Sentences with phrase «by social discourses»

Time is the faucetted barrier whereupon Life does endure its feebleness breeding sources left to the aloneness of fertileness regularisms fettered or chained up by social discourses.

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In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy paulist press, 216 pages, $ 10.95 The Ethics of Discourse: The Social Philosophy of John Courtney Murray by j. leon hooper georgetown university press, 283 pages, $ 17.95 William Lee....
Some of the insights provided by the first phase of liberation theology seem too important to let slip between the cracks — for instance, the centrality of the category «the poor» for biblical interpretation; the awareness of structural, not just individual, evil; the use of the social sciences as dialogue partner for theological discourse; and the need to apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to theology itself.
To the contrary, the discourse is about the activities of the state or about legislated norms by which all social action will be governed.
As a derivation from the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity, the specific practice of moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a principle that constitutes social action universally.
The religious right, most recently through the extremely dangerous «Tea Party,» have hi - jacked what SHOULD be logical public discourse or social programs, and turned them in to a Bible fight by claiming, incorrectly, that this is a Christian nation, and that we should be legislating the Bible.
In this sense, one of the greatest present dangers to responsible moral discourse in social ethics is, I think, «moralism» and unrestrained idealism, which frequently operate to overcome these harsh realities I have described by attacking them — or worse, by simply ignoring them.
Mission for a congregation means the crossing over of the boundaries of its cultural matrix into a world where the congregation's household webs of significance no longer obtain and the household is threatened by different discourses, stories, and social forces.
In practical terms these claims are challenged both by the rapid recent development of democracy and human rights in several East Asian societies and by social activist and scholarly discourses which challenge these claims directly.
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).
With the usual few years of delay, the Italian left seemed on the path to modernize its political discourse along the lines already taken by New Labour in Britain or the Social Democrat's Agenda 2010 in Germany.
There have also been allegations by MPs in favour of air strikes of abuse and intimidation on social media — but since this seems to be the preferred style of social media discourse perhaps too much should not be made of this.
Hogan has always limited his public discourse to Maryland issues and ran on a strictly fiscal policy issue, and not making any moves against social policies that were enacted by the previous administration).
Osborne's forecasts of continued austerity in the next parliament, a media and public discourse which continues to harden public opinion against claimants, and an ongoing failure to fix underlying causes of social security spend — by building houses and creating well - paying jobs — all mean that our social security system is heading in the direction of much more short - termism.
The linguist Noam Chomsky, the most famous living scientist by some measures, has also repeatedly criticized social media for reducing serious public discourse to, well, 140 characters.
A team of social and political scientists measured this increase in public discourse by tallying the number of social media posts on these topics in the week after the articles» publication.
FWI is an independent nonprofit research organization that advances the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems.
Within our field we have also seen the emergence of national and state standards (including most recently the C3 Framework sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies, 2013) and the rise of accountability discourse and high stakes testing.
My dissertation explores this convergence and shows (1) how schoolgirl pregnancy has come to be understood and constituted as a social problem by a range of actors and (2) how discourses on, and policies related to, pregnant students shape the possibilities for young women's wellbeing and schooling experiences.
Emphasis was placed on the current science landscape and how it supports and overlaps student learning in math, ELA, and social studies by examining the skills of engaging in argument from evidence and supporting student discourse in the classroom in each of these content areas.
By studying the Twitter conversation surrounding the Common Core, we shed light on the ways that social media - enabled social networks are influencing the political discourse that, in turn, produces public policy.
By examining HRE through a historical trajectory, the course engages with current debates on HRE and its contribution to discourse on social justice and education.
As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.
Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism.
Curated by Christine Eyene, this exhibition takes on the rhetoric of the importance of art «now more than ever», a discourse that gained currency on social media in the face of the crisis of humanism, to examine the relationship between the sociopolitical and aesthetics.
