Sentences with phrase «cultural habit of»

The cultural habit of conditionality leads us to focus outwardly instead of looking first to ourselves.

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* Bolstering those statistics, and providing opportunity outside of typical breakfast hours, is a cultural shift in dining habits.

National Bonds is fighting for cultural change; Mohammed Qasim Al Ali, CEO of National Bonds, explains how its unique Shari'ah - compliant fund is transforming people's habits from spending...

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

The economy can not work without a polity of law respectful of natural rights, as well as the cultural habits or virtues necessary to support all three systems - in - one.

First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.

Yet I feel that many Christians — I include myself — have yet to find any healthy forms of resistance to this new cultural habit.

To a large extent the popular media are ignored in theological education because of the dominant media habits and cultural orientations of theological teachers.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Survival of the fittest, the law of instincts and habits, social process, dialectical materialism, cultural cycles — all work together to form a more tenacious and oppressive belief in fate than has ever before existed, a fate which leaves man no possibility of liberation but only rebellious or submissive slavery.

Culture I recently read Jonathan Price's «Culture by Subtraction» (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it — not least because it grants the rather respectable name of «cultural habit» to what has so far been called my countrymen's «arrogance»!

Even if we can separate «the ore of the ideal from the dross of habit of behavior,» the ideals can not be lived outside the cultural, religious, and social life in which they developed.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

It only scratches the surface though — it takes months, even years to change these kinds of habits, but if it is a cultural change, and one that is consistently reinforced, it will eventually take hold.

Cultural preferences are also the result of learned habits.

Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

But that would require a change of cultural or political habits — a difficult change that, in Sobouti's view, has two keys:

But a relatively recent line of inquiry is beginning to show that the way scientists go about their work can also be linked to the beliefs, habits and practices of their social, cultural and political environment.

«If we simply accept that chimpanzees have cultural habits that spread by means of social learning and then add this genetic picture to it, we get in fact a view closer to what we know about humans, and a broader debate that we have hardly had before,» says de Waal.

The poll found some intriguing cultural differences in the bedtime rituals and habits of the six countries.

Shirley Malcom, director of AAAS Education and Human Resources, says many of them are cultural — old habits die hard.

The impressive geographic variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) behavior is thought to be cultural in that it results from the transmission of socially acquired habits.

In terms of the overall composition of the fecal microbiome, however, differences may exist both in taxon distribution and relative abundance as a result of cultural or dietary habits.

As True pointed out at the FDA committee meeting, it is very difficult to separate out the effects of menthol from other cultural and racial factors that may influence smoking habits and dependence.

In the case of pulses and soybeans, there are likely additional factors, including purported physiological effects (digestibility issues), cultural factors, habits (e.g. vegetarianism / veganism), and knowledge about how to incorporate them into everyday diets.

He's a talented skateboarder hamstrung by a drug habit, and she is the one who has to decide whether they are on the cusp of an important cultural moment or if her love for him and her forgiveness of his shortcomings will bring both of them down.

Critical consciousness is more of an outcome of certain social practices, cultural formations, habits of mind and the institutional arrangements that help shape them, as well as the rituals and routines that give them legitimacy, than a precondition for them — but there is no question that they are dialectically related.

Addressing that chronic absenteeism was like untangling a rope, loosening knotted - up, long - established habits, cultural issues, and the persistent barriers of poverty that can keep children out of school, leaders in the district of 835 students said.

Enables discussion of cultural differences (hours of school, lunchtime habits, «permanence» = study time when you have to be at school doing some work in the library or some study rooms)...

Cultural point: the French Airbus A380 Listening task - answering questions in French Reading task - answering questions in French Grammar point: 2 ways of asking a question in French + WH - question words revision Speaking task - conversation about habits during the holidays Plenary - tongue twister PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT!

Ultimately, Wax says, «proponents of income integration must deal with the cognitive dissonance created by the model's foundational premise, which is that disadvantaged students» habits and attitudes are deficient and will be improved by immersion in a superior environment, [versus] discomfort with the idea of class - based cultural differences.»

Micro-schooling and its teacher - led, entrepreneurial spirit might solve both of these problems, by evading the old habits, sclerotic bureaucracies, cultural biases against experimentation, antiquated labor arrangements, and low tolerance for risk that prevail in traditional schools.

The activity teaches the basics of shopping and numbers but also teaches some cultural aspects, e.g. traditional recipe, origin of a specific dish, shopping habits etc..

Being an agent of cultural change means being aware of the subtle shared values of knowledge, customs, and habits; changing that culture requires having a moral purpose, building strong relationships, sharing knowledge, and knowing how and when to move from chaos to coherence.

Built into the very fabric of our society are cultural values and habits which support the oppression of some persons and groups of people by other persons and groups.

Mary E. Dilworth will lead a discussion that probes beneath the surface to recognize and explain how the current generation of teachers and those of color, in particular, have a distinctly different mindset than their baby boomer and generation X predecessors; what habits of mind and experiences contribute to their understanding of quality teaching and student learning; what constitutes good and useful preparation and practice; and what processes and policies accommodate cultural responsiveness and allow for all students to meet their full potential.

Information ranges from #fakenews and propaganda about how Mexico is nothing but drug cartels and Cubans are jailed for eating meat to misinformed representations of cultural habits and customs to more subtle but insidious articles in which all the facts might be correct on the surface but, being an outsider, the writer swaps out the nuances and complexities that make up real cultures for confused generalizations and stereotypes that promote subcsoncious racism.

Curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, an Atlanta - based curator and critic who also manages the private art collection of home builder and philanthropist John Wieland, The Future of America suggests that considering younger generations» habits and self - conceptions will offer insight into the cultural changes America anticipates in coming decades.

Over the past decade, Morrison has investigated the aesthetics and potentialities of political protest and subculture and the processes by which radical and oppositional impulses become subsumed within normative commodities and habits of cultural consumption.

Ybarra is keen on presenting the hobbies, pastimes and habits of his youth, focusing on cultural specific traits such as the homemade Latino sweets that include «paprika, Kool - aid powder and dipping candy,» or baking a cake with his grandfather (as intergenerational households are typical in Latino families), or hinting at the absence of the father figure.

In his work Cokes samples and subverts modes of representation and cultural fragments from the media — in particular news, advertising, and Hollywood cinema — reframing the images and ideas that are designed to construct our habits and identities.

Known for his intelligent dismantling of cultural products and the wry and often humorous shifts and «misuses» to which he subjects his material, Bismuth's work constitutes a creative intervention into familiar codes, habits and objects.

America's habit of blaming everyone else in the world for their own failures and the eternal internalised rationalising away of the high degree of entrenched cultural paranoia is simply unsustainable these days.

The focus of that work is often in exploring cultural differences (and in particular, cultural differences as they relate to differences in communication styles and rhetoric)-- but I frequently find that I need to check myself against the habit of mistakenly attributing differences to culture.

Participants learn more about the many cultural, social, and ecological implications of what we eat and discuss the importance of our eating habits.

Different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, as well as varying oral health and oral care habits, are to be regarded as substantial risk factors for the development of caries.