Sentences with phrase «cultural dimensions of»

First, sustainability promotes a long term, holistic development approach that addresses social, economic, environmental, political and cultural dimensions of development.

When asked to explain what cultural competence looks like in practice across this continuum, Bhasin describes a lawyer who can identify, understand, and adjust to cultural dimensions of others» behaviour.

Instead of trying to be «culture - blind» (a common strategy of minimization), a culturally competent lawyer should strive to build a working knowledge of behavioural predictors: cultural dimensions of behaviour that are shared by the majority of individuals within a cultural identity.

We're very white in the cultural dimensions of how we are, in the assumptions that are made, in the levels of entitlement and opportunities, as a very white grounded history, if you will.

At the beginning of winter quarter, Kendall joined Sarah Anderson and environmental historian and Environmental Studies professor Peter Alagona to lead one research project on the biological, social, and cultural dimensions of wildlife reintroductions, using the proposed reintroduction of grizzly bears in California as a case study.

But see this fun explanation of the other historical and cultural dimensions of this Chinese saying.]

«Digging Deeper into the Why: Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Skepticism among Scientists.»

While installations by Yuichiro Tamura and IM Heung - soon present the tiger as an iconic medium of Asian military nationalism, a film by James T. Hong investigates the cultural dimensions of the tensions unfolding around several disputed East Asian islands to the present day.

Join Danielle Fox (SLATE Contemporary Gallery,) and Conrad Myers (Aggregate Space Gallery,) for a lively discussion on the topic of the social and cultural dimensions of contemporary curatorial practices and their implications for the artistic process.

To Be or Not to Be: The Selection Process Join Danielle Fox (SLATE Contemporary Gallery,) and Conrad Myers (Aggregate Space Gallery,) for a lively discussion on the topic of the social and cultural dimensions of contemporary curatorial practices and their implications for the artistic process.

The goal of this symposium is to examine the intersection of the artistic, theoretical, literary, and cultural dimensions of Bowling's practice.

To ensure a good outcome, pay attention to both the technical and the cultural dimensions of a community school.

Do interview findings reveal structural or cultural dimensions of power and how those power dimensions impact students of color and / or students situated in poverty?

The framework points out that financial literacy also involves the development of «higher order skills in saving, spending, growing and giving money... [and engaging] in learning activities that examine the ethical, social, economic and cultural dimensions of money.»

Wherever one studies the production of novel togetherness — whether in the physical, the biological, or the cultural dimensions of the universe — one finds the becoming of patterned process.

Castoriadis's emphasis on the word «condition,» as well as his reference to both the biological and the cultural dimensions of perception, reinforces the claim that science, whenever it attempts to address the topic of mind, simply runs up against the limits of its own competency.

[23] See the chapter entitled «Number in the Colonial Imagination,» in Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 114 - 135.

America's public faith (a term I prefer to «civil religion») emerged precisely because denominationalism could be tolerated only if a creative relationship to the larger political and cultural dimensions of religious necessity were maintained.

In Canada, human rights remain an embedded principle of Canadian law and governance, embracing both civil / political dimensions and economic / social / cultural dimensions of human rights as indispensable to the operation of our political and legal systems.

In the cultural dimension of life, liberation from the vicious circle of alienation means identity in the recognition of others.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

A focus on the cultural dimension of religion represents a decision to take seriously the symbolism of which religion is constituted as an object of study.

In her work Ania focuses on the socio - cultural dimension of... More

Concerning a more social and cultural dimension of romantic relationships, studies demonstrate that people live differently the experience of love, going further than the biological sexual dimensions attached to the phenomenon (Fehr & Broughton, 2001; Sprecher & Toro - Morn, 2002).

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Recalling that internationally - recognized human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature relationship with China.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Berger has been both perceptive and consistent in his description of play, and his observations about the possible religious dimensions of this sphere of cultural activity are suggestive.

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

It looks like the Pope is bidding fair to become «the Pope of Caritapolis,» who sees the whole world — in all its cultural, political, and cultural dimensions — as to be best grasped within the long history of «The City....

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

A dimension which has been missed in this ongoing debate, however, is the extent to which the medium through which the gospel is mediated adds a cultural dimension which also needs to be considered in discerning the nature of the gospel.

Turning to the cultural dimension, I would argue that American culture was moving out from under the dominance of purely Anglo - Saxon ethnic considerations even before the Revolution.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

The Cultural Dimension As culture develops, so too will religion in order that it may answer more adequately the basic problems of human life and to further deepen the synthesis of scientific knowledge with religious knowledge - the principle of evolution is written into the nature of religion, as in all life.

In the one economy of creation and salvation, we would expect the Church as the full environing of man in his personal, social and cultural dimensions with the infallible authority of God.

Given the large cultural and psychological dimensions of forgiveness and revenge, these should be areas where both sides can learn.

This is not even considering the psychological, emotional, cultural and spiritual dimensions of raising a child.

There is a further dimension to this work which has been evoked at the Synod, and that is the wider cultural engagement demanded of the Church in countries with a strongly secular environment.

This dynamic undergirds the struggles for the unqualified acceptance of Dalits and Adivasis as equal members of Indian human society and demands their fuller participation in all dimensions (social, economic, political, and cultural) of the processes of building the nation - state.

At times it appears that each theorist regards religious evolution, like other dimensions of cultural evolution, as resulting from its own internal dynamics.

But, of course, one must ask a basic theological question: What is the theological rationale for consciously and concertedly bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation with all its religio - cultural and socioeconomic dimensions into the realm of Christian theology?

A purely theological account may do full justice to those dimensions of a congregation that come to light when one considers it in its God - relatedness, but would ignore the dimensions that come to light when one considers its historical, social, and cultural location.

If we have truly various cultural forms of faith, we need to also recognize that none of them is capable of expressing all the aspects and dimensions of faith.

The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?

Dr. Bellah attempts to understand the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s in terms of what he considers the deepest dimension of those events — religious dimension.

To recognize that sustainability is a journey and must encompass a full range of best practices across societal, ecological, economic, cultural, and accountability dimensions.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

It would be a help — but is not essential — that a secretary of state for culture has some cultural dimension, but, you see, my old constituent Lord Hailsham would say that every politician worth his salt has to have a cultural dimension, because that's what politicians always had — some knowledge of the great literature, you know, Disraeli...

The various historical dimensions of stratification — class, racial, geographical, cultural — in British society have, far from being eroded by societal development since 1945, been preserved through amalgamation into a more unitary, crude, and yet subtly pervasive overarching dimension of status.