In this blog she explores personal stories and the impact of the media and also provides a gripping discussion
of cultural factors influencing eating behaviors.
There are a
lot of cultural factors and even pressures that dictate when toilet training or potty training should initiate and by what age of a child it should complete.
More importantly, the «I - can't - imagine» argument seems inattentive to how much my imagination is shaped and limited by all
kinds of cultural factors and sensibilities — including how I «imagine» the nature of love, etc..
Harvard has an incentive to admit only those who will sustain its super-eminence by graduating to the ranks of the super-eminent — a feat that depends on all
sorts of cultural factors, not just intelligence.
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.
Childs had already mentioned
many of these cultural factors and the role they played in what he called the «cracking of the walls» of the Biblical Theology Movement in the U.S. Childs, of course, described both the movement and its decline in order to pave the way for his own proposal: a biblical theology tied to canon.
The institutional dimension of culturally responsive pedagogy emphasizes the need for
reform of the cultural factors affecting the organization of schools, school policies and procedures (including allocation of funds and resources), and community involvement.
Structural equation modeling was used to examine the
effects of cultural factors (ethnic identity, perceived discrimination), family relations, and child problem type on mental health service utilization in a community sample of 1,480 adolescent girls (860 African American, 620 European American) between ages 15 and 17 years enrolled in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.
Add onto that any
number of cultural factors... and well yah, scratch the surface of our civility, and there is a lot of stuff to do with power, our sexual expression and our sexual self being one of the areas that is tightly controlled.
Reasons for this vary, but it includes declining donor nation assistance for family planning over the past 17 years, a
variety of cultural factors (e.g. prevalence of child marriage, male opposition, and misconceptions about the dangers of contraception).
Readers will learn how to translate these treatment models to other language communities, and how to tailor therapeutic approaches to address a number
of cultural factors, including religion and spirituality, social stigma, and prejudice.