Sentences with phrase «how social structure»

Macdonald kicked off the conference with a fascinating talk in which he explained, among other things, where the domestic cat fits into the larger family of cats (Felidae) and how their social structure compares to that of various wild cats.

He reported that the experience gave him his first intuitive insights into how a social structure (in this case, the rules of the game) affects individual behaviors.

The Showroom presents two newly commissioned projects that address questions of (in) visibility in relation to how social structures and conditions are experienced in everyday life and made visible, or not, and why this is so.

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How will you structure your blog posts and social media interactions?

And I'm now rethinking how our team is structured and organized so we can drive social engagement like never before.»

The essays collected in the latest of the pop culture and philosophy series offer insights about how Nietzsche's exploration of the positive power of active forgetting can illuminate the Draper, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson characters; a comparison between the social structure of Sterling Cooper and an Aristotelian definition of friendship; and a glimpse into the Existential Void of Roger Sterling.

Last year, Facebook's first president Sean Parker and former executive Chamath Palihapitiya both expressed serious misgivings about Facebook and how it messes with people's psychological and social structures.

The other problem I would say is that because of how the social sector is structured, we often have a mindset that everything needs to be done fairly big.

Your founders and board of directors may also have concerns about how to protect your social mission in a legal structure that is very flexible and can be changed by current or future shareholders.

In Japan, for instance, there is a whole etiquette about how far and how long to bow to whom depending on their and your place in the social structure.

Honesty really has become the best policy no matter how clever or well - established we are in hierarchical social power structure!

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

Luther clearly grasped how the money - Vatican in his day was undermining the traditional social structures of Christianity.

«The Church also ought to ask why are they poor, why are they oppressed and how do we change our social and political structures to achieve justice as an outworking of the kingdom of God.»

No matter how alienating past and present social structures were or are, countervailing transformative trends can be nurtured and, in the case of past histories, discerned.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

I am perfectly satisfied with Evolution's «explanation» of how certain philosophies arise and perhaps codified into religion or other social structure.

The ideal tax structure, it was suggested, would be a volumetric tax on all alcoholic beverages, applied at the same rate of tax per litre of alcohol across all beverages.6 However, the review did not provide any detailed estimates or modelling of the optimal tax rate on alcohol nor how this would affect government revenue, overall consumption or changes in the social costs from harmful consumption.

Thanks for pointing to how the social institution of education does structure parenting practices and possibilities.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

Basically, a mix of customs and social structures governs the relationship, and all sides are usually fairly clear about how the process works.

Facebook shareholders Julia Goodridge, North Star Asset Management, and Ross Gerber, Gerber Kawasaki, discuss proxy advisor ISS urging better corporate governance at the social media giant in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and how the company's dual - share structure complicates the process.

It is about how to accelerate the achievements of our collective desires for shared prosperity; it is about how to give power back to our people, the electorate; it is about how to reduce social exclusion; it is about unimpeded access to jobs, healthcare delivery, education; It's about changing the structure of the economy; it's about placing emphasis and I mean more emphasis on industry and value addition.

All human societies have been shaped by religion, leading psychologists to wonder how it arose, and whether particular forms of belief have affected other aspects of evolved social structure.

How we shape the technologies and data flows will have far - reaching effects for the social structures of the digital societies of the future.»

Likewise, certain aspects of group structure and social behaviour distinguish humans from other primates and almost certainly emerged through major evolutionary events, yet there has been no consensus on how to detect aspects of group behaviour in the fossil or archaeological records.

«The idea that social interaction may have facilitated or led to selection for us to be individually recognizable implies that human social structure has driven the evolution of how we look,» said coauthor Michael Nachman, a population geneticist, professor of integrative biology and director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

In order for individuals to recognize where they fit in to the social structure of their group, they would need to recognize and remember others in their group, to remember how they interacted with specific individuals, and to remember the outcomes of those interactions.

«Many parrot species are threatened or endangered and increased understanding of how parrots structure their social interactions could also improve our ability to manage these populations,» Hobson added.

Zanna Clay, a psychologist at the University of Birmingham in the UK, who has studied communication in bonobos, says it is interesting how food calls in different species reflect the different social structures of the great apes.

So the McGill researchers set out to discover to what extent the friendship paradox is present in the online social network Twitter, and how exactly it is reflected in the network structure (as in, who follows whom).

Other researchers examined how public trust in larger social structures and health systems correlates with the decision to vaccinate in both the United States and Europe.

By modeling its structure, articulating the architectural principles that have fueled its phenomenal growth, and discovering how social conventions drive online human interactions, Web science hopes to find mechanisms that will ensure the network continues to grow productively and in ways that support the basic social values of trustworthiness and privacy.

«The Internet offers a tremendous opportunity to understand important social phenomena like family structure and also to help us explore how sharing information influences people's emotional states and decision - making,» says Adam Kramer, a data scientist at Facebook.

To address this question, Waring and a team of researchers from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), developed a mathematical model to understand how societies with different social structures and institutions manage natural resources to identity the key factors of successful resource management.

Queen number can be highly variable both between and within species, and we are interested in how and why transitions in social structure occur.

«If we can then relate that to ancient human species... What this paper shows is the sagittal crest might also play a role in how those hominins are developing social structures that can then be linked to biology beyond diet.»

You will learn how to sequence workshops, key spots and assists, important structuring techniques, and all of the marketing and PR secrets for social media platforms.

Through the medieval period to the Tudors, dating was absolutely core to the social structure of the city, and as the centuries passed, the Victorians took that structure to stuffy new heights — or depths, depending on how you want to look at it.

But perhaps my biggest concern with this game is the noticable attitude of social structures and how most of the characters are blatantly diverse in their sexual orientation.

It follows a formulaic plot structure, but I really liked how it explored the cultural and social divisions amongst classes in Los Angeles.

Presenting Campion as a public figure with a social and artistic conscience, Verhoeven effectively adopts Richard Dyer's model of a structured polysemy in order to demonstrate how Campion is both a star - maker and a star herself (17).

Social Media has changed so much about society: how information is dispersed, how we present ourselves, how we argue points of view, and even how relationships are structured.

The shift in how administrators make decisions mirrors a broader social change also apparent in media and politics, where technology has toppled top - down structures in favor of informal networks of experts and practitioners.

About how, in neighborhoods with so little social capital, so few functioning institutions and places of authority, those schools give hope and structure to their kids that they yearn for.

We often lament, «Kids today don't have social skills,» yet we have done little to rethink how we structure time and its effect on the people within schools — and what more collaborative school initiatives could do within that new time frame.

There were a range of social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children, which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.

If you want to meet the needs of your diverse student body, below are tips on how NMSA structures, schedules, and staffs their daily support seminars, as well as tips on how they build study, social - emotional, and college readiness skills in the classroom.

Curious about the ways in which social structures affect classroom and pedagogical structures and how those in turn affect individuals and society at large, Brohinsky enrolled in the Specialized Studies Program (SSP), quickly making an impression on his cohort.