Sentences with phrase «modern cultural role»
Accordingly, early American tourists made their own «Grand Tour» of Europe, seeking out ancient and modern cultural role models that would promote social status, civic virtue and cultural refinement at home.
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The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.
Barth is the hero of Hauerwas's lectures, and the closing chapter gives a prominent role to Marshall's case for conceiving the Christian God as the truth, though it also suggests that Marshall underestimates the problem of cultural accommodation in modern theology.
Limitation of space precludes an adequate discussion of the cultural role of these numerous modern sacred books.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
Fair Work's investigation into systemic underpayment of wages, the role of head office, and a decision last week by the Fair Work Commission to terminate 26 enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) between Domino's and the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association sets the scene for a colourful annual general meeting on November 8, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane's cultural precinct.
The exhibition draws upon the Wolfonian's collection to explore issues of identity — personal, corporate and national — as well as the impact of cultural displacement on the history of design and the role of commercial art in the modern city.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York staged its first exhibition devoted to Latin American artists in 1942, and since then, Latin America's role in the development of Modernism has been acknowledged by most cultural institutions — though in many cases not significantly.
Mostly, however, the chair provides an excuse to compare the design careers of Noguchi and Kenmochi and examine their roles in midcentury modern design, as well as the cultural relationship between Japan and the United States.
Albareh plays a central role in Bahrain's cultural landscape and promotion of local, regional and international modern Arab masters to contemporaries through carefully curated exhibitions in the GCC region.
Tate Liverpool is the most visited gallery of modern and contemporary art outside London and plays an integral role in the city of Liverpool and the cultural ecology of the North West.