Sentences with phrase «cultural assumptions»

Many of the sleep tips you find in popular books and magazines are based on cultural assumptions about what constitutes good sleep.

Both teachers and teacher educators must help students analyze the social and cultural assumptions in texts they read and write and in the world in which they live.

How might our own cultural assumptions be affecting the way we approach Scripture?

, her new series that plays with cultural assumptions; she combines things typically associated with childhood, such as computer games, and places them in adult nighttime settings.

As a result, biased cultural assumptions built into the test as a whole often are not removed by test - makers.

The choice of methods of risk - assessment are themselves biased by underlying cultural assumptions or those of the analyst.

That's because there's a widespread cultural assumption that the time parents, particularly mothers, spend with children is key to ensuring a bright future.

The young Conservatives I meet share cultural assumptions that have gone beyond those of earlier generations.

They found that research and surveys about risk behaviour has reinforced cultural assumptions about who takes risks.

Self - awareness means examining one's own cultural assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes with respect to Indigenous people.

Barbara Kruger, (born January 26, 1945, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), American artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions.

It's not a courtroom drama, but it is a movie about faustian bargains exacted by Rumpelstiltskin, and the plot turns on cultural assumptions about the binding nature and literal enforcement of written contracts — even dubious contracts.

Diet has a bias from cultural assumptions, and assumptions can be deep and hard to reverse.

All governance, judicial or legislative or regulatory, is hemmed in by cultural assumptions.

This case presents unique issues regarding an employer's liability under Title VII for cultural assumptions about a word that is considered by many to be the most offensive in the English language.

Even nonverbal tests can have cultural assumptions embedded in them.

In the wise words of Maya Fey: «You need to stop judging things based on narrow - minded cultural assumptions, TheDreadPirateGuy!

Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture - performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race.

We forget how many cultural assumptions were at work, how often the Bible was used to support segregation, and how tough it would have been to take a stand when it could destroy a person's reputation and career.

Many now insist that the enterprise of historical criticism is unconsciously shaped and informed by cultural assumptions specific to the time and place in which that method was developed.

«The idea that you have to be married to be a complete person is a post-WWII cultural assumption, not a biblical one,» Griesbeck says.

The Jesus I grew up with was a flesh - and - blood human being who turned conventional religious and cultural assumptions upside down and inside out.

seeks to challenge young leaders to critically examine the social, cultural, and political drivers shaping our understanding of women's health both here in North America and the impact of current cultural assumptions on girls and women worldwide.

And «believer's» baptism may simply fulfill a set of cultural assumptions centered on adolescence rather than infancy: join the scouts, have your first date, get baptized.

It is a moment of true moral courage, complicated though it is by troubling ingrained cultural assumptions.

The medieval cathedrals and crusades may be symbols of a wider cultural assumption that social development can be a moral enterprise, perhaps even a morally necessary enterprise.

Their book presents the false cultural assumptions about divorce as Sacred Cows, illustrated as, well, cows, and if you have been divorced or are contemplating it, you have likely heard what the cows spew as «truth»:

It's a cycle you see repeated every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gelfand says: Incompatible cultural assumptions undermine negotiations even when both sides pursue them in good faith.

Advance Style (Unrated) Aging gracefully is the focus of this documentary chronicling the fashion sense of some Manhattan socialites over 60 who are challenging the conventional cultural assumption equating beauty and youth.

But even under the best circumstances, the differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those differences can have a disarming effect on a minority student who believes that college equals a racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.

Culturally Responsive Literature Instruction Date TBD $ 149 per person Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Pamela Mason, this workshop provides strategies for identifying cultural assumptions in literature and incorporating new texts and conversations into your classroom practice.

We still have a lingering cultural assumption that our retirements might duplicate the relatively brief ones of our parents.3

Jeffrey Gibson Designs Vibrant Garments to Confound Cultural Assumptions — Phillip Barcio Hyperallergic, 03.06.2018

By doing so, Ghana ThinkTank «reveals wide - ranging cultural assumptions that govern global interactions in our ever - shrinking world.»

Combining patterns and styles drawn from a 1970s aesthetic, Thomas's compositions simultaneously recall the «black is beautiful» movement, as well as the second wave of feminism that shattered cultural assumptions about sexuality, family, the workplace, and reproductive rights.

«My performance works existed,» stated Graham in 1982, «like my earlier «conceptual art» involving the use of magazine pages, on a boundary between formal, self - enclosed art and popular cultural assumptions and temporary, perhaps disposable, readings of that moment.»

He simply slips past stereotypical cultural assumptions and ideological agendas...»

Jafa has transformed the gallery with installations that unpack cultural assumptions about race and identity.

When choosing a target maximum drinking water concentration for arsenic, for example, think about what cultural assumptions went into the risk assessments that underlie them.

This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptions — that everything that can be measured should be measured; that data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology; that data will help us do remarkable things — like foretell the future.

So I will continue to hold up a mirror, continue to challenge cultural assumptions and disproven beliefs, continue to fight for your kids as well as mine.

If our relationship with God is in the spirit of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then challenge our own cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?

(Maya was also calling Phoenix narrow minded for not discerning between ladders and stepladders, and I don't really know what that has to do with cultural assumptions, so you should probably ignore the quote since its largely nonsensical anyway.)

Little did we care that this type of imagery was most often a vessel for cultural assumptions, misconstructions, fantasies, a crass inadequacy of what we actually saw and felt in our little universe that we built whilst on holiday.