Sentences with phrase «cultural assumptions about»

The learning objectives for this Interest Group are 1) to assess prevailing cultural assumptions about families in cross-cultural contexts though the use of film; 2) to dialogue about the use of film to explore complex self of the therapist dilemmas; and 3) to develop criteria for what may constitute good practices in the use of film for family therapy training

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and Deana Lawson, among others, unabashedly question cultural assumptions about gender, race, beauty, and power, giving voice to groups and individuals often marginalized by both the traditions of portraiture and mainstream American culture.

Recalling Bruce Nauman's absurdly reductive enunciations in his video Thank You, 1992, Holler's work introduced themes — including the questioning of cultural assumptions about language, entertainment, and the centered self — that ran throughout the show.

From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power?and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template.

And then you realize: this is supposed to be a «contemporary» interview — so, apart from the soundtrack, how much has actually changed in our cultural assumptions about women and class in America?

Will points out that if we step back from our cultural assumptions about tooth decay and really evaluate the data, a much different conclusion emerges.

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

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

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?

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But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

What is, however, of a different order of magnitude is the convergence of technological, institutional, political, and cultural currents, historic bases on which assumptions about religion, speech, press, and self - government are based.

Don't make her feel ashamed, don't exile her to the bathroom, don't make erroneous assumptions about her motives, don't compare feeding her baby to defecating, don't make hypocritical cultural statements, don't make it harder to do than it already is.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Sweet also examined cultural explanations to determine how traditional gender assumptions about the unique skills of women and men might lead to identity differences, including those that relate to the importance of a career to one's identity.

It shows that when we label a cultural group as «individualist» or «collectivist», this can lead us to make a lot of false assumptions about how people in that group will see themselves, and so we may wrongly predict how they might respond to our communications or interventions.

Coppola does not diagnose underlying societal problems; she does not make assumptions about the cultural void in which the kids live.

With the incredible cultural and religious interactions now occurring, now more than ever we can not make assumptions about a patient's background or needs, just because we have been told the person's religious or cultural identity.

Teachers are sometimes not aware of the assumptions they are making about their students, especially if there are cultural or linguistic differences between themselves and their students.

However, teacher candidates have few opportunities to challenge their assumptions about writing teaching through their engagement with student writing from a variety of cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds in distinct classroom contexts.

Like it or not, most assumptions about other cultures arise from cultural stereotypes or complete myths.

Other research traditions emphasize instead the importance of intrinsic features of cultural traits by making specific assumptions about how variants are chosen.

Barbara Hepworth is the automatic assumption of most people reading about this # 35 million cultural starship and wondering about its name; but the Wakefield - born sculptor is only part of the story.

The Festival invited viewers to examine the origin and understanding of digital arts practice in Asia, against the backdrop of our assumptions about its cultural motifs or traditions.

Her vixen costume imbues each situation with sensuality, while her Mexican American identity inflects the work with a critique of cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women.

It is the first to explore how those key moments — coinciding with times of American social, political, and cultural upheaval — challenged traditional hierarchies and assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist.

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.

The crucial inquiry, therefore, is correctly stated as whether removal policies were premised on assumptions about the cultural inferiority of Indigenous people which predetermined that the best interests of the child, and of the wider society, would best be served by removing the child from their family, community and culture.

In other contexts, feminists complain about the cultural assumptions of childrearing putting an unfair burden on women, but when the law tries to redress that burden and demand that parents share in childrearing, then feminists object.

Suspend judgment and assumptions about how a family should do things based on the provider's own cultural expectations related to child rearing and family life.