Capitalism used to be criticised for failing to raise popular living standards sufficiently, and was seen as insufficiently dynamic to meet the needs and expectations of the working class.
One of the best examples of how Isotype symbols were used to raise popular awareness is to be found in "Modern Man in the Making," Neurath's opus, published by Knopf in 1939; it beautifully demonstrates his means of presenting otherwise impenetrable data in bite-size, though not dumbed-down, nuggets, with layouts that are clean, crisp and easy on the eye.
Today, the tragedy at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to unfold, raising popular fears and difficult questions.
Having raised popular expectations with pseudo-radical promises, she had no conception of how to fulfil them.
At a time when Greeks have faced tax increases and wage cuts, their statements raised popular anger at the Greek political establishment.
With a historian's mindset he has spoken about the unsustainable tensions created by a system that raises popular expectations but too heavily favours an entrenched elite.
In fact, for all of the well-founded concerns about Mr. Karzai, he did display effective leadership at a meeting with local Kandahar leaders on June 13, where he raised popular support to drive the Taliban out of the largest city in the south.
The president has thus raised popular expectations, but must first take some unpopular measures, such as reining in the fiscal deficit and restarting a stalled privatisation programme.For now, however, opposition on the streets has slowed to a few small marches each day.
In an email to The Huffington Post, video editor Justin Turkowski said the video was filmed last fall with the hope of raising popular concern for "the environment, the ecosystem and each other".
In making intimate life the subject of unprecedented public discussion, these arbiters of morality raised popular awareness – and arguably acceptance – of the principle of restricted parental fertility.
Many of the issues they raise reflect popular concern about the hard edges of globalisation fears, genuine if muddled, about leaving the poor behind, harming the environment, caring about profits more than people, unleashing dubious genetically modified foods, and the rest.
