Sentences with phrase «social construction by»

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To do this they engage in political lobbying, mainly by pointing to the social importance of encouraging new construction to provide for the economy's growing residential and commercial occupancy needs.

Amarillo obtained it's LP (preliminary Licence, Social and environmental acceptance) in 2016 and has been focused on moving the project towards construction by obtaining the LI (Installation license or permission to build) and carrying out, engineering, environmental monitoring and social programs required to achieveSocial and environmental acceptance) in 2016 and has been focused on moving the project towards construction by obtaining the LI (Installation license or permission to build) and carrying out, engineering, environmental monitoring and social programs required to achievesocial programs required to achieve this.

Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.

Durkheim's concept of sociology is characterized by a marked emancipation from the tenets of Comte's philosophy of history as sociology (sociology as a method) and by a corresponding tendency toward construction of a typology of social groupings, in which he included religious communities.

Whatever their differences, they are not bewitched by modern uniqueness: they hold that the basic processes of the linguistic, social and cognitive construction of reality and experience are much the same in all times and places, however varied the outcomes.

This original source of the relation of love to justice in the Atonement was used by Niebuhr in all of his ethical constructions for the social order.

mistrusting generalizations and theoretical constructions, exploring particular situations revealed by close reading of specific texts in the light of all I could learn about social and cultural contexts.»

Part of the value statement for the Mother's Program at the Women's Health Clinic in Winnipeg is that it «acts AGAINST the conventional constructions of motherhood, by introducing a vision of mothering that is woman defined and centred, empowering and promotes social change.»

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

Gender is a social construction and so - called gender stereotypes are produced and reproduced by institutions such as the family, schools, the labour market or the media.

Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)

Osinbajo pledged the support of the federal government to the construction of the super highway by the state government, stressing that the initiative would enhance economic and social development of the state.

Whereas in 1975 more than 80 % of housing subsidies were supply - side subsidies intended to promote the construction of social homes, by 2000 more than 85 % of housing subsidies were on the demand side aimed at helping individual tenants pay the required rent.

As indicated by the professor, «the residential tourism model implemented in Torrevieja has not only created economic risk by the construction crisis and social risk (it is the poorest municipality in Spain according to the National Institute of Statistics), but it has also increased seismic vulnerability.»

They called for the international scientific community to help «analyze design plans of the canal and its subprojects for safety, social responsibility and sustainability; make recommendations to protect the region's water resources and biodiversity; and draft statements urging the Nicaraguan government to halt construction until studies can be performed and evaluated by experts.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

«Virtual worlds could be created where students are mentored by engineers, architects, construction specialists, environmental and social scientists, and policy makers... It is envisioned that augmented reality technology [could] be used by educators to overlay actual classrooms with individual and collaborative learning activities...»

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

It was mediated by Web 2.0 technologies and emphasized teacher inquiry, the social construction of knowledge, alternative forms of assessment, social justice, and political action (Alsup, Emig, Pradl, Tremmel, & Yagelski, 2006).

By providing teachers with opportunities and support to negotiate different social - epistemic roles through wikis and related Web 2.0 tools, they may develop a more situated and robust knowledge of digital epistemologies and a much better sense of the social construction of knowledge more generally.

As Jennifer Jellison Holme highlighted in her paper, «Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality,» most information employed by middle class families to make their school choice was acquired through their social network (Holme, Social Construction of School Quality,» most information employed by middle class families to make their school choice was acquired through their social network (Holme, social network (Holme, 2002).

Liberals: Start a new, 10 - year investment in social housing infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including building more units and refurbishing existing units); encourage the construction of new rental housing by removing all GST on new capital investments in affordable rental housing; loosening the existing qualification rules for the Home Buyers» Plan to allow more Canadians affected by sudden and significant life changes to access their RRSP savings for a down payment; review escalating home prices in high - priced markets, including Toronto and Vancouver, and review all policy tools that could keep homeownership within reach for more Canadians.

Manufacturing is still its largest employer followed by health, social services, education, finance, insurance, real estate and construction.

Unity's construction of a new social network API in the Unity Web Player has enabled Facebook to improve the «full screen» and the «full canvas» experience of Unity games by eliminating the need to leave full screen for social interaction, and to make it easier for developer to integrate tightly with Facebook's social graph.

About Ernesto Neto Ernesto Neto (b. 1964, Brazil) has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience.

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

In works by Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, for example, deconstructed and appropriated images displayed the disparity between individual agency and expectations that stemmed from the social construction of femininity.

His work reveals the concept of value as a cultural construct borne through hidden ties to morality and privilege, by exposing the cultural and social techniques employed in value construction.

Through human exchange, Ramírez Jonas aims to enunciate the possibilities of self - determined constructions of identity within the limits of datafication imposed by state, corporate, and social systems.

