Sentences with phrase «social construct»

The exhibition poses profound questions surrounding social constructs of youth, beauty, transformation, violence, sexuality, gender, identity, and loneliness.
Both videos, like many other works in the exhibition, explore social constructs and the influence of mass media on the human condition.
Still, while social constructs may be often benign, and may be sometimes even beneficial or necessary, there is good reason to doubt that sexual orientation is such a constructive construct.
All lasting social constructs are progressive, or else they would die off... especially religion.
What you see as the «rules of your religion» are no more than transient social constructs.
The fluid social construct of «gender» is entered by way of the choices of the autonomous individual.
Another challenge is confronting the tendency to identify complex social constructs, such as morality, with specific brain regions.
Well, 2014 has come and gone, but calendar years are social constructs anyways.
One of the pleasures of the science fiction movie genre is how it allows for new social constructs within familiar stories.
Yes, I was doing some gender bending there, but there was also a desire to look behind the surface or beyond social constructs.
The artists cover a spectrum of the individual position, both specific through sensory and tactile experiences, and collectively within varying social constructs at large.
The goal is to allow a viewer the opportunity to observe contemporary social constructs from a distance, providing them with a new perspective.
Race is an artificial and arbitrary social construct, and there is no biological or scientific basis for the racial distinctions we make between people.
«It's sort of an inherently social construct in that way; privacy is something you can only get in groups,» he said.
To them, it is the price that must be paid to ensure a safe and optimally functioning social construct.
The work is essentially a transparent wall, and it addresses timely questions about social barriers, the obstruction of free movements and architectural and social constructs of exclusion.
The connections between the silos of knowledge and skills as social constructs in learning can both inhibit and allow for understanding.
After experiencing cultural shock you start to realize that not all of your preconceived notions of normalcy are correct, and that beliefs you thought were undeniable truths are actually just social constructs.
Grappling with cavalier attitudes towards power and privilege, this exhibition takes a speculative view of the functional / dysfunctional in social constructs.
Race and Race - Related Grounds: The modern social construct of race is «racialization» and, in addition to physical characteristics, the following traits are typically racialized: colour; creed (religion); language; accent or dialect; name; clothing and grooming; diet; beliefs and practices; leisure preferences; ethnic origin; ancestry; places of origin; and, citizenship.
I could just say, «Many people in Games Media follow a Postmodern / Relativist Version of Feminism that considers Reason, Rationality, Ethics, Integrity & Morality to all be nothing but social constructs designed to keep them Oppressed.»
Games provide a shared social construct for people to interact and have a good time, which I feel is more and more important in our ever - technologically involved world.
Using a practice - based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children.
This Thursday, the Chelsea, NYC location of Flowers Gallery opens «The Real Thing,» a group exhibition featuring photography from four different artists questioning social constructs of gender, identity, femininity and more.
In Knife, she blurs the line between genders and visually critiques the binary social constructs that exist in our society.
The topics range from expressions of being black bodies in a white social construct to expressions of romance and sex.»
She started out working in dance and molecular biology and now creates participatory installations and events that investigate social constructs and corporeal experience.
Composed of the back legs of chairs and suspended from the ceiling, Twice Told forms a winding path of symmetrical lines; a whip - like form that references social constructs — from slavery to police brutality — that have long perpetuated hierarchies and stereotypes.
Parent management training is based on social learning, which theorizes that human beings learn social constructs from others.
As it seeks to apply this voluntarism to marriage and family, which are not mere social constructs but are firmly anchored in God's creation, we may see liberalism at last reaching a breaking point.
Morals come from an evolved social construct, or set of rules established by society in order for a group of a species to work together in harmony for the greater good of the group and therefore the individual.
This happens when we impose modern - day marital dynamics onto ancient social constructs.
«Contrary to widespread secular insistence, a person's gender is not a malleable social construct.
I think given equal opportunities there will be a natural inclination for many towards traditional roles and that this is healthy, has nothing to do with any artificial social construct but is natural and comes out of biology and now might be the time to be having open discussions about this kind of thing without having to face the fear of being labelled misogynistic for doing so or with feeling fearful of any threat to equality.
So a history - of - religions approach that suggests that the only valid way to view religions is as social constructs intentionally or unintentionally undermines belief in any particular religion as having divine origins.
Her apparently firm affirmation of certain rights is a self - conscious social construct, culturally specific and thoroughly post-modern.
(If you want to get technical I would question your belief that giving birth alone as being «nuts», as insane behaviors or attitudes are typically social constructs.)
This goes to the heart of raising a child who trusts his family more than any other external social construct.
Instead, it should be about conviviality, conversation and familial social constructs.
Much of the wealthy within the US is generally against using their money to finance social constructs (healthcare is a big one here, but it's used against a pretty wide array of social programs) and a consistent tactic to whip up support is to use the lines «this is socialism, all socialism is communism, communism is evil, therefore «insert hot topic like universal healthcare» is evil.
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