Sentences with phrase «common cultural patterns»

Not exact matches

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

Traditional tundra societies are more likely to share cultural patterns with each other than with tropical rain forest societies, regardless of whether some descended from a common ancestral culture.

But unlike scenarios in which men protect women, these less - common instances in which men must protect or rescue other men don't represent a significant pattern and don't reinforce pre-existing cultural attitudes about men, women and gender.

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.

He is clueless on the concept of «the tragedy of the commons» and «collective action problems» He is simply doing rhetoric as part of a general cultural preference for existing patterns of conusmption.

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.