Sentences with phrase «with societal shifts»

With the societal shifts in the United States after World War II, more women took on the role of working artists.

Rising individualism in the United States over the last 150 years is mainly associated with a societal shift toward more white - collar occupations, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Not exact matches

Not to confuse the psychological issues with the separation of church and state, we obviously need to keep religious interference and favoritism to a minimum in government, while shifting the societal paradigm to discourage fervent religiosity while fostering evolved secular morals and ethics.

While the nation has been grappling with the fallout and societal shift on sexual harassment and misconduct in the workplace, Albany has had its own share of bad behavior by lawmakers and top aides.

The increasing availability of marijuana, along with shifting societal opinions about it, lends a timeliness to the findings and provides potential for further study, Epstein said.

At its core, Toni Erdmann is about core values, both personal and societal; about shifting power relationships in the workplace and within families; and about a father's love for his adult daughter and his struggle to find a way to connect with her.

«This represented a significant shift in societal attitudes toward people with disabilities,» says Stephen Luke, Ed.D.» 03, director of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

As a former business reporter who loves reading about societal shifts, I got the same thrill while reading this that I did with Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, the palpable sense of a sea change in an industry that also had cascading effects on the rest of the world.

Societal norms, culture, style, expectations, etc. seem to shift with the wind.

Expressionism emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as an artistic response to their Modernist malaise, an increasingly apathetic relationship with the physical world as a result of industrialization, urban growth, and other sometimes drastic societal shifts.

Here's Hamilton's critique, which doesn't deal with the core argument of my talk (the need for a shift in goals from numerical outcomes to societal qualities) and instead focuses on my use of the word «good» in relation to an era he clearly sees as awful:

Here's Hamilton's critique, which doesn't deal with the core argument of my talk (the need for a shift in goals from numerical outcomes to societal qualities) and instead focuses on my use of the word «good» in relation to an era he clearly sees as awful: Read more...

However, in addition to our efforts to encourage a societal shift around profound ecological issues, we also get in the weeds, as it were, with our efforts to understand, measure, and minimize the environmental impact of our operations at the Institute.

The societal imperative is to find ways to cope with these utterly unpredictable — not just uncertain — shifts.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

In the 50 years since the first disability rights victories were achieved in court, these lawyers have been helped by the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, emergence of new technology specifically for them, and a shift in societal attitudes, she says.

The Carter majority thus concluded at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some citizens to kill others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.