Sentences with phrase «american social and political issues»

The war in Vietnam was surely the most profound American social and political issue at the time of the survey.

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But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

It has, on the one hand, become more in line with the American way of life, while at the same time increasing its commentary and critique on specific social and political issues.

The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.

This new study is part of the March 2015 issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Of course, plenty of crass jokes and dialogue are to be expected, and while Super Troopers 2 is primarily centered on a rivalry between the familiar squad and some Canadian Mounties soon to be out of a job, using that rift to pepper the comedy with some zingers on both sides rooted in current events (Americans have a go at how high the Canadian drinking limit is while Canadians fire back lambasting the United States» gun control issue and gross levels of obesity), the proceedings aren't concerned with getting political or forcing social commentary down anyone's throat.

Understands the rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes

In the last 25 years, older Americans have grown much wealthier than the young — a gap reflected in their attitudes toward credit management, as well as political and social issues.

In the last 25 years, older Americans have grown much wealthier than the young — a gap reflected in their attitudes toward credit management, as well as political and social issues.

In one direction, American artists struggled with convention, materials, and process to articulate a more personal expressivity, addressing aesthetics, political and social issues both metaphorically and literally through their work.

Taylorʼs work continues to delve into and expand upon the language of portraiture and painting, while also pointing to the social and political issues affecting African Americans today.

Developed outside of the structure of schools, galleries, and museums, these rich yet largely unknown African American visual art traditions present a distinct post — Civil Rights phenomenon that offers powerful insight and fresh perspectives into the most compelling political and social issues of our time.

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, while often referencing American history.

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem's is a multi-media artist whose work critiques contemporary social and political issues affecting U.S. and indigenous Native American cultures, from institutionalized racism and classism to displacement of people of color.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

With the digital exhibition Fifty Years Later: The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting, the BCMA brings a 21st - century perspective to the contextual issues related to the original exhibition — demonstrating the continual significance of art and art history as catalysts for urgent social and political dialogues, then and now.

Most of today's troubling social, economic, and political issues are extraordinarily complex, a consequence of which is that some Americans exert little or no effort in trying to understand them, let alone participate in efforts of social change.

In a January 2014 article Catherine Craft reassessed a 1970 Whitney Museum exhibition by African American artist Melvin Edwards asserting, «A reconsideration of Edward's exhibition reveals its seminal place in art of the period as both an incisive response to the most radical forms of sculpture and installation and as an uncommonly nuanced articulation of social and political issues.»

Timed to coincide with the 2012 American election season, these works, diverse in medium and topic, are presented at a time when political and social divisions in the United States are readily apparent, and polarization on many major issues is at a historic high.

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is a multi-media artist whose work critiques contemporary social and political issues affecting U.S. and Native American cultures, from institutionalized racism and classism to displacement of people of color.

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is a multi-media artist whose work critiques contemporary social and political issues affecting U.S. and Native American cultures, from institutionalized racism and classism...

JustSeeds Artists» Cooperative, a transnational North American artist collective of 26 printmakers engaged in issues of social, political, and environmental justice, bring a traveling exhibition called Resourced!

The art produced by black artists reflects timely political and social issues, the importance of music and religion in African American culture, and candid portrayals of daily life.

Marianne Boesky Gallery's, New York, new exhibition Golden State connects the work of seven American photographers who approach a variety of vital political, social and economic issues surrounding California's climate.

American Scene painters primarily lived in rural areas and created works that were realistic and addressed social, economic and political issues.

Taylor's work continues to delve and expand upon the language of portraiture and painting, while also pointing to the social and political issues affecting African Americans today.

Amid the horrific political issues depicted in many of the works in the Whitney (from the Afghani self - mutilation photographs, to the lobotomy patient video, to the disfigured American soldier portraits), one could make some overly literal interpretations of Grosvenor's plush velvet bridge and ornamental welded metal fence: bridges and boundaries span the political, social, economic, and so on.

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science published a special issue on The Globalization of Class Actions in March 2009.