Sentences with phrase «societal role»

Law schools, whatever their individual differences, have a basic societal role: to prepare individuals to provide legal and related services.

This mental process relates to the legal industry because it pushes lawyers to define their societal role and decide whether or not they are fulfilling their duties.

... And the role of the defence counsel, the obligation the community places on him, is a societal role — to defend the constitutional guarantees of the presumption of innocence and the requirement that in our democracy no one can lose freedom unless and until the state can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Indeed, in this respect Nurse fulfills the critical societal role illustrated by the The Monty Python team — the professional village idiot.

Each work captures the essence of a societal role player — the Banker, Detective, Lawyer, Nurse and Student — strolling toward their next destination.

Mary Ting describes the concept of the exhibition: «This exhibition centers on the Witch, Whore and Widow who are forever linked and equated with each other in their societal role — the role of the independent female who is apart from the rest, bearing unusual marks, being too quiet, being too smart, being too this way too that way and thereby subject to gossip, accusations, jealousy, and betrayal.

Guided by an interest in the societal role of the artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija creates works that seek to draw viewers together.

He often associates service - based hourly working class jobs (he was once a janitor) with his societal role as an artist.

This includes our emotional relationship to images along with their wider societal role in commerce and politics.

They share some features with Common Core standards, have the potential to radically change school science, and play a societal role far beyond the classroom, just as the previous standards movement did.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

«We all embody more than our prescribed societal roles.

While certain societal roles conventionally limited to one or the other gender can and should be challenged, gender itself, as the root of the word indicates, is determined by our genitals...» West's subsequent view is that «A de-gendered society is bound to de-generate.»

Second, most analysts agree that the numbers have as much to do with societal roles than anything else.

They can investigate and discover, test their theories, spatial relationships, explore cause and effect, societal roles and family values.

As robots take on societal roles that were once the province of humans, they are creating new legal dilemmas.

Opie has since become famous for her incisive portraits, which deal with how people relate to various communities, societal roles, and subcultures (whether imposed or chosen), and she has most memorably turned the camera on her own body, depicting herself with cuts on her back in 1993 and as a nursing mother in 2004.

By making visible and tangible the various definitions of womanhood that transcend cultures and time, Lin creates an immersive platform to explore how women feel within their evolving societal roles.

Throughout her long and prolific career Niki de Saint Phalle, a former cover model for Life magazine and French Vogue, investigated feminine archetypes and women's societal roles.

Niagara, a video by Bradford that examines the urban landscape through both formal principles and societal roles, will go on view in Baltimore in the summer of 2018.

The exhibition posits a series of questions about the urgencies of the contemporary moment, the societal roles of art and artists, and the responsibilities of museums.

Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities of time and space and the correlative transformation of identities, locales and (hi) stories Esther Shalev - Gerz has produced a body of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings of the societal roles and value of artistic practice.

Feminist artists questioned the restricted gender and societal roles assigned to women in a variety of ways.

The visual arts exhibition features artwork that questions the way we define gender and the societal roles we have traditionally assigned to men and women.

Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities of time and space and correlative transformations of identities, locales and (hi) stories, Esther Shalev - Gerz has produced a body of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings of the societal roles and value of artistic practice.

Haviland highlights feminine and upper class objects, researching class structure, family upbringing, and the formation of societal roles in conjunction with these stereotypical «high class» objects and their associated etiquette rituals.

The video is a wry observation of the struggles experienced through our societal roles.

Bormuth has constructed a paradigm of motherhood by representing the mother as object rather than subject as he searches for realism within motherhood in art historical and societal roles.

«We wear masks that accommodate these fixed societal roles, and in that way we exist trapped in our own play.

Men and women are also becoming more androgynous as their societal roles become more similar.

• TRUTH - Healthy views of sex, relationships, and societal roles.

Not exact matches

The challenge is to change the societal outlook to one that is long - term and accounts for humanity's central role in shaping the planet's destiny, instead of one that reacts to immediate crises and thinks in the short term.

«During the past decade, PepsiCo has become a role model for global companies by demonstrating that aligning business and societal interests is a recipe for strong financial results,» said Bill George, senior fellow, Harvard Business School.

If they adapt, they may retain a role in advancing societal enlightenment.

Though they want to criticize government for the sake of reforming it, the editors deny any need for basic societal restructuring.27 It was this basic trust in the American system which caused Christianity Today to accept the president's word concerning Watergate - until Cox's firing and the tapes - and to back the president concerning his role in Vietnam as late as May 1972:

The sickness is societal rather than individual, although disturbed individuals often rise to leadership roles in such situations.

The six decades during which she has straddled the roles both of head of state and of Supreme Governor of the Church of England have witnessed such societal change that it is almost as if her detractors are waiting patiently for her to leave the stage, before redeveloping the constitution over which the Queen presides.

As cultures and circumstances change, roles tend to change along with them — both at the societal level and the individual level.

One may expect that with evolving societal norms regarding women's roles and those specifically relating to sexual behavior and thus encompassing abortion, obtaining an abortion will decreasingly be viewed as deviant activity.

I will admit to struggling with gender role and societal expectations when I first returned to work after maternity leave ended.

Which is too bad, because if celebrity culture can indeed change societal norms, then we need role models like Mo'Nique on magazine covers like People to normalize open relationships and Hugh Grant to normalize the idea that «40 - year - long monogamous, faithful» marriages may not be the ideal.

As society begins to place a greater value on the importance of the father's role in healthy child development, research will reflect those changing societal priorities.

While that is not to say mothers do not instill these values, men and fathers may take on this role more often because of societal acceptance and expectations.

Yes, I may be naive, but I do live in hope that the biological norm will one day be the societal norm for how to feed a baby and I think breastfeeding in public will play a vital role in getting us there.

Mothers in particular are gripped by societal expectations of self - sacrifice and fulfillment through their parenting role.

Transport's wider benefits — transport has a role to play tackling some of our big societal challenges including the rise in obesity (through active travel), the ageing population and social exclusion (through connecting people and places).

Mrs. Adeyemi who described the volunteer group of PCRC as an indispensable companion and helping hands to policing in Nigeria, said the courageous roles of the association on societal reformation and peaceful restoration could not be undermined.

This is why CIHT believes more needs to be done to recognise the wider benefits transport plays in people's health and wellbeing, and the role it has to play in tackling some of our big societal challenges such as obesity, the ageing population and social exclusion.

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.