Sentences with phrase «shaping individual identity»

The life of Salvador Minuchin (1921 ---RRB- offers a good example of the influence of family and social context in shaping individual identity — a central tenet of his Structural Family Therapy model.

We explore the variety of content available to young people and their families; document the developing child's patterns of use and understanding of media; examine theories and methods for assessing media effects; review research on the role of media in shaping individual identity, social relationships, and responses to challenging issues; and analyze public policies that affect media creators, consumers, and citizens.

Across collage, photography, performance, sculpture and painting, Derrick Adams» (b. 1970) work addresses ways in which media, entertainment and other social structures shape individual identity and public perception of African - American culture.

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It answers questions about the final meaning of life, and in doing so it shapes the identity of individuals.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

One of the obvious difficulties with these suggestions is that the fundamental issue as to how the individual churches themselves have internalized different understandings of baptism as being a part of their existence and self - identity, an existence and identity which has very often been at least partially shaped as a reaction to the teachings propounded by other churches, has not been adequately addressed.

Repeated surveys, polls, and studies show most of us as individuals are not Christian in our beliefs or our religious identities and at a social level, Britain has been shaped for the better by many pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post-Christian forces.

It tells us that identity and a sense of belonging helps shape individual economic preferences.

The Identity Project gives young people the agency to explore their backgrounds on their own — a key part of the adolescent developmental process — so that they can draw individual conclusions about who they are and how their background has shaped them.

With major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Festival of Books presents «Our Histories of Race and Ethnicity,» a rich and challenging track of sessions examining the ways in which our ethnic and racial identities shape us as individuals and as members of community.

In over fifty new paintings depicting the circular labels of assorted vinyl albums and singles, Muller draws upon his endless fascination and encyclopedic knowledge of music and its capacity to shape both individual and cultural identities.

The gallery's program is rooted in the belief that artistic and curatorial practice plays a vital role in catalyzing cultural dialogue, while shaping our understanding of individual identity and social contexts.

With a lacerating irony, they also examined the ways in which the mass media and art shape collective and individual identities.

Gutiérrez uses a range of media to investigate how the conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities.

Biographical legend, produced in the construction of an individual mythology, is a critique of biographism; it gives shape to the identity crises experienced by individuals in their various cultural and social relations of belonging.

Reinhard Mucha and Rachel Whiteread, whose works involve architectural spaces and objects embedded with personal histories, examine narratives that shape individual as well as collective identities.

As the artist states, his paintings «serve as both a personal homage to those people and experiences that have shaped [my] own individual identity and beliefs, and a reminder of their broader social and historical impact.»

New York About Blog The Revealer publishes writing that reflects upon religion as a key point of intersection between beliefs, practices, politics, representation, economics, and identity, where the important forces that shape individuals, societies, and their relationship to each other, play out.