Sentences with phrase «how cultural attitudes»

Safer, adjunct associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, said the Maryland data also raise questions about access to medical systems and how cultural attitudes play a role in whether parents agree to put their child on medication.

«The best education around gender violence and the most effective by far in working with men,» says Katz, «is having honest conversations about how cultural attitudes and beliefs about manhood... both contribute to perpetration and, in many cases, impede men's and young men's likelihood of challenging and interrupting abuse.»

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Arendt's attitude toward the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an informal gathering of anti- and ex-communists, indicates how severely critical she was of such CIA - sponsored clandestine activity in the early 1950s.

Attitudes toward the state, cultural assumptions, and self - designations all bear on how we do theology and should raise sensitivity in the area of preaching.

Exploring and reframing cultural beliefs and attitudes towards women in the childbirth process: how do our cultural beliefs affect our adaptation to the birth process?

(Actually, I'm quite fascinated by these exquisitely beautiful lunches — the cultural underpinnings, the attitudes of the moms who make them, how the kids react to them — and will post more about them later.)

Influence of beliefs Cultural beliefs and attitudes especially affect how a family perceives a child's illness, the health care and treatment options available to them, and what they decide about where and when to seek help.

To explore that issue, she is now looking beyond Kansas and across three continents, collecting data in Korea, Ghana and elsewhere in the U.S. Whereas more choice may lead to similar friends for U.S. college students, different social landscapes and broad cultural attitudes may introduce their own unique constraints on how people pick their friends.

Explores how attitudes have changed throughout history, from early medical drawings, 19th - century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts, to works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.

It is an invaluable lesson that makes Mud an extremely sophisticated and progressive examination on how adolescent masculinity is defined by often - contradictory cultural attitudes towards femininity.

In the background questionnaire, students will be asked to report how familiar they are with global issues; how developed their linguistic and communication skills are; to what extent they hold certain attitudes, such as respect for people from different cultural backgrounds; and what opportunities they have at school to develop global competence.

CEPA research includes what effects different instructional methods have on ELLs, how cultural differences and attitudes affect ELLs, the effectiveness of ELL programs, and other questions of importance to educators and policymakers.

The programme highlights how the deployment of new and innovative materials and technologies, as well as shifting cultural and social attitudes is affording alternative frameworks and understandings about contemporary experience, from educational models and street culture to collectively designing museums for African contexts.

They've been raised with a particular set of cultural attitudes, which have been reinforced by advertising & mass media, and don't have experience of living outside this box, or of how much more comfortable (IMHO, anyway) it can be.

I believe that the cultural cognition of present day climate change discussions can not be conducted without understanding of how these underlying philosophies affect modern attitudes.

How to keep your resume from making you look old Despite changing cultural attitudes about aging one constant remains: no one wants to appear older than they are.

The Cultural Values Survey (CVS; Chia et al., 1994) is a 45 - items questionnaire assessing how important is each proposed issue regarding seven areas linked to family: Family Solidarity (eight items), Executive Male Attitude (eight), Conscience (eight items), Equality of Sexes (seven), Temporal Farsightedness (four items), Independence (six items), Spousal Employment (three items).