Sentences with phrase «other cultural system»

The mass media both nationally and internationally are rapidly becoming not just an aspect of social cultures, but through their increasing ubiquity across cultures, their functional interrelationship, and their place within the international market and economic system, are becoming the vanguard of a new international culture whose web is touching and influencing almost every other cultural system.

Not exact matches

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

Jean - Louis Margolin tells us in The Black Book that twenty million died in that system after the Communist victory in 1949; twenty million others during the Great Leap Forward of 1959 — 61; and many thousands more during the Great Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

This involves no assertions one way or another about the value or validity of other cultural - linguistic systems or about the relation of Christian faith to any nonlinguistic reality.

America, being the remaining inheritor of Western world power, has yet even to try to realize that domination is no longer a possibility or a possible goal, that world power must be shared, not only with other groups with their own interests but with groups holding quite other cultural and value systems — and thus that the continuation of our power (and that of our forms of cultural order) is precarious at best.

That means that we shall have to enter into philosophical and cultural - linguistic systems other than our own and show in their terms that what we say makes sense, or that that system is in itself confused on its own terms, and that we are prepared to abandon our beliefs if they can not make sense in other viable systems and hence are not universal in significance.

This system involves cultural images and messages, as well as institutional policies and practices, which in the U.S., operate to the advantage of some and to the disadvantage of others.

On this view language and other cultural forms have a self - generating character; this view of cultural systems gives us an alternative to thinking of the interiority of experience in mental terms.

But social - cultural - religious systems do interact with each other, with consequences that help shape the context and possibilities within which individuals encounter one another.

Post-liberal Christians recognize that Christianity is one cultural - linguistic system alongside others.

It further states that In the Third World, where all religions together face the challenges of enslaving social and cultural systems and the need to struggle for justice, religions should meet each other, exploring and sharing their liberative elements.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

Its democratic system means that companies such as Tesco and Wal - Mart have found themselves politically stymied by literally millions of small business people and market vendors who fear losing their livelihoods, while others such as B&Q have been the wrong cultural fit (DIY is not very common in Indian society).

An IDNYC card can also be used at all branches of all three of New York City's public library systems and be used to obtain discounts and other benefits at museums and cultural institutions, entertainment venues, pharmacies and fitness centers.

«Our people particularly the traditional rulers must start to see the need in taking a position that will revamp the decadence in the system and place us above other races as regards socio - cultural heritage and values.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

Research suggests that there may be a combination of biologic, cultural, health systems - based and other factors that may be contributing to the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in African Americans when compared to non-Hispanic whites.

Inadvertently, this system deters young scientists from learning in other countries, from discovering cultural and political systems different from their own, and from networking with international scientists.

In reality, however, rampant problems in research funding — some attributable to the system and others cultural — are slowing down China's potential pace of innovation.

If the values we give to the environment are cultural, in the sense that wonder, contrast and richness of experience are general human values, then we don't run the risk of patronising other cultures whose value system is different from our own.

It speaks to a very specific kind of British mentality, the kind that operates independently of any other cultural affectation or belief system.

The court concluded that an adequate education requires among other things «sufficient oral and written communication skills» for functioning «in a complex and rapidly changing civilization,» «sufficient knowledge of economic, social and political systems to enable the student to make informed choices,» and a «sufficient grounding in the arts to enable each student to appreciate his or her cultural and historical heritage.»

Meanwhile, the «one best system» of public education — for all its appeal to Hirsch, Ravitch, and others — fails to accommodate diverse cultural, economic, and familial demands.

On the other hand, those systems that have successfully moved toward more competency - based approaches are putting in a concerted effort to manage cultural change, or were already grounded in a competency - based, personalized culture even before the mandate was handed down.

Parent leaders offered important insights on the roles they have played in helping to engage other parents and families helping them navigate the system and become part of their own leadership pipeline as parents from increasingly diverse cultural communities.

