Sentences with phrase «as cultural norms»

Divorce law is different from state to state and is in flux as cultural norms change.

These barriers can be due to race and gender based stereotypes and well as cultural norms.

Now that reputation is changing as cultural norms about post-secondary education start to shift.

For decades, community colleges got a bad rap as a second - class education meant for those who couldn't afford or who couldn't meet the high academic requirements of more traditional universities.Now that reputation is changing as cultural norms about post-secondary education start to shift.

Controlling for possible confounding variables such as cultural norms and attitudes did not affect the results.

Up to 30 percent of household food ends in the bin, often due to factors such as cultural norms that prescribe offering plenty of food to guests, misperceptions about food safety and exaggerated disgust.

Not only is there a huge social push away from this type of breastfeeding, but even finding women who are exclusively breastfeeding at six months is difficult as our cultural norms are so very far from our biological norms.

In fact, researchers found that many young men today «seemed to desire or to enact very different scripts than those they cited as cultural norms.»

They are a global network that works to promote breastfeeding as a cultural norm and to encourage all mothers to breastfeed.

Cadwell, Karin & Cindy Turner - Maffei RECLAIMING BREASTFEEDING FOR THE UNITED STATES Jones and Bartlett, 2002 This book provides an international policy perspective on the progress that has been made toward reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm in the United States.

Members Support the Organizational Mission: To protect, promote and support breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

As a condition of membership in the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition, you agree to support the mission of the Coalition to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

With your help, the Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition will help to facilitate community and statewide efforts to protect, support and promote breastfeeding as the cultural norm across the Commonwealth.

Promote breastfeeding as a cultural norm and encourage family and societal support for breastfeeding.

Lange argues that we need public spaces to change before free - range parenting can become a realistic goal for all families, as well as a cultural norm.

Negative talk about people as a cultural norm spells a low level of trust and collaboration.

I was so concerned with not being what I saw as the cultural norm of the pushy, bossy wife that I made it clear to my husband when we got married 4 years ago that I wanted us to work together on home decor.

Not exact matches

The guiding principles are that the Community Standards should reflect the cultural norms of our community, that each person should see as little objectionable content as possible, and each person should be able to share what they want while being told they can not share something as little as possible.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

In this article, the style of social interaction known as hygge is analyzed as being related to cultural values that idealize the notion of «inner space» and to other egalitarian norms of everyday life in Scandinavian societies.

This precious metal carries an important cultural norm over in India, as the value of each family is often determined by the amount of gold that they possess, in the region.

This remains a very common interpretation even today — quite likely as an attempt to make the biblical custom seem less harsh in comparison to contemporary cultural and legal norms.

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As society's understanding of mental health is starting to take some slow, lurching steps toward progress, Plaza seems uniquely poised for a new cultural norm: One in which the broad spectrum of mental and emotional health is more fairly and accurately represented.

The prevailing cultural norm across the globe is not only to excuse males who objectify women but to also celebrate such conduct as if it exemplifies true masculinity.

Anyone failing to acknowledge the lives of early believers as set apart from the cultural norms surrounding does not comprehend their new birth transformation nor Acts 2 - 29.

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

I try to view the texts in as much of the context (including literary devices, ancient languages, cultural norms of the times) as I possibly can.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

Cherry isn't calling for a restoration of first - century cultural norms, such as women covering their hair in worship, or a rigid dress code.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

How do we continue to relate to Scripture as inspired and authoritative, even when it reflects these (and other) cultural norms that no longer apply today?

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.

I see a pretty strong case that Scripture addresses first and second century cultural norms and implies a continued progression toward equality while some see the restrictions placed on women as timeless.

The misunderstanding about Catholics and their relationship with Mary is unfortunate because Mary as model offers much to the women CURE serves» women often gravely oppressed by cultural norms.

Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

And as far as formula feeding being the «cultural norm»... well, this just really chapped my hide.

Offering your baby meat as a first food can be intimidating or feel weird — it's just not the cultural norm.

Also, even if America is overly puritanical about the human body, don't we, as a culture, have a right to have those cultural norms?

The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends that breastfeeding continue throughout the first year of life and that «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

«As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

Baby beds are commonly used in countries affected by modernization, employed by the majority of parents as a substitute to sharing a bed or due to social and cultural norms.

Pamela Morrison's interest in HIV and breastfeeding arose from having worked as a private practice IBCLC in a country where HIV - prevalence amongst pregnant women reached 25 %, yet breastfeeding was both the cultural norm and a cornerstone of child survival.

Though the family bed, or co-sleeping, is still the cultural norm in other parts of the world, it is not something that is seen as a normal practice in the United States, despite the fact that many families choose some form of co-sleeping for themselves.

For the record, the American Academy of Family Physicians has said: «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

In global terms, breastfeeding is normal, whereas because only 8 % of the world's babies are born in countries where bottle - feeding is the cultural norm [10] some might describe bottle - feeding as a «traditional harmful practice of the minority,» as set out in the Innocenti Declaration [11].

Cultural tradition: As previously stated, throughout most of human history, home birth has been considered the norm and it remains the norm in many different cultures across the globe.

These authors talk about bedsharing as the cultural and physiological norm for human infants, particularly in the context of breastfeeding.

It can be sometimes hard to judge if a parent is really permissive or not because depending on cultural norms what is considered as permissive can vary significantly.