Sentences with phrase «of dominant culture»

Limitations in their ability to speak and / or understand the language of the dominant culture is not related to their ability to communicate effectively in their native or primary language.

The experience of youth in care is filtered through the lenses of the dominant culture.

If, nine and a half years ago, I were asked to predict the outcomes that the recognition of native title might deliver to Indigenous people, I would have identified three broad areas: social outcomes from having the laws and traditions of Indigenous culture recognised as worthy of equal respect to those of the dominant culture; economic outcomes from giving Indigenous people control over a valuable asset, land; and finally, political outcomes from recognising the traditional decision - making structures that, like so much of Indigenous identity, revolve around land.

Unblended contours and cracks in an otherwise smooth façade signal the labor involved in maintaining oneself under the weight of a dominant culture that is at odds with each persona.

His research interests include storytelling across social networks, modifying the use of virtual and augmented reality to serve the needs of communities of color, and facilitating site - specific community organizing for those at the margins of dominant culture in the US.

According to one alternative, adolescents suffering discrimination reject the values of the dominant culture, even though it incurs a cost to them.

Academic success will be seen as rejecting one's own culture in favor of the dominant culture.

Instead of learning American Sign Language (ASL), many children who are deaf or hard of hearing are encouraged primarily to use the language of the dominant culture by learning to read lips and speak or to «fix» their inability to hear by having a cochlear implant surgically installed, which provides a sense of sound.

For your whole life you've heard the voices of the dominant culture saying negative things about human nature, children, teenagers, siblings, parents, and parenting.

Schindler's contrary opinion, however, bears serious consideration: «My own view is that the habit of communication of the dominant culture, which knows no discreet activities that ought not to be fully exposed, and no mysteries that ought not to be fully unveiled, is precisely what needs to be called into question, by both the form and the content of an authentically Christian - human response.»

Even those churches that have dissented from many aspects of the dominant culture still participate in it in many ways through sharing its language, through involvement in its economic system, through social interaction of various kinds.

In their religio - cultural struggles, the people do not remain as passive objects and helpless victims of the dominant culture, but positively affirm their cultural subjecthood.

It means that Christians are supposed to behave differently from the standards of the dominant culture.

As it has always been, it was a sub-culture living off the scraps of the dominant culture (rather than more rightly being the counter-culture it was designed to be).

In the Roman Empire it had to make its way against the competition of many other religions and cults, numbers of which were long established and were an integral part of the dominant culture.

The assimilative force of the dominant culture is so great that few minority cultures are in position to learn from it without being absorbed by it.

To what extent is contemporary Christian feminism shaped by adopting the views of the dominant culture, and to what extent might it represent an attempt to transform or Christianize those views?

I prefer to talk about resisting certain aspects of the dominant culture rather than about opting out of it.

To those postmodernists who emphasize only diversity and privilege local knowledge, discussion of global economics by a member of the dominant culture may seem arrogant.

The accommodationist believes in religion as something that actually changes the way people are; nurturing religion, then, also nurtures a plurality of communities, communities that assign to existence meanings different from those of the dominant culture.

By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

He notes, «It is very difficult to screen out the obsessive prejudices of our dominant culture.»

Our guest today has suggested that the «principles of womanist preaching include affirming the dignity of Black women as legitimate interpreters of the Scriptures whether or not our interpretations converge with those of the dominant culture.»

The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

Not exact matches

Its quintessential place in the dominant culture of the day was cemented in John Updike's 1961 short story «A&P.»

The tech company's dominant position in the country of 90 million people boils down to a fortuitous intersection of three factors: demographics, culture, and distribution.

But it remains the dominant form of workplace design for a reason: It can foster collaboration, promote learning, and nurture a strong culture.

The HHS contraception mandate requires church - related institutions to collaborate with the dominant, contraceptive culture of our time, and to do so in a public way.

There have been concerted efforts in fundamentalist circles to become the dominant religious voice in our military as a means of ensuring their «victory» in a «culture war.»

Chudacoff wants to convince us that these men produced a kind of subculture embedded within — even though slightly resented by — the dominant culture characterized by the family and the married man.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

One reason, I suspect, is a reflexive hostility to fundamentalists and socially conservative Catholics whose religious way of life is most likely to come into conflict with the dominant strains of our liberal secular culture.

Atheism or agnosticism replaced theism or deism as the dominant religion of the cultured.

Today «liberal Protestnatism» usually refers to Protestant movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that responded to the increasingly secular and atheist character of the dominant forms of European culture.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

As Kathleen Raine puts it, our culture's dominant mindscape would have us «see in the pearl nothing but a disease of the oyster.

A word needs to be said about art in the second sense, which like the products of applied science to which it is closely related, is a dominant note in our culture.

We feel entitled to have our morals enshrined in law, to being the dominant religion of our culture, to having power to set the nation's agenda.

The dominant Protestant culture enabled some Christians in this country to forget, as the book of Hebrews proclaims, that here we have no abiding city.

Every church has a dominant culture deeply influenced by the traditions and expectations of the dominant group and leaders in the church.

With electronic culture, he suggests, the resonance of sound has become the dominant mode of communication and conveyor of truth, rather than sight (as in reading books to discern ideas).

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

The dominant liberal utilitarian culture has been challenged many times but perhaps never by such an array of political and religious alternatives.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

A change in the dominant media of mass communication in the culture creates a radically new situation for communication in general and, in particular, for the transmission and interpretation of the Bible and of God's revelation.

I also think that a majority culture can easily ignore the sentiments and circumstances of those in a minority position; whereas those in a minority position are well - versed in the dominant culture.

My observations are directed at the dominant language and ethos of a culture, not at the souls of individuals.

Which got me thinking about how the dominant religious culture, even the dominant expression of Christianity and church that we are exposed to, attempts to set the rule.

It is often subversive of existing dominant cultures.