Over the past century science has made lots of advances into understanding the many
social meanings of body language.
Going
social means that we're moving well beyond the primary method of communication, which was email.
This is at the point of the concrete
social meaning of the cross in its relation to enmity and power.
Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received
social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.
But reason, taken in its totality — hence, not merely scientific reason, but reason in face of total reality — can never find the complete solution to human fulfillment in purely political, economic, technological or
social means.
I recently was asked to give a talk on «
the social meaning of the Eucharist,» and the first thing I said was, «You have to promise that if I tell you what
the social meaning of the Eucharist is, you won't stop going to mass.»
Ideally, we should find this within our families, but short of that» and we almost always fall short of ideals» we seek affirmation of our unique value through
social means.
My own denomination, the United Methodist, came into existence in the eighteenth century, helped to bring the gospel to the frontier in this country, took the gospel around the world, and devoted itself at home and abroad to realizing
the social meaning of that gospel.
The important factors are the personal attitudes and
social meanings of which the manners are the outward signs.
Nevertheless, it is «the productive capacity of modern economies» that has made at least some peace between
the social meaning of fit (which requires that society's needs be met) and the more personal meaning of fit (for which work is integral to one's sense of self).
Advocates of women's suffrage and women's ordination fall into this camp, as do Beverly Wildung Harrison (in some of her work), Shulamith Firestone and others who argue not just for the transcendence of gender roles but for technological and
social means of neutralizing sexual difference.
The reason we worry about school prayer and holiday displays is that they can have and convey a «
social meaning» of «disparagement.»
Yes, Equal Liberty invites decisions about «
social meaning» and «disparagement» that judges seem neither well placed nor well prepared to make.
Preschoolers are too young to understand
the social meaning of race the way adults do.
«A preschooler hasn't attached emotional or
social meaning to skin color yet,» says Wright.
Capitalism is nihilistic in that the transactional culture and commodification of the market relations destroys
social meaning.
The absence or underrepresentation of young people in parliament, on the contrary, may signal the opposite and create
a social meaning of inability to rule.
What welfare seems to do is trap people through economic and
social means in a type of serfdom», said Blond.
I see these discussions as a healthy route to Labour recapturing
its social meaning.
He stumbled on a post about how corporations are better at achieving
social means.
«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing
the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»
But in a news interview,
its social meaning is turned upside down — it becomes a way of asserting the right to speak at a place where normally interviewees don't have the right to speak.
«Disorder is not necessarily chaotic,» he says, «and is subject to different
social meanings in ongoing or non-manipulated environments.
And Steven feels a «deeper responsibility» to be able to tell stories with «
social meaning» and he says he will always choose «history over popular culture».
Todd Haynes» film about the then forbidden love between a housewife (Cate Blanchett) and a young girl (Rooney Mara), could also, Burwell says, be considered «in terms of
social meaning, but I think from the point of view of music's role, I was really looking at it as a love story, so that's a new thing for me.»
Even with all the popcorn in a film like «Ready Player One,» it does still have
social meaning.»
Speaking to the New York Times newspaper: «Now I feel a deeper responsibility to tell stories that have some kind of
social meaning.
Students construct
social meanings from informal and formal productions and from dramatic performances from a variety of cultures and historical periods, and relate these to current personal, national, and international issues
Ripped jeans are also an ongoing theme with
social meaning.
It's commonly associated with the 70:20:10 learning framework, which incorporates the idea that 70 % of learning is acquired through direct experience, while 20 % is achieved through
social means, and only 10 % is relayed through traditional instructor - led, classroom - based learning.
Intellectual Disability and the Production of
Social Meanings Within Educational Research
Believe it or not, there is a science and
social meaning behind colors.
Unknown dogs are important because becoming
social means learning to deal with, communicate properly to, and properly interpret the body language of hyper dogs, dominant dogs, fearful dogs, old dogs, young puppies, and so on.
At a time when abstract art was dominant, it was Neo-Dada that reintroduced the ordinary object and the figurative image, bringing back
a social meaning into art.
In his new exhibition at Jay Jopling's White Cube, Theaster Gates takes a turn away from explicit
social meaning, and lets the objects speak for themselves.
By the 1980s Smith was creating artworks in a variety of mediums, from paper and glass to cast bronze, using anatomy as a starting point for an exploration of the cultural, political and
social meanings connected to the human body.
In her challenging engagement with the human figure and investigation of
social meaning, Eisenman is developing new conventions of figuration to address enduring themes of the human condition.
This piece, entitled The End of Anger, includes objects that hark back to the 1970s and are loaded with personal and
social meanings.
Almost all the artworks had not some kind of formalist abstract basis but rather
some social meaning.
If Enterprise 2.0 rests on delivering value through collaborative, emergent and
social means, ideas are the top basis for leveraging these qualities.
'» Sustainability may be spreading faster though
social means than any other.
It is exactly
that social meaning that must be removed from the climate change question before people can answer it with what they know: that their well - being and the well - being of others they actually care about requires doing sensible things with the best available current evidence.
«Climate» gets the Newspeak treatment in the first excerpt, «
The Social Meaning of Climate» (the big chunks are in my throat almost at once);
And using the mantra «cypherpunks write code,» Wuille endeared himself to the bitcoin community, which has respect for those that code up solutions to problems rather than attempt to achieve change by political or
social means.
A must read —
social meaning of epidemiological portraits of Indig.
According to
a social meaning model of nonverbal communication, many nonverbal behaviors have consensually recognized meanings.
Not exact matches
Since I can't see everything, it's better for me to learn to create the best life I can with what I have, which
means developing the
social and emotional skills internally to create the best life I can.
«People who have financial
means get the chance to have the moral, ethical and spiritual debates about which method to choose,» said Dawn Vander Kolk, an Illinois hospice
social worker.
Meaning, whatever big box store you frequent — or the
social media network you check when you're bored — is able to see your digital footprints so as to know what you like and dislike.
If it's a lot of chatter on
social media, it doesn't necessarily
mean there will be an impact on sales.