Sentences with phrase «cultural attitudes toward»

Check out Bill's recent article on our cultural attitudes toward divorce — and why they need to change — in our July / August 2015 issue of the Networker, Should This Marriage Be Saved?

Overall economic conditions, endemic diseases, public health and sanitation standards, quality and capacity of medical facilities and different cultural attitudes toward personal health and safety are all factors that vary from one country to another.

The exaggerated biological characteristics of her figures reflect Self's own experiences and cultural attitudes toward race and gender.

His works frequently dealt with class, youthful rebellion and popular culture and attacked the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward religion, history, education and family.

Tracing the time capsule's evolution from analog archive to digital database, the exhibition examines the mutable nature of time perception, rapidly accelerating media obsolescence, and our shifting cultural attitudes toward preservation and privacy.

His work questions the legitimacy of «normative» values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education.

The familiar digital arrows point to becoming - subject and becoming - object, charged with Art Historical and pop cultural attitudes toward the female body.

Cultural attitudes toward menstruation can have serious effects beyond just an embarrassing moment in gym class.

Plummer is proud, deliberate but all too keenly aware that time is passing - not just the cultural attitudes toward the war, politics and race, but his own time as well as his health has deteriorated to the point where he has decided to retire.

We also know that not everyone agrees with us, that's part of why we say it though so we can hope to change negative cultural attitudes toward breastfeeding.

Reducing developed - country food waste is particularly challenging, as it is so closely linked to individual behavior and cultural attitudes toward food.

(3) We have observed that physiological changes as well as cultural attitudes toward alcoholism (which regard it as a question of willpower rather than a sickness) probably contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction once it is established.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

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Cultural attitudes, fairness, economics, and entrepreneurial behavior all point to extension of this trend toward legalization.

Arendt's attitude toward the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an informal gathering of anti- and ex-communists, indicates how severely critical she was of such CIA - sponsored clandestine activity in the early 1950s.

It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

The Public Square Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of the churches that is getting mixed reviews.

Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of the churches that is getting mixed reviews.

Christians shared the cultural attitudes of the first century regarding the position of women in a manner analogous to their attitude toward slavery (cf. Eph.

One need not be a Freudian, however, to observe that attitudes toward sex, and especially variant understandings of the relationship of sex and the social order, mark out one of the important boundary lines of our political and cultural landscape.

His outlook has affected the way I face the «community of the many,» and it has helped define my attitude toward the cultural challenges confronting my own Jewish community.

Attitudes toward the state, cultural assumptions, and self - designations all bear on how we do theology and should raise sensitivity in the area of preaching.

The new middle class, I would argue, has a number of morally positive features, especially in its attitudes toward race and toward ethnic or other cultural differences; it is a racially and ethnically tolerant culture, and this is good.

TV continues as a dominant force, and there's a cultural shift in our attitudes toward gender.

We need a cultural shift and a change in attitudes of men toward women and that's not happening right now.»

Researchers at the school's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) assessed cultural worldviews along two dimensions: hierarchy - egalitarianism (attitudes toward authority and power) and individualism - communitarianism (focus on self - reliance or responsibility to a larger group) of more than 5,000 people who reported an awareness of electronic nicotine devices (ENDS), which include e-cigarettes.

A 1994 study based on data from a survey of third - through fifth - grade teachers in a Southeastern school district and a Midwestern school district investigated the overall attitudes of teachers toward cultural diversity.

Readers will focus on their attitude toward students, their relationship with students, their compassion for students, the learning environment, and cultural relevance in instruction.

Her main areas of research are vested in the cognitive process of writing, literature - based reading, the socio - cultural aspects of literacy as well as teachers» attitudes toward diversity.

Regardless of which category describes your school, we as educators must find a way to address attitudes toward race, poverty and cultural relevancy.

As demographics evolve, differences in cultural - based attitudes toward pets will influence pet ownership.

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that confronted and challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender, and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

The story is very much based in»80s attitudes and fears toward AIDS, but the filmmakers didn't want any of the pastels and props that define pop cultural depictions of the period.

The cultural changes must address the empowerment of families to be self - determining as well as contemporary attitudes toward dispute resolution.

Analyze your company and industry for their attitudes toward cultural aspects you find important, such as work ethic, values, mission statements, and types of hires.

Cultural considerations for working with diverse populations also may include language barriers; religious beliefs and family values; parenting practices; expectations and restrictions related to gender and age; concepts of health and illness; issues related to assimilation and cultural preservation; and attitudes toward women, children, andCultural considerations for working with diverse populations also may include language barriers; religious beliefs and family values; parenting practices; expectations and restrictions related to gender and age; concepts of health and illness; issues related to assimilation and cultural preservation; and attitudes toward women, children, andcultural preservation; and attitudes toward women, children, and elders.

If consultants are aware of their own cultural views, they interact more effectively with families because they have a better understanding of their attitudes, feelings, and behavior toward the diverse families supported through an ECMHC.

The Knot Yet study says economic and cultural forces are responsible for current attitudes toward marriage.

«Moral development is the process through which children develop proper attitudes and behaviors toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws,» according to...

According to this perspective, during social interactions, peers evaluate and respond to individual characteristics in manners that are consistent with cultural belief systems in the society and express corresponding attitudes (e.g., acceptance, rejection) toward children who display the characteristics.

More specifically, 204 mother and 204 fathers of adolescents (13 — 17 years old) filled self - report questionnaires about family system maladjustment (Family Assessment Measure - III), self - perception of parental role (Self - Perception of Parental Role), parents» beliefs and attitudes toward the family (Attitudinal Familism Scale), and parents» cultural values (Cultural Values cultural values (Cultural Values Cultural Values Survey).

To summarize, our results (Table 1) suggested that (a) fathers and mothers have a similar perception of family functioning, (b) share common cultural attitudes, beliefs and values toward the family, and (c) fathers have a better self - perception of parental role, in terms of investment, sense of competence, role balance, and satisfaction.

Because too many Realtors adopt a casual dress code, which thereby indicates their casual attitude toward the importance of their vocation, and finally, because newbies quickly fall prey to the old - school underlying «sell, sell, sell» cultural attitude that permeates the industry and they copy what they see being practiced by their less - than - professional peers whom are vastly outnumbered by the real professionals.