Sentences with phrase «on cultural attitudes»

Check out Bill's recent article on our cultural attitudes toward divorce — and why they need to change — in our July / August 2015 issue of the Networker, Should This Marriage Be Saved?

In addition to the fun of meeting other scientists and the interested public and learning more about recent research, these conferences provided me with an intriguing opportunity to reflect on cultural attitudes.

Not exact matches

Some other countries, such as Germany and France, opted to administer a questionnaire on students» cultural attitudes and interest in global news, but not the «cognitive test,» which asks students to spot fake news.

There's a wide range of cultural attitudes within the U.S. Large parts of the northeast U.S. tend to be achievement - oriented, while in the South, there is an emphasis on honor, Basáñez says.

Always focus on attitude and cultural fit.

Meanwhile, Canada's low ranking in the OECD's business enterprise expenditure on research and development rankings is often blamed on the national tendency to «sit on dead money» because of «cultural risk aversion» or «insufficient outward - looking attitudes.»

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 fact of the matter is that once we get away from Niebuhr himself and try to use the categories constructively, they are extraordinarily useful for analyzing the attitudes of almost any Christians on almost any cultural issues.

Claire Paye said too great an emphasis is placed on encouraging mothers to find work after having a child, adding that cultural attitudes need to change.

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.»

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

It attempts to show the following in schematic form: column A, three cultural attitudes which are prominent in our «configuration» and in the personality patterns of the parents of the alcoholics; column B, the effect that these cultural attitudes have on the parents; column C, the way in which these effects tend to deprive the child of the satisfaction of certain vital needs; column D, the relationship between this deprivation of satisfaction and the psychological characteristics which are typical of alcoholics.

[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.»

Differences in cultural attitudes to infant feeding and background levels of breastfeeding initiation can have a strong influence on outcomes.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

Recognize the effect of cultural diversity on breastfeeding attitudes and practices and encourage variations, if appropriate, that effectively promote and support breastfeeding in different cultures.

Cultural factors need to be addressed, which is where the power of the brelfie and social media campaigns can — and do — have a really positive effect in shifting attitudes and encouraging activism on the issue.

The cultural effects are on tangible things like access to cultural products (such as food but also all kinds of entertainment), intangible things like attitudes (due to our exposure to a wider range of ideas, outlooks and experiences) and, of course, on literal cultural diversity.

It focused on cultural experiences and attitudes — hostility to the rules and regulations of social liberalisation, national pride and racial prejudice and wrapped an appeal to economic experiences within it: Britain would be better off economically because Britain is great; freeing ourselves of fussy and politically correct regulation would release economic energy; stopping immigration would mean there's more money to go around.

But Cuomo says more importantly, there needs to be a cultural shift in attitudes towards texting or talking on the phone while driving.

Posted on 17th June 2014 in Expectations of constitutional change, Cross border attitudes, National identity & cultural issues

Instead, the report urges NCI to use new group definitions based on ethnicity, country of ancestry, and a range of «cultural and behavioral attitudes.

To explore that issue, she is now looking beyond Kansas and across three continents, collecting data in Korea, Ghana and elsewhere in the U.S. Whereas more choice may lead to similar friends for U.S. college students, different social landscapes and broad cultural attitudes may introduce their own unique constraints on how people pick their friends.

Researchers at the school's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) assessed cultural worldviews along two dimensions: hierarchy - egalitarianism (attitudes toward authority and power) and individualism - communitarianism (focus on self - reliance or responsibility to a larger group) of more than 5,000 people who reported an awareness of electronic nicotine devices (ENDS), which include e-cigarettes.

Giving it a hint of cultural topicality, the screenplay by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, and Roddy Doyle (based on Doyle's novel) has the characters in turn express a wizened, resigned attitude towards unemployment.

Based on the setting alone, the film trips over every obvious German stereotype in the book - from the uninhibited cultural attitudes, to the kinky sexual indulgences, to the peculiar artistic tastes, smaller automobiles, penchant for beer and Euro - trashy nightclubs, etc., etc., etc.... Beyond that, the lineup of comedic gags and sequences feels like mishmash of ideas that never seem to balance out tonally with other jokes, not the entire dramatic side of the film.

It is an invaluable lesson that makes Mud an extremely sophisticated and progressive examination on how adolescent masculinity is defined by often - contradictory cultural attitudes towards femininity.