Culture and Collaboration Collaborate effectively and meet frequently with the MWA Division Directors, Associate School Directors, Deans of Students, Lead Teachers, Content Leads, the other divisional DCI, and MWAS team members to successfully build capacity of Teaching Faculty and Teacher Interns Work with the Data and Assessment team to compile, analyze, and respond to data on the school's schoolwide data management and assessment systems, including oversight and implementation of the schoolwide Benchmark Assessment system Through informal observations, formal observations, and other qualitative measures, utilize approved tools and matrices to assess faculty adherence and fidelity to efficacy and growth mindset instructional practices, data - informed instructional lesson planning and practices, and cultural competence practices in working with students, faculty and families Work closely with the Director of Teacher Residency to support and inform MWA Teacher Residents with the necessary entry - level skills expected of MWA teachers; this includes working with and supporting the Mentor Teachers assigned to Teacher Residents Supervise and support New Teacher Induction Program Mentor teachers towards helping new - to - the - profession teachers in «clearing» their credential and meeting state mandates for certification; this includes support for all intern teachers Develop and maintain positive relationships with various internal & external stakeholders including administrative colleagues, parents, students, teaching faculty, support and intervention staff members, and board members

A 2010 study on a pilot system in Chicago found, for instance, that when using the high end of the scale, principals often inflated their ratings compared to other observers, in part because of cultural expectations.

At the same time, many researchers say that attempting to simply replicate features of high - performing countries» education systems in the United States is a mistake, unless policymakers account for the role that cultural norms play in shaping school policies in other nations.

She and others also talked about the larger cultural change in testing that's coming at the same time as other shifts in school funding and accountability, including a new high - stakes teacher evaluation system that will be in place next year.

It is very important to bear in mind that Shanghai's education system rests in part on favorable cultural factors that are widely shared with other Asian countries and uses strategies that are very similar to those used by a number of those countries and provinces in Asia that are also at the top of the PISA league tables.

Although we do not «stream» students as some other systems do, schools that can attract high - performing students do so and thereby drain the social and cultural capital from other schools.

Some works occupy the cracks in the physical infrastructure, while others expose the systems that make the factory - turned - museum into a locus of cultural activity.

More specifically, she examines how these systems become the framework for peoples» interactions with each other, made visible through — amongst other things — cultural customs, architectural modes and city planning.

In selecting artists to receive the prize, emphasis is placed on individuals whose original work reflects the Lawrences» concern for artistic excellence, education, mentorship, and scholarship within the cultural contexts and value systems that informed their work and the work of other artists of color.

Historically, hegemonic systems have been predicated on the identification of an oppositional force, a cultural «other» — often located within its midst — against which the system can define itself, thus protecting its cohesion and power.

Cultural nomads or archaeologists of information, Lothar Baumgarten's installations, language and other systems of categorization are turned inside out, revealing the anxieties such nomenclature is designed to suppress.

Because of how photographic images are understood to function, as a system of pointers with indexical qualities that suggest things outside the frame, Linwood's use of the grid format points to parallel events, skewed timelines, cultural constructs, his own orchestration, and, other images which are simultaneously presented, albeit in amusingly slippery states of action and focus.

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

By acknowledging larger cultural systems such as capitalism, slavery, the industrial military complex, perhaps Nationalism can be delineated from the politics of Nationalism; allowing us to consider whether Nationalism intrinsically violent since it assumes an other and requires intensive cycles of suffering / glory as modes of imagining communities.

One who thinks any naming is just an arbitrary cultural invention equal in value to all other namings — the only inferior system being that of the mad robot scientists who secretly rule the world?

Certainly other systems such as that of the USSR can be environmentally destructive, and certainly human short - termism is trans - cultural; but it is indeed capitalism that is driving the relentless push towards environmental destruction — and not only with regard to climate change.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

«The trainees at Stephenson Harwood who enjoy an international seat develop important additional skills: their cultural awareness increases, and they better understand how the legal systems of other jurisdictions operate.»

In the 19th century, Canadian and American governments outlawed Indigenous spiritual systems as well as other Indigenous cultural practices such as languages and styles of dress (see Indian Act).

Also unlike the court system, which assigns parties a judge arbitrarily, participants in med - arb choose the professional who works with them, allowing them to pick someone with specific cultural or other specialized knowledge.

On the other hand, while Canada and the United States share generally similar histories, legal systems and social composition, their respective Supreme Courts reflect their cultural and political differences.

Why don't you expose real barbaric cultural practices, such as the justice systems in Saudi Arabia where Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and where others are beheaded or even crucified?

Beyond that personal narrative, Joseph weaved another story resulting from Canada's residential school system, one of cultural genocide: a systematic extermination of the history, culture, traditions, and other defining characteristics of a people.

The cultural broker accompanies the responding social worker on the initial response and assists with family engagement, assessment, development of a safety plan (if appropriate), and identification of absent parent, relatives, and other support systems.