Sentences with phrase «social movements often»

Leaders of social movements often carefully calculate the social effect of their language.

Modern social movements often fizzle after their moment in the national news (Occupy Wall Street and to a lesser extent the Tea Party come to mind).

Not exact matches

Social Justice Warrior (SJW) A term for a person involved in the new movement, though it is often used pejoratively by critics.

It is no paradox that we use the term «modern» to refer both to the external material and social forces that transformed the world, and to the internal intellectual and expressive movements that wrestled with, and often deplored, the human costs of that same transformation.

It is necessary to remember that such a paradigm shift does not occur overnight - paradigm shifts generally occur over a long period of time, with pockets of thought frequently unaffected by the new for a long period, and often with movement taking place back and forth between paradigms until the new paradigm becomes «settled» and existing social systems are reintegrated.

So often Jews either focus exclusively on Jewish issues or ignore their own Jewishness as they lead social movements on behalf of other people.

Many movements for social change, while seeking to halt violence or injustice, too often simply recast who is right and who is wrong, who is «us» and who is «them,» without challenging the paradigmatic assumption of duality.

Movements which foster noble moral causes and which therefore should have the support of the churches have been embraced by them so wholeheartedly that they often appear to be primarily agencies of social reform.

In fact, the power of the sermon to initiate and sustain movements for social change has often been overlooked because sermons were «words, words, words.»

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

In spite of this, we catch a glimpse of women and men, responding to what they sensed was a new movement inaugurated by a man from Galilee, a man who tried to break so many of the social conventions of his time, a response informed by the possibility of change and transformation, even though what he «actually taught often became a matter of bitter dispute....»

This is beginning to happen, but, paradoxically, the interfaith movement which draws together people of all faiths in the search for justice and peace at the same time often makes its members very critical of the compromises that many faith communities have made with the abuse of power and social injustice.

Often, the genes of the new are present in the body of the old — they are the ideas, the social movements, the fair food networks that start life on the innovative edge, the social fringe, and move towards the middle where they give expression to the new systems that grows out of the old.

«The condition often has a serious impact on patients» work and social lives, causing people to have up to ten watery bowel movements a day, often for many months, with an urgent need to go to avoid accidental incontinence.»

Indeed, PeaceMaker is at the forefront of a movement — often called serious games or social - issues games — in which educators use games to illustrate complex social issues, from immigration to climate change.

However, if this movement is stabilized by a descendant included third - a third of reduction instead of a third of coexistence — then the circular causality becomes degenerative for the social systems, thus often leading to wars.

Students schedules change daily and include math, social studies, arts, literacy often integrated with movement (such as yoga, dance, running or chants).

Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects» lives to some of the most important social movements of the era.

Dog parks are like many philosophical and social movements: they sound great in theory, and even look good on paper, but the reality often fails to measure up.

Early 20th - century art movements like Constructivism, Futurism, and Dada sought an aesthetic, social, and political break with the past, often with utopian goals for the future.

Her installations and public projects often employ the iconography of social movements and their residual documents to inter - rogate contemporary political engagement and social dialogue.

Often referencing political and artistic history, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton siphons historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural and social perspectives.

It focuses on works by primarily African - American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working during the civil rights movement, the 1965 Watts riots and the era's general social and cultural upheaval: Ed Bereal, Wallace Berman, Nathaniel Bustion, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Charles Dickson, Mel Edwards, David Hammons, Daniel La Rue Johnson, Ed Kienholz, Ron Miyashiro, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Joe Ray, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokava and Timothy Washington.

While Bruguera's most recent work often uses the strategies of social movements and education platforms to address topical matters, this exhibition looks back to Untitled (Havana, 2000) as a crucial work at the turn of the millennium that symbolizes an important shift in Bruguera's oeuvre, as she moved from working primarily with her own body to considering active audience engagement.

Although social progress moves in fits and starts (and often retreats), the movement towards inclusivity does coincide with a broader enthusiasm for women's voices and stories, visible in other cultural fields including television, film, literature, and music.

Glenn Ligon's intertextual works examine cultural and social identity — often through found sources such as literature, Afro - centric coloring books, and photographs — to reveal the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and identity politics inform our understanding of American society.

A contemporary artist hailing from Los Angeles, Arceneaux often finds inspiration in history, science fiction, social movements, philosophy, and architecture, for the creation of his immersive installations that artfully synthesize diverse media like video, sculpture, and painting.

Using a figurative style and imagery of African Americans in urban, suburban, and interior settings, Marshall's work has often addressed social issues stemming from the Civil Rights movement, evoking the nostalgia and idealism of that era.

Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist who is often associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, a Latin American extension of social realism.

Glennon Doyle Melton's hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they're not alone.

They are driven, persistent, and often don't seem to need sleep or food, just constant social activities and play partners or movement and just more, more more.