Sentences with phrase «on cultural theory»

To this end, I adapted a typology developed by Rikki Dean at LSE, which draws on cultural theory (Douglas 1970) to classify ways in which the public participate in policy - making (Dean 2016).

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It's spawned parodies, online theories and even a Miley Cyrus mash - up on its way to becoming a full - fledged pop cultural force.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

This reading practice, offering a purchase on literature to anyone who wanted one, receded in the 1970s as pedagogues turned from New Criticism to Big Theory, and further in the 1990s as poetry and novels lost prestige and young people no longer aspired to read them closely for cultural capital.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

It is, of course, necessary to recognize that such theories depend to a great extent on the kinds of values and presuppositions built into the larger cultural environment from which they emerge.

After reviewing the theories of Malinowski, Freud, Girard and others on the role of fatherhood, Steinmetz uses the story of Oedipus to illustrate the problem; a father wants to insure immortality by passing on all of his «self» (both material and cultural) to an heir, but in so doing insures his own mortality and displacement.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

My cultural - mixing theory of Hawaii and its food was now fact.I pushed on and went to the hot sauces.

You will learn: ♥ The basics of attachment theory and parent education principles ♥ Why attachment is critically important for the family and society ♥ Attachment parenting as defined by API ♥ Cultural myths about parenting ♥ The myths about AP ♥ Hands on strategies and activities for teaching the parents you serve and much more!

As explained in my neurophilosophical theory of human nature, humans have the potential to be either moral or immoral, depending on their self - interest, and will be influenced in their choices by emotions and socio - cultural contexts.

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

Whether one theory or the other predominates in a particular society depends on cultural contexts.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

It would be at least negatively challenging and scandalous to try to defend these harmful practices relying on a society's anachronistic religious and cultural beliefs and theories.

On the other hand, the theory of cultural relativism is based on the idea that there are no objective criteria by which people with different social and religious norms and perspectives can be distinguisheOn the other hand, the theory of cultural relativism is based on the idea that there are no objective criteria by which people with different social and religious norms and perspectives can be distinguisheon the idea that there are no objective criteria by which people with different social and religious norms and perspectives can be distinguished.

In addition, Hill is the co-founder of the Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families

These two theories, the former blaming acting white on a racist society, the latter on self - imposed cultural sabotage, have emerged as the predominant explanations for acting white among American blacks.

On the other hand, he defies proponents of charters, vouchers, and other forms of school choice as wishful thinkers disposed to let marketplace theories trump evidence of student achievement while also undervaluing education's civic and cultural roles.

Solis» research focuses on children's cognitive development, specifically how young children play with each other and with objects to understand and build theories about the world around them, and how this is shaped by their cultural context.

She is the cofounder of the Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families.

According to conservatives, the great sin teachers colleges have committed in the past few decades is that they have focused too much on theory and not enough on clinical practice — and by «theory,» they mean critical pedagogy and other theories that enable prospective teachers to situate school knowledge, practices, and modes of governance within wider historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts.

Theories like Bloom's Taxonomy, the SAM and ADDIE models, situated cognition, and socio - cultural learning theories will help you have a firm grasp on how the human mind absorbs, assimilates, and retains infoTheories like Bloom's Taxonomy, the SAM and ADDIE models, situated cognition, and socio - cultural learning theories will help you have a firm grasp on how the human mind absorbs, assimilates, and retains infotheories will help you have a firm grasp on how the human mind absorbs, assimilates, and retains information.

Cueponcaxochitl's research draws on decolonial and socio - cultural theories to examine Ancestral Computing for environmental, economic and social sustainability.

The hotel location within walking distance from Catedral de la Merced cathedral, Ermita de la Soledad hermitage, and the so - called Columbus sites (where Columbus exchanged ideas and explored competing theories, before setting on his voyage to discover America), makes Monte Conquero the ideal place to stay for those who want to visit Huelva cultural sites.

Robert's talk begins with a brief cultural history of lighting before moving on to an overview of lighting design theory as well as various case studies.

Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.

Often drawing on post-colonialist theory, Fernandes» work investigates the concepts of cultural identity and authenticity.

Seamlessly blending pop cultural imagery, color theory, and psychology, Yuskavage draws on classical and modern painterly techniques and, in particular, marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.

Batchelor is also a writer and has written extensively on color theories, including a book, Chromophobia, which argues that a fear of corruption or contamination through color pervades Western cultural and intellectual thought.

Roberta Smith, who in 1993 wrote for the New York Times Weekend in Review, «This exhibition exemplifies what seems to have become the New Museum's house style: a display of rather antiseptic, Conceptual - based artworks organized around a theme that is top - heavy with theory» continues to review the museum's exhibitions; Palestine remains under occupation; and while the cultural perception of AIDS has changed, from «gay cancer» to an African epidemic, the disease rages on world - wide.

Guided by these questions, this exploratory seminar will survey and examine creative uses, definitions, and theories of the diagram from the early modern period to the present, with emphasis on cultural production in the 20th and 21st centuries.

She has contributed essays and articles to Theory, Culture and Society, Afterimage, journal of visual culture, Art India, Broadsheet among others, and is co-editor of a forthcoming issue of Third Text on modernity and China's cultural politics.

The library has a unique collection of exhibition catalogues and monographs, as well as a strong focus on cultural and critical theory, diaspora, gender studies, and media studies.

While attending panel discussions on cultural districts at the recent New Cities Summit in Dallas, Britt - Darby heard various theories and anecdotes about their impact on urban areas.

Often drawing on post-colonialist theory, Fernandes's work investigates the concepts of cultural identity and authenticity.

A series of soft assemblage sculptural objects on the walls and floor fill the front gallery, utilizing a broad platform of techniques that include digital media, painting, installation art, sculpture and color theory — as tools to tackle ideas of cultural and economic exclusion and privilege.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

The artist, writer, and media theorist (and former Rhizome editor and curator) continues her interdisciplinary methodology with Getting Ready — which invokes «the anxiety of preparation for public engagement and exploring the degrees to which online participation soothes or exacerbates social alienation» — and touches on themes that have become staples in her work, like the politics of participation, gender theory, and the cultural history of technology.

Rogoff writes on the conjunctions of contemporary art with critical theory with particular reference to issues of colonialism, cultural difference and performativity.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project Ms. Fadda is an active curator and cultural practitioner, focusing on contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory and practice in the Middle East.

Light was also shed on sociohistorical and historico - cultural subjects such as «Shopping — A Century of Art and Consumer Culture,» «Privacy,» the visual art of the Stalin period, or New Romanticism in contemporary art; other presentations revealed the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or the intriguing causalities between artists of the modern era and self - proclaimed «prophets» of this period.

In the group exhibition «The Projective Drawing» at Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.

January to April 2013 saw the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, show «On Off: China's Young Artists in Theory and Practice», which focused on emerging and mid-career artists born after the Cultural RevolutioOn Off: China's Young Artists in Theory and Practice», which focused on emerging and mid-career artists born after the Cultural Revolutioon emerging and mid-career artists born after the Cultural Revolution.

I was particularly keen for this to be a cross - disciplinary conversation, as I work very much in that way, drawing on a mix of resources from sociology, anthropology and geography to political and cultural theory, to inform my artistic practice.

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