Sentences with phrase «question traditional assumptions»

He has used radio waves, inert gases, and even telepathy to question traditional assumptions about art and expand its possibilities.

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But as cord - cutting has eaten into the traditional grip that sports had on the TV business, the assumptions behind those valuations are coming into question.

When asked about the assumption that more education actually makes people question authority, not follow it blindly, LeVine explains that modern institutions such as Western schooling make individuals more likely to question traditional authority — an older member of a family, for example.

Through interpreting and analysing authors» ideas and positions represented in traditional and contemporary texts in a range of media, in English or translated forms, students learn to question stated and unstated cultural beliefs and assumptions, and appreciate issues of intercultural meaning and sensitivity.

can, if answered adequately, create a sort of chain reaction, expanding not merely to encompass the accepted assumptions of the single field, but outward to embrace history and the social sciences, or even psychology and literature, and thereby, from the outset, to challenge the assumption that the traditional divisions of intellectual inquiry are still adequate to deal with the meaningful questions of our time, rather than the merely convenient or self - generated ones.

Thus the exhibition serves to question stereotypes, challenge traditional assumptions, and look at issues of racism and anti-Semitism in America.

[8] The traditional assumptions regarding an open - ended retainer agreement are challenged by clients seeking value for money and questioning whether they need or can afford a full - representation model.