Sentences with phrase «cultural status in»

The essays and works of art from three generations of authors and artists reflect the city's cultural status in the contemporary art world.

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The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

What are the cultural and legal changes we should all push for in the fight against the unacceptable status quo in many workplaces?

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Fundamentalists» discursive and communal richness is a form of «cultural capital,» giving people status within their religious communities much in the same way that wealth or education might give them prestige in the secular world.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

Extra-religious influences making for differentiation are represented by technical, cultural, social, economic developments, resulting in social stratification according to differences of sex and age, property, occupation and status.

Her status as a cultural anomaly was strengthened by her schedule: She spent hours a day in prayer and attended church services whenever her health permitted her, including on weekdays.

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

Does the discussion in Christ Without Myth take adequate account of the nature and status of myth as a cultural form, and thus as an indispensable ingredient of history?

His phenomenal success in reversing the ascendancy of the Philistines, in seizing the famous fortress of Jerusalem for his nation's capital, and in extending his sway and influence until he was the mightiest monarch between the Euphrates and Egypt transformed the face not alone of the Hebrews» cultural status but of their politics also.

On the other hand, conscious of their minority status in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation, Catholics naturally feared the restrictions which the hostile minority could impose on them if they translated cultural leverage into political power.

Religious and cultural pluralism became a reality, and this affected the status of the Protestant minister in the American community.

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

«Theologians», who had labored in libraries down the centuries to dialogue with the cultures and thought - forms of the dominant only to find those resources that help our theology legitimize the status - quo, now need to cast their net to fish in the cultural resources of the marginalized.

It is precisely because of the particular shape of the Christ - event as Paul understands it — as a gift (1:6, 15) given without regard for its recipients» worth, status, honor, or cultural capital, whether Jewish or pagan (1:14 - 15; 6:15), delivering them from enslavement to cosmic powers (4:1 - 7)-- that Paul deems circumcision unnecessary and, in the Galatians» case, at least, positively forbidden (5:4).

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

Peter Marshall's sermons demonstrate the way in which pastors uncritically foster cultural ideals by giving them divine status as God's will.

Men wrote as they thought and believed in terms that were consonant with their peculiar cultural status at the time, and so the burden of being scientific in a prescientific era may not fairly be laid upon them.

Joe Coffman skillfully managed to commit his group to a post-SMU-game party (or pre-Texas-OU-game party) in the cultural suburbs, where the status symbols are a lawn of St. Augustine grass and a full - growing mimosa tree.

Given the cultural hand - wringing over decreasing marital rates, divorce and stepparenting, and the rise in non-nuclear families and non-marital births, her proposal to create a legal status seems to make a lot of sense; family law has not kept up with the vast changes in the marital landscape.

The various historical dimensions of stratification — class, racial, geographical, cultural — in British society have, far from being eroded by societal development since 1945, been preserved through amalgamation into a more unitary, crude, and yet subtly pervasive overarching dimension of status.

In November last year, the Ghanaian hiplife artiste was honoured with international cultural ambassador status which allows him to organise events, run cultural exchange programmes, among others, in a capacity as an international cultural ambassador for CincinnatIn November last year, the Ghanaian hiplife artiste was honoured with international cultural ambassador status which allows him to organise events, run cultural exchange programmes, among others, in a capacity as an international cultural ambassador for Cincinnatin a capacity as an international cultural ambassador for Cincinnati.

He seemed to play with his cultural status,» says Hélène Mialet, an anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, who courted controversy in 2012 with the publication of her book Hawking Incorporated.

Reports: Iraq: Mosul, Iraq: Destruction of Nebi Yunis (Tomb of the Prophet Jonah) Syria: Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's Tentative World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Azerbaijan: High - Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Report

This is partly due to the lower status of applied research in academic circles, though another cultural difference may also be important.

Today the study of social psychology explores in much greater depth how cultural influences, social status and other factors contribute to a person's mind - set and behaviors.

He made a series of statements in a 1978 Science paper that are startling given his role as a spokesperson for science: ``... unconscious or dimly perceived finagling, doctoring, and massaging are rampant, endemic, and unavoidable in a profession [science] that awards status and power for clean and unambiguous discovery»; «unconscious manipulation of data may be a scientific norm»; «scientists are human beings rooted in cultural contexts, not automatons directed toward external truth».

The second half of the 20th century, and the rise of television, introduced yet a new change in communication technology that was accompanied by the rise of a new cultural icon: the sports figure, who for the first time in history rose to the status of global celebrity.

«Arts participation, unlike arts consumption and cultural engagement generally, is not closely associated with either social class or social status,» said Dr Reeves in the article.

Research has long shown that people prefer to be in groups that are thought to have higher status or cultural value as a way of boosting self - image and projecting an impressive image to others.

When it comes to career planning, international scholars have additional significant challenges to consider: 1) cultural adjustment: it is important to know how to effectively go through the four stages of cultural adjustment (the honeymoon, frustration, adjustment and acceptance); to communicate and perform effectively; and to develop and establish an efficient network from scratch in the United States to ultimately secure the next career chapter; 2) immigration status: it is essential to be aware of the various immigration and visa options that are relevant at different points of one's career.

In this role, the research center provides the public and decision makers with relevant scientific information about the status and trends of natural, cultural, and recreational resources found in those portions of Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area affected by Glen Canyon Dam operationIn this role, the research center provides the public and decision makers with relevant scientific information about the status and trends of natural, cultural, and recreational resources found in those portions of Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area affected by Glen Canyon Dam operationin those portions of Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area affected by Glen Canyon Dam operations.

About Site - We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

An important settlement for more than two millennial, Paris is today one of the worlds leading business and cultural centers, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the worlds major global cities.

About Blog We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

Frank is a genuine original in a summer sea of sameness, and a darkly comedic manifesto against the cultural status quo.

As any child of the»80s with a BBFC - disapproved checklist of the era's video nasties could attest, it's a rare missing - in - action title that lived up to the promise of its «Here Be Dragons» cultural status.

All signs point towards an inevitable Oscar win, assured by the combination of the quality of performance, her beloved status in the industry and the cultural significance of the character.

Me Before You seems destined to make a modest profit in light of its reasonable $ 20 million budget, but major hit status or lasting cultural impact are thankfully beyond its reach.

Many of those few films are held in high regard, but they never enjoy the multi-generational cultural icon status

A scene following a party crash and armed intimidation comes close to instant classic status as our quartet of first - generation ABC hoods pulls up alongside Hispanic gang - members of a more traditional Southern California breed, the cultural tension erupting in a recognition of racial transference that borders on brilliant.

It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.

A valuable reminder about some brilliant black folks gifted and daring enough to make seminal cultural and social contributions to the nation in spite of their potentially - crippling, color - coded, second - class status.

Dragon Quest 3 is where the series went from being merely successful to being a cultural phenomenon in Japan, a status it still holds in the present day.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

Ross» visage has taken on cultural icon status since his death in 1995, his soft tone and signature afro having been parodied by a number of comedians throughout the years.

Then came the nerd - cool days and the high tech revolution, a status - obsessed culture of consumption, more sophisticated and devastating U.S. imperialist wars, purblind postmodern doxa, and, of course, the trend towards cultural studies in the academy.

But in fact, by suppressing the student's natural tendency to make — and to want to make — moral judgments; by relentlessly denigrating the student's core western cultural heritage; and by pandering to the supposed victim status of some cultures in relation to others, this ideology is a recipe for further alienating a generation already too comfortable with a fashionable distrust of authority.