Sentences with phrase «on cultural levels»

The communication and information process that is dominated by the powerful creates violent conflicts on the social psychological level as well as on cultural levels.

If so, then our culture being inventive implies we're needy — «a highly toxic mindset» — on a cultural level.

On the political level the most important change in the Communist world is the split between Russia and China, but perhaps on the cultural level the fact of Poland has greater significance.

As a white «outsider» who's spent over two decades working with students in Chicago schools, I've seen firsthand the importance of students having teachers they can connect with on a cultural level.

The United States has philanthropic spirit, and on a cultural level, there's long been a push toward charitable giving.

Of course there are some luxuries that are only provided for by multinational corporations (MNC's), but as a traveler, it is our obligation to be aware of our impact, not only on a monetary level, but on a cultural level as well.

Certainly the MoMA exhibition resonated deeply on a cultural level, as it had with his compatriots Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, and Gwendoline and Jacob Lawrence, but most clearly for Lewis, African art opened a path to the aesthetic possibilities of abstracted «plastic effects.»

Climate change becomes a matter of identity when it impacts people's life's on a cultural level, threatening their homeland, their sense of place and their respect for natural resources.

I think it's important to acknowledge what's happened on the cultural level in terms of indoctrinating people to disposability.

On a cultural level, the city hosts a number of significant events every year.

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On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

You want to be sure of having a reasonable chance of fitting in on a personal level as well as a professional level, because to many people, cultural fit is extremely important.

Whether you seek to become President of the United States, interview for a job, woo customers, lead a team, or run a university, your success may depend on your level of cultural sensitivity.

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Buying into the vision will help a team unite and connect on a deeper level, which will only help foster the cultural equity that formed when the company was smaller.

On a very basic level, as a sort of cultural trend, weddings themselves are becoming smaller and smaller affairs: They are increasingly getting cheaper and people are inviting fewer guests (in 2009, 149 came to the average American wedding; last year, that number fell to 141).

«If the cultural left insists on its present strategy — on asking us to respect one another in our differences rather than asking us to cease noticing those differences — it will have to find a new way of creating a sense of commonality at the level of national politics.»

On a deeper level, one's degree of culture is to be judged by the extent of his education, the breadth of his interests, and his knowledge and appreciation of such «cultural» pursuits as good art, literature, and music.

But on a broader level, this case illuminates the problem of privilege in America — a problem that fuels many of the cultural divisions and injustices in society.

On one level I have a cultural hermeneutic.

Is aware of the fact that deeply imbedded cultural stereotypes are likely to have their influence on him or her at an unconscious level, even though intellectually he or she rejects such stereotypes.

The Oblate statement repeatedly puts «cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions» in the same category and on the same level.

The natural, economic, social, political, cultural and religious dimensions were analytically distinguished, differentiated and even fragmented; and they are compartmentalized not only on analytical level but also on the concrete practically level.

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

The questions of peace and security over against violence are to be understood on economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on social and political levels.

Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.

On a conceptual level, Ellaiyamman guards the cultural and religious particularity of the Paraiyars.

Again there is a wide range between the maximal identity of religion and other activities such as prevail in primitive societies and the tension we find existing on more advanced levels of cultural and religious development.

From a cultural viewpoint, a tax collector was on the same level as a prostitute (Matt.

Another form of this dualism is the commonly made claim that the evolutionary process continues on the human level with cultural evolution, which is totally distinct from biological evolution.

(3) We can learn from Niebuhr that sin persists on every level of individual achievement, social or cultural advance, and religious pretension.

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

The question of peace and security over against violence is to be understood on the economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on the social and political levels.

On one level, he distinguishes Christianity's role as a cultural marker from its role as a causative factor in several contemporary and historical conflicts.

It's when people connect on this experiential level that ideas (in this case, «bad things shouldn't happen to good people») gain cultural traction and eventually make their way into religious imagery.

If indeed she was, as Gooch variously puts it, both a «cultural» and an «artistic» racist, why would anyone, on any level, personal or artistic, be interested in her at all?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways, but large cultural changes require a deliberate reorientation in consciousness at the grassroots level.

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.

The church must have the courage not to reduce the liturgy to what people think they want on the basis of superficial cultural patterns but to make of it what they really want at the deepest levels of their being.

This consequence parallels a major characteristic of television noted in relation to general communication patterns: one of the major social effects of television lies in its cultural narrowing and its levelling effect on the presentation of cultural diversity.

On a level of less generality, one can ask whether the process paradigm serves not only to describe the Passage of Nature but also to mark certain cultural passages.

The dominant western political power, especially the U.S., with its pervasive network of information industries, wire services, satellite communications and so on, interlocks with the Asian national communications media and subverts these on political, economic and cultural levels, producing a powerful impact upon the peoples of Asia.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

But to have your trauma and pain recognized and supported on a larger cultural level.

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

On a global as well as a regional level, Medela supports initiatives to enhance social and cultural environments.

More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.

On a practical level, one of your first steps must be to create a team with the right mix of local and international knowledge, cultural understanding and analytical skills.