Sentences with phrase «cultural meaning rather»

It is an exercise in the analysis and interpretation of cultural meaning rather than in sociological explanation, though some of the latter is necessarily present.

Not exact matches

Rather, it means that recourse must be made to the political process - or beyond to the moral and cultural realm of our community.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

So long as the Church was understood as primarily institutional, in terms of its parallelism to a state rather than to a cultural society, and so long as tradition meant resistance to reform, conflict between the principles of traditional and Scriptural authority was inevitable.

Rather than struggle to understand the cultural background of the text and the alternate meanings suggested by recent historico - grammatical research, Jewett is content to judge the text as reflecting Paul's rabbinic conditioning and disregard it.

Although American society in terms of social and economic variables are present in Dr. Bellah's writing here, his approach is rather a study and analysis of cultural meaning.

It will mean institutions that have the vision, and the financial resources, to play a long game of cultural renewal, rather than allowing themselves to be driven by the populist passions of the moment.

We must relate to each other from within the context of our cultural, social and sexual predispositions and in so doing accept our limited perspective rather than believe that we have the universal blueprint for what it means to be human.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

Another positive associated with adopting transracial children is that this means that parents are embracing the diversity and are more focused on having a child rather than on the cultural or racial differences.

Ultimately, the FDA,... and Health Canada seem to be operating under what philosopher Rhonda Shaw has identified as the «Yuk Factor» — responding to the dominant cultural meaning of milk sharing rather than the medical issues associated with milk sharing.

Rather, their focus upon American domestic politics, the economy, immigration and perceived cultural fragmentation mean that, if anything, they appear to be a force encouraging a return to previous US policies of isolationism, a strategy of retreat from the world in order to preserve America as they want it to be.

After all, these programs are meant to focus on cultural exchange and language learning, rather than being viewed as a way to score free food and accommodation.

A large majority of Mexicans have been classified as «Mestizos», meaning in modern Mexican usage that they identify fully neither with any indigenous culture nor with a Spanish cultural heritage, but rather identify as having cultural traits incorporating elements from indigenous and Spanish traditions.

Two recent books bring Wonder Woman's ambiguous relationship to feminism to the fore: Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman, which looks at the character's creator, William Moulton Marston, focusing on the history from which Wonder Woman emerged and the cultural meanings that have coalesced around her, and Tim Hanley's Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine, which gives a history of the character rather than the creator.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

As technology critic Ian Bogost writes in The Atlantic of the corporate and cultural allure of the Internet of Things, «The computational aspects of ordinary things have become goals unto themselves, rather than just a means to an end.

This information is not meant to be discouraging, rather to normalize the struggles that are apparent in our society and highlight the important work we do to educate ourselves and facilitate the development of cultural competence within ourselves and within our colleagues, supervisees, and clients.