Sentences with phrase «cultural status of»

Under Section 94 of the ATSIC Act 1989, each Regional Council was required to develop a Regional Plan which aimed at «improving the economic, social, and cultural status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of the region.»

First, to represent «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of the region and to act as an advocate of their interests»53 and second, to develop Regional Plans «for improving the economic, social, and cultural status of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander residents of the region.»

Of course, governments and local councils have been using the spectacular power of large - scale or monolithic exhibitions to boost the economic viability and cultural status of cities and countries since the 19th century — an impulse that still drives biennial fever today.

Mackie's latest paintings restage the trivial rivalries and immense cultural status of these artists and others, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who publicly argued with not one, but three of his contemporaries: John Ruskin, John Everett Millais, and Oscar Wilde.

To enhance the professional and cultural status of educators, we need policies, practices, and resources to support the following:

Well concerning the matter of biblical cultural status of women then yeah I guess that is reasonable.

Not exact matches

If becoming a verb is the ultimate sign of achieving the status of genuine cultural phenomenon, then Marie Kondo's book, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up has managed this milestone.

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».

«There was almost a cultural ennui where everyone was so used to the status quo that the notion of questioning it seemed almost, if I may say, unnecessary,» she said.

«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.

How did this girl, born into modest means to communist survivors of China's Cultural Revolution, transform into an international superstar and win the «invited status» she can now flaunt, to the overwhelmingly male and European Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture?

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

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.

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Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

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.

Even the most liberal denominations like the Unitarian Universalists function to conserve the cultural commitments of the middle - class status - quo.

Thusly, I do concur that the premise of the cultural paradigm of expressionism holds that art is capable of social comment, but only if the cultural paradigm of the narrative is invalid; if that is not the case, Truth is used to reinforce the status quotient.

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.

Much of The Uncertain Phoenix comprises an account of the intellectual and cultural background, present status, and possible future of technological society.

And since scientists have little to gain from such a turn — it can even represent a loss of cultural status — the move can not be considered a matter of self - interest.

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.

Thus, the premise of the cultural paradigm of expression holds that art is capable of social comment, but only if the cultural paradigm of narrative is invalid; if that is not the case, truth is used to reinforce the status quo.

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.

One of the benefits of America's status as a cultural melting pot is that new cuisines are always waiting to be discovered.

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.

You have the right to receive services from the agency without discrimination on the basis of age, sex, religion, ethnic background, cultural heritage, national origin, marital status, sexual preference, or special needs.

It is mark of cultural status and that you are successful.

By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

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.

Aside from economic and cultural ties, part of the Serbian rationale for a close relationship with Russia and fraught one with the EU is the contested status of Kosovo.

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».

Song compared two competing theories for how the status of the people we know affect our mental health, as well as two cultural explanations for why that mental health effect can vary across society.

The fisheries are an important source of finance, protein and cultural identity, but information can be scarce on their status — despite often being listed as one of the major threats to turtle populations.

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.

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.