Sentences with phrase «cultural terms»

The most significant technology, in cultural terms, turns out to be not the steam turbine, or X-rays, or radio waves.

What, for example, do water, wine, wheat, work, creativity, and leisure mean in popular cultural terms?

As a result, we are still struggling to identify what, in cultural terms, works to uphold a cultural approach to ethics and integrity.

On the basis of his own teaching experience, Hirsch concluded that many American students lacked the basic knowledge of cultural terms and concepts that are necessary for academic advancement.

Some of the selections for 2014 stemmed from overall frustration and fatigue with cultural terms.

In purely cultural terms, a Christian from Minnesota may feel he has more in common with a secular Jew from Tel Aviv than a Christian from Tur Abdin.

It certainly appeals to those who have been left behind in economic and cultural terms by the effects of globalisation and its supporters tend to be more male, more elderly and less well educated than the population as a whole.

Led by writer and educator Adrian Rifkin, these Wednesday evening workshops explore the meanings and histories of key cultural terms significant to you.

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

Though people may describe themselves by using terms like «gay» or «queer» which are commonly used in today's culture, as Christians who believe in man created in the image of God, we should ask if these cultural terms are, in fact, true ontological categories of the human person, in accord with the blueprint of human existence.

We have for centuries made the mistake of equating femaleness and male - ness, which are biological terms, with femininity and masculinity which are cultural terms.

But in the meantime, church pews have become microcosms of an America that is increasingly self - sorting in socioeconomic and cultural terms.

Even the makeup of the resulting New Deal electoral coalition is most easily described in religious and cultural terms: an alliance of Catholic and Jewish ethnics, with help from Southern and Black Protestants, and a leavening of urban cosmopolitans.

The working class family — and these are cultural terms, not financial brackets — is more stable residentially, and above all the young are much more street, district and school conscious in their social contacts, with the school very much a minor, not a major element in the package.

In the media's low intensity strategy against the people and their communities, the people of low social class or status are stereotyped as second - class humans in religious and cultural terms, as well as in socio - economic terms.

In cultural terms, soap operas and TV generally show bottle - rather than breastfeeding as part of daily life with a new baby.

These practices were, in cultural terms, deeply offensive.

Articulations of class division in cultural terms have become stronger in Labour since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader.

Is it possible to generalize, in socioeconomic and cultural terms, about which students fall into the «winners» category and which into the «losers» one?

To see the festival act as a catalyst in propelling the gaming medium forward in cultural terms is both fitting and testament to the firm, clear vision of the organizers that has weathered the storm of changing fashions around it.

The title is inspired by Goldsmiths digital media theorist Luciana Parisi's rethinking of notions of sex and gender on biological and cultural terms and posits a «post-sex adequate to a radically expanded conception of what it is to be human».

Perhaps the best way to describe them is in historical and cultural terms: Most of them have little to no memory of the Cold War; seminal events such as the Challenger explosion and Chernobyl; or life before computers were commonplace in offices, schools, and homes.