Julie Plec

I think that when you're exploring themes of humanity and what defines a hero and what makes us our best self and what makes us our worst self, you're going to stumble into territories of societal issues and that kind of thing. Sometimes you have accidents where you're not trying, but then the opportunity just presents itself. and you lean into it.

American Producer

Geeta Phogat

I have seen my father defying societal norms and investing his time and energy on us. He was ridiculed and criticised by the community for asking girls to seek a career in wrestling. But he had vision and was least worried when elders warned him his daughters would not find grooms. I had to wrestle for him and that motivated me tremendously.

American Wrestler

Ramez Naam

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

American Writer

Puneet Issar

Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I've enjoyed playing both the characters.

Indian Actor

Ginni Rometty

What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

American Businesswoman

Gustav Heinemann

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

German Politician

Rami Malek

I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

American Actor

Rain Dove

Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor.

American Model

Philip Emeagwali

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Nigerian Scientist

Jaboukie Young-White

My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.

American Comedian

Shows how social rules can shape the way people act.

Influence Behavior

Indicates issues or norms are community-wide, not individual.

Not Personal

Often used to talk about things that affect all levels of society.

Broad Impact

Shows how a community's collective beliefs are visible in social systems.

Reflects Values

Common in discussions or studies within sociological and political fields.

Academic Analysis

Focuses on patterns and systems rather than personal stories or anecdotes.

Beyond Individuals

 that have these very generous social safety nets. So the economic playbook is actually pretty straightforward. The societal one is a lot more challenging. I don't know what the playbook is for getting Bill to engage and stay engaged throughout life. I do know that education is a huge part of it.

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 Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, because they are the exceptions. They organize their life around this. That's why we know their names. Our kids' heroes are also wrong models for them, because they have supernatural talents. We want our kids to realize most heroes are everyday people,

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 to examine societal issues in a way that make them engaging that make them interesting that hopefully break them down in a way that make them entertaining and accessible to an audience so when I knew I was coming here to do a TED talk that was gonna look at the world of branding and

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 we have in this life and sometimes it's so good the people hope that that happiness lasts for a lifetime for finding a love story that ends happily ever after these days seems harder than ever and that's partly because societal beliefs give us the wrong instructions

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 The issues surrounding cash bail are symptomatic of societal problems, like structural racism and over-reliance on incarceration, that need to be addressed. In the meantime, reformers like The Bail Project are working to help people trapped by cash bail

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 individuals who are susceptible so you've got to appreciate and i know it's tough to get your feel about that but you've got to appreciate that not only do you have an individual responsibility to yourself you have a societal responsibility to help us

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 While many of the details of Diogenes’ life are shadowy, the philosophical ideas born out of his disgrace survive today. In exile, Diogenes decided that by rejecting the opinions of others and societal measures of success, he could be truly free.

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 And it is important that we understand what during sleep actually transacts these memory benefits, because there are real medical and societal implications. And let me just tell you about one area that we've moved this work out into, clinically,

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 and everything is most certainly 42. Just like real life, fictional worlds operate consistently within a spectrum of physical and societal rules. That's what makes these intricate worlds believable, comprehensible, and worth exploring.

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 On a societal level, the rapid loss of population led to important changes in Europe's economic conditions. With more food to go around, as well as more land and better pay for the surviving farmers and workers,

Societal

Relating to society or social relationships.

Often appears as...

Relating to the structure, organization, and functioning of society.

Often appears as...

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