Sentences with phrase «other cultural patterns»

Even the Byzantine empire, which spread the Christian faith, felt that women should be kept domesticated and married in their teens, among other cultural patterns of the time that appear oppressive to us today.

Not exact matches

Cultural patterns thus represent aspects of human nature that are not universal, but shared with a limited number of other persons.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

The author reviews two books on the subject discussing the cultural patterns and problems of first and second generation Koreans, how they are different from other ethnic groups and the problems of assimilation into American culture.

We shall explore the congregation as we might a village, trying to learn the particular cultural patterns by which it attempts to make itself whole, but also finding within it forms by which other groups in the world coalesce, disintegrate, and yet manifest the gospel.

Cultural psychologists have long argued that people living in Western cultures show a rather distinctive pattern of self - beliefs, compared to those who live in other parts of the world.

Traditional tundra societies are more likely to share cultural patterns with each other than with tropical rain forest societies, regardless of whether some descended from a common ancestral culture.

Local populations became entrenched, eschewing intermarriage with other groups and adopting a cultural pattern of what researchers call endogamy, the practice of marrying only within an ethnic or social group.

Having said that, there are obvious differences in buying patterns as dictated by cultural and other factors and these become parameters to guide our buys.

Applying this observation to Japanese music and other cultural forms, Stockhausen identified a pattern that helps account for what Western listeners and viewers perceive as the extreme slowness of certain passages and the extreme rapidity of others (often sequences involving violence).

to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women.»

We may not be getting higher scores when the tests use traditional cultural content (one can't learn that from the video games and the TV shows), but we are apparently getting better at other kinds of tests, such as Raven Matrices, which test for logic, pattern recognition, and task completion.

Through a project called KnowGlobe, they regularly talk with students on other continents, learning in the process about time zones, cultural differences, global weather patterns, and the state of education worldwide.

While foods, fashions, and local traditions, for example, are recurring and welcome topics of discussion on Out of Eden Learn, many students pick up on other, subtler aspects of culture, such as communication styles, prevailing cultural values and behavioral expectations, and relationship patterns across different generations.

As well as this cultural beauty you can also enjoy the incredible physical beauty of the north east coast of Bali which offers all of the Balinese themes of countryside from towering volcanoes and mountains covered with rainforest and jungle down across the hills where memorizing patterns are carved into the landscape by the rice paddies and then coconut groves and other plantations lead up to the black and white sand beaches where there is crystal clear water which is flat over the coral reefs which are home to all kinds of unreal wildlife.

But unlike scenarios in which men protect women, these less - common instances in which men must protect or rescue other men don't represent a significant pattern and don't reinforce pre-existing cultural attitudes about men, women and gender.

On the other hand, cultural trends began to change as well — with Elvis Presley in the US, and the Beatles in the UK (a couple of years later), a big cultural rebellion started against the dominant traditional cultural patterns.

Hence it is especially refreshing to encounter members of the discipline who are comfortable with both biologically influenced behavior patterns and the remarkable range of human cultural diversity, and who have the wit and wisdom to combine the two — consistencies in pair - bonding and adolescent sexual development and variations in the desirability of mates worldwide — rather than argue vociferously that either precludes the other.

Jessi was a caseworker at a homeless shelter in Lancaster, California for three years, working with people from various socioeconomic backgrounds, cultural identities, and familial upbringings and became acquainted with addiction patterns, mental illnesses, and other emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses.

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