Sentences with phrase «modern social history»

He was one of the most prominent historians of the 20th century and a founder of modern social history in Germany.

In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

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As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

«The most effective leaders throughout history have been great communicators, yet the vast majority of modern day C - Suite executives are conspicuously absent from social media channels,» said Ann Charles, CEO of BRANDfog.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

The Fifties seemed to be the one clear example in modern American history of social, cultural, and moral renewal.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

The pervasiveness of social monism in history and its appearance in modern democratic systems suggests that it is a drive deeply rooted in man.

That pioneer work should be supplemented — not to say supplanted — by a study of the great modern researches of M. Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926; new ed., 1940), and his magnificent three - volume work, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1940).

The experiment with strategies of social change through nonviolent action is an important movement in the modern history of love.

If those of us who are evangelicals did that with an unconditional readiness to change whatever did not correspond with the scriptural revelation of God's special concern for the poor and oppressed, we would unleash a new movement of biblical social concern that would change the course of modern history.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

Ackerman identifies three republics in American history, before and after the civil war and in the modern regulatory social welfare state initiated in the 1930s by the New Deal.

It also reveals the history of changing diagnoses, such as the diagnosis of «neurasthenia» to the modern - day diagnosis of «social anxiety».

Tom studied Ancient and Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he stayed to do an MSt in US History, followed by his DPhil on social and political thought in revolutionary America.

Perhaps the social histories of Britain will record the second decade of the 21st century as being the time when one of the biggest taboos of modern life was finally broken down.

After the prime minister's social care u-turn, Neil did not pull any punches, most notably by stating: «This must be the first time in modern political history that a party has broken a manifesto pledge before an election.»

For the first time in history, modern technology and social media make it possible for millions of people viewing the eclipse to contribute to scientific research.

Most likely not, seeing as such a move would be more likely seen in their portable range of games, the fact remains so, the selfie has cemented itself into Zelda history and kicked a door wide open for all other kinds of modern day social trends to come through, barging in and become part of future Zelda games.

ArtThink: Created by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this site offers theme - based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social studies.

VocabularySpellingCity has numerous ready - made lists for U.S History, U.S. States & Regions, Modern History, Ancient World Cultures, as well as social studies lessons for younger students like The World Around Me, Neighborhood Life, and Community Life.

This unique program expands students» exploration of their Jewish identity, deepens their understanding of modern Jewish history, and honors the principles of social justice and repairing the world.

[1] For example, History, Geography and Modern Studies are all separate departments and may have their own Principal Teacher however in a Curriculum Leader system these three departments would form the Social Sciences Faculty, headed by one person.

WIHS teach Colleen Whalen explained how Facing History's curriculum works at her school «It encourages discussion on the social construct of race and history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.History's curriculum works at her school «It encourages discussion on the social construct of race and history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.»

Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

He has written widely on the history of modern Germany, political and social thought and the Holocaust.

Overflowing with cultural and architectural detail, the tapestries contain a social history of Essex and modern Britain that reflects Firstsite's year - long focus on contemporary identity.

MUMA concludes our three - part series on watershed moments in art history with Technologism, a major group exhibition on the cultural, social and political impact of technological advancements in the modern era.

Adventures of the Black Square presents abstraction as not being estranged from social reality, that its concern with form, shape and colour throughout its history are intrinsically linked to politics and expressions of modern living.

Like the dioramas of the Museum of Natural History or the period rooms of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hello Meth Lab in the Sun creates theatrical depictions of three specific social / historical contexts: the utopian hippie commune, the clandestine meth lab, and the varied sites of modern industrial production.

His resulting paintings including Vignette explode with narratives and textures, linking aspects of art history and American history with reference to the American Civil Rights Movement, the history of slavery, public housing projects, the modern welfare state, social reform and literature, as well as cyclic tales of birth, life, death and love.

This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

With a focus on work made by artists born after 1968, in addition to several early pioneers who were active internationally in the 1960s and 70s, Under the Same Sun at the SLG examines a diversity of creative responses by artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

Austen Brown considers the inherent social and economic implications of space and architecture by excavating the modern history and current legacy of two Chicago sites: Marina Towers and the Raymond Hilliard Tenement Homes.

Drawing a connection between the development of Modern Art and Living History, particularly as part of research she conducted on the Rockefeller family, who built the Museum of Modern Art and Colonial Williamsburg simultaneously, Smith traces alternate lineages of abstract art and social practices through common everyday things of the past.

His subject matter was not chosen as particularly suitable for formal experiments in abstraction: in his late works «he continued to explore visual perception, natural phenomena, modern life, the course of history and the social and ethical contexts that determine the endeavours of mankind».

Full of riffs on subjects ranging from the use of neon in art to the history of the Venice Biennale, it's as much a social history of the modern ‐ day art world as it is a guide to Nauman's life and career.»

Essays by Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director of The Museum of Modern Art; Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern; and a range of scholars and artists examine the full range of Polke's exceptionally inventive oeuvre and place his enormous skepticism of all social, political and artistic conventions against German history.

Gutai: Splendid Playground seeks both to examine Gutai's aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social, and political context of postwar Japan and to further establish the group in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse on modern art.

ArtThink: Created by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this site offers theme - based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social studies.

«Figuring History poses crucial questions about artistic, social, and political narratives,» says Catharina Manchanda, SAM's Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.

«Miami Arts Project,» Miami, FL, January — March, 1998; brochure «I'm Still In Love With You: Visual Artists and Writers Respond to the 1972 Album by Al Green,» Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA, February 14 — March 14, 1998 «Postcards from Black America,» Breda, De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands, 1998; catalogue «Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,» curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, São Paulo, Brazil, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From Pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, 1998 «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90's,» from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1998

The exhibition aims to demonstrate Gutai's extraordinary range of bold and innovative creativity; to examine its aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan and the West; and to further establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art.

(New York, USA) The exhibition examines the diversity of today's creative responses to complex shared realities, which have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

The first major survey of contemporary Guatemalan art in the United States — and as much a political and social history as an art history — it is just one of more than 70 deeply researched exhibitions of Latin American and Latinx art at Southern California institutions comprising the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, a four - month - long program that aims at nothing less than «flipping the history of modern and contemporary art, beginning with the Latino perspective,» as Getty Foundation deputy director Joan Weinstein put it.

Throughout modern history, female artists pushed for social changes by questioning feminist identities, gender roles and sexual politics — now, following the recent and long - overdue appreciation of female artists at museums, Art on the Underground looks to take feminist artistic concerns a step forward by giving their works an entire year of public attention.

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.

Against nostalgic accounts like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, most social - change movements are started and directed by the relatively affluent and well - educated, from the preacher - led civil rights movement to modern feminism to gay rights.

At the end of it all, the majority resolved in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a statement in my humble opinion that will go down in history as one of the most eloquent and substantial social justice statements in modern Australian history.