Sentences with phrase «cultural norms mean»

Not exact matches

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

That means no nurses pushing formula, lactation support in the hospital, support for moms in the workplace, cultural norms that allow women to breastfeed in public places without being shamed, and more support among women for dealing with the challenges.

A Separation is a multi-layered drama about two well - meaning Iranian families who are set against each other through a series of unfortunate events and cultural norms.

When you help someone improve their CQ it means that when they interact with others from different cultures, they can manage stressful or intimidating situations through their knowledge of various different cultural norms and values.

Usborne has announced plans to remedy this situation, which serves as a reminder that the digital and print - on - demand publishing climate of the 21st century means updating a book to better sit with the current cultural norms is not only feasible, it should be given high importance.

For decades, community colleges got a bad rap as a second - class education meant for those who couldn't afford or who couldn't meet the high academic requirements of more traditional universities.Now that reputation is changing as cultural norms about post-secondary education start to shift.

Each artist's personal visual styles and narratives «tramp» comedic avenues as a means to explore their sculptures, videos, and photographs through deviations from «norms» (whether cultural, social, logical, or linguistic): A candle can not evade its own snuffing.

Rich with associative qualities, the figurine evokes meaning both personal and collective, and provides a cultural norm that can be dismantled and reconstructed.

Their projects aim to question the very meaning of reproduction by relating the reproduction of images to other resonances of the word, such as biological reproduction, in which the child inhabits the womb of the mother, and cultural reproduction, in which social institutions perpetuate norms from generation to generation.

Being culturally competent does not mean fully understanding the cultural norms and dynamics of every nation where a lawyer or firm may have business dealings.

A process of consultation will not adequately protect this unique interest if there is not sufficient information provided to Indigenous people to enable them, as experts on the meaning of their own cultural norms, to make an assessment of theimpact of proposed future acts on their native title interests.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50

Thus, policy makers and practitioners must be educated to understand the significance of cultural norms when interpreting the meanings of social behavior.

However, love can be conceptualized as a social construct that varies between individuals because cultural norms and values as well as early childhood experiences have a great impact on the meaning individuals ascribe to romantic love (Jackson, Chen, Guo, & Gao, 2006).

Moreover, cultural norms and values may provide guidance for the interpretation and evaluation of social behaviors and thus impart meanings to the behaviours.6 These arguments have been supported by findings from a number of studies in the past two decades.

Researchers have speculated that this may due to problems in measurement, which tend to be culturally grounded in European - American behavioral norms, differences in the cultural meaning of discipline, as well as in differences in neighborhoods and peer groups.