Sentences with phrase «larger cultural meaning»

Recently, an acquaintance wondered about the larger cultural meaning of so many films in which cities are annihilated.

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He offers particularly compelling documentation for his central contention that childhood is a social construct whose meaning changes to accord with changes in the larger cultural definitions of human nature.

In suggesting that the evangelical subculture is simply a socially constructed reality, does Balmer mean to imply that the «larger world»» the world, presumably, of academia and the cultural elite» is not so constructed?

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

Several characteristics of its Protestant community help to account for this: the doctrinal emphasis (more favorable to the use of impersonal means of communication than sacramental traditions); the evangelistic imperative; and the impulse towards alternative socialization, creating a range of cultural activities parallel to those of the larger society.

I'm by no means saying we should apply a polling system to accurately measure a person's value and accomplishments to the larger cultural and political landscape.

The resolution means the stateâ $ ™ s largest school district wants the Texas Education Agency to include this kind of cultural class in the stateâ $ ™ s new graduation plan.

In addition to protecting the book as a cultural good, it is also meant to protect smaller book stores from being outcompeted by large chains offering big discounts.

A large majority of Mexicans have been classified as «Mestizos», meaning in modern Mexican usage that they identify fully neither with any indigenous culture nor with a Spanish cultural heritage, but rather identify as having cultural traits incorporating elements from indigenous and Spanish traditions.

Reflective game design describes games designed to trigger critical reflection in their players, particularly concerning what game actions may mean in a larger socio - cultural frame.

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Her later works deal with profound and basic artistic questions where she investigates the processes of perception and attribution of meaning, at times in the light of larger cultural and existential thematics like colonialism, faith and posthumanism.

If optimism fueled the impulse to create large, permanent works in the «60s and «70s, the artists in this exhibition are more likely to rechannel that optimism into collaborative and collective experiences; to dwell on memory and the ephemeral by charting the traces of the just - happened; and to embrace the rich social, cultural and political meanings of their throwaway materials.

Fernández's experiential, large - scale works are often inspired by a rethinking of the meaning of landscape and place, and by diverse historical and cultural references.

The result is images imbued with poetic and evocative personal significance — a sort of displaced self - portraiture — that resonate with larger cultural and historical meanings.

Hal Foster states that neo-expressionism was complicit with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan - Bush era in the U.S. [50] Félix Guattari disregards the «large promotional operations dubbed «neo-expressionism» in Germany,» (an example of a «fad that maintains itself by means of publicity») as a too easy way for him «to demonstrate that postmodernism is nothing but the last gasp of modernism.»

This multipart presentation of interconnected «cultural exercises» will investigate the significance and meaning of staging a large - scale international triennial in the contemporary context.

In «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaning.

Conceived by FRONT's Artistic Directors Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann, this multipart presentation of interconnected «cultural exercises» will investigate the significance and meaning of staging a large - scale international triennial in the contemporary context.

Omni - tasking, schizophrenic and full of contradictions, this position brings a myriad of possibilities: Questioning not only the understanding what is means to be an artist today, it also triggers a larger discourse about the lack of distinction between labor and leisure (the very base of cultural production) while reaching its most paradoxical and therefore contemporary state only through positions similar to that of Cassani.

A 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Geyer works with photography, video and performance, using both fiction and documentary strategies in order to address larger concepts such as national identity, gender, and class in the context of the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories.

Conceived of by FRONT's Artistic Directors Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann, this multipart presentation of interconnected «cultural exercises» will investigate the significance and meaning of staging a large - scale international triennial in the contemporary context.

SAWCC's seventh annual visual arts exhibition features the works of fourteen South Asian women artists who use their art to navigate through private and public space, making meaning within larger political, social, and cultural frameworks.

Five major ones are: • Having opposed the candidate who ends up winning appointment as one's dean or chair (thereby looking stupid, wicked, or crazy in the latter's eyes); • Being a ratebuster, achieving so much success in teaching or research that colleagues» envy is aroused; • Publicly dissenting from politically correct ideas (meaning those held sacred by campus elites); • Defending a pariah in campus politics or the larger cultural arena; • Blowing the whistle on or even having knowledge of serious wrongdoing by locally powerful workmates.

Living in Beaumont, Texas means close access to all types of entertainment and museums, cultural events, and even houses the second largest state fair in Texas.

On the other hand, Triandis (2002) posited how cultural differences would overcome large cultural differences and also that different meaning had to be attributed to the measures of these differences.