that seems a bit cynical, I also think the collective power of individuals on social networks has never been greater — for content, engagement and influence.
From your post, it sounds like you think that those holding power shouldn't care about the Bible's teachings while «on the job», or waterboard and torture and gut social programs all week long and sing and pray on Sundays.
And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.
The history of the church is marked by interminable hours of silence, while the clamour of the persecuted, the imprisoned and marginalised was silenced, and the churches preferred to stick to the conventions, maintain good relations with the powers, not lose their social standing.
While many homosexuals are only asking for tolerance, the gay - rights movement is clearly engaged in a power struggle for the redesign of the social order.
While these latter are important, we must probe more deeply for environment, functions, and context, and, most important of all, for human relation that define social roles and tell us who has power, who is aggressor, and who is victim.
While I've become disillusioned with this approach, I've also found the evolutionary optimism / social gospel route to be discouraging because, as Wright suggests, «it will never solve evil retrospectively... (and it) underestimates the nature and power of evil itself...»
To use the technical terms of Marxist theory, the struggle for economic power functions as the base of social reality, while literature and poetry, music, and the arts are part of the «superstructure» that is determined by the base.
Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.
Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.
M.M. Thomas points out, «While technological advance, agricultural and industrial development and modernisation of social structures are necessary they accentuate the pathological exploitative characteristics of traditional society by destroying their traditional humanising aspects, if traditional power - structures and the social institutions in which they are embodied remain unchanged.»
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.
There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»
Some few, wise, privileged males have made decisions while others quietly have contributed their particular God - given talents to the social and economic whole, but have had very little power to change it or to alter their assigned roles.
While homemakers were ceding power in their own domains to experts, the feminist revolution, he charges, was «hijacked by new economic and social elites.»
While it's true people of all social status are «greedy» sinners, and poor man can hold his idols, its the ones on the top that burden and oppress the masses, because they have the power in their hands.
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But they view it as a matter of social systems that have socialized males to an extreme that favors power and control, while assigning women the more «humane» qualities but placing them in a powerless and dependent position.
While it's pretty basic, having a social presence allows you recognize the power of one - on - one conversation.
And while she writes that, it's revolutionary to be «fighting for marriage to be about love and companionship — and not about a strictly gendered economic or social power construct,» she misses the point that same - sex couples already had love and companionship — what they wanted, and needed, were the legal and financial perks and protections marriage grants them.
HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.
Thus, while Governor Patrick has a much larger following, it appears as if social media tactics, as opposed to pure content or «celeb power» explain at least some of that difference.
While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.
«According to the plan of the Buhari administration, the N - Power Teacher Corps programme is an invaluable opportunity for young Nigerians to make immense economic and social contributions to the nation while developing their skills.
The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.
While condemning the ferocity of the cuts, social democrats have to be at the forefront of putting greater power in the hands of people.
While not oblivious to social influence, Locke also underestimated its determinative power.
Social media is OUR revolution, and not just because it's happening while we're alive — what we do online is what's powering it.
Even after a decade in power Labour fears this is an essentially conservative country, where the centre left are interlopers in power, while it is the Tory leadership which knows that the reality is that of a social democratic Britain, to which they must persuade their party to adapt.
The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.
While de Blasio has taken up many important social issues — racial profiling, early childhood education, housing, and others — it remains to be seen if he can with the limited power of a mayor really affect the issue of economic inequality, that is the overwhelming power of capital in the world's preeminent financial center.
While we're all digitally connected through our social feeds, work emails, and text messages, we're losing the incredible power of real face - to - face human connection.
As we strive to boss our working day and climb the corporate ladder, while trying to maintain some form of social life in the evening, there's little time to power down and relax.
But as we see now, these fears turned out to be unsubstantiated, as social media actually played the role of a locomotive, powering the evolution of online dating businesses by adapting best features and practices, while streamlining the general process.
The power of the Internet has taken dating to a whole new level — dating sites abound while social media allows us to learn everything we need to know about our potential partner.
Furthermore, the site aims to connect singles via an advanced online dating platform that encourages social connection while celebrating what Wendee refers to as «kingdom - core values» that focus on creating a healthy family and using the power of freedom to serve one another in love.
A lot of critics have praised this film highly, but while I appreciate the stunning visual evocation of the world and the unnerving atmosphere of punitive power and calculated cruelty under the carefully managed pose of piety, I find his sensibility sour and cynical, more of a horror film than a social commentary.
Stay with it I know we've been banging this drum at Edutopia for a while now but social media isn't going away and the sooner education leadership embraces it, the sooner we can benefit from its ubiquity, power, and attractive price point (free with cost of a computer and internet).
While there are many great success stories, there are those who still struggle with harnessing the power of social media.
Imagine combining the power of a traditional timeline tool with the history and edit features of a wiki while making it a social, globally published, living online document.
The idea that power operates through force while authority operates through persuasion is not a new one, and was perhaps most famously articulated by social theorist Max Weber.
While many of these people are using these social media sites for their own entertainment purposes, more and more businesses and people are harnessing the power of social media by creating personal pages dedicated to promoting themselves or their company.
While ridiculous relationship statuses and Twitter hashtags tend to rule our day to day social activity, no one can argue with the power social media had to push forward the Arab Spring or the news that JK Rowling was, in fact, actually the true identity of Robert Gilbraith.
While personnel changes among Storyful's top tier are not expected to be drastic any time soon, one major change under the new deal will be extending the power of Storyful's social media content garnering to advertisers, helping them leverage genuine social traffic around their brands.
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Research from social psychologist Amy Cuddy demonstrates that assuming a «power pose» while speaking not only boosts confidence but improves your audience's perceptions of your performance.
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