Sentences with phrase «as social constructs»

«These data suggest that the interplay between race and ethnicity as social constructs and genetic ancestry as a biological construct is more complex than we had realized,» said Noah Zaitlen, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor of medicine and co-senior author on the new study.

Many today see «marriage» as a social construct that we can reshape as we wish.

One can argue for the use of race as a social construct, but in that case, skin colour has as much to do with it as shoe size.

The last reading, by Buroway, treats the idea of «pure» social science as a social construct, arguing instead for a public sociology that ultimately improves social life.

By relying largely on appropriated imagery and treating the self as a social construct, these artists challenge «the official rhetoric of both our old metaphysical tradition and our new con - sumerist society.»

Artists were asked to examine the bench as a social construct, challenging ideas around parks and communal places and how communities co-exist within these spaces.

An army of beautiful monsters are the fable of the artist and his surroundings: the embryonic sexuality of nature as the social construct of identity -?

Heidrun Holzfeind uses photography, documentary video and sculpture to explore individual and collective narratives that reveal the concept of identity as a social construct dependent on cultural and socio - economical circumstances.

Cindy Sherman's explorations of femininity as a social construct are profoundly influential and sit atop the contemporary art canon.

Equally, the exhibition gives rise to thoughts of home as a social construct, idea or state of mind.

Using costume, photography and film, Gutierrez produces elaborate narratives scenes that employ pop culture tropes that reveals identity as a social construct.

For myself, color is the way to become specific about black, i.e., black as skin, as a social construct, and as real experience.

Dismissing the models as a social construct does her argument no favour and casts doubt on her ability to understand the caveats and uncertainties inherent in global warming models.

«in which Malcolm Roberts uses «The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct» to make a point about climate change & Sinodinos cracks the shits,» Twitter post by user @JoshButler, May 31, 2017.

However, love can be conceptualized as a social construct that varies between individuals because cultural norms and values as well as early childhood experiences have a great impact on the meaning individuals ascribe to romantic love (Jackson, Chen, Guo, & Gao, 2006).

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«We've created this social construct where your working life ends at 65 and retirement begins,» says Sinha, whose own parents are both still working as physicians — by choice, not financial necessity — in their 70s.

While traditional influences remain strong, overtime and as younger generations grow into leadership, social constructs and social models of behavior will become more prevalent.

Innovative organizations are constructing social business experiences around the network of customers who are and view themselves simultaneously as users, buyers, influencers, and social participants.

As it seeks to apply this voluntarism to marriage and family, which are not mere social constructs but are firmly anchored in God's creation, we may see liberalism at last reaching a breaking point.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

• The interpretation of «gender» exclusively as a «social construct.»

This rejection of nature is manifest in the now orthodox distinction between sex, which is «merely biological,» and gender, defined as a construct either of oppressive social norms or of the free, self - defining subject — one often finds protagonists of this revolution oscillating back and forth between those polar extremes.

We are prone to be over-determined by circumstances, social location and identities that are secularly constructed and never able to give a full account of who we are as imago dei or an account of the journey of faith we are traveling.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

«Language,» says Claude Levi - Strauss, «is a social phenomenon» and it «lives and develops only as a collective construct.»

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

You think that it is possible to talk meaningfully about «good and evil» «right and wrong» when criticizing the sins of Christians while simultaneously subscribing to the notion that neither sin nor good and evil exist as ultimate categories but only as personal and social constructs.

The role of the woman as a mother and spouse and her very nature as a woman would be nothing more than a social construct: «one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman,» said Simone de Beauvoir.

There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change language or to castigate parents for bringing up children as male or female, as if the structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to human biology and were just a social construct of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary» language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse language to suit a particular theory.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

I am thinking also of the many recent theologies that have closely followed a psychological and social - scientific paradigm according to which culture is interpreted primarily as a human construct without any reference to the cosmic roots of human creativity.

Then there are those, far more interesting, who think of God as, at best, a construct of the social psyche.

If gender is a pure social construction, then all social representation of sexuality appears as constructed, acquired, and artificial.

In this brave new world, the family — the institution on which our social order rests — is being redefined as a socially constructed unit, constituted by our sovereign will, not by nature itself.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

(If you want to get technical I would question your belief that giving birth alone as being «nuts», as insane behaviors or attitudes are typically social constructs.)

The importance of marriage today as a social and legal construct for adult relationships has produced entrenched categories that define who we are and limit our imagination.

Instead of viewing mothering as a service they willingly give their children, they view it as a social identity that they construct for themselves, boosting their own egos in the process.

It's hard to navigate the social constructs that dictate whether our child should be treated as a boy or a girl simply based on appearance or external genitalia.

Academic research is curiosity driven, not market driven, and responds to the search for knowledge and understanding in areas as diverse as health, culture, social constructs, astronomy, education, economics, particle physics... a list of topics as diverse as the human imagination.

In the first place, no environment is static, and the notion of balance is, as Barnes notes, «a social construct, scientifically tough to defend.»

Another challenge is confronting the tendency to identify complex social constructs, such as morality, with specific brain regions.

That's also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society's scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu.

As a woman in a man's industry, I have learned so much about myself over the past two years... and I have learned far more about men, and the social constructs that older men grew up with and continue to blindly follow.

plays out as an absurdist chamber piece: a single - location thriller constructed out of tightly - observed social interactions.

As expected, Linklater's penchant for the themes of alienated characters and the social constructs of America are also explored and how he effortlessly evolves through his work while working diversely between Independent and bigger productions.

However, the conception of reception Fujiki is considering is one constructed as a social category by intellectuals affiliated with the government.

Based on J.G. Ballard's novel of the same name, High - Rise stars Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Lang, a newcomer to a recently constructed complex in which the residents are stratified by social class.