While the field of social practice has had an increasingly high profile within contemporary art discourse, this book documents artists who have been under - recognized because they do not show in traditional gallery or museum contexts and are often studied by specialists in other disciplines, particularly within the Latin American context.
Having personally labelled his creative practice as «Black Dada», the post-war influences can be seen spread throughout the gallery; photography and excerpts from public speeches are carefully layered to create an installation which both unifies and recontexualises individual elements, inviting a new discourse influenced by existing social structures and iconography.
In it, Steinberg declared that by inventing what he dubbed the «flatbed picture plane,» Rauschenberg derived a «pictorial surface that let the world in again» — a bold and profound claim from an art historian who had upon their emergence in the 1950s loudly decried the Combines.2 Implicitly contrasting Rauschenberg's achievement with the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Steinberg claims for Rauschenberg not simply a great formal advancement, but one that forced a shift in the discourse of visual art to include once more the social world.
By recording and documenting those on the edges, or outside of the mainstream, the images in Another Kind of Life bear witness to how social attitudes change across time and space, charting how visual representation has helped shape current discourse in relation to marginalised or alternative communities.
The gallery fosters an active discourse between the contemporary South Asian arts and the international art community by featuring exhibitions that can contextualize contemporary art from this geographic region within its rich artist traditions and current social tensions.
By synthesizing and fusing genres from a multitude of extant cultural sources, the works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.
Carrying forward the discourses that have shaped the social and cultural impact of HIV / AIDS in New Zealand, this reprise of that exhibition powerfully comingles historical documents, a selection of work by artists included in the original show, and additional work by contemporary New Zealand artists offering deliberations on desire and loss.
Described by the gallery as a «significant figure in the discourse around abstract painting, conceptual art, and identity politics, Pindell has explored the potential for abstract painting and process - based practices to address social issues throughout her career.»
Social - justice scholar Dr. Robin DiAngelo has coined the term «white fragility» to describe a phenomenon whereby white individuals who are conscious of racism and motivated by good intentions nonetheless impose themselves within a dialogue on race in overbearing ways, so threatened is their sense of centrality by a discourse that does not rely on them to exist.
Informed by feminist discourse, alternative approaches to portraiture, secular and religious ideas of the sacred, and African - American devotional and protest traditions, Thomas considers themes of social justice, female subjectivity, current events and the shifting tides of history.
The curator's inclusion of Motherwell's citation of Harold Rosenberg's excerpt from his 1952 «The American Action Painters» essay in a work on paper is a nod to their relationship, but it also calls to mind that historically, Motherwell's work, like that of his New York School colleagues, was placed within a discourse that was either existential or formal — devoid of social and political contexts — by prominent critics Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.
A new campaign launched by the Child Rescue Coalition is hoping to take advantage of the public discourse surrounding privacy to alert parents to the risks of posting pictures of their children on social media, as these too can be compromised.
«Doing Well by Talking Good: A Topic Modelling - Assisted Discourse Study of Corporate Social Responsibility.»
I then mapped out the discursive strategies used by these news sources and the ideological basis of the narratives propagated through discourse coalitions that permeate the Field of Power which encompasses the political, economic, academic, media and think tanks social fields.
Though social scientists have productively engaged and published on this issue (as evident by the Washington Geoengineering Consortium's existence), their contribution to the policy discourse and public discussions can often be marginalized.
Therefore, misinformation about the law will be increasingly rooted in the social discourse of live - blogging, as it meets the radical grounds for confirmation bias laid by the Internet.
Parents completed the questionnaire and may be influenced by social desirability bias given the increasing role of social media in shaping community perceptions and public discourse on obesity.
In relation to parenting styles, evidence that the maturation of EF during early childhood is positively correlated with maternal scaffolding (e.g., Landry et al., 2002) is consistent with the notion that children learn self - regulation and many other aspects of EF by internalizing skills that are conveyed through social discourse (i.e., routines, symbolic systems, and other cultural tools), especially skills that are verbally coded (Vygotsky, 1978).
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