Sentences with phrase «of cultural behaviors»

«Dazzling in the range of cultural behaviors that relate to infant attachment and social development.

In embodying three disparate and distinct aspects of this industry, Marcin reflects on the roots of our cultural behaviors, in an attempt to shift the roles and voices of the media that we currently consume.

Nut - cracking has all the elements of a cultural behavior: It only occurs at some sites and is passed down by learning and imitation.

Not exact matches

«It's an interesting demonstration of the ways in which apps and social media platforms both reflect and are sensitive to cultural change and serve as a cultural barometer but can also codify what is acceptable behavior,» she said.

Cultural attitudes, fairness, economics, and entrepreneurial behavior all point to extension of this trend toward legalization.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

In this free video, marketing expert John Gerzema discusses four cultural shifts that are influencing consumer behavior, while also providing examples of businesses that are taking advantage of these trends.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

It brings into question our cultural standards for behavior, performance and punishment; it reaches into the workplace, the courts and the halls of Congress.

All evidence (including historical application of the book, cultural context, linguistics and origins) indicates the bible absolutely was intended (and not mistakenly used as) as a guide for behavior and morality.

• Genetic, environmental, and cultural «determinisms» that assume behavior is beyond personal control and that repudiate the idea of personal responsibility.

Most intellectuals think that introducing any element of cultural autonomy is devastating to a material explanation of class behavior, say.

But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing «a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people.

Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

Authentic democracy therefore requires not only a principle of cultural conservation but also of criticism of customary behavior.

These developments resulted in the Carthage of Cyprian's time being a vibrant metropolis, highly unbound in cross cultural outlook and behavior.

Notice how, inside and outside the Church, people are loudly denunciatory of the evil behavior of their political, religious or cultural opponents, and yet, when the same thing is true of their allies, they are muted or even found attempting justifications for the behavior.

We should know by now that almost every major technology introduced in the name of expanded personal choice sooner or later is overtaken by cultural patterns and practices that finally shape everyone's behavior, whittling away almost to nothing the range of the choice.

Each awakening has occurred during a period of profound cultural disorientation, when the whole cultural system was jarred by disjunctions between old beliefs and new realities, past norms and present experience, dying patterns and emerging patterns of behavior.

Even if we can separate «the ore of the ideal from the dross of habit of behavior,» the ideals can not be lived outside the cultural, religious, and social life in which they developed.

In today's world, there are tremendous pressures» political, cultural and religious» to change one's convictions, and conform to certain mass patterns of thought and behavior.

but maryland, we are not better than they are, we just have been exposed to different cultural ideas and books and behaviors, we are not better or worse and as it happens, we are more the same than we are different even to tone of voice in different languages.

Whether or not these feelings are labeled as such and organized into overt behaviors and lifelong identities is a result of a wide combination of social and cultural dynamics.

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.»

The first is between the given facts of nature and those artifacts made by man out of cultural, human, and bodily behavior.

Furthermore, it drew the attention of the intellectual elite to the behavior of primitive man, to his psycho - mental life and his cultural creations.

In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types.

To me, this approach is the touchstone for assessing the difference between fact and fiction in history The core question is: Does the description of ancient people's behavior ring true when we compare it to the way contemporary people behave in a similar cultural area?

Rather than thinking of culture as something implicit or taken for granted — as something about latent normative patterns that can be inferred only from observing regularities in social behavior — the new cultural sociology regards culture as something tangible, explicit, and overtly produced.

Hartman Group details the cultural transformation of channel selection and shopping behavior.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

[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.»

Chapters include: The Role of The Doula, Home Visiting, Providing Care with Caution: Protecting Health & Safety in The Home & Car, Honoring Postpartum Women and Teaching Self - Care, Easing Postpartum Adjustment, Appreciating Your Clients» Cultural Diversity by Karen Salt, Supporting The Breastfeeding Mother (Donna Williams & Opal Horvat Advisors) Newborn Basics: Appearance, Behavior, and Care, Offering Support to Partners and Siblings, Unexpected Outcomes: Caring for The Family at a Time of Loss, Nurturing Yourself by

Back cover: In this examination of mainstream Christian parenting practices and the doctrinal beliefs behind them, best - selling author, L.R.Knost, debunks common cultural and theological beliefs about spanking, original sin, sin nature, submission, authority, obedience, breaking a child's will, and more, along with providing grace - filled, gentle solutions to behavior issues.

Probably nowhere do modern Western cultural expectations and the reality of babies» needs conflict more than in the area of sleeping behavior.

The low calorie composition of human breast milk (exquisitely adjusted for the human infants» undeveloped gut) requires frequent nighttime feeds, and, hence, helps explain how and why a cultural shift toward increased cosleeping behavior is underway.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

«It's something that facilitates the constant adaptation of the human brain and behavior to the changing environment, which includes our social and cultural context.»

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

The range of behaviors exhibited by Web users, for instance, may, relative to the entire space of possibilities, be constrained by biology, by cultural history, or both.

Today the study of social psychology explores in much greater depth how cultural influences, social status and other factors contribute to a person's mind - set and behaviors.

He pointed to the cultural desire for many children, the tradition of polygamy, and other aspects of African society that contributed to a greater tolerance of promiscuous behavior than in the West.

The researchers found that groups of more sociable orangutans had larger behavioral repertoires than groups of relatively solitary individuals had, supporting the theory that social contact spreads cultural behaviors.

It promotes cultural rights by facilitating proenvironmental behaviors and by understanding the contingencies of domestic violence.

In a computer model, Whitehead found that a theoretical cultural behavior that gives a 10 % reproductive advantage and is passed to 95 % of daughters will reduce mtDNA diversity to almost zero in 300 generations.

«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.

«Because thinness is not consistent with dominant cultural standards of masculinity, young people who conform to masculine norms may be more likely than other youth to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as high - calorie food consumption, overeating and sedentary behaviors,» explains Dr. Austin.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

They point out that the orcas» hunting tactics for the two types of prey differ dramatically and are learned behaviors — cultural differences that may also help drive populations apart.