Sentences with phrase «cultural shifts from»

The No Regrets Guide to Getting It Done, would like to see a general cultural shift from punishing lateness to rewarding the early bird.

Government - commissioned research calls for a cultural shift from rappers, sportsmen and celebrities to lawyers, doctors and other professionals.

With the world watching the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, advocates want a win for canines — a cultural shift from cruelty to compassion

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She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

At first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regime.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

Much current discussion of cultural, religious, moral, and intellectual pluralism uses the concept «pluralism» in a way that seems to shift from a descriptive use («such diversity does in fact exist») to an evaluative and even celebratory use («such diversity is a good thing and should exist»).

It is more than a coincidence that this theological shift is mirroring a massive cultural shift in society at large, where in the space of one generation attitudes to homosexuality have gone from prohibition to tolerance, and now to celebration.

The cultural shift he describes is particularly alarming: The doctor — patient relationship is now under the cloud of assisted suicide in Oregon, which raises suspicions among patients and prevents some from seeking out the kind of quality end - of - life and palliative care that compassionate physicians can provide.

The autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

This will require a cultural shift — driven by stronger and more strategic business leaders — away from the existing environment of price - based competition and fear of local competitors.

Kids from that era had the benefit of growing up during an extreme cultural paradigm shift (e.g. feminist movement, deconstruction, dawn of digital age, etc) which seemed to bring a fair amount of empowerment with it, so maybe they've just been socialized to think that there supposed to be doing MORE than what they saw their mothers do.

«Our role shifted from just a place to come and admire greenery to forming a more social and cultural role in the community as well,» said Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance Executive Director Eunita Rushing.

This marriage gap results from a shifting kaleidoscope of social, cultural and economic factors.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

What we kept coming back to is that API's goal is nothing short of a massive cultural shift away from what Barbara called a «punishing culture» and toward compassion.

I feel driven to help our society shift its cultural attitude from viewing sleep as a luxury and the need for it as a sign of weakness.

Cultural innovations and child care practices and, importantly, the dynamic social values and ideologies that legitimize them, shift quite rapidly relative to evolutionary - based changes in fundamental infant biology.1 This raises the possibility that widely recommended infant care practices can be at odds with the human infant's biological, psychological and emotional needs and expectations, at least as inferred from the human infant's evolutionary past.

It includes a series of case studies and recommendations from organisations that are working to shift cultural practices and norms:

The «Prayer Survey»: http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1704430/prayersurvey.pdf The Church of England's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/03/four-out-of-five-believe-in-the-power-of-prayer.aspx Read the previous BHA press release, «Census results show huge shift in cultural identity from Christianity to no religion», 11 December 2012: http://humanism.org.uk/2012/12/11/census-results-show-huge-shift-in-cultural-identity-from-christianity-to-no-religion/ The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

To tap into cultural indicators of individualism, Grossmann and Varnum looked at trends in baby names over time (from Social Security Administration data), changes in word usage in books over time (using the Google Ngram database), and shifts in family structure, including family size and prevalence of multigenerational households (using U.S. Census data).

How can we make a cultural shift toward giving ourselves more space for creativity in the workplace, and consider time spent away from work a critical way to «recharge»?

Whether that's Meghan Trainor singing about her booty, Gisele kickboxing, women kicking ass in Spartan Race, or even someone like Kimanzi Constable talking about how men struggle with body image, too, the cultural conversation has shifted from an obsession with flat abs to a commitment to loving what we've got and treating our bodies with care.

Since the 1980s, there has been a 20 percent decline in visits to U.S. national parks and a cultural shift away from nature - based recreation in favor of things like the indoor screen time.

This program intends to shift the current cultural healthcare perspective from the passive patient model to a more active model where the patient is a student of their own processes and becomes empowered to be a proactive participant in their own healing.

The dress is light in weight, simple, and a classic, but the shift dress is just more than a style, it feels like a beautiful remnant from the past that has been symbolic of a cultural change.

There will be much to complain about this year, but it's important to celebrate when something this significant shifts organically as it has here, with original stories being told from different cultural perspectives.

It was pointed out that the shared cultural experience of cinema has largely disappeared, apart from behemoths like Star Wars, and shifted to television — another suggested nail in the coffin of Chick Flicks.

They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

With this in mind, cultural response balloons out into a much larger consideration for the classroom, one that will shift and change from year to year as demographics, students and our political landscape ebb and flow.

This mandate doesn't have to come from Washington, D.C., but each pilot program should be seen as part of a larger cultural shift.

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

The ongoing shift from heavily immigrant to primarily native - born children means schools must address other issues, particularly poverty and cultural identity.

Creating a cultural shift in a school from teachers working alone in their classrooms to a model of collaboration and interdisciplinary projects usually requires support from the top.

Modern thinking on bullying acknowledges the complexity of the problem, and has shifted responsibility away from teachers and administrators, emphasizing instead the positive effects of broader networks and school - wide cultural transformations.

Two decades and billions of secured funding from the National Lottery (immune from government cuts) later and the results are all to be gloriously shared in with such a wealth of diversity and dedication thanks to a cultural and financial shift.

Like a law firm, we empower highly compensated, full - time practitioners (teachers) as the school's primary decision - makers, and use cultural relevancy, agency and neuroscience to shift the school's enterprise from merely providing information to intentional human development.

«This decisive vote helps restore the pride in being multi-lingual as a valued skill and reflects a cultural shift toward openness and acceptance of people from all different backgrounds.»

This enrollment milestone reflects not only a cultural shift but also a host of challenges for educators, including more students living in poverty, more students learning English as an additional language, and more whose life experiences will differ from those of their teachers.

It will require more than a few local efforts like the one in Milwaukee to make the American school system more inclusive and fair; it will require a much larger cultural shift and an about - face from government at all levels.

Graduation rates stagnated in the 1970s, despite a major cultural shift to thinking about completing high school as part of the normal life course and dropping out as deviance from that normative path.

«These leaders must be equipped to work with the dramatic and active demographic shifts and upset the evolving political, economic, and cultural realities that impede administrators from achieving their potential,» said Dr. Dawn Williams Salters, chair of the department of educational leadership and policy studies at HUSOE.

In this podcast, Dr. Freiberg explains district responsibilities under the state anti-bullying statutes; explores the need for a cultural shift away from punishing bad behavior to teaching kids essential life skills; and, discusses restorative practices and the positive outcomes achieved by schools that are implementing them.

This mutually adaptive approach constitutes a major shift in perspective for educators but, we believe, an essential one if we are to reframe the conversation from deficiencies to cultural dissonance.

Inspiring a cultural revolution by shifting the paradigm from head to heart and co-creating a more a passionate, compassionate, loving and interconnected world.

It focuses on companies that will benefit from «increased environmental legislation, cultural shifts towards environmentally conscious consumption, and capital investments in environmentally oriented projects.»

Since 1877, the historic American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy movement, legislative effort, and shift in cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children, and protecting pets and farm animals from abuse and neglect.

Just a stones throw away from Europe, the cultural shift can often come as a surprise.