Sentences with phrase «social rituals like»

Anderson, however, tackles the contemporary concerns of social rituals like dinner parties, food policy discourse, popular culture, and personal memories of a hungry teenager suburban community.

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At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.

She was the creator of the extravagantly eccentric, rigorously modernist (in a detached, neo-Antonioni-esque way) Attenberg (10), a film about family, social bonds, ritual, and dance - like physical contortions.

Like many of Deller and Bengolea's individual works — not least Deller's 2006 film on the international fan base of the English electronic band Depeche Mode — Bom Bom's Dream explores the social character of rituals related to popular music.

Festivities like these are essential ingredients in the fair's social mucilage, and throughout the week there were dinners at Pierchic for Abraaj and Marian Goodman (ahead of her London gallery opening next fall); lunches at the beachside home of collector Dana Farouki for the New Museum and the Delfina Foundation; and ritual outings to the older, more threadbare districts of Dubai for Pakistani kebabs and dance parties at the Eritrean Social Club, notoriously creepy but loved bsocial mucilage, and throughout the week there were dinners at Pierchic for Abraaj and Marian Goodman (ahead of her London gallery opening next fall); lunches at the beachside home of collector Dana Farouki for the New Museum and the Delfina Foundation; and ritual outings to the older, more threadbare districts of Dubai for Pakistani kebabs and dance parties at the Eritrean Social Club, notoriously creepy but loved bSocial Club, notoriously creepy but loved by all.

Rituals involve intentional and often formal behaviors that communicate social information.1 For example, people in some cultures wear torn clothing to communicate their grieving.2 Rituals provide people with a sense of control because they provide a script.3 To give you an example of what I mean by a script, I'd like you to imagine that you are at a restaurant.