Sentences with phrase «cultural construct»

The human condition involves words, numbers and other cultural constructs, he points out.

In my scholarly work, I argued that traditional gender roles — the stay - at - home mother, the bread - winning father — were recent cultural constructs.

For the artist, «landscape» is positioned between man - made cultural constructs and wilderness.

But we also see the vital importance of working together to change our infrastructure, political systems, and broader cultural constructs, as well.

re.collections, implies a reference to collections, collecting, correcting, naming, renaming and reframing cultural constructs of art and artifice.

Bopape questions the politics of gender, race, spirituality, and cultural constructs through various imagery.

Unless they were one of the select few geniuses who are able to ascend beyond cultural constructs and imagine the impossible, they would not be capable of grasping most of the concepts, despite having essentially the same brain capacity.

They look different to each of us, smell different, imbued with cultural constructs fashioned from our -LSB-...]

Multiculturalism that claims all truths are only cultural constructs necessarily denies the truth of the human community.

They have different cultural constructs.

The push by health professionals for the early consolidation of infant sleep is a recent socio - cultural construct associated with bottle - feeding cultures and has little to do with what is in an infant's best interest, especially one that breastfeeds.

As their feelings fester, it becomes clear their senses of self - worth are dictated by external cultural constructs, causing them to lose hold of their own identities.

There is an attempt to collapse the binaries and conventions suggested by the source imagery, to reveal the representational and cultural constructs at play.

Barbara Kruger (American, b. 1945) is a conceptual artist who is known for her text driven art that exposes cultural constructs of power, identity, sexuality, money or desire.

«Space» was this gigantic cultural construct that really captured people's imaginations.

Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions: Are Models of Self and of Other Pan cultural Constructs?.

On view from September 13 through December 23, 2017, Speech / Acts explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

Perhaps most importantly, however, they value a cultural construct called «hygge» (pronounced hʊɡə).

And that's what those who insist that maleness and femaleness are «cultural constructs,» not givens that disclose deep truths about the human condition, deny.

It's hard to watch people angry about this or that, justifiably or not, willing to take down cultural constructs that sustain society emotionally.

In reality, it is a cultural construct that must be recreated and sustained by each generation.

«Maybe it's just a phase and something I need to step back from, or maybe I will decide religion is a cultural construct, which is fine for some people and not necessary for others.

Religion is a cultural construct and one usually belongs to the faith their born into.

Whether we like to admit it or not, whenever we read the Bible, we bring with us those selfish desires, those fallible minds, those cultural constructs and presuppositions.

It is a cultural construct that has been used to mean anything up to 6 months to 7 years.

Basic clothing wasn't included among the necessities — that is also a cultural construct.

Brian Boyd's thesis is that current literary criticism — or «Theory» as it is hubristically known — has failed because it regards fiction purely as a cultural construct, ignoring the minds that create and consume it.

This article claims that dating is a cultural construct and concept.

«Students are asked to investigate the cultural constructs through which they view the world,» says John Murphy, IB coordinator at the suburban school.

Ferguson ranges well beyond schools into economic factors, teacher attitudes, parenting practices, cultural constructs, community views, and some interventions (such as his own «Tripod Project») designed to narrow the achievement gap.

We can't let that infrastructure, with its cultural construct of treating all pets as family members, go to waste.

After all, painting as an activity is a cultural construct, and it can not really be seen and understood without some sense of its relation to art history.

But colour, and our relationship with it, also exists in a place outside of these linguistic and cultural constructs.

Examining blindness as a physiological and cultural construct, the exhibition encourages museumgoers to consider the primacy of visual experience, and challenge conventions of visual representation, which has contributed to the marginalization of groups throughout American history.

His work reveals the concept of value as a cultural construct borne through hidden ties to morality and privilege, by exposing the cultural and social techniques employed in value construction.

«It will gradually become apparent that at particular moments when there is within a society a crisis of belief... the sheer material factualness of the human body will be borrowed to lend that cultural construct the aura of «realness» and «certainty.»

Because of how photographic images are understood to function, as a system of pointers with indexical qualities that suggest things outside the frame, Linwood's use of the grid format points to parallel events, skewed timelines, cultural constructs, his own orchestration, and, other images which are simultaneously presented, albeit in amusingly slippery states of action and focus.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

They are a reflection of my personal relationship with the forest, a meditation on universal themes relating to the psyche and call into question the concept of landscape as a social and cultural construct.

The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World War I to the Japanese Invasion in 1937.

What part is timeless and what is a cultural construct?

Speech / Acts, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by artists Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.