Sentences with phrase «perceptions of a particular group»

As I point out in The Crescent Directive, for most people, their perceptions of a particular group are more of a function of their observations and interactions with individual members of that group, than they are a function of specific teachings of that faith.

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These interrelated myths, created by the selective inclusion or exclusion of particular persons, groups, or power relationships within television's perspective have the capacity to replace the real - life equivalents in people's perception.

The origin we choose and to which we refer our sensible perceptions of things «we call here: our location in a particular part of space round which we group the whole Universe is the essential fact of our bodily existence» (IM 91).

In particular one group of Conservative councils, and inner London as a whole, perform very well on perception - based corporate health measures.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

For the increasing number of charter schools with a mission to serve particular groups of low - performing students, or for those who serve those students by chance, this trick of perception that a school is «struggling» or failing because of their proficiency scores poses a serious problem for evaluation.

This does not mean that every person in a particular group has this attitude, and of those who do, it does not mean that all participants are extreme, but by succumbing to this dynamic, an awful distortion in perception occurs.

Responses vary by community and are dictated by particular histories, perceptions of change and the viability of options available to groups (Ford and Smit, 2004; Helander and Mustonen, 2004).

Ethnic Identity is one's self - perception and sense of belonging to a particular group of persons with a common affiliation.

A child's ethnic identity is their self - perception and sense of belonging to a particular group of persons with a common affiliation (e.g. African, Chinese).

These include the nature of the programme offered, how it is delivered, perceptions of the parents as to whether the programme is a culturally appropriate and potentially useful one for dealing with their concerns, how much time they will need to invest and the pay off they anticipate relative to other uses of their time.10, 11,35,48 Most parenting programmes usually are delivered in only one format (e.g. parent groups), have fixed length (e.g. between 8 and 15 sessions), and are designed for one particular setting (e.g. clinic or school).