Sentences with phrase «complex social culture»

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It is nonetheless a worthwhile and extremely readable book and will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the often complex social effects of our contraceptive culture.

Yet it depended on selective attention to the social ills in the United States and ignorance of the complex relations between religion and culture in other parts of the world.

It was not until somewhere between eight to five thousand years ago that this tribal existence gradually gave way in certain regions to broader and more complex social arrangements that eventually led to the great civilizations, nations and cultures of more recent times.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

When President Bush talks of a «kinder and gentler» America, he is hearkening back to that complex hierarchy of social, moral and intellectual values and symbols that were once very powerful in this culture, particularly in the churches.

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

A culture begins to get unhealthy when its members no longer have the capacity to recognize the complex nature of social issues, politics or biblical interpretations.

Pastors today are thrown into a complex social environment of colliding cultures, multiple ideologies and in competing demands.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

The problem persists because the challenge of clean water ties into complex political and social issues: culture, economics, science, emotion, ideology.

In a synthesis of social science and natural science, Ball examines the evolution of complex human systems — markets, cultures, governments, and the like — using principles of physics.

«We expected to find similar trends across all primate radiations — that is, that the faces of highly social species would have more complex patterning,» said Santana, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and who is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington and curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Chimps have complex social lives, play power politics, betray and murder each other, make tools, and teach tool use across generations in a way that qualifies as culture.

Striking sex and regional differences in the increase of obesity - related T2DM prevalence developed throughout the last 3 decades, reflecting complex relationships with differences in ethnicity, migration, culture, lifestyle, gene - environment interactions, socioeconomic status (SES) and social roles (12).

Among those skills: the social and emotional ability to understand and work with people from diverse cultures; the creativity to develop sustainable solutions to complex problems; and a sense of confidence that individuals can (and are obligated to) make a...

With many groundbreaking publications to his credit, he has analyzed the cultures, languages, and texts of urban youth, using quantitative, critical literary, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods to answer complex questions at the center of equity and social justice in education.

It is difficult for them to investigate complex issues of race, culture, social class, and language diversity.

The complex School Quality Improvement Index gives a score that is 60 percent based on academics and 40 percent based on social, emotional and culture - climate factors.

Ward re-contextualizes these found objects in thought - provoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings to confront social and political issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

Rooted in architecture and sculpture, Michael Rakowitz's research - based practice commonly employs references to archaeology, popular culture and science fiction to humorously tease open the complex social, political and cultural relationships between the East and West.

Kurant's research - based practice explores how complex social, economic and cultural systems can operate in ways that confuse distinctions between fiction and reality or nature and culture.

Marshall paints large, allegorical, allusive paintings invigorated by a complex conceptual weave of personal and social history, African American popular culture, African diasporan folk material, and a refreshing sense of awe and challenge in the face of Western painting's daunting historical legacy.

In total, they've gifted the museum at least forty works from their collection, which according to the institution, will help it to showcase LGBTQ culture and address the complex social and political history surrounding the representation of men.

Constructed from found objects, his complex collage - drawings intimately challenge greed, obsessive consumption, and the social stratification of American culture.

While nature, relative proximity to the city, space, and affordability may be the most obvious appeals of the Catskills, what the area also offers is that complex dynamic between town and country — a chance to measure how urban notions of culture fit within the rural setting, and the kinds of esthetic, social, and political navigations that artists make in dealing with the land and its people.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens, Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories,» states the Contemporary Arts Center.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories.

Through shared processes of documentation and archiving, the artists address culture as a form of representation in order to examine complex issues of social & political structures.

Conceptual interdisciplinary artist, Agnieszka Kurant explores how complex social, economic and cultural systems can operate in ways that confuse distinctions between fiction and reality or nature and culture.

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.

Rodney McMillian has a complex artistic practice that embraces a wide range of media to investigate social history and culture.

Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture and social action.

His complex and thoughtful meditations on individual and social trauma could not be more relevant to the realm of visual culture today.

The EOLSS contains a vast body of integrated knowledge dedicated to the health, maintenance, and future of the web of life on planet Earth, focusing on the complex connections among all the myriad aspects from natural and social sciences through water, energy, land, food, agriculture, environment, biodiversity, health, education, culture, engineering and technology, management, and development to environmental security!

Humans might be forgiven for believing that they are the only species that engages in a level of social learning complex enough to form distinct cultures, generating things like language and art.

She has a lot of experience working across cultures and with diverse and complex families and is a registered social worker and a restorative justice and peacemaking circle facilitator.

Within this multilayered context, the young Minuchin grew up as an Argentinean Jew, not only embracing the Hispanic code of honor but also relying on his family and community for protection from the anti-Semitic undertones of the host culture — a complex experience that sensitized him to the workings of families and larger systems and to the need for interdependence, mutual loyalty, and social justice.

Poverty, employment, working conditions, education and literacy, social status, social support networks, housing, physical environments, geographic location, access to health services, food security, early child development, gender, culture, and language are some of the complex and inter-related social determinants of health.

In the traditional dictionary sense, it refers to someone of or «pertaining to a social group within a culture and social system that claims or is accorded special status on the basis of complex, often variable traits including religion, linguistic, ancestral, or physical characteristics.»