Sentences with phrase «cultural realities of»

Influenced by their current location and distance from Pakistan, they address political, social and cultural realities of Pakistan and their present environments.

Collaborative efforts for bilingual / ESL teacher preparation should aim to make all aspects of the program relevant to the language and cultural realities of the students while also infusing rigor in pedagogy.

But the risk is that without attention to the social and cultural realities of raising children in a country that does not offer paid parental leave, does not invest in quality child care, and in general does not significantly support parents or children, these recommendations may leave parents in a difficult or even untenable bind.

It is not just the skepticism of intellectuals or the inadequacies of moral education but the structural and cultural realities of our society in this historical moment that make us doubt any kind of transcending narrative.

It is a revelation to find a novel exposing the commercial and cultural realities of pornography, contraception including the alleged suppression by the pharmaceutical industry of the Pill's connection to the incidence of breast cancer.

But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing «a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people.

... The military and cultural reality of the terrain may favor having embedded social scientists be uniformed and armed,... but the possibility that social scientists themselves would have to fire their weapons and perhaps kill local people... is guaranteed to engender academia's deep hostility.»

These can be read in distinct but overlapping registers, evoking at once the raw internal spaces of the body and the psyche, the humanist and realist painterly tradition of Rembrandt, Soutine and Bacon, and the wider cultural reality of social and political upheaval, violence and trauma.

The artists» varied backgrounds contribute to an inclusive point of view on the larger cultural reality of the contemporary world.

One of the first modern European artists to be acknowledged in Latin America, Lucio Fontana is also one of the first of his ilk to be influenced by the cultural reality of this region.

Not exact matches

This is a shared cultural event at a time when the notion of everyone watching the same program on the same network at the same time is a distant memory, totally disconnected from our new reality of Netflix (nflx), Hulu, Amazon Video (amzn), HBO Go or Apple TV (aapl) delivering our favorite shows, which increasingly aren't even produced by the major networks.

If your business depends on the engagement, creativity and free thinking of your teams, you must do your part to move the creation of a culture of conversation from abstract ideal to cultural reality.

These cultural shifts have been evolving for decades — it is high time tech companies figured out how to accommodate reality instead of pretending it's still 1955.

Are we going to have to have a cultural moment, where we're coming to grips with what it means to interface with imaginary worlds layered on top of reality?

While she acknowledges this as the cultural reality, Welch herself is having none of it, and doesn't think other parents need to conform to it, either.

However, these initiatives have drawn criticism for appealing to Malay nationalist sentiments without understanding the economic realities of various other cultural groups.

Companies are breaking boundaries in every aspect of travel from virtual reality apps to cultural exchange platforms

This won't just happen, cultural change & a system of engagement are necessary to make it a reality.

Simon Brault, director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, says the #MeToo movement shed an important light on «unacceptable realities» within cultural sector.

But at the same time, it was also his need and desire to overcome those same cultural differences and language barriers that has given more meaning and value to the reality of settling into a new Canadian life.

Too often, the Church fails to connect the dots and sees the oppression of women as something far removed from our reality: something that happens abroad as a result of extreme political regimes, or cultural assumptions that are restricted to the global South.

It is abundantly clear and the evidence has shown through the history and by adopting the maxim of parsimony in a cultural biogeographic context — we can say that religion is not a force of reality.

For its principles of order, the foundations for its reality, are solely cultural.

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

The clichés are untouched by the reality of the moral, social, and cultural conflicts at the heart of contemporary politics.

But dealing with these realities requires sure footing, and many find it easier to bend with the times than to confront a popular cultural shift in spite of its obvious hazards and horrific social results.

The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only by clariflying what universal realities are worth living and dying for, can we find hope.

Of course it does, but to state matters in that way implies that there is something else with which cultural phenomena could be contrasted, such as a metaphysical reality.

The reality is that those really concerned about human dignity are those who are willing to place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties of cultural trends.

This new cultural reality raises some anxieties, but it also presents many of us with an opportunity to rediscover Christian witness in a world that we do not control.

Facing this reality brings us back to the long and arduous work of cultural change — including the political realm, but without neglecting the academy, entertainment, religion, and the arts.

All reality is perceived and spoken of from a cultural, class or sexual perspective.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

That understanding has already been superceded in theoretical physics, which I will also return to briefly, but that image of reality is still dominant at the level of cultural consciousness.

Really, the problem really is about semantics and the conceptualization of something in the light of cultural (i.e. religious) views that we grow with; in reality, we are thinking about the same, just modeling differently.

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

She laughs at the fantasy she has of America, but innumerable others have grown up in cultural enclaves that define for them an America that is similarly at odds with the reality.

For, is not the recognition of thorough cultural relativity the abandonment of the sense of reality?

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

The reality of things, which must be at once independent of any interpretation and yet connectable with other interpreters, regardless of cultural selectivity, evaporates inexorably.

The cultural and political reality is that millions of Americans, a majority of Americans, believe that abortion is precisely that — the taking of an innocent human life.

We will have to consider both the idea and the reality of cultural pluralism to see whether it has any substance or is merely a screen for the dominance of the Anglo - Saxon minority.

This involves no assertions one way or another about the value or validity of other cultural - linguistic systems or about the relation of Christian faith to any nonlinguistic reality.

Further, what «God» truly means is oppressive, and it is good news that the course of cultural history has put an end to God's reality.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

What Mr. Van Biema does not know, at least to judge by his essay in Time, is the political, cultural and religious reality of America, both past and present.

In the growth in knowledge and love of God, Israel develops as a religious and cultural reality deeply ingrained with the fundamental insights of God as the one creator who is infinite love itself and holds all things in being.

It includes the imprecise appropriation of Whitehead's vision of reality and the application of his vision and ideas to a wide variety of cultural and theological problems.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.