Sentences with phrase «cultural norms take»

Or it could be that social or cultural norms take over.

Not exact matches

Yesterday, Dara Khosrowshahi took his next step forward by publishing what he's calling «Uber's new cultural norms» on LinkedIn.

As society's understanding of mental health is starting to take some slow, lurching steps toward progress, Plaza seems uniquely poised for a new cultural norm: One in which the broad spectrum of mental and emotional health is more fairly and accurately represented.

Sloppy theological arguments based on transient cultural norms and individual opinions do not hold up when we take an honest look at whether Christians should participate in or watch boxing and MMA.

Again, it's the folks farther down on the class ladder taking the brunt of the cultural assault against traditional norms.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

Such cultural violence may take the form of cultural deprivation through the monopoly of cultural institutions by the power elite of a given civilization, or cultural repression through the arbitrary imposition of the values and norms of the powerful.

April is Child Abuse Prevention month and I've been reflecting on what it will take to change the cultural norm of silence that allows child sexual abuse to thrive in our communities.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

What happens next is «a question for our values, not science», says Fine, arguing for a world where cultural and gender norms sit with evolution, genetics and hormones to take account of all the influences.

Scientific American spoke with Schaan about al Qaeda's continued attempts to take down airliners traveling to the U.S., the terrorist organization's focus on exploiting cultural norms to reach their targets and the most successful approaches to stopping terrorist plots.

In 2007 we decided to take a major step to walk down the isle and defy all social and cultural norms to start our story as a couple.

If you want to localize your eLearning courses and offer a true valuable eLearning experience to your audience, then you have to take into serious consideration the different cultural «norms» and to devote time and resources.

Coleman knows that it will take some «considerable inventiveness» to find the best group competitions to change the cultural norms of the high school.

(02/01/2012) New, radical theories in science often take time to be accepted, especially those that directly challenge longstanding ideas, contemporary policy or cultural norms.

New, radical theories in science often take time to be accepted, especially those that directly challenge longstanding ideas, contemporary policy or cultural norms.

Thus, it is important to increase the incentives for men to take on a greater share of unpaid labour and to challenge cultural norms that associate women with certain kinds of domestic labour if women are to be given a real choice about how they spend their time.

Likewise, regardless of cultural norms related to agency, a lawyer practising in Canada will be held to the prevailing standard of care about from whom to take instructions, and will not be able to rely, as a defence, on the traditional practice of a particular community.

Take employment law: First Nations governments often face complex employment issues arising due to jurisdictional anomalies, overlapping political and administrative functions, and complex issues surrounding traditional laws, cultural norms, race and competency.

Many mediators take process cues from legal cultural norms.

For the most part, taking someone else's musical idea and developing it in a new way is largely understood as part of musical culture and thus entirely consistent with cultural norms.

The survey also asked whether the site should better manage content involving extremist behavior and whether cultural norms should be taken into account.

By extension, S allele carriers may be more likely to demonstrate negative cognitive biases, such as engage in narrow thinking and cognitive focus, which facilitate maintenance to collectivistic cultural norms of social conformity and interdependence, whereas L allele carriers may exhibit positive cognitive biases, such as open, creative thinking and greater willingness to take risks, which promote individualistic cultural norms of self - expression and autonomy (Isen et al. 1987; Fredrickson 2001).

Along with this, «A Study of Three Measures of Expressed Emotion in a Sample of Chinese Families of a Person With Schizophrenia» (Li & Arthur, 2005) also shows that while there can be high levels of expressed emotion in families from these cultures, many times the cultural norms of the society must be taken into account in order to see the full picture of what is going on within the family environment.

In terms of communal relationships across cultures, these findings highlight an area of potential friction in relationships between American women, who based on cultural norms are likely to perceive themselves to be the top priority of their husband, versus Egyptian men, who based on different cultural norms are likely to perceive their mother's needs to take precedence over those of their wife.

Using experimental methods researchers have found support for: childhood stress (§ 6b) and father absence (§ 6c) lowering preferred age at first birth and increasing sexual risk taking [45,53]; attachment style (§ 6e) influencing parenthood - related thoughts [60]; cultural norms (§ 6m) discouraging reproduction outside stable unions [12]; women's reproductive autonomy (§ 6i) influencing their fertility preferences [47]; paternity uncertainty (§ 6j) discouraging parental investment by men [55]; high cost of children (§ 6l) encouraging delayed reproduction and lower fertility [36,47]; resource stress and limitation (§ 6o) affecting mating preferences [12,36,40,51]; and mortality risk and salience (§ 6p) encouraging a greater interest in children, earlier reproduction and higher fertility [6,41,42,45,57 — 59].