Sentences with phrase «most cultures and societies»

As you've probably noticed, the expectation in most cultures and societies is for individuals to be romantically involved with only one person at a time.

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history.

Not exact matches

The most prominent hazard in this category is communicable diseases such as colds and the flu, and the reason they can knock out such large portions of your workforce depends partly on our society's working culture.

The argument of The Good Society is that Americans are people determined by a Lockean political culture» that is, one which emphasizes individual freedom and pursuit of individual influence» yet we are determined by a most un-Lockean economy and government.

The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

This leads to the fourth and most promising possible solution to the problem of intergroup conflict, that is, the emergence of a single pluralistic world society, in which there will be ample provision for individual and group differences, but not on the basis of relatively independent culture groups.

And whether we like it or not, it is the culture in which most people within our society, most people within our churches, and we ourselves are now liviAnd whether we like it or not, it is the culture in which most people within our society, most people within our churches, and we ourselves are now liviand we ourselves are now living.

It is not by any means the case with all christians, but some certainly have inadvertently and unknowingly (in most cases) placed church attendance / society / culture / leadership and a particular book (the Bible) on the same level as they God they claim to worship.

In service to that mission — and, increasingly, in opposition to contemporary North American culture — we have jointly affirmed that all are called to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, particularly the elderly, the handicapped and the unborn.

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

In most democratic theory (John Dewey's, for example) «culture» is a concept that usually links rationalized «society» and autochthonous «community,» which is true enough.

While politics, society and culture were changing rapidly during those years, the seismic event we call Vatican II is the single most important cause of the changes in the Catholic Church.

Emboldened by the pope's overt approval of his regime, made manifest in their meeting in Rome this past spring, the octogenarian dictator boasted: «We have founded an equitable society with social justice and extensive access to culture, attached to traditions and to the most advanced ideas of Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.»

One is the most obvious one, namely, the persistence of religion in human life and its intimate connection with cultures, particularly in Asian societies.

The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.

The sins that most beset the path of cultured, respectable people are not the more overt transgressions against society but the subtler sins of worry, selfishness, pride, and prejudice.

Most of us have our own definition of love based on our experiences and desires, and pretty much all of share a vague idea of it, but much of that is influenced by society and culture.

In Japanese culture, education was viewed as the most important factor in the ability to obtain a high - paying and prestigious position in society.

Most will help immigrant children adjust to American society and culture.

Incest survivors have lived with the most terrible secrets, have constantly been told by society not to say anything (explicitly or implicitly), we generally can't share our pasts and experiences because there is still such a culture of shame surrounding us.

He co-authored the Recreational Sport: Program Design, Delivery and Management textbook; and he also edited Youth Sport in America: The Most Important Issues in Youth Sports Today and Sports Global Influence: A Survey of Society and Culture in the Context of Sport.

But none of the products he worked on had a more dramatic impact on consumers than disposable diapers, which — along with such things as Bic pens and microwave ovens — have became a symbol of the culture of convenience that permeates most modern, time - pressed societies.

Dr. Meredith F. Small, author of «Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent,» reports that in a survey of 186 societies, researchers found that «infants are carried most of the time in nonindustrial societies, 56 percent of the time in less traditional societies, and 25 percent of the time in the United States.»

I find it sad that the sexualization of breasts and the desire to be «free» of ones children in our society has overridden such a beautiful and beneficial tradition that is centuries old and crosses most cultures.

«As a conservative, I identify with the tradition of American Individualism, the notion that individuals, not the government, are the most important units of our society and culture.

«We spend most of our time in buildings and they are central to our quality of life, yet few of us take the time to really look at our homes, offices and public buildings and consider the amazing diversity of architectural styles, as well as how practical and fundamental buildings are for society and what they say about our cultures.»

