Sentences with phrase «how social constructions»

Aside from research design biases, Fine also notes how social constructions of gender shape the situations people encounter, and their subjective meaning.

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And as Berger has written in his famous work, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), what one knows often depends on what society one lives in, where one resides in that society, and how one «chooses» his parents or occupation.

This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

«It's shocking to see how few articles discussed risk to the general population, and when they did, they typically characterized risk as low,» said Pascale, who studies the social construction of risk and meanings of risk in the 21st century.

Tobias Oriwol, a project developer at Monadnock Development, the construction company behind the space, told me how this type of manageable, straight - forward apartment design speaks to an underlying social trend.

Abstract: The article intitled the solidarity and participative reinvention of the university: another world is possible discusses the economic, social and cultural transformations that have occurred worldwide in recent decades and how it has made possible the construction of a participatory, solidarity and collaborative ethics in project management within the university and community.

Other sessions explore how digital marketing, social media and related tools can increase customer retention and loyalty, as well as those that examine how new metals that are being used in the construction of today's vehicles are impacting the repair process.

Other sessions explore how digital marketing, social media and related tools can increase customer retention and loyalty, as well as those that examine how new metals used in the construction of today's vehicles impact the repair process.

The time - honored image of the cowboy, continually recycled, can never fail to remind the viewer of how images are constructed and more broadly how these visual constructions reflect the social apparatus that controls human desire.

The exhibition spans three galleries within the Zaha Hadid - designed museum, anchored by overarching themes within each: «Shifting Identities» explores how a changing China alters constructions of identity; «Body as Site» focuses on the physical body as a literal and figurative site of discussion and debate; and «Confronting Tradition» highlights the ways in which artists draw inspiration from classical texts, teachings, and artistic practices to reinterpret and question evolving power structures and social norms.

Recent solo show (in) visible space: a series of visual essays that explored the links between the South Asian queer body and the social constructions of space and how those racialised queer bodies are read depending on the interlinked performance of gender and ethnicity through dress.

The artists will reflect on cultural constructions and social frameworks in the special context of China and how all these form individual identities and artistic practices as well as define relations in the system that we urgently need to question.

The artists will also explore how different formats of exhibitions, contexts and conditions of appearance can reflect individual attitudes towards our social constructions.

The absence of such contributes to many social ills, whether failing to understand how health risks should be borne by a broad support to help curtail individual risk, the purpose of insurance, performance of social systems, or how reducing individual costs by allowing coastal construction in flood zones is based upon a lottery mindset.

The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.

This popular resource recently released by BuilderBooks, the publishing arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), teaches builders and residential construction professionals how to use social media tools such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube, to increase their visibility and improve their sales results.

RISMEDIA, February 17, 2010 — Builder Books, the publishing arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently released a new resource for builders and residential construction professionals that will teach them how to use social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to increase their visibility and improve their sales results.