Sentences with phrase «cultural perception of»

This plays into our cultural perception of women being more nurturing, occupying the role of nurse or caregiver.

Becky's work is humorous, often using her physical body as a site to engage a dialog around social conditioning and cultural perception of femininity.

Roberta Smith, who in 1993 wrote for the New York Times Weekend in Review, «This exhibition exemplifies what seems to have become the New Museum's house style: a display of rather antiseptic, Conceptual - based artworks organized around a theme that is top - heavy with theory» continues to review the museum's exhibitions; Palestine remains under occupation; and while the cultural perception of AIDS has changed, from «gay cancer» to an African epidemic, the disease rages on world - wide.

Anderson - Staley's current work deals with photographic history and its relationship to our cultural perception of identity.

The Japanese rescue group, Sanctuary recently came up with an innovative idea to help change the cultural perception of cats and promote feline adoption.

In our hyper - connected and instantly gratified world today, has our cultural perception of time and history become hindered in any way?

But recent scientific studies are building a much stronger argument for the benefits of sharing sleep with our children.1 Yet even with the scientific support and the changing cultural perception of cosleeping, the subject is typically constrained to parents of infants.

According to a promotional video by artist Tore Knudsen (they created Pour Reception along with Simone Okholm and Victor Permild), the stereo «explores playful ways of interacting with technology that challenges our cultural perception of an interface.»

The cultural perceptions of love speak so loud, in fact, and with such consistency that we would be naive to think we don't enter into romantic relationships with a picture based largely on our surroundings.

«Black or White» is a frank, touching and very well - acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of «blackness» and «the race card,»... Continue reading →

«Black or White» is a frank, touching and very well - acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of «blackness» and «the race card,» and could have earned Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner fresh Oscar nominations.

Over time, these messages translate into cultural perceptions of the prestige and desirability of the particular organization and the field in general.

Examine the changing cultural perceptions of women in society and honor their contributions in the following lessons and activities.

Partly, Rose Madder is a colour I keep returning to — red is a colour of vitality and danger... but yes the cultural perceptions of that colour are intentional — mixing up the expectations and hoping to raise questions.

Gonzalez - Torres entangles his work with all of these associations by creating a situation in which others have the opportunity to ingest his artwork and, in so doing, simultaneously defy cultural perceptions of the steadfast nature of artwork and typical behavior in relation to a work of art.

A bubbly, welcoming figure in person, the artist seems a far cry from the firebrand who challenges cultural perceptions of the female body (take her «Plush» series of photographs of women's pubic hair, a commission for Playboy that never ran), and the fashion and beauty industries (in erotically charged, lush yet disquieting paintings like 2007's Blue Poles, a close - up of heavily shadowed eyes).

Key works include Andrew Erdos's Texture of a Ghost (2011), a 6 x 8 foot room featuring hand - blown glass sculptures and a video installation; Josiah McElheny's Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I)(2004); Luke Jerram's E. coli (2010), which explores the tension between scientific objectivity and cultural perceptions of viruses, diseases, and bacteria; twelve snow globes by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz from the Travelers series; three stained glass light boxes by Judith Schaechter; and a recent body of work by Czech Republic - based artist Karen LaMonte that highlights the role of the kimono in Japanese culture.

Her conceptual photographic «self portrait» scenes explore and question accepted female roles, cultural perceptions of race and gender, and, in the period covered here, a corruption of the male gaze.

In the following Figure, from her entertaining TEDxManchester talk The fascinating physics of everyday life, she shows how the physics of the every day applies over a huge range of scales (in time and space); bracketed between the exotic worlds of the extremely small (quantum mechanics) and extremely large (general relativity) which tend to dominate our cultural perceptions of physics today.

Professionals also find them difficult to resist, as they accord with cultural perceptions of mothers.

Not exact matches

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

City officials have been working overtime to counter that perception by making sure more New Yorkers feel the benefits of living in a cultural powerhouse.

This may also require a cultural shift in the perception of digital art and its value, but this cultural shift could well be instigated by applying technology, thereby adding financial value and scarcity to digital art.

Ingrained perceptions of cultural superiority of one group over others have led to conflicts such as the European invasion of the rest of the world to «civilize» them, and of Hitler Germany's attitude of ethnic purification towards Jews.

The religio - cultural traditions of the peoples all around the world are sources of life, giving identity, values, styles of life, perceptions and senses.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

Shortly after the curtain is pulled back from «The Religion of Peace» - everyone - at all levels of government will have to deal with a revised public perception of Islam as a cultural threat.

But it's all, really, an assault on the subtlest aspects of cultural perception: our sensibilities.

Those who converted to Islam in such a sectarian society might well experience changes in their inner perceptions, but they would also be faced with concrete and external changes in their social groups, marriage opportunities, and legal status, and in the body of linguistic and cultural skills they were expected to possess.2

It is, Mason argues, essentially a cultural problem, driven by both stigma and the perception of stigma.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

The multimedia, directed by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, life styles, perceptions of beauty and religious mystery, as well as ethnic national identities of persons and communities to the market's cultural wasteland.

Castoriadis's emphasis on the word «condition,» as well as his reference to both the biological and the cultural dimensions of perception, reinforces the claim that science, whenever it attempts to address the topic of mind, simply runs up against the limits of its own competency.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

We should instead anticipate that if all reality is somehow ingredient in our experience at the pole of primary perception, no particular expression could fully retrieve it, and different peoples will represent their primary perception in radically different ways, depending on cultural and historical conditions.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

I submit that the feminine mystique is paralleled by a ministerial mystique, a cultural image of the minister and the church which serves to blur our perception of reality and to rationalize individual and social failure of nerve.

It may be helpful to note, however, that an account of the perceptions and interpretations of the cultural context of theology and church life is as important as a description of a current trend in some graduate schools.

Crucially, when less leave is publicly «earmarked» for mothers, the shift in cultural perceptions should mean that men and women are considered equal in terms of the ability to care for their child, both in fact and in law.

The theme of this year's popular Indian cultural event is Anubhuti, or perception.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

«I think it caught on, probably because, A, it's very close to what we already have in terms of the word vomit, so it was easily accessible linguistically and then, B, it already fit in with a cultural perception» spread through works like the «Satyricon,» Bond said.

For example, we have seen a cultural sea change in the perception of Down's syndrome.

«Cultural groups in other parts of the world have distinct models of selfhood that are poorly reflected by previous models of culture and self - perceptions.

«Our new research provides a much richer and more accurate picture of cultural diversity in self - perceptions than was previously available.

She showed some of her public perception data indicating that regular citizens can make nuanced decisions and formulate sophisticated opinions, although they draw upon a variety of factors to do so including history, trust, controllability, familiarity, being informed, and cultural world views.

The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs.

Nutrition is a weird thing, driven by our traditional cultural foods, the desire for health, weight loss and muscle growth, but obscured by the desire to belong to a group, and the ever changing public perception of the «right way to eat».

It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio - cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.

Moreover, the recent explosion of sugar daddy websites is slowly changing the entire cultural perception and general acceptance of this concept.