The most comprehensive Aztec exhibition ever mounted provides a riveting portrait of a society obsessed with the natural cycle of life and death — a fiercely refined culture in which nobility and war, scholarship and human sacrifice went hand in severed hand.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

From Jean Renoir (The Southerner) to Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), from Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) to Antonio Mendez Esparza (the shattering recent festival hit Life and Nothing More), some of the most powerful portraits of the American Dream's scrappier, more fragmented reality have come from outsiders — their perspective perhaps inflected with their own sense of alienation, and their sympathies duly directed toward those US cultures and classes on society's fringes.

It is the most viable solution to promote a sustainable society by activating Social Common Capital in the culture based on holistic traditional thoughts and traditional community lifestyle, and weaves them again repairing once broken bonds as a direct result of living within an ongoing industrialization and materialism based society.

In his most recent position as director general of CIMO at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki, Sahlberg worked with the Finnish government to promote internationalization and tolerance, creativity, and global ethics in Finnish society through mobility and institutional cooperation in education, culture, youth, andCulture in Helsinki, Sahlberg worked with the Finnish government to promote internationalization and tolerance, creativity, and global ethics in Finnish society through mobility and institutional cooperation in education, culture, youth, andculture, youth, and sport.

As in many other countries, religion is the most important pillar of society, which controls education and culture.

Intercultural understanding is more apparent in some learning areas than others, being most evident in those aspects of learning concerned with people and their societies, relationships and interactions, and with the cross-curriculum priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia, and Sustainability.

With an increased focus on connecting educational leadership to student learning, creating cultures of improvement, and other big picture concepts, the standards can be seen, in part, as a force for helping principals remind us as a nation that the moral purpose of educational change is to improve society and the lives of its citizens, especially those most in need.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Yes, the country has more than its fair share of problems, but — as someone who is interested in people and cultures — Brazilian people grant you more access to their lives and society than in most other places.

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Chichen Itza is considered to be the most important ancient city of the Mayan Culture and has the most amazing examples of architecture in Mayan society.

He will pay particular attention to how this process played into the creation of his most recent project, A Trilogy of Burials, a series of abstract paintings, photographs, and multimedia images that are intended as a meditation on how different cultures have addressed mortality, a subject we often have a hard time discussing in Western society.

Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, will present a major exhibition of new work at the Serpentine Gallery this summer.

Advised by curators Jacob Proctor (Curator, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society) and Fabian Schöneich (Curator, Portikus), Focus brings together specially curated projects by some of the most innovative galleries working today.

Both exhibitions speak to the rapidly advancing media culture of contemporary society, and reflect the museum's ongoing commitment to providing a platform for the work of the most innovative and experimental artists practicing today.

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Also new for 2016, Fabian Schöneich (Curator, Portikus, Frankfurt) joins Jacob Proctor (Curator, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago) as advisor to Frame, a section featuring 18 of the world's most exciting galleries under eight years old, presenting solo shows of today's most relevant artists.

Great chronicler and one of the most incisive commentators of the contemporary society and culture, Grayson Perry combines his subversive art with autobiographical references from his childhood and family to transvestite alter ego Claire, making distorted commentary on class, taste, consumerism, and art versus craft.

Battling exhaustion and the flu on the Monday after the opening, Goldstein, sitting in the Stedelijk's popular restaurant with a cup of fresh mint tea, considered for a moment, then said, «If artists make arguments about what a work of art can do, and if artists give us an opportunity to have insights through their own eyes and words to culture we all share, I think Mike, in a most profound and almost impossibly comprehensive way, gave us not only a window [into] but in some ways a means to rethink art and to examine our relationship to our culture and our society.»

One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art — relentless examinations of subjectivity and of society that are both sinister and ecstatic.

Mureșan is a member of the editorial team of the art and culture journal IDEA arts + society, one of the most influential art journals in Eastern Europe.

British artist Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture is to present a major exhibition of new work at the Serpentine Gallery in June.

Popular culture most typically refers to the broad spectrum of general society whose ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena are deemed preferred within the mainstream.