29] The manifestation of mass opinions, obsessions, and objectives takes various forms depending on certain inherent attributes, imbibed cultural attitudes or instructed methods of operation.

Yes, America's schools are often outscored by other nations on international exams, but to what extent do those comparisons measure schools and to what extent are they reflections of cultural attitudes over which schools have little control?

Collected information, essay plans and worksheets on attitudes in the play and also on social, historical and cultural context

The case became a cause célèbre and one of the highest profile racial killings in UK history; its fallout included profound cultural changes to attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice, and the partial revocation of double jeopardy laws, before two of the perpetrators were convicted almost 20 years later in 2012.

Safer, adjunct associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, said the Maryland data also raise questions about access to medical systems and how cultural attitudes play a role in whether parents agree to put their child on medication.

Yoga, mindfulness training, cultural sensitivity training, and peer mediation have all been shown to have positive impacts on student SEL skills and attitudes in high school.

A 1994 study based on data from a survey of third - through fifth - grade teachers in a Southeastern school district and a Midwestern school district investigated the overall attitudes of teachers toward cultural diversity.

CEPA research includes what effects different instructional methods have on ELLs, how cultural differences and attitudes affect ELLs, the effectiveness of ELL programs, and other questions of importance to educators and policymakers.

The evaluation focused on three key areas: 1) Implementation (training, staffing, promotion, availability, methods for sustainability, curricular connections), 2) Participation (methods of adoption / education, level of participation, parent / teacher / food service worker roles) and 3) Attitudes (changes in diet / nutrition - related knowledge, behavior, impact of cultural differences, food likes / dislikes, expectations, influences on food selection, etc.).

Readers will focus on their attitude toward students, their relationship with students, their compassion for students, the learning environment, and cultural relevance in instruction.

Principal Kafele will engage teachers in a very sensitive yet healthy conversation on classroom equity in the areas of: The Attitude of the Teacher, Student Motivation, Classroom Climate and Culture, Building Relationships, Classroom Instruction, Cultural Responsiveness, Teacher Accountability, Planning and Organization, Professional Development and Parental Engagement.

The anniversary of decriminalisation of sex between men in 1967 was an anniversary with more edge — although mainstream cultural attitudes have changed hugely in this respect and it's been amazing the scale on which the anniversary's been marked in Britain.

In his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking.

Ferus attracted a like - minded cohort of radical individualists who were bent on challenging the prevailing cultural attitudes, both locally and those from afar.

Shown alongside these paintings are the next generation of acclaimed contemporary artists whose works built on and opposed those formative attitudes, and reflect the cultural and societal influences of their time.

Butt speculates that this surge of government surveillance on Sàn Art's programs could be attributed to a change in staff within the Cultural Police: «Our last seven years of operation has been relatively smooth, because we have had a working relationship with this bureau, but with staff change comes attitude differences.

These figures which spring from the artist's imagination and are stripped of cultural and historical orientation and rely on pose and facial expression to convey attitude and meaning.

Musing on the ecological interdependence of organic and inorganic systems, this series expresses concern for our cultural attitudes and perceptions of our place within nature.

Although «Dance the Orange» is a line from Rilke, the titles of Mr. Whitney's paintings sometimes touch on political attitudes or cultural identity: «Radical Openness» and «Unpronounceable Freedom» (at Karma); and, at the Studio Museum, «Congo» and «James Brown Sacrifice to Apollo.»

It's not so much the absolute amount of energy, but the cultural attitudes revealed: that it's OK to throw away energy on something that not only provides no discernable benefit most of the time (except as an enhancement to the ego of the homeowner), but which is (as you mentioned) an annoyance to those neighbors who'd rather enjoy the night for its darkness.

As I concluded in that earlier post, it seems to me that a cultural attitude more embracing of polyamory and less insistent on monogamy, might be «less likely to accommodate jealousy or possessive attitudes, power imbalances, controlling and coercive dynamics, or emotional, mental or economic abuse, in all families, whether diamorous or polyamorous.»

They talked about cultural breaches in being on another person's country without invitation, the difficulty of navigating a very complex health system, of being exposed to racist attitudes, and the deep losses to communities back home who miss their presence in family and culture.

The guide notes that «a culturally safe workforce considers power relations, cultural differences and the rights of the patient, and encourages workers to reflect on their own attitudes and beliefs».