Sentences with phrase «of cultural class»

The resolution means the stateâ $ ™ s largest school district wants the Texas Education Agency to include this kind of cultural class in the stateâ $ ™ s new graduation plan.

If you're not up for trekking, Puri Lumbung Cottages offer a number of cultural classes as well as yoga.

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Add to that a world - class food scene, theatre on par with its east - coast cousins, a rich historical and cultural background and affordable housing, and you can see how it's quickly become a hub of millennials and aspiring entrepreneurs.

In this class, we'll explore the food science and cultural history behind one of the world's favorite foods.

But are classes like «The Material Culture in the Victorian Novel» or «The Power of Ornament: Roman Imperial Imagery and Its Reception» really more practical than studying gender politics through our cultural reaction to the VMAs?

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Diversity in the room continues to impress me even now, after almost a month of classes: investment bankers, entrepreneurs, Canadian military officers, engineers, management consultants and medical doctors of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

To interpret cultural and religious differences in terms of a theory of interests works no better than to ignore the role of class interests within all societies.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

From this persistent fact of cultural conservatism arise the most serious problems of social conflict, including the bitter strife of races, classes, sects, and nations.

In our time we feel the need of a new class of intellectuals capable of interpreting social and cultural dynamics and offering solutions that are not abstract but concrete and realistic.

Cultural attacks on middle class people were always part of the postwar scene.

All reality is perceived and spoken of from a cultural, class or sexual perspective.

Nevertheless, the inevitability of cultural and historical conditioning, if not of class, racial, or gender interest, does not prevent there being a difference between what can claim to be Christian theology as such and a «theology of.»

The cultural decline of the white middle class doesn't get discussed.

«In the UK, evangelical Christianity has shrunk in a cultural milieu of middle class tertiary - educated people.

The issue here is not class, in the sense of a social group with distinctive economic, attitudinal, and cultural characteristics that persist through time.

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

As a white, middle - class woman living in California, rarely have I faced real pain as a result of complex systems, and strongly held societal, cultural or political traditions and beliefs.

He's addressing the real issue of the economic and cultural degradation of the lives of the bluecollar part of the middle - class.

In those classes I tried to remind my students that they have been woven into a vast cultural fabric and that they must feel the moral and theological weight of those voices.

This emphasis upon the present and the past among the poor may be born of a lack of hope; but in some cases it may be a product of an honest cultural difference indicating a more self - accepting and less acquisitive style of life, a style which should be respected and not automatically deemed inferior to the more ambitious future - oriented activities of the middle classes.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

For Frank, the idea of «New Class» cultural domination fails on several counts.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

This failure is perhaps due to the cultural distance between the English - dominated mainline churches and working - class blacks — many of whom also find the charismatics» conservative theology more appealing.

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

I would be tempted to write this off as a successful class - wide prank to abuse my classically - trained ears and torture my soul, but our class discussions on music revealed a firm belief that the «skill, creativity, and cultural popularity» of this music made it worth listening to.

As a result of this cultural ambivalence, class has generally not been a good source of collective identity for political activity.

In discussing his own persecution during the Cultural Revolution, Ting told us about the seminary's closing, the destruction of most of its library, and his forced attendance at the Red Guard's political - education classes.

There is, however, a real cultural separation between those who shop at Whole Foods and those who buy in bulk at Walmart, even when the two classes live within a few miles of each other.

For several centuries the gatherings of the dominant class in American society, white Anglo - Saxon churches have tended to assume that they themselves have no cultural particularity and therefore no reason to investigate their own ethos, tradition, and world view.

Church ought not to be simply a reflection of me, my class assumptions, my favorite songs, or cultural values.

The cultural and class - homogenizing impulse while often facile is not the way of the cross.

Even the most liberal denominations like the Unitarian Universalists function to conserve the cultural commitments of the middle - class status - quo.

The professor for the class actually understood worldviews, so rather than mere didactic note - taking on presuppositions we had a healthy dose of cultural participation.

This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.

However, very few policies in Christian institutions or in public life are actually decided on these bases, in part because class analysis simply does not and can not take account of the cultural factors that shape much of what is decided.

One big lesson for me is that issues of racial, gender, cultural or class discrimination are not limited to my own personal beliefs.

Whether Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim (John 1.14, I Timothy 2.5), or a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members, this unity can be construed as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally, 5 and entering our cultural / religious awareness through Christ with the power and appeal described above.

They were more concerned with cultural and political analyses than with those of class.

The class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense of the urgent need to reconstruct the spiritual and moral values of the nation.

Again, it's the folks farther down on the class ladder taking the brunt of the cultural assault against traditional norms.

The body of Christ should not be merely a reflection of the divisions that exist on earth predetermined by the exterior similarity of social class and cultural background.

As Kramer progressed through the 1950s and 1960s, he confronted an increasingly painful dichotomy: on the one hand, his brilliance as an art critic propelled him toward the center of the cultural establishment (he eventually became chief art critic of the New York Times); on the other hand, his political and moral concerns estranged him from the growing radicalism of the intellectual class that controlled the establishment.

While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.

What is more, because of this control over the cultural apparatus, the new middle class has successfully infiltrated its «class enemy» with many of its own ideas, agendas and lifestyles.