Sentences with phrase «symbolic role in»
Despite being a relatively small part of the school sector (about 7 per cent of pupils), private schools have an important symbolic role in UK society, with the perception that there is much social and economic advantage to be had from a private education.
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Outside crisis situations, complementary currencies and near currencies have a primary role in promoting symbolic identification with a community and its local economy.
Symbolic changes — women in the Cabinet, female Imperial succession: Lastly, we address the element of policy perhaps least quantifiable in advance, which is the potential impact of role models upon female participation.
The helplessness that assails the grief - stricken often leads them to envisage the role of the religious leader in a symbolic aspect as the representative of God.
Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.
It challenges the hegemony of traditional religious world views, calls human beings to assume their rightful role in shaping history, and opens the door to a pluralism of symbolic universes.
More than that, Niebuhr's deep appreciation of Schleiermacher and of liberalism's concern for experience, relativity, the symbolic imagination and the role of the affections set the questions that many of us were to continue to wrestle with in our own subsequent theological careers.
As a result, they give insufficient attention to the increasingly powerful role that the symbolic environment plays in present - day human lives.
If faith is closely related to the adverbial mode of perception, then faith may have an important role in keeping the higher symbolic processes in contact with reality, that is, the richer qualitative processes from which all experience arises.
Although Dalit Christians joined their neighbors in various symbolic ways to indicate their unity in invoking the protection of the colony goddess for their community, they were reluctant to admit to their pastor that they played any significant role in the celebration of their Dalit religious heritage.
The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?
What role do the media play in the maintenance and development of our shared symbolic environment?
In all the biblical forms of Covenant - making, blood plays a decisive symbolic role.
Symbolic of the role of the Christian conscience in the impact of one race upon another is the fact that Las Casas seems to have been the first Christian clergyman ordained in the Americas.
Only within the symbolic approach does narrative serve an essential role, and this book, rooted in that approach, will depend upon narrative both to examine and to explain the life of a local church.
Far from being merely a neutral communication medium, television in America has become an integrated symbolic world filling the socially functional role demanded of it both by its viewers and its advertisers.
The queen «s role is symbolic and sacramental, she stands for us in our National moments.
In that context, the role of the NAM has been largely symbolic and ceremonial, a relict of a past ideal.
Various forms of joint - sovereignty scenarios could be envisaged, from one entailