Sentences with phrase «by cultural patterns»

We should know by now that almost every major technology introduced in the name of expanded personal choice sooner or later is overtaken by cultural patterns and practices that finally shape everyone's behavior, whittling away almost to nothing the range of the choice.

Human activity is always shaped by cultural patterns and social structures.

Modes of religious experience are... shaped by cultural patterns.

Not exact matches

In this article, Kass declares himself rather pessimistic about the prospects of rebuilding cultural patterns that have been undermined by dynamics so deep and pervasive.

When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

In part, these are reflected in denominational divisions, but many of the differences are cultural or to do with church order or caused by political influence, or they reflect different temperaments and patterns of worship.

However, if one chooses to regard it as a sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced by his damaged personality as well as by cultural pressures.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

We shall explore the congregation as we might a village, trying to learn the particular cultural patterns by which it attempts to make itself whole, but also finding within it forms by which other groups in the world coalesce, disintegrate, and yet manifest the gospel.

By social systems is meant the sum total of all humanly developed knowledge, cultural patterns, institutions, values, and goals.

Each awakening has occurred during a period of profound cultural disorientation, when the whole cultural system was jarred by disjunctions between old beliefs and new realities, past norms and present experience, dying patterns and emerging patterns of behavior.

We can illustrate the political implications of this cultural shift by examining the transitions in voting patterns of the major religious traditions between 1960 and 1992.

Many of the cultural patterns of the present day are due to this great governor whose name is still revered by the people of Yunnan.

We can learn a great deal about today «s religious response to the cultural situation by understanding the pattern followed in previous awakenings.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

This massive cultural transformation, called by some the rise of the postmodern era, has transformed everything: travel and tourism, reading, the «high arts,» popular arts, health care, gender roles, the places where «wisdom» is deposited and sought, the relation of religion to the state, family continuity, sexuality, patterns of physical activity.

A more provocative interpretation is that Binoche's words help explain a world shaped and formed by political power, and how moral demands have followed this pattern, thus becoming the real business of cultural map - making.

Piety is further structured by the policy it adopts regarding its relation to its host society: Will piety «resist the social and cultural patterns of its civilizational environment» or will it «recognize structures in the social and cultural environment with which it can work...?»

This «American pattern» of exuberant Protestant denominationalism, separate from the state but forming almost a cultural establishment, was brought to Brazil specifically by sectors marked by two recent historical experiences: the colonization of the American frontier and Southern slavery.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

They inspire awe and cultural lore, and directly influence the patterns of settlement and movement by humans and wildlife.

But the research also raises the possibility that by 24 months, infants» attention may already be shaped subtly by the attentional patterns characteristic of adults in their cultural communities.

«There is already reason to suspect that infants» attention to objects and events in dynamic scenes might already be influenced by cultural - specific patterns of attention,» said the study's lead author Sandra Waxman, the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and faculty fellow in the University's Institute for Policy Research.

Having said that, there are obvious differences in buying patterns as dictated by cultural and other factors and these become parameters to guide our buys.

The authors also point out that sustained programs of professional development and support are required «if the substantial rewards promised by the research evidence are to be secured,» so that each teacher can «find his or her own ways of incorporating [feedback] into his or her own patterns of classroom work and into the cultural norms and expectations of a particular school community.»

It can also transmit cultural capital by teaching children the specific behaviors, patterns of speech, and cultural references that are valued by the educational and professional elite.

Teacher candidates may be surprised to realize that patterns of error in English can be explained (and perhaps more effectively addressed) by understanding the logic of the student's native language and some of their cultural experiences, as well as the frustrations an ELL student might be facing.

The novel — which was serialized upon its original publication in Japan, and has been ably translated by Julie Winters Carpenter — encompasses generations and continents, and Mizumura's unfussy prose draws clear pictures of the various shifting cultural patterns and behaviors.

As well as this cultural beauty you can also enjoy the incredible physical beauty of the north east coast of Bali which offers all of the Balinese themes of countryside from towering volcanoes and mountains covered with rainforest and jungle down across the hills where memorizing patterns are carved into the landscape by the rice paddies and then coconut groves and other plantations lead up to the black and white sand beaches where there is crystal clear water which is flat over the coral reefs which are home to all kinds of unreal wildlife.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Mixed Greens» enterprising group exhibition «Common Thread,» on view through August 28, positions a 1973 Bauhaus grid study by Anni Albers and Ellen Lesperance's 2009 grid - based gouache deconstruction of her pre-Josef Albers sweater pattern as aesthetic and cultural springboards for work by nine contemporary female artists.

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

The work of the British artist Chris Ofili is characterized by rhythmic patterning of painterly and cultural elements.

Yücelen, being a Turkish - American, is inspired by her cultural history and creates these dresses as a reference to the clothing patterns of Europe and Anatolia during the era of the Ottoman Empire, building a body of work with vital historical importance.

Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting (tin - glazed pottery that originated during the Renaissance), Devers maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural influence as an American artist working in Mexico and Italy.

Seems to me that the basic principles of motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, cultural cognition, group - think, etc., illustrate how these patterns in how people reason apply w / o differentiation by ideological orientation.

But there are specific factors that can lead to this problem in a romantic relationship, including personal attitudes, patterns passed on by your own parents, and even cultural expectations.

Although multigenerational households are culturally acceptable in black communities24 and are often beneficial to mothers and their children, 25 tensions are common as mothers and grandmothers struggle to define their roles in caregiving activities, such as feeding.24, 26 — 29 Grandmothers play important roles in infant feeding decisions, particularly related to the early introduction of complementary foods.21 Thus, interventions aimed at shifting cultural patterns of early complementary feeding have to go beyond the provision of information regarding the type and timing of complementary foods for infants, as proposed by the AAP, WIC, and WHO guidelines.