Sentences with phrase «social milieu»

The things that were happening to us seemed to parallel what I had read about earlier artists who had become friends and had been part of a large social milieu of their own time.

The personal story of a white male preacher may demonstrate how a person whose beginnings were in a totally different social milieu may arrive at a strong commitment to and theology of social justice.

Neville incorporates himself into communities across the globe — including the United States, United Kingdom, and Afghanistan — highlighting specific social milieus and emphasizing socioeconomic differences.

As his mentor and dissertation chair William Julius Wilson, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School, says, «When Tony initially described his research project I immediately thought, Here is a project that will very likely uncover issues not previously considered by sociologists and will enhance our understanding of how pre-college exposure to important social milieus for the acquisition of cultural and social capital matters for low - income students.»

Relationships to individuals are still important even though ideas are changing as to how much time is spent in therapy with individuals, with groups, and with the total social milieu.

Long - haul drivers are at the center of a complicated social milieu.

They have enabled people to meet across social milieus, increased intercultural marriages and has led to more marriage stability, according to the MIT Technology Review magazine.

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

«My kids have both benefited enormously from being in a Piney Branch social milieu,» she told me.

Even when he succeeds, as he does with Soulemayne, his efforts are ultimately sabotaged, either by other students or the dominant social milieu of their lives.

Up and coming entrepreneur Isadora Baum advocates for embracing failure, and building solid relationships and life - long learning, while Broadway producer James Kernochan recommends that patrons behind the arts «place emphasis on and resources behind programs that give artists structure and a meaningful social milieu when they are done with school.»

Into this imagined political and social milieu steps Burton Cole, a British ex-mercenary who has recently failed in an attempt to assassinate the current Kongolese governor, the wily, ambitious Nazi Walter Hochburg, who is pursuing Jewish scientists that have knowledge of a mega-weapon the Nazis covet.

The novel also makes clear that Rowling was wise to stake her claim in the realm of fantasy, a realm that does not require a feeling for contemporary social milieus.

These larger historical factors of political and social milieu impact his painting only by very indirect means.

The crowd scenes in these paintings are alienated from their distinctive social milieu, the politically charged environments of a public debate or the rowdy mass at a stock car race.

From this, a myriad of concepts would emerge: brainchildren of the prevailing social milieu.

Throughout the 1970s, Warhol documented his activities and social milieu using a Polaroid camera.

But access to the right social milieu was no guarantee.

Aspects of American popular culture and the depiction of various social milieus have provided his work's repeatedly occurring and predominant imagery, which encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.

Schneemann's body became a source of art production, itself a confrontational medium with which to endorse personal liberation and counteract the oppressive social milieu.

U.S. should use 4.5 % of resources (per capita numbers are similar for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, etc.) Ergo, 80 % reduction just to fit into a just social milieu allowing others to consume more.

Family Therapy looks at the individual in the context of their relationships and social milieu rather than in isolation.

They will look at how the person is functioning within his or her overall social milieu.

Her choice of subjects was a reflection of her personal life and an expression of the political and social milieu in which she lived, rather than an intentional program.

Showcasing the best of dining and entertainment, services and amenities, each EDITION property is completely unique, reflecting the best of the cultural and social milieu of its location and of the time.

Alex Katz's portraits feature his own social milieu: friends, fellow artists, and most notably his wife Ada, whom he has painted more than 200 times.

After reassembling his trusty news team — including Brick, ladies» man Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports anchor Champ Kind (David Koechner)-- he's back in the saddle, albeit in a different city (New York), a different decade (the 1980s) and a different social milieu — one with people of colour, including his new boss, Linda Jackson (Meagan Good).

With its dynamic visual style, acute observation of a specific social milieu and powerful emotional pull, the film signalled the emergence, virtually fully formed, of a distinctive authorial vision.

Don't just go to the same friends that many board members go to now within their social milieu.»

It has done more to help us understand Kierkegaard's social milieu than any other biography.

1) conformity to our own desires with no consideration for the well - being of others or even our own long term well - being and 2) conformity to the common pathologies of our social milieu.

James was a hybrid American - European acutely aware of being in, but not of, his social milieu.

But, curiously, what has not changed at all is the underlying principle of every variety of culture - religion: that the churches should reflect the moral concerns of their social milieu; even more, that the faithfulness of this reflexivity is the criterion by which the legitimacy of the churches» role must be judged.

Recent scholarship has centered almost entirely on the first, focusing its attention on the Gospel, its style, ideas, and social milieu.

Women's stories are included in between chapters about the social milieu of breastfeeding, emotions surrounding mothering, goals and expectations and more.

Many students report widespread experimentation with prescription drugs in their social milieu.

Now imagine people with the opposite problem: a highly developed ability to tune in to their social milieu — even to perceive things that are not happening.

Since that period predates the first alphabets, the researchers had no written record with which to gauge the social milieu of our predecessors.