Sentences with phrase «complex social constructs»
Another challenge is confronting the tendency to identify complex social constructs, such as morality, with specific brain regions.
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«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.
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.
In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.
In a society constructed on the rule of law, we have a touchingly misplaced confidence that complex social issues can be legislated out of existence («there oughta be a law about it»).
On Thursday nights, a mini-carnival called the Carubbian Festival draws visitors to the sunrise side of the island, and JADS Dive Centre has constructed a new beach bar / eatery call the Rum Reef on the town's Baby Beach (they are also busy turning the old Esso Social Club into a waterfront dining and entertainment complex there).
Constructed from found objects, his complex collage - drawings intimately challenge greed, obsessive consumption, and the social stratification of American culture.
In Temporarily Disconnected, artists — Ma'ayan Amir & Ruti Sela, Jannicke Låker, Erik van Lieshout, and Julika Rudelius — construct and enter into complex situations filled with social anxiety and cultural tension in their video works.
As with the collages, the roles of gender, sexuality, identity, race, and agency reflect a complex intersectionality that sheds light on how these social constructs are navigated in today's society.
Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture — among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at White Columns, New York.
In writing that is rich in detail, strong in analysis and informed by their research experience they argue for a deeper appreciation of the creativity inherent in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in contemporary Australia.