Quotes About Societal

Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human mind mired in tradition, myth and many kinds of falsehoods. They demand a form of changing social awakening.

Just as each culture, it seems, has its favorite neurosis, so does each have its favorite impulsions to be amused.

Feelings, too, are socialized—we learn what they are, or rather, we acquire meanings for them.

In other words, theorists like van der Leeuw envision that a switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture creates a virtuous circle between problem-solving capacity and societal size, gradually leading to an increase of the scale of cooperation. I

I found myself pondering the specific Christian American obsession with abortion and gay rights. For million of Americans, these are the great societal sins of the day. It isn't bogus wars, systemic poverty, failing schools, child abuse, domestic violence, health care for profit, poorly paid social workers, under-funded hospitals, gun saturation, or global warming that riles or worries the conservative, Bible-believers of America. pg33

Phil Zuckerman, "Is Faith Good for Us?" Free Inquiry 26, 5 (2006): 35–38; Gregory S. Paul, "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies," Journal of Religion and Society 7, 1 (2005):

Any effort to stop the left's plan for a societal transformation must begin with measures to restore universities to the institutions they once were -- to see to it that liberal arts faculties adhere to the same nonideological standards as the sciences and that faculties once again feature diverse political perspectives that reflect the diversity of society at large.

Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

The Cultural Psychology of the Clitoris

Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

Dr. Jan Yager, a sociologist, friendship expert and author of When Friendship Hurts, states, "For some, admitting to a broken friendship has become like admitting to a failed marriage. Over the last two decades, a myth of lifelong friendship has emerged, even as the ideal of a lifelong marriage has, sadly, become an unrealistic reality for many people.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.

Best-selling novelist Paul Tremblay writes that horror really works only when it "push[es] and prod[s] at moral boundaries" and forces its audience to "confront personal and societal taboos." In fact, he suggests that horror films need a "progressive" vision to really pull us out to sea on a dark tide.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.

The work of the Program focused on the alpha-theta brainwave biofeedback process and was at first funded primarily by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), constituting very high societal approval and support.

A woman might be from higher sociology economic background and in a high powered profession but may be enduring severe violence at home.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.

While women feel cultural pressure to keep up their physical appearance, men feel that pressure to keep up their emotional appearance

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.