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Modern industrial societies now have a wide array of social protections – unemployment compensation, adjustment assistance, and other labor-market tools, as well as health insurance and family support – that mitigate demand for cruder forms of protection.
Liberalism's Morning After In Eastern EuropeWARSAW: Throughout the postcommunist world faith that liberal politics and economics could deliver prosperity and decent societies at the same time no longer seems as convincing as it did in the euphoria of 1989.
In the end, they may lose their struggle, but the costs to the postcommunist societies might be higher than anyone can imagine.
Democratic societies, by contrast, need to be bonded more powerfully than some chance grouping.
Such is the answer, valid or not, that people accept in democratic societies.
Those who took it – admittedly, a minority – swore to pursue their work “in an ethical manner” and to run their enterprises “in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”
Other societies present us with different and often disconcerting ways of being human.
That this may be difficult to achieve, that it will demand a change in our self-understanding and hence in our way of life, is the challenge our societies must reckon with in the years ahead.
For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to acquisition disappeared.
To secure a positive, open, and prosperous future for Europe, it is critical that the forces that come out on top are those that recognize the huge benefits of politically and economically open societies, as well as the need for national and global public policies to promote more inclusion.
One dividing line is between societies that tolerate self-enrichment through politics, and those that demand that the two spheres be kept separate.
Similarly, while non-government organizations (NGO's) are a dynamic component in most societies nowadays, Japan has few, and major international NGO's are nonexistent or have only a weak presence.
President George W. Bush’s desire to shatter the Arab world’s frozen societies was meant to pit the forces of modernization against the traditional elements in Arab and Islamic societies.
Taking advantage of their ability to mass-produce and instantly disseminate ancient religious texts and Western-originating literature, the two camps battle for the hearts and minds of otherwise traditional societies.
This cultural turbulence is due – at least in part – to the absence of a contemporary homegrown intellectual tradition capable of providing Arab societies with an inner compass based on local values and modern perspectives.
Unless Arab and Muslim societies rediscover, revitalize, and in some respects create their homegrown contemporary intellectual tradition, the result will be cultural drift or, far worse, the continuation of bloody civil strife.
In these societies, the social order is predominantly shaped by informal agreements rather than formal laws and regulations.
If they are to recover their reputations, and restore the health of their societies and economies, they must act decisively to weaken the allure of terrorist recruiters.
It emphasizes the need to invest early, nurturing young children to ensure that they arrive at school healthy and ready to learn; to invest smartly, transforming schools with good teachers, good materials, and good management; and to invest for all, laying the foundation for just and equitable societies.
China has been highly successful in its initial efforts to shift the industrial structure of its economy from manufacturing to services, which have long been viewed as the foundation of modern consumer societies.
These figures provide some useful insights into the evolving social fabric of Arab societies.
Durkheim contrasts this phenomenon with the more progressive “organic solidarity” that evolves in modern societies according to people’s professional and functional relationships.
In culturally diverse societies, such as Iraq and Lebanon, networks of social solidarity are based almost entirely on religious and ethnic affinity.
In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines.
But while extreme inequality and poverty are unacceptable in most societies, some disparities of income and wealth are widely viewed as a tolerable, even inevitable, corollary of a market economy, though the specific level of inequality that is considered appropriate varies across countries.
To some extent, societies’ perceptions of economic trends – whether positive or negative – comes down to policy responses.
While there is no shortage of challenges facing economies and societies today, they should not be allowed to obscure positive long-term trends.
Although Asia seems to lack Europe’s cultural core, there are core ethical constants that have long governed Asian societies and indicate common ethical foundations.
In general, wearing a veil affords greater freedom to women in male dominated societies.
To this end, entertainment media like soap operas, which have emerged as important tools for empowering women in conservative Middle Eastern societies, could be employed.
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