Sentences with phrase «on cultural assumptions»

It's not a courtroom drama, but it is a movie about faustian bargains exacted by Rumpelstiltskin, and the plot turns on cultural assumptions about the binding nature and literal enforcement of written contracts — even dubious contracts.

Many of the sleep tips you find in popular books and magazines are based on cultural assumptions about what constitutes good sleep.

Obstetric care takes more of a medicalised approach to childbirth and its popularity is based on the cultural assumption that birth is dangerous unless closely medically managed, and that women do not have the capacity or inclination to birth without medical intervention.

Mayanne's aim is to take Behind the Scars to the United States to shoot even more people who want to take on the cultural assumption that scars must be hidden.

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But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

We hope this podcast will serve as pushback to our very real tendency to make assumptions based on limited knowledge or experience, and to indulge in outrage and conclusion - drawing before we understand the important but mundane details of a cultural event.

The illusion that Christian institutions can survive based on unspoken assumptions of shared beliefs has been shattered by cultural revolution and legal transformation.

In «Christendom» there was a cultural assumption that only Christianity was true, and therefore the Christian church had not only the right but the obligation to share — even to impose — its truth on those who did not have it.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

What is, however, of a different order of magnitude is the convergence of technological, institutional, political, and cultural currents, historic bases on which assumptions about religion, speech, press, and self - government are based.

Attitudes toward the state, cultural assumptions, and self - designations all bear on how we do theology and should raise sensitivity in the area of preaching.

The natural assumption would then follow that the writers of the Bible constucted a personal theological and cultural justification, based on the need for a comfort zone religion.

Those who try to argue that the intimate relationship of David and Jonathan was homoerotic simply fail to understand the Jewish cultural context, and retroactively visit the assumptions of our own highly sexualised culture on the text, in an attempt to make the Bible say what it does not.

At the very least, a renewed culture of hospitality could help debunk what seems (at least on the Internet) to be an operating assumption of Americans on both sides of our religious - cultural - political divides: the belief that our «enemies» are almost uniformly malevolent and unintelligent.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Her research interests include cultural influences on individual preferences and choice, and the influence of cultural assumptions on how talking affects cognitive processes.

The magazine's cultural line is based on the assumption of medicinal uniqueness and the recognition of each methodology in order to scientifically document its effectiveness.

But even under the best circumstances, the differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those differences can have a disarming effect on a minority student who believes that college equals a racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.

Blogger Danielle Moss Lee discusses the cultural assumptions that students of color might face on a predominantly white college campus.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist Jefferson draws on cultural touchstones, from Ebony to James Baldwin to Ntozake Shange, as she traces her life during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, when radical race consciousness and feminism questioned all of the old assumptions.

In the wise words of Maya Fey: «You need to stop judging things based on narrow - minded cultural assumptions, TheDreadPirateGuy!

Notes on Undoing brings together a group of artists with a shared cultural heritage and diverse practices all centered on exposing, unpacking and exploring the dominant assumptions that inform the perspectives of the artist and his or her audience.

The fact is that Brexit has turned a cruel spotlight on British metropolitan cultural institutions, and on the assumptions of those who organise, fund and celebrate them.

Little did we care that this type of imagery was most often a vessel for cultural assumptions, misconstructions, fantasies, a crass inadequacy of what we actually saw and felt in our little universe that we built whilst on holiday.

A path based on viewing technology, economics, and our cultural institutions and assumptions not as ends in themselves, but as tools toward a higher goal — a more fulfilling, sustainable, just and (this one is important!)

One of the things that's interesting is we are very, I think we parent very much as partners but it's one of those things where I'm kind of unaware where I make assumptions in things, but what I really am aware of is I know that she carries guilt over not being around for the kids all the time, that I don't have because there's no cultural expectation that dad is going to be around all the time, so the fact that I want to or don't want to is kind of like my choice, but for her there's all this expectation around what it means to be a mom and what kind of care you're supposed to give and I know that it's there and it weights on her.

These employers operate on the assumption that four years of academic application in almost any field suggests rigor, determination, and broad cultural immersion in literature, mathematics, science, and critical thinking.

Participants in Cultural Safety training are asked to reflect on their own values, assumptions and stereotypes, and to explore issues of identity, power, privilege, whiteness, racism and discrimination.

The crucial inquiry, therefore, is correctly stated as whether removal policies were premised on assumptions about the cultural inferiority of Indigenous people which predetermined that the best interests of the child, and of the wider society, would best be served by removing the child from their family, community and culture.

In other contexts, feminists complain about the cultural assumptions of childrearing putting an unfair burden on women, but when the law tries to redress that burden and demand that parents share in childrearing, then feminists object.

Suspend judgment and assumptions about how a family should do things based on the provider's own cultural expectations related to child rearing and family life.