Sentences with phrase «social pressures»

Young adults are especially susceptible to social pressures, largely by virtue of being single and un-established from a social and career perspective.

Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products?

But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism.

The two forge a friendship and an alliance as they work through grief, pain and the extreme social pressures of high school life during their «wanderings» around town.

The tension rises as the united front presented by Rose and her lawyer husband, Leo Ingrassia, begins to disintegrate in the face of media demands, legal maneuverings, and social pressures.

How have the social pressures of each of their eras formed the characters of each of the three female generations in Gloria's family — Gloria, her mother and grandmother?

A repaired body may have been achieved through brutal trauma and in response to unfair social pressures; a repaired prejudice can eliminate the rights that its existence had called into being... Disabled people are protected by fragile laws, and if they are judged to have an identity rather than an illness, they may forfeit those safeguards.»

What are the social pressures and cultural dictates experienced by young women of the 1950s?

The onset of adolescence can play havoc with students» academic performance, as heightened social pressures, bullying and a changing sense of self - identity make it harder for kids to focus on a book report or math homework.

Catapult Academy provides students a true learning environment without the social pressures and distraction of a traditional high school.

Jaumont shows not only the successes of parents, but also their struggles and defeats, as well as how they have had to adapt to political and social pressures in order to survive.

One major distraction, too, that comes with college attendance is social pressures as many youngsters are finding out exactly who they are inside.

As social pressures on cities mount and the Federal financing share of urban education drops (from 12 percent in 1980 to 9 percent today), many parents say their search for a trustworthy city school is growing more frantic.

With the dilution of graduation standards, these numbers are unlikely to improve, adding to budget and social pressures, but, more ominously, short - changing our kids even more, as they struggle to find postsecondary success either in college or the demanding 21st century workplace.

The education secretary said that schools were better funded - but he acknowledged that they now faced increased financial pressures and also more social pressures, such as children's mental health problems.

Many young adolescents desire to «blend in» by hiding or shedding certain aspects of their identities due to social pressures.

Based on my observations, the lives of the high school students I teach are hemmed in everywhere by social pressures and expectations: high - stakes testing, the looming shadow of college admissions, the fiercely competitive school system, the painful process of figuring out who you are, and the ubiquitous desire for peer acceptance.

In addition, we know that young men face social pressures to conform to particular masculine ideals — because there are few male teachers teaching, it's not really perceived as something that's masculine to do and young men might be more likely to choose career paths like, say, becoming a personal trainer or entering business.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.

Three big factors will increasingly differentiate student outcomes: (1) development of students» self - motivation (2) effectiveness addressing learning barriers, like time - management, emotional disruptions, and social pressures that affect learning even among advantaged children; and (3) students» higher - order capabilities like analytical, conceptual and creative thinking, especially as applied to solve real problems.»

The social pressures that children face are immense and this is compounded by messaging online.

How important are these social pressures?

He wants to look into «home intellectual practices» as well as the social pressures within the youth culture «to try to understand and influence them, to get a clear idea of what's going on there.»

With the help of an incredibly talented young cast, Hittman delivers a brutally honest film that illustrates the social pressures that come with gender and age.

Ultimately, On Chesil Beach is a film that deals with how young people have so many social pressures placed onto them by society.

SYNOPSIS: In 19th century England five sisters try to cope with the social pressures of the day, all the while fighting off hordes -LSB-...]

While focused on keeping her grades up, her life is complicated by romance, sex, and social pressures.

Instead, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum, the man behind ace blackly - comic thriller Headhunters, is focusing on the struggles of the man himself — specifically his sexuality and the social pressures that weighed so heavily on him.

A Girl Like Her is genuinely harrowing by virtue of its realistic portrayal of the social pressures that weigh on teens and of the herd mentality that impels them to become passive accomplices in bullying.

These problems are invariably posed as personal — in The Lady Pays Off, Evelyn Warren (Linda Darnell) wants to be seen as a woman rather than a mother; in Week - End with Father, Brad (Van Heflin) wants to be seen as a real man rather than a sensitive father — but are generally also depicted as the result of social pressures and, especially in Evelyn and Brad's cases, the ideological positioning of women and men in American society.

I think about The Shape of Things where LaBute shows us how people transform themselves — oftentimes essentially — to please a significant other or the play Fat Pig in which social pressures convince a man to deny himself of love.

I put materialistic social pressures into perspective and make good of my intent in this world - LIVE +...

These couples are often faced with many deep - rooted prejudices and social pressures.

Since these figures are undoubtedly affected by social pressures, the actual numbers are certainly much higher.

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So many of us eat things we don't want to because of social pressures.

The war in Syria has many causes, from ancient enmities, religious and ideological disputes, economic and social pressures, and political tensions.

The social brain hypothesis posits that social complexity is the primary driver of primate cognitive complexity, and that social pressures ultimately led to the evolution of the large human brain.

«There are home and family issues, academic pressures and, of course, social pressures,» he said.

«It gives a good insight into the origin of meaning in animal signals, and also the social pressures that might drive the flexibility we see in language,» she says.

The new study raises questions about whether social pressures that disempower women actually contribute to hormonal differences between the sexes.

This increase was related to participants» experiences of social stress, such as work overload, social pressures or social isolation.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

The infants» attention to the needs of others most likely preceded their full understanding of the social pressures associated with being selfless.

Participants were asked questions about how dissatisfied to satisfied they were with aspects of their body, whether they engage in attempts to modify their appearance, and whether they felt social pressures related to their appearance.

Even so, Gould harboured grave doubts about the ability of science to remain free from social pressures and bias.

Teaching teens about mental health is welcome amid exam and social pressures, but the wider rise of childhood disorders demands much more, says Sarah Brennan

Not just pressures on schools, housing and healthcare, though those have been serious, but social pressures, too.»

Modern capitalism was born and with it new social pressures.