Sentences with phrase «how culture shapes»

We all need to understand how culture shapes child development in order to improve the lives of children in a way that respects their cultural backgrounds.

Her work focuses on how culture shapes social cognition, with a particular focus on mind perception, religion, cooperation, and morality.

How culture shapes social - emotional development: Implications for practice in infant - family programs.

Learn how culture shapes our idea of what God is, what our purpose is, and why some religions last, while others fade with fallen dynasties.

In doing so, students gain an understanding of how culture shapes personal and social perspectives and interactions.

Part of her job is talking with Israelis in industry about their energy needs and understanding how the culture shapes energy consumption.

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate Andrew J. Hoffman Stanford Briefs (Stanford University Press), Stanford, CA, 2015 Paperback: 120 pp.

«Our research suggests that scientists, policymakers, and activists need to understand how culture shapes the psychological antecedents of action to develop policies, campaigns, and interventions that address important social issues.»

Not exact matches

Our COO Leo gave a talk recently about how company culture isn't something you can really shape, but rather how you have to sit, observe and write down what you see.

How can you, as a leader, shape the environment and breed the startup culture that exudes creativity, innovation and autonomy without actually retracing your company's evolutionary progress?

That ability — to actually shape the culture, talk about the things we're going to do, how we're going to treat each other, what we want our values to be — is different.

Each location develops its own culture, said Levy, who's looking forward to seeing how the next five communities take shape.

However, our culture shapes how we view the world and, subsequently, how we understand God.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

I stumbled into the evangelical world by a kind of accident 15 years ago when some colleagues and I wanted to understand how the culture of a seminary shapes the ministers who are formed there.

We know today, much more vividly than did our philosophical and theological predecessors, how important economic arrangements are in shaping the values, ideologies and cultures of various states.

We need a conceptuality that shows how deeply human beings are shaped by culture and how much they change as their cultures change.

It is a great glimpse into how classical thinking shaped our culture.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

Makoto» Mako for short» says his favorite museum is the Cloisters, one of the four required exhibits chosen to help students understand how art has the power to shape culture.

At the same time video can return the emphasis of theology to story, although we really have no idea yet how this universal electronic - image medium is going to shape theology and culture.

Ed Roden saw this exact same issue and addressed the need to consider the people of a culture and how they have been shaped:

How are we to make of Jesus, God, the Sprite, the church and its task and mission in a society shaped by religious cultures other than that of Christianity?

We explored how every city and culture was shaped by the presence of at least one committed follower of Jesus.

But the response reveals something of the way we tend to think about our faith traditions — as systems to either accept or reject rather than little cultures that (for better or worse... or, more likely, a bit of both) indelibly shape how we think, who we know, what we fear and long for and love.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

It gives us some insight into their history, the cultures that have shaped their food choices, and how they live their lives.

«Clean label» has been a rallying cry for years, but in the Instagram age — where trends and preferences change more quickly than ever — it's difficult to pin down exactly how location, culture, age and other factors are shaping the clean label movement and creating unique challenges and opportunities.

It's made me think a lot about how bent out of shape our culture is about the natural process of aging.

And I loved French Kids Eat Everything and I even put this book: Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent on my registry because it looks so interesting to me.

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I just finished «Our Babies, Ourselves» by Meredith Small about how biology and culture shape the way parenting happens all over the world.

Dr. Meredith F. Small, author of «Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent,» reports that in a survey of 186 societies, researchers found that «infants are carried most of the time in nonindustrial societies, 56 percent of the time in less traditional societies, and 25 percent of the time in the United States.»

Small «s 1999 book, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent provides several case studies that illustrate the differences in parenting within a variety of cultures.

You might enjoy reading «Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology & Culture Shape the Way We Parent» by (Cornell anthropologist) Meredith Small.

Small, Meredith OUR BABIES, OURSELVES: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent Anchor, 1999 Why do so many babies in the US sleep in cribs?

Our babies, ourselves: how biology and culture shape the way we parent.

Cultures are cognitive structures that shape how people view themselves, relate to the world and to each other.

Likewise, the Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis (not to be confused with Michael Dorn) posits that language not only reflects the culture, but even shapes how the world is perceived.

On Monday night, the PBS program American Experience will take a look at how entertainment icon Walt Disney helped shape our culture.

How can today's education prepare them to make sense of how the world works; to think critically and independently; and to lead interesting, responsible, and productive lives in a culture increasingly shaped by science and technoloHow can today's education prepare them to make sense of how the world works; to think critically and independently; and to lead interesting, responsible, and productive lives in a culture increasingly shaped by science and technolohow the world works; to think critically and independently; and to lead interesting, responsible, and productive lives in a culture increasingly shaped by science and technology?

The video explains how the rift's geology produced both the scenery and its geoheritage — how it shaped the area's culture and growth.

She offers a fascinating history of how catastrophic natural events — including the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Iceland's Laki volcanic eruption in 1783 (SN: 2/17/15, p. 29) and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — have shaped politics, culture and society.

People could benefit from a more comprehensive view of the brain, one that includes how biology, environment and culture shape behavior.

In his new book Why Humans Like to Cry, neurologist Trimble delves into how evolution and culture seemingly shaped the human brain to express emotion on a higher level than the rest of the animal kingdom.

Talhelm cautions that the question is still open as to how much the thinking style of a culture shapes political beliefs in the real world.

In technology, the big question is how societies and culture shape, and in turn are shaped by, the technologies they create.

«How early is infants» attention to objects and actions shaped by culture?