Sentences with phrase «certain cultural group»

That being said, no one can deny that people of a certain cultural group will always bring something unique to the... Continue reading →

I refer to «suspected» here because consanguineous unions are more common in certain regions of the world (e.g. the Middle East) or among certain cultural groups (e.g. Amish, Mennonite, and Ashkenzi Jewish).

Despite multigenerational living being more prevalent amongst certain cultural groups, the numbers are trending amongst all ethnicities, races and ages, according to Pew's research.

Not exact matches

That particular ethnic groups are linked in larger religious groups, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant, and that the religious groups share certain common symbols is undoubtedly an important element in whatever cultural unity and universality exists in America.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

All cultural and philosophically aligned groups expect a certain amount of assimilation from its members.

It's a conversation that I believe reflects a shift in the wider cultural debate — at least in certain groups.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

The senior author of the study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.

Once a certain idea or stance becomes associated with a group we belong to (part of what Kahan calls a cultural identity), we become more inclined to adopt that position; it's a way to show that we belong.

While there are differences between certain Slavic nations (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, etc) and western nations (Americans, Australians, Brits, etc), there is a prevalent cultural paradigm in every group.

A fashion house can thus establish its cultural relevance and demonstrate its affiliation to a certain group of customers while attracting new clients — those who would love to associate themselves with a more refined social group.

Holding certain beliefs is a condition of belonging to cultural groups.

Subsistence whaling, which the IWC allows for certain aboriginal groups for cultural or nutritional reasons, yields roughly 350 whales per year.

«They had an incredible burst of popularity among a certain economic group and, after their cultural moment, became an object of ridicule.»

They gather information on human groups and determine what their cultural roles were in days of long ago and also find out information about a certain group's customs and rituals.

The Human Rights Committee confirms that specific cultural rights held by a certain group are «conferred on individuals belonging to minority groups and [are]... distinct from, and additional to, all the other rights which, as individuals in common with everyone else, they are already entitled to enjoy under the Covenant [of Civil and Political Rights]», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 1.

Two categories of non-discriminatory differentiation protected within a human rights framework are the right to express one's cultural identity, referred to variously as minority rights or cultural rights [109], and the provision of measures by governments to facilitate the advancement of members of certain racial groups who historically have been disadvantaged by discriminatory policies.

The Geneva Convention defines it as acknowledging that every child has certain basic rights, including the right to life, his or her own name and identity, to be raised by his or her parents within a family or cultural grouping and have a relationship with both parents, even if that means they live in two different households.

States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

An understudied yet crucial source of measurement variance within observational tools is whether the «gold standard» ratings that account for whether a trained rater passes certification of reliability has cultural biases that would unfairly privilege some groups of people with certain cultural vantage points over others.

In addition, there are also certain circumstances where it is appropriate to recognise the distinct cultural characteristics of particular groups, especially minorities.