Sentences with phrase «american culture studies»

Erin holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from St. Edward's University, in Austin, TX, and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space.

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A previous report released in 2012 revealed a long history at UNC of classes in the Department of Afro and African - American Studies that never met, as well as a culture of changing and improving grades.

The American Institute of Stress, for example, produced a study showing that an unstable culture results in an increase in voluntary turnover of almost 50 percent.

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

His studies of the American founding and of such iconic presidents as Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan are on the short shelf of books indispensable to an understanding of American political culture.

But the most rapidly growing type, Troeltsch held, was mysticism — and studies of contemporary American culture confirm his analysis.

Robert Bellah and his associates throw some general light on this absence in their recent sociological study of American culture, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Harper & Row, 1985).

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

A new study out of the American Culture and Faith Institute has revealed that while 70 percent of Americans identify as Christians, only 10 percent hold basic Christian beliefs.

William G. McLoughlin in his study of the Great Awakenings points out that they have been shaping American culture from its inception.

That question was at the center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.»

Her work should be required reading not only for students of American religion, but also for anyone who wishes to study sympathetically and fruitfully a different religious culture.

As numerous studies demonstrate, contemporary mainstream American culture is deeply death - denying.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Collaboration between the academy and the church, for example, has produced pastorally useful studies of the priesthood, the permanent diaconate, the seminaries, and the cultures of Hispanic, Asian and African American Catholics.

What can be seen from a study of religious uses of television in America is that over the past several years there has developed a marked imbalance in the presentation of American religious faith and culture.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibiCulture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibiculture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

The battle becomes considerably subtler, though, when religion is advocated not as a way of life but as something to be studied as an integral part of American culture, and is made part of a high school curriculum.

Matthew Bowman, an editor at a Mormon studies journal called Dialogue, says Romney appears to embody the Mormon retrenchment of the 1960s and 1970s, when the LDS church defined itself largely in opposition to the broader American culture, which was seeing cultural upheaval and the sexual revolution.

As leaders in the study of American food culture, The Hartman Group has been tracking how Americans shop for food since the 1990s.

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His philosophy reflects the diverse cultures (European, Asian, Middle Eastern and American) in which he has lived, worked and studied.

Hausman, Bernice MOTHER»S MILK: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture Routledge, 2003 An academic study, Mother's Milk explores the negative portrayal of breastfeeding in the US and the way that breastfeeding is promoted.

Equally inspired by the culture there, she returned to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to complete her undergraduate degree in Latin American Social and Cultural Studies in 2005.

Last month, the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture released survey results assessing the «Culture of American Families.»

Lactobacillus reuteri (American Type Culture Collection Strain 55730) versus simethicone in the treatment of infantile colic: a prospective randomized study.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

The results of this study provided high - resolution, whole mitochondrial genome information for the Oneota, a Native American archaeological culture that rose to prominence ca.

The American Institute of Indian Studies offers fellowships to faculty and graduate students for research on studies related to India's history, culture, and contemporary develStudies offers fellowships to faculty and graduate students for research on studies related to India's history, culture, and contemporary develstudies related to India's history, culture, and contemporary development.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.

A paper detailing the study, «The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants,» appears in the American Economic Review.

It is presently publicly available from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), where researchers can order it to use it in their studies.

«When we use labels like «black» or «African», they are gross approximations,» agrees Charles Rotimi of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies the influence of culture, lifestyle and genetics on patterns of obesity, hypertension and diabetes in African Americans.

Prof. Gopher, Prof. Ran Barkai and PhD candidate Miki Ben - Dor, all of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, co-authored the study, which was recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

This finding contradicts recent studies presented to the White House by American agriculturalists, which suggest that US agri - culture will be largely immune to damage from global warming.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

Also at risk, according to the study, are millions of artifacts, from Native American cultures to more recent historic events, largely because these items either are not being protected or have never been cataloged.

Study argues that cosmic impact wasn't responsible for event that may have wiped out mammoths and a major Native American culture

For the time course study, cells were treated with 20 μM of EGCG for 12, 24, 48, 72, or 144 h. Human colon cancer cell line HT - 29 and prostate cancer cell line PC3 were obtained from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and were grown in McCoy's 5A and RPMI 1640 containing 10 % fetal bovine serum, respectively.

Today, most of the evidence is based on the observations of Weston Price, an American dentist, who spent his life studying the diets of various cultures.

Savino F. et al; Lactobacillus Reuteri (American Type Culture Collection Strain 55730) Versus Simethicone in the Treatment of Infantile Colic: A Prospective Randomized Study; Pediatrics; January 2007; Vol.

A more comprehensive study of American dating culture by Match.com showed that ~ 50 % of single women (versus 38 % of men) research dates on before meeting up.

DatingAdvice.com dating expert Rachel Dack said she's not surprised that commonalities ranked highest among all other traits in the study, as Americans emphasize them as a culture.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

She is director of Film & Media Studies and Associate Professor of English, Film & Video Studies, African and African American Studies, Sport & American Culture, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University.

Study authors Ben Backes of American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Michael Hansen of the Brookings Institution found that students in classrooms of team teachers led by Opportunity Culture «multi-classroom leaders» showed sizeable, statistically significant academic gains.

She asserts that «Typical university curricula leave out contributions of people of color to American culture, except in special courses in African American studies,» a flatly false claim.

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