Sentences with phrase «practices from cultures»

Many families from culturally diverse backgrounds find that blending the best parenting ideas and practices from both cultures is very helpful.

From her observations of other cultures, the author advocates implementing the best parenting practices from each culture.

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Personnel, practices, procedures, cultures... ask anyone who came from a Grand - Am or Le Mans background and they would probably agree.

In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs.

When you bring in somebody new, they don't necessarily know the culture and won't know the company's best practices from the bottom up, and unfortunately that can sometimes spell dissatisfaction or outright failure.

Some of the best practices leaders must own include: establishing accountability across the organization; defining the results needed from the culture change (what are we trying to accomplish?)

These radiations in part came from Japanese management culture, very different from U.S. practice, the ideas of Deming — which both influenced and reflected Japanese practice — and their elaborations by others.

On the other hand Muslims who obviously hate the west and all things western so passionately should be actively encouraged to go back to Muslim - dominated countries where they can practice their faith in deep purity free from corrosive Western cultures and freedoms.

Some have interpreted this trend to mean that Christians should take more of their cues about what to believe and how to practice from secular culture.

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

One of the unintentional cruelties sometimes practiced by the United States Government in dealing with American Indians has sprung from failure to understand this contrast between primitive and modern culture.

I heard statements from my grandfather as far back as I could remember that homosexual practices were something the «white man» taught us and that it was a sign of weakness and weirdness in their culture.

«and the any way was the Jewish removed from society culture and their business practices that were damaging the German economy from recovery after Versailles Treaty... would that have been a better excuse for Hitler wanting to kill the Jews?

Whether the Sabbath originated with the Israelites themselves or whether Israel appropriated within her Yahwistic context practices from surrounding cultures need not concern us here.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

As I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practices.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

As a self - avowed, practicing member of this band, I wonder (as we flee from the wrath that is surely to come) if our work will be a harbinger of renewal in the church or another instance of nostalgia over a religious culture rapidly disappearing.

The notion of a homogeneous Church that looks exactly the same in doctrine and practice from congregation to congregation, culture to culture, community to community, is unrealistic and unhelpful.

The practice of giving names to religious traditions is likewise a modem phenomenon, as Wilfred Cantwell Smith has pointed out, 4 and it derives from the growing awareness of other cultures and civilizations.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

In the Hellenistic world, the peculiar way that early Christians practiced hospitality set them apart from the surrounding culture.

From Culture Wars to Common Ground is not only about the future of marriage and the family, but about the future shape — if any — of theology and theological practice.

Such practice comes from the spirit of worldly culture, not from the Holy Spirit.

Taking inspiration from a passage in the second - century Letter to Diognetus --- which says that Christians «have a common table, but not a common bed» --- Mitchell argues that «hospitality is a radical alternative to both the language and practice of culture wars.»

Those that wrote the gospels were several degrees removed from Jewish culture, practice and belief, which if an historical Jesus existed, he would have undoubtedly followed to the letter.

As Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriated.

I never realized that many of the food and musical traditions we practiced weren't related but came from two separate cultures, and I remember the surprise when I realized my other friends» families didn't spend days in the kitchen making tamales during Christmas.

Georgian culture and Christian religious practice were allowed to flourish, as were the cultures in the rest of their empire, which ranged from North Africa to southern Russia and into parts of central Asia.

While we think nothing of giving infants milk from a different species — a cow — the prospect of sharing human milk gives many people the willies, and I've heard the age - old practice, still common in many cultures, described as «gross, sick, twisted and overboard.»

For Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Calif..

Furthermore, a 2001 international study from Early Human Development concluded that the practice of bed - sharing may vary in different cultures around the world, and that it was difficult to ascribe the cause of SIDS to any one childcare practice.

To me it just seems like an easy way to scare parents of all races and cultures away from a natural and beneficial practice.

In spite of the dictates of our culture, and the unsolicited advice from family, friends and neighbors, most parents choose to practice some parts of attachment parenting to some degree, at least some of the time.

Perhaps the biggest problem for a mother who is considering extended breastfeeding is to face the negativity from her close ones, especially under cultures where extended breastfeeding is not a common practice.

In general, the bed - sharing practiced in cultures with low SIDS rates is often different from that in the United States and other Western countries (eg, with firm mats on the floor, separate mat for the infant, and / or absence of soft bedding).

«We need to marshal every resource at our disposal to uproot the culture of violence in the City's jails and engage stakeholders from across the country to identify and implement best practices here at home.»

The Urban League's preventive care contract with the county has been the subject of scrutiny since November 2014, when eight Urban League caseworkers wrote to the county comptroller to express «extreme concern» about the agency's practices, ranging from a culture of «creative billing» to a lack of training opportunities.

The Leveson inquiry into the culture, ethics and practice concludes its evidence sessions today with submissions from lawyers representing newspaper groups and a group representing their victims.

«This result was a surprise to us,» Donihue said, «and has important management implications as we think about integrating knowledge from agrarian cultures and traditions into modern ranching practice.»

«Austronesian cultures offer an ideal sample to test theories about the evolution of religions in pre-modern societies, because they were mostly isolated from modern world religions, and their indigenous supernatural beliefs and practices were well documented,» he says.

Students and «postdocs [who] come from different cultures should be exposed to the good practices before they start work, so that they are in tune with the rest of the team,» she writes.

In practice, however, lung cells — especially from older, ill patients — won't grow well enough in culture, but will have to be produced from stem cells or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, she says.

Contrary to common practice, however, Ivins dumped material from 35 different anthrax cultures into a single flask, thus mixing a number of mutant strains.

«In our culture, we're always encouraged to practice concentrating,» she tells me, «but we're discouraged from the wide - ranging modes of thought we experience in solitude.»

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

Thus the practice of making these sorts of designs may have been brought to Australia at the time of initial colonisation, but it may alternatively have been independently invented or resulted from as yet unknown forms of culture contact.