Sentences with phrase «new social constructs»

One of the pleasures of the science fiction movie genre is how it allows for new social constructs within familiar stories.

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The weekly gatherings are no more than a social construct where the like minded can pretend to support a view that's usually outdated, but no new original thinker has come along to displace it, so it's simply «believed» and passed along.

They devote a full day to visiting social ministry sites within the city; upon their return, students form new groups to construct symbolic maps of Atlanta that reflect their perceptions of the city.

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

In this brave new world, the family — the institution on which our social order rests — is being redefined as a socially constructed unit, constituted by our sovereign will, not by nature itself.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

But to have value today, Benson's argument needs to be advanced with a new twist: identities are not a given; they are constructed through social processes — processes which also condition voting behaviour.

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

These research findings provide important new insights that may help explain and predict the performance of social groups, which could be beneficial in building human teams or constructing automated robot swarms.

«These data suggest that the interplay between race and ethnicity as social constructs and genetic ancestry as a biological construct is more complex than we had realized,» said Noah Zaitlen, PhD, a UCSF assistant professor of medicine and co-senior author on the new study.

While this information could lead to new treatments, it also calls on us to evaluate how we construct social hierarchies — whether in the workplace or school — and their impacts on human well - being.»

So this new year, try and correlate new beginnings with a renewed perspective of how you construct your you and your world, and perhaps instead of making yourself crazy on 1,000 calories a day, double down boutique fitness classes, and a limited social schedule.

Social media plays a pivotal role in modern dating; Facebook «stalking» has become widely accepted when sussing out a new match, to see how they present themselves beyond their carefully constructed online dating profile.

One hopes that this new age of scientifically based research will enable the Department of Education to construct reviews of grant proposals based on well - established canons of science or social science as a safeguard against political demands by powerful legislators on behalf of their pork - hungry constituents.

Although constructivism has been defined many different ways, Applefield, Huber, and Moallem (2001), in their review of constructivist literature, found the following four central characteristics of constructivist learning: (a) learners construct their own learning; (b) the dependence of new learning on student's existing understanding; (c) the critical role of social interaction and; (d) the necessity of authentic learning tasks for meaningful learning (p. 38).

Using case - study methods in New Orleans, I find school leaders» positions in the socially constructed market hierarchy and in a social network of competitors influenced their course of action, which further determines their market positions.

By mid-year, students seemed to be working together well, but the video data of Carla and Jerome, which I collected to look at with colleagues in our February Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry session, helped me see the complexity of what it really means to help students develop the Social and Emotional skills they need to grapple with content and construct new understandings together.

On Thursday nights, a mini-carnival called the Carubbian Festival draws visitors to the sunrise side of the island, and JADS Dive Centre has constructed a new beach bar / eatery call the Rum Reef on the town's Baby Beach (they are also busy turning the old Esso Social Club into a waterfront dining and entertainment complex there).

For social features, players can construct a lighthouse to unlock global chat, player - vs - player battles, Pirate Gangs (alliances) and new daily missions.

By relying largely on appropriated imagery and treating the self as a social construct, these artists challenge «the official rhetoric of both our old metaphysical tradition and our new con - sumerist society.»

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary, Phillips's first U.S. solo museum exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees de Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular culture, and instead depicting a world in which indications of specific place or time are absent.

We're adapting how we connect to one another and also constructing new roads for sharing, filtering, and ranking relevant social objects.

The main premise is to deconstruct and examine the construct of curatorial practices as a new social framework by extending exhibition prosthetics as works of art.

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«Behind Closed Doors offers a unique opportunity to address the legacy of Spanish America in New Orleans through an examination of the American continent's rich material culture and the social constructs behind this incredible cache of artworks,» said Lucia Abramovich, Curatorial Fellow for Spanish Colonial Art.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

It will further the ideas introduced by Wallis in «The Order of Things»: that vernacular photographic series may reveal much about a society's internalized values; that their meaning can be analyzed; and that they have the potential to be repurposed by artists to construct new social orders.

The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World War I to the Japanese Invasion in 1937.

Kendell Carter's newest works are multilayered paintings that critique and acknowledge the social constructs that exist within individuals and communities through the physical and aesthetic properties of painting.

Speech / Acts, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by artists Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

This group show features new and recent works by Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms and «explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.»

Susan is a Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor who splits her time between New York City and Shelter Island where she has her newly constructed art studio «Bramble Hill Bounty.»

The work of New York — based artist Sarah Oppenheimer (born 1972) spans the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, exploring how space is animated and experienced in order to provide a deeper understanding of architecture as a constructed social environment.

Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture — among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at White Columns, New York.

In our new Gilded Age in which inequality runs rampant, Shonibare's filmic suite of twelve photos Dorian Gray (2001) remains a potent metaphor to explore the roots of power and the constructs of social hierarchy.

The goal is to allow a viewer the opportunity to observe contemporary social constructs from a distance, providing them with a new perspective.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture, Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary in March, Phillips» exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

She Is An Associate Professor Of Social - Ecological History And Design, The School For Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School As Well As Co-Author With Brian McGrath Of Cinemetrics: Architecture Drawing Today.

The law is a social construct, and as society advances and develops new technologies, the law must adapt to these changes.

Constructing The Sexual Crucible: A New Integration of Sexual and Marital Therapy Dept. of Social Work, Veterans» Administration Hospital New Orleans, May 13, 1991

Results and Conclusion: Detailed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses are presented from which the final items of the new questionnaires were chosen, for which he presents internal consistency estimates, convergent validity with similar measures, discriminant validity from social desirability, and incremental validity over similar constructs.

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