The exhibition spans three galleries within the Zaha Hadid - designed museum, anchored by overarching themes within each: «Shifting Identities» explores how a changing China alters constructions of identity; «Body as Site» focuses on the physical body as a literal and figurative site of discussion and debate; and «Confronting Tradition» highlights the ways in which artists draw inspiration from classical texts, teachings, and artistic practices to reinterpret and question evolving power structures and social norms.

Organized by Kultura Medialna and curated by Maria Veits for their annual Construction Arts Festival, the exhibition draws on the current political and cultural concerns of Dnepr, the largest city in proximity to the occupied Ukrainian territories and Crimean annexation and addresses disputable territories, belonging and ownership of the public space and its reshaping by various social groups, urban planning and attempts to create a dialogue in and about public spaces between communities, governments and activists.»

- CANDACE KIZER Candace is a corporate construction aficionado by day and our Marketing and Social Media Manager by night.

Though he earned a BFA from Chouinard Art Institute in 1956, his approach to art - making was already well - informed by his experiences as a teacher, a social worker, and a Navy construction worker.

Responding to characteristic material, social and spatial conditions, Bianca builds provisional constructions and open - ended situations, often accompanied by public interventions, events, collaborations, video, and imagery.

This site - specific work is inspired by multiple phenomena and structures, including the social construction of spider webs, stellar and atmospheric clouds, bubble and foam geometry and social and neural communication networks.

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.

By presenting three artistic positions, approaching three social experiments, this exhibition focuses on the process of democratic construction.

By chronologically beginning with the modestly scaled and tenuously constructed collages by German - born artist Kurt Schwitters (1887 — 1948) and ending with the cardboard constructions of Vietnamese - born artist Danh Vo (b. 1975), the exhibition concentrates on a strain of artistic practice that foregrounds the marginalized as always both an artistic concern and social phenomenoBy chronologically beginning with the modestly scaled and tenuously constructed collages by German - born artist Kurt Schwitters (1887 — 1948) and ending with the cardboard constructions of Vietnamese - born artist Danh Vo (b. 1975), the exhibition concentrates on a strain of artistic practice that foregrounds the marginalized as always both an artistic concern and social phenomenoby German - born artist Kurt Schwitters (1887 — 1948) and ending with the cardboard constructions of Vietnamese - born artist Danh Vo (b. 1975), the exhibition concentrates on a strain of artistic practice that foregrounds the marginalized as always both an artistic concern and social phenomenon.

By focusing on and recording basic signifiers found in culture and nature, for example in skin color, Kim's work elegantly diagrams the fraught constructions that underlie social values.

Like the sun, rugs enter and engage spaces inhabited by individuals and communities, holding an inherent iconicity that represent everyday exercises of social construction.

The absence of such contributes to many social ills, whether failing to understand how health risks should be borne by a broad support to help curtail individual risk, the purpose of insurance, performance of social systems, or how reducing individual costs by allowing coastal construction in flood zones is based upon a lottery mindset.

China, while curbing domestic construction of coal - powered plants, has become a leading lender financing the construction of new coal - burning power plants in developing countries, according to a 2016 study by researchers at Boston University and the Institute for World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Mimicking the post-modernists in their critique of the social sciences and humanities, the global warming sceptics have characterised climate science as a social construction of scientists motivated by career advancement and prospects of research funding.

These ought to be their halcyon days; once they were a mild joke, but now that consensus is being offered as a token for irrefrangible fact they could be leading the discussion on what we mean by «consensus» or «precaution» and the social construction of reality in general.

The report also takes care to offset certain cost elements that have inappropriately been internalized into the existing price of coal, such as the high social burden of coal enterprises to provide a broad array of social benefits for its employees (which is not in itself a bad thing, but is done in a very wasteful manner), and what the researchers consider to be excessive mandatory contributions by coal enterprises to the Railway Construction Fund (RMB 22 billion in 2006 alone, amounting to 33 % of total profits for the coal industry).

Linguistic determinism and the social construction of reality writ small by a very small man.

The traditional social construction of disability has been identified by many authors and academics as the greatest source of disability discrimination in society.

Topcoat Construction v Compromise Agreements (2014) An early claim in defamation under the 2013 Act by a construction company involved in a number of substantial commercial contracts including the maintenance of social housing facing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in publicity materials uploaded by a claims management company to its website resulting in immediate finanConstruction v Compromise Agreements (2014) An early claim in defamation under the 2013 Act by a construction company involved in a number of substantial commercial contracts including the maintenance of social housing facing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in publicity materials uploaded by a claims management company to its website resulting in immediate financonstruction company involved in a number of substantial commercial contracts including the maintenance of social housing facing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in publicity materials uploaded by a claims management company to its website resulting in immediate financial losses.

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