Sentences with phrase «context of social movements»

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The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

Social policy implied a sustained commitment of the self to «the ordering and reordering of resources and personnel of whole institutions, organizations, and movements in the context of the needs of nations, peoples, and societies.»

However, it takes on another meaning in the context of new social movements and contemporary political reactions.

The dramatic growth of the small - group movement can be explained only by considering the social context in which it has arisen.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

In this context the large number of net - works of Social Action groups in India have a very important function in the discourse provided they have what Gramcie has called an «organic» relation to such peoples» movements.

She has studied how college access and outreach programs affect low income students» social capital and social contexts of choice, and is currently working on philosophical / empirical research into the moral tensions around movements to opt out of different aspects of public education, and on philosophical work on what makes a disagreement «reasonable.»

«I guess the important thing to say is we're just very conscious of the fact that we're part of a broader movement that needs to figure out how to fund social services — and we're trying to ask people to see April 1 in that broader context,» CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday.

This project will shift our understanding of teachers» unions as simply «self - interested» or «selfless,» to a more nuanced assessment of the role teachers play in politics, the diversity of political groups within unions, and the ways that teachers» unions in diverse contexts go beyond self - interest and become social movement actors.

Instead, drawing on the labor studies and social movement literature, I argue that unions are complex organizations that reflect their political - institutional contexts, which shape their forms of political engagement.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

In the 1990s, along with the advancement of market - oriented reforms, instead of big art movements, Chinese contemporary art begins to develop diversely with more social context.

Whiteread's frieze elaborates on the building's original terra - cotta reliefs depicting the Tree of Life, a motif that in the context of the Arts and Crafts movement of the time connoted social transformation through art.

The exhibition explored in depth the relationship of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual context in the form of historical objects that brought home the social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.

With the early Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus vision of art integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspective.

Movements may be a thing of the past, but social networks are very much a part of the present, and two current group exhibitions at Chelsea galleries, «Context Message» at Zach Feuer and «Side Show» at Greene Naftali, offer an opportunity to check in with some promising young artists who are in the midst of fomenting vital scenes.

The result is a series of movement sequences, which Aladağ has taken out of their natural, individual and social context and abstracted from their protagonists.

And exhibitions such as «St. Petrischnee» or Mark Leckey's, which transport counter-cultural strategies and aesthetics into the museum context, thereby challenge the genesis of artistic strategies as well as the innovative power of social movements.

The corporeal quality of the chairs» form and function, the skins of the elk, and the communal process of hand sewing the elements together is compounded further by the resulting object — a drum — which inherently implies ceremonial and social contexts, movement and sound.

Psychedelic art, usually referred to as art influenced by the hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD or mescaline, is closely related to the social and political context of the sixties and the birth of the hippie youth movement.

Such a future requires non-incremental shifts in policy and behavior, unusual political, social and corporate partnerships, and needs to be understood in the context of «movements» rather than policy shifts.

The use of trace data is known from a variety of contexts: the research from search engines, criminal activity, online social media, education, physical movement patterns, and so on shows the same thing, that our behaviour can be predicted — with varying degrees of accuracy — down to the individual level.