After an acting career in theatre and television, Lola Young became an arts administrator, later moving on to become professor
of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, a writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster.
Eva Rueschmann is Associate Professor
of Cultural Studies at Hampshire College.
The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor
of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.
Not exact matches
Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the
study include: • 51 %
of employees are not happy
at work • 45 %
of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 %
of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 %
of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 %
of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 %
of employees don't feel recognized for their progress
at work • 61 %
of employees don't know their organization's
cultural values • 50 %
of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now
the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to
study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and
cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look
at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep
of the house
of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...
The charges went higher and higher up the ladder
of generality until the sex crime committed
at UVA became a confirmation
of the basic theory
of privileged Western male oppression that is so widely subscribed to in the disciplines
of cultural studies.»
Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated
cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination
of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender
studies, and both their style and content seem ill
at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»
Cultural Studies of the sort exhibited by Institutions
of Modernism is all the rage in American and English universities (Rainey teaches
at the University
of York in England).
The «performance - as - communication» persepctive I represented was rooted in two complementary analogues in the
study of human communication, aesthetic and
cultural; the program
at Candler was grounded in a «broadcast transmissions» or «mechanical» model.
This is not to deny that those who are educated in biblical
studies and
at the same time enlightened by the Spirit are able to understand the
cultural and theological ramifications
of the revelation
of the Word
of God far better than those who are illiterate in these areas.
Gustave E. von Grunebaum is an Islamic scholar who seeks to observe Islam objectively, neither as a Westerner nor as an Islamic apologist; his Medieval Islam: A
Study in
Cultural Orientation is a perceptive, and
at times provocative, analysis
of the period
of development following the initial expansion
of Islam.
Reporting on the recent Barna
study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director
of cultural engagement
at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best
of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»
As a Presbyterian PK, my dad
studied both Biblical Greek and Hebrew and when you and I do Bible
study at First Presbyterian, we do look
at the historical and
cultural context
of scripture.
Matthew Bowman, an editor
at a Mormon
studies journal called Dialogue, says Romney appears to embody the Mormon retrenchment
of the 1960s and 1970s, when the LDS church defined itself largely in opposition to the broader American culture, which was seeing
cultural upheaval and the sexual revolution.
[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number
of other recent
studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or
at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms
of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable
of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely
cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»
Every gender and
cultural studies course should feature
at least one class
of live public breastfeeding, and a discussion about how our country supports — and undermines — mothers trying to juggle work and family.
Equally inspired by the culture there, she returned to the University
of Massachusetts
at Amherst to complete her undergraduate degree in Latin American Social and
Cultural Studies in 2005.
personal preferences, influenced by recent Western
cultural values and social ideology, NOT
studies of the natural biology and needs
of the human infant have argued against babies arousing
at night to feed a lot; and, indeed, the «sleep like a baby» or «shush the baby is sleeping» model, while some kind
of western ideal is NOT what babies are designed to do nor experience, and it is definitely not in their own biological or emotional or social best interest.
They know that birthing
at home or in a birth center with a trained midwife is a very safe option with lower rates
of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for
studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by
cultural anecdotes and message boards.
Max Regus is a researcher
at the Graduate School
of Humanities and
Cultural Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
While
at the University
of Uyo, she served variously as Director, Centre for
Cultural studies; Head, Department of History and International Studies; Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts; Dean faculty of Arts; adjunct professor, Akwa Ibom State Univ
studies; Head, Department
of History and International
Studies; Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts; Dean faculty of Arts; adjunct professor, Akwa Ibom State Univ
Studies; Vice Dean, Faculty
of Arts; Dean faculty
of Arts; adjunct professor, Akwa Ibom State University.
Former staff
at Syracuse Peace Council, Sales Manager
at Syracuse
Cultural Workers, for Bernie Sanders; Howie Hawkins, Green Party gubernatorial candidate 2014, working Teamster (Local 317), for Jill Stein; Kathleen Feyh, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Rhetorical
Studies at SU, member
of the International Socialist Organization.
But NYU professor and performance artist Karen Finley, who famously pissed off Jesse Helms by smearing chocolate on her nude body, is sure to effectively blow everyone away
at tonight's sixth annual meeting
of the
Cultural Studies Association
at NYU.
Keating urged Gelfand to attend graduate school
at the University
of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and to
study under
cultural psychologist Harry Triandis, an expert in negotiation and conflict.
