One consequence of these fluid and deep cultural changes, which fit so poorly into some of our typical master categories, is a strong temptation to invite government to establish a new role in our lives that imitates and ratifies these social and individual ideas.
The balance between social rights and individual responsibility appears to be more fairly balanced In New Labour social policy than it does with the Conservatives.
The social norm of individual responsibility must be equated with purchasing health insurance.
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It has less to do with social mobility as individual determination.
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If Feminism is seen as the social success of individual women, particularly those who do so without challenging accepted gender relations, then Jane Eyre is that.
Citing historical examples dating back to Mayan times, he argues persuasively that the social orders within individual societies are not so adaptable as the species itself.
For example, in some countries, individual social-security numbers or tax codes are now used by government agencies as unique identification numbers to control access to health care or higher education.
And one sure way to determine the social conscience of an individual is to get his tax-reaction.
Incentives, rules, and institutions that encourage a constructive role for insurance will ultimately improve individual and social welfare.
The social Web celebrates the individual by enabling direct participation in the creation and dissemination of knowledge in a distinctly individual way.
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In this case the change intended was to that of a higher or lower social class than the individual perceived he normally belonged to.
Mr Bush may be willing to privatise Social Security by introducing individual retirement accounts (as The Economist would like) but he may well succumb instead to an across-the-board tax cut.
Several years ago, therefore, Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can develop.
" What's more, while the research hasn't even begun yet, one of the professors involved sees it as nothing short of a milestone, saying that "the outcome of the research will define the scientific and technological requirements for the design of humanoid robots able to develop complex behavioural, thinking and communication skills through individual and social learning.
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This would mean partially privatising Social Security, letting people set up individual retirement accounts and use part of their payroll taxes (which now fund Social Security) to invest in the stockmarket.
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The individual effects of social media are equally mixed, and many of the negatives are anecdotal.
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The judge told Barry McCarney that he was a deeply manipulative individual devoid of social norms.
But it will settle many end-of-life and other social issues where only an individual's own life is at stake.
In that time two local youths have received individual anti-social behaviour orders.
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Although their bodies and their social groups are large, individual elephants are vulnerable in the face of predation because of their attachments to one another.
"We're all interested in the collection and application of personal data and its consequences for individual rights and social science concepts such as trust and discrimination, " said Dr Ball.
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Witness this week's Supreme Court case, in which the question at hand is whether an individual's Social Security survivor benefits belong to children conceived with his sperm months after he died.
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Now Mr. Dunbar, who teaches at Oxford, has taken the argument a step further in work yet to be published, by correlating the size of a specific part of an individual's brain with the size of that individual's social network.
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The SEC's latest report clarified that disclosure of material nonpublic information on the personal social media site of an individual corporate officer without advance notice to investors that the site may be used for this purpose is unlikely to qualify as an acceptable method of disclosure under securities laws.
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Why the distinction matters: because the financial incentive to violence is countered by employment and economic growth, but the psychological incentive is countered only if the dignity of employment is real (i.e. if work is fair, just and well-rewarded) and if there is dignity for the individual in his social and political life.
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The personal budget programme employed in social care includes direct cash payments to an individual as well as notional budgets that a patient can put in the hands of a social care professional.
This is a belief in the virtue of individual initiatives to tackle social problems.
El desarrollo pleno de la sexualidad es esencial para el bienestar individual, interpersonal y social.
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