Sentences with phrase «cultural theory from»

Kawinzi holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Hunter College.

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The recent work of German sociologist Jurgen Habermas, in which questions about the formal characteristics of social systems in general and the dynamics of the lifeworld are the focus, exhibits a clear preference for deductive theory of a prescriptive sort.13 Habermas has drawn eclectically from modernization theory and Marxism to create what he calls a reconstructive model of cultural evolution.

Ginzberg learned this stage theory of cultural development from the French philosopher August Comte, the father of positivism.

I myself would prefer to speak of natural law grounding human rights (this is perhaps the only misstep in the book); but in any event his wider point is no doubt correct that only a theory of natural law can rescue the campaign for human rights from being anything more than disguised power politics or cultural imperialism.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

This reading practice, offering a purchase on literature to anyone who wanted one, receded in the 1970s as pedagogues turned from New Criticism to Big Theory, and further in the 1990s as poetry and novels lost prestige and young people no longer aspired to read them closely for cultural capital.

In providing an Archimedes point from which to view the major contours of an entire cultural epoch, however, such theories can be enormously useful.

It is, of course, necessary to recognize that such theories depend to a great extent on the kinds of values and presuppositions built into the larger cultural environment from which they emerge.

What we have seen from his theory thus far is that he clearly saw cultural movement not simply conditioned by technology, but determined by it.

But if we move out of the global economy into the cultural influence, globalization theory suffers from the Narcissism McLuhan disdained.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

Postmodernism adopted ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is relative and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer.

The EES has gotten pushback from many biologists who think that things like cultural evolution and niche construction are already accounted for in evolutionary theory, and that therefore the EES is unnecessary.

A lot of our cultural anxiety about masturbation stems from 18th century theories, when the myths about illness and degeneration were first inscribed in advertising pamphlets parading as medical studies.

Objections regarding the idea of universalism have not been raised only from relativist philosophers but also from social scientists and governmental representatives in international conferences such as the Vienna's Conference in 1993 where the issues of culture and women rights within the frame of the two theories (cultural relativism and universalism) were discussed (Sciolino, 1993).

Changing the cultural norm from uniformity to pluralism would engage with theory, practice, and political compromise, to be sure.

The usefulness of memorized bits of wisdom that are stored away and used at later times, when they are better understood in the light of lived experience, has been fully supported by developmental theories ranging from the social - cultural to the biological.

We used a conceptual framework, derived from socio - cultural learning theory, to help us identify and understand central office administrators» practices in the PPLCs.

Like some other articles and cultural theories by Stuart Hall, it encourages critical eyes and mind to think about where «meaning «comes from in everyday life.Knowledge or meaning is represented and manipulated by power and interest.

The hotel location within walking distance from Catedral de la Merced cathedral, Ermita de la Soledad hermitage, and the so - called Columbus sites (where Columbus exchanged ideas and explored competing theories, before setting on his voyage to discover America), makes Monte Conquero the ideal place to stay for those who want to visit Huelva cultural sites.

Art historian Thomas Crow's book No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art turns away from contemporary cultural theories to address a blind spot in today's art historical inquiry: religion.

She continues: «Critical theories about cultural production, about aesthetics, continue to confine and restrict black artists, and passive withdrawal from a discussion of aesthetics is a useless response -LSB-...] Black artists concerned with producing work that embodies and reflects a liberatory politic know that an important part of any decolonization process is critical intervention and interrogation of existing repressive and dominating structures.»

Originally from Canada, she received a BA in Cultural Theory and History from the University of King's College, Halifax.

Her wide - ranging interests in American art and visual culture are reflected in the breadth of her publications, including Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991, which received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), Twentieth - Century American Art (2002), The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials (2008), Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (2010), and American Art of the 20th - 21st Centuries (2017).

In her expansive world view, the personal becomes the cultural, becomes a refractory mirror of the time we live in with all its nuts and bolts of coding, iterations, simulations, information theory, feedback loops, and the transition from orderly states to disorderly ones.

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

From 1998 to 2007, he was a professor of Aesthetic Theory / Cultural Studies at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.

Pollasch holds a MA in Modern art History and Theory and an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Roberta Smith, who in 1993 wrote for the New York Times Weekend in Review, «This exhibition exemplifies what seems to have become the New Museum's house style: a display of rather antiseptic, Conceptual - based artworks organized around a theme that is top - heavy with theory» continues to review the museum's exhibitions; Palestine remains under occupation; and while the cultural perception of AIDS has changed, from «gay cancer» to an African epidemic, the disease rages on world - wide.

Guided by these questions, this exploratory seminar will survey and examine creative uses, definitions, and theories of the diagram from the early modern period to the present, with emphasis on cultural production in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, a collaborative project between grunt gallery and the Belkin Art Gallery that I co-organized with Shelly Rosenblum, aimed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of artists, curators, writers, educators, scholars, students and activists to explore the embodied theory of Indigenous resurgence and cultural representation — from the perspectives of their own disciplines and one another's.

The resulting volume (to be released in fall 2017) offers a resource for students, scholars, or any engaged reader, to consider dominant threads in aesthetic theory along side related works of art, including selections from structuralist and post-structuralist explorations of representation, to German media theory, the study of cultural techniques, and the still - burgeoning realm of new media theory, together offering a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the world of images, and a sense of how those approaches have evolved over time.

Roc Laseca holds a PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Prospective, and is trained at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the International Semiotics Institute in Helsinki and Universidad de La Laguna, where he was a faculty researcher from 2006 to 2011.

I was particularly keen for this to be a cross - disciplinary conversation, as I work very much in that way, drawing on a mix of resources from sociology, anthropology and geography to political and cultural theory, to inform my artistic practice.

Traversing theoretical and practice - based inquiry in my artistic research, I use theories from the transdisciplinary WGS field to examine hidden dynamics informing relationships between individuals, as well as between the individual and society, exploring how cultural pillars of identity are activated.

Expressions of interest are invited from individuals working in the following fields: • Pervasive and location based gaming and interactive media • The use of mobile and portable devices in cultural and artistic practice • Games design and theory • Interdisciplinary and live art practice

Until recently Professor of Art History, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the Advanced Institute of the Arts of Toulouse, France, Morad Montazami has a Masters degree In English literature and civilisation (LLCE) from the University of Nanterre, Paris and is about to complete his PhD in History and Theory of Art at the École des hautes études en science sociales (EHESS).

Dimitrijević holds an MA degree in History and Theory of Art from the University of Kent (UK) and has received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies from the University of Arts in Belgrade with the thesis entitled «Utopian Consumerism — Emergence and Incongruities of Consumer Culture in Socialist Yugoslavia».

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate epidemics, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming the Germ Theory of Disease is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

But, now that social scientists have started to count bodies in different historical periods, they have discovered that the romantic theory gets it backward: Far from causing us to become more violent, something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler.

His theory, outlined as an afterthought in The Selfish Gene, was that ideas, or «units of cultural information» are transmitted from host to host in a process that is analogous to genetics.

In her Ph.D. research, Rebecca is working towards an understanding of what insights from the field of critical studies and cultural theory of girls studies can bring to law and legal studies.

Delving into post-structuralism led to a PhD in cultural studies with an emphasis on feminist theory from the University of California at Davis.

It magically combines, theory, science, clinical illustration, personal revelation, anecdote, apposite quotation, allusions from the literary canon, and social and cultural wisdom.

At the Bloomington Center for Connection, we apply the lens of Relational - Cultural Theory to all of our interventions, from community - building groups to family therapy.

The «practice of mental health counseling» is defined as the use of scientific and applied behavioral science theories, methods, and techniques for the purpose of describing, preventing, and treating undesired behavior and enhancing mental health and human development and is based on the person - in - situation perspectives derived from research and theory in personality, family, group, and organizational dynamics and development, career planning, cultural diversity, human growth and development, human sexuality, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.

The contributors, from a range of therapeutic and cultural backgrounds, demonstrate core theory and practice, and explore the implications of current neuroscientific research.