Michele Gelfand, a
cultural psychology professor
at the University
of Maryland, College Park,
studies the motivations underlying conflict — losing and regaining honor, taking revenge, and so on — and how those motivations vary across cultures.
Now some
studies have shown that the differences are likely
cultural: the Müller - Lyer visual illusion, which shows two lines
of equal length where one is often perceived,
at least by American undergrads, as longer than the other, is actually not an illusion
at all for the San foragers
of the Kalahari.
Teaming up with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor
of Chemistry
at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive
study to investigate the nature and impact
of pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent
cultural practice
of open - air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.
Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department
of Anthropology
at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she
studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social,
cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.
The senior author
of the
study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College
of Nursing
at the University
of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking
at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive
of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.
To see if a president's speeches reflect egotism in American society
at large, the team compared its results to
studies of egotism in other
cultural products, such as 20th - century books and songs.
Commenting on the research, leading primatologist Professor Frans de Waal,
of the Yerkes Primate Center
of Emory University, said that the
study «is one
of the few successful field experiments on
cultural transmission to date, and a remarkably elegant one
at that.»
The research sheds light on the complicated
cultural and political legacy
of the Vikings in Ireland, says Søren Michael Sindbæk, a Viking archaeologist
at Aarhus University in Denmark who wasn't involved in the
study.
«The fact that the bonobos failed to imitate demonstrates that even enhanced social orientation may not be enough to trigger human - like
cultural learning behaviors,» notes Claudio Tennie, research group leader
at the University
of Tubingen, who coauthored the
study when he was
at the University
of Birmingham.
Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor
of pediatrics
at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine and the
study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys
of this kind have weaknesses in terms
of parent responses reflecting the breadth
of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue
of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense
of cultural identity.
«People need to realize that the
cultural choices they make have a significant bearing on outcomes for humans, individuals, families, and cultures,» says Deborah Rogers, lead author
of the
study and a graduate research fellow
at Stanford University.
«
Cultural differences in gender norms provide North African French boys less freedom to deviate from traditional gender roles and norms than that experienced by European French boys,» explains Isabelle Regner, professor
of psychology
at Aix - Marseille Universite and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), who coauthored the
study.
«We show that our shared psychology produces fundamental patterns in song that transcend our profound
cultural differences,» adds co-first author
of the
study Manvir Singh, also
at Harvard.
Discovered by Museum
of Natural and
Cultural History paleontologist Greg Retallack during a 2014 class field trip on fossils
at the UO, the Ice Age trackway is the focus
of a new
study appearing online ahead
of print in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
«As we continue to
study the conditions
at Syria's important
cultural sites, we have observed significant destruction that is largely the result
of conflict.
Corine Wegener,
cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to
study the primary causes
of damage to
cultural heritage in times
of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed
at the September 19 meeting.
«Minority teachers may be perceived more favorably by minority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the
cultural needs
of their students,» said
study author Hua - Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor
of international education
at NYU Steinhardt.
According to a
study conducted by sociologists
at the University
of Rovira i Virgili (Spain), there is a feminine way as well as a masculine way to behave on the Internet: males tend to directly allude to ethnic and
cultural issues whereas females are less obvious in doing so.
In addition, their findings differed from those
of previous
studies of Western children with regard to the age
at which the adult response pattern was observed, and showed that
cultural differences might have been one
of the reasons for this.
«It's a fascinating example
of a
cultural strategy to tackle a challenging place,» says Kurt Rademaker, an archaeologist
at the University
of Tübingen in Germany who
studies high - elevation settlements in the Andes.
A recent
study by Joan Y. Chiao, then
at Northwestern University, a founder
of the new field
of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.
«There is already reason to suspect that infants» attention to objects and events in dynamic scenes might already be influenced by
cultural - specific patterns
of attention,» said the
study's lead author Sandra Waxman, the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology in the Weinberg College
of Arts and Sciences
at Northwestern and faculty fellow in the University's Institute for Policy Research.
«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential
cultural and biological interactions between these two human groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist
at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
at the University
of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author
of a
study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
In a new
study published in the March issue
of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these
cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come
at a cost.
This
study is one
of the first in its kind and we hope will point to the importance
of coprolites as important
cultural markers and thus any archaeological dig should include the search and preservation
of any coprolites found
at the sites.
«Like so many aspects
of sexuality, the patterns are likely a combination
of both biological and
cultural factors,» says lead
study author Justin R. Garcia, PhD, assistant professor
of gender
studies at The Kinsey Institute
at the University
of Indiana.