Sentences with phrase «cultural forces»

He describes the role of language as a powerful cultural force in shaping how students perceive themselves as learners.

Many sales leaders begin their task of setting goals because they've been told to do so, either by a superior or cultural forces at large.

Psychology Today covers all aspects of human behavior, from the workings of the brain to the bonds between people and the larger cultural forces that drive our most intimate decisions.

It's a global cultural force with roots back as far as can be traced, and the rise of blogs and social media has expanded the audience further than ever before.

The difference between a product that flies and one that dies often depends upon cultural forces.

To me, that's how religion has grown, through cultural force and influence.

In summary, historical and cultural forces play a major role in the constitution of human subjects and their communities.

In addition, certain cultural forces are still pointing parents in the wrong direction about what our kids need for healthy development.

His approach is to treat sports as a significant cultural force worthy of first - rate reporting.

Learn how cultural forces influence thinking and how you can create a culture that supports deeper learning.

Over the following decades, his reputation as an uncompromising cultural force has grown not only in the cinematic field but also through his visual artwork, writing, and performances.

Many write it off as merely jokes with little meaning, but comedy is one of our biggest and most pervasive cultural forces.

We then examine theories explaining educational inequality that have attempted to address the structural and cultural forces at play.

Psychology Today covers all aspects of human behavior, from the workings of the brain to the bonds between people and the larger cultural forces that drive our most intimate decisions.

This conception accounts for cultural influences of varying degrees in the form of larger rivers representing the dominant cultural forces of the day, but also for the more pronounced cultural mixing that occurs today as a result of increased access to instant worldwide communication and the instantaneous dissemination of information.

The organization aims to be a leader in building collaborative partnerships between artists and other organizations whereby uniting cultural forces to foster artistic expression and raising the imaginative energy in us all.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms — the mostly - historical source material — is a major cultural force in Asia.

In December 2000, Wheeler was named Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News and Observer, which called him «the godfather of the Triangle's cultural boom» and cited his skill at melding «arts, politics and commerce into a powerful new cultural force.»

Charitable drives are also often a rallying cultural force within a company.

Likewise, Gen - Y is emerging as a buying, spending and cultural force all its own.

The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced — both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees — has been a consistently powerful, pop cultural force for over two decades.

«It's other cultural forces which are driving it.

Hip - hop has been the dominant cultural force in Atlanta for several decades now.

Learn the eight cultural forces present in every group learning situation — language, time, environment, opportunities, routines, modeling, interactions, and expectations — and how they shape the group's cultural dynamic.

Still, this eruption of new college programs across the world actually demonstrates how games have fully risen from being a backroom oddity played by antisocial nerds to being massively important cultural forces that the whole world enjoys.

United States About Blog AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force by connecting practitioners, enthusiasts and patrons through regional, national and global events and by creating and curating content that: - advocates for a greater understanding of the value of designers and design in government, business, media and the public.

Three years ago he was named vice-president and treasurer of the National Educational Television and Radio Center, which he describes as «not a series of classroom presentations but a growing cultural force.»

The first seven chapters serve as a fine survey statement of Reformed theology from the perspective of this guiding motif, with apposite comments about how contemporary cultural forces twist and distort the biblical teaching.

And as we looked over five of our favorites at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, we saw past the clever marketing ploy and instead reflected on the powerful cultural force that Art Cars has become.

The Project's mission is to provide research and analysis on the health of marriage in America, to analyze the social and cultural forces shaping contemporary marriage, and to identify strategies to increase marital quality and stability.

What you might not know about the intangible cultural force that forever changed the way we live, work, play and communicate.

There is something energizing and powerful about being surrounded by millions of people, world - changing cultural forces, high - powered professionals and plenty of amenities.

Radio song: «Depending on who you ask, radio is either a dying industry or an unshakable cultural force,» writes Judann Pollack, who takes a big - picture look at radio for Ad Age's music issue.

We should have no illusions about the way cultural forces (and, soon, legal coercion) will aim to compel the Church not only to be silent on gay marriage, but to praise it and to integrate it into the Church's life — or else.

They have let the family issue fall into the hands of reactionary political and religious forces to the right or radical cultural forces to the left.

Although not without considerable validity, this interpretation is much enriched by adding to the picture the profound cultural forces behind the New Deal.

The authors aimed to write a cautionary tale, a reminder that if schools like Hope do not come to a sense of Christian purpose that is at once broad and deep, then cultural forces around them — most of them not very friendly to Christianity — will make their choices for them.

Technology separates as much as it joins, and no single cultural force has been able to substitute for empire, language, or faith.

He tosses out a few tantalizers here and there: Bakker prospered from the same cultural forces that enabled Reagan to build a presidency on style without substance; Bakker's «full gospel» constituency was determined to believe that revelations of malfeasance were fabricated by a conspiracy of liberal media elites.

And I probably could have stomached Jesus and his band of warriors if it weren't for how other cultural forces buttressed the Christian Right.

But taking time in the classroom to critique the problematic nature of disengagement, and show students how powerful engagement can be, helps counteract such seemingly insurmountable cultural forces.

Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock goes behind the scenes of a social revolution to explore the philosophy that fuels it, the social contract that drives it, and the transcendent experience that makes it a worldwide cultural force.

Marie Claire Talks to the Stars of «Broad City» Few have channeled the spirit of their generation with as much gleeful irreverence, earnestness, and verve as «Broad City» co-creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, who will chat with Marie Claire Editor - in - Chief Anne Fulenwider about their show's journey from niche Web series to of - the - moment cultural force.

Like Katy Perry's Part of Me before it, the film seems to be a big shiny ad for the wondrous and awe - inspiring cultural force that is Justin Bieber.

With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.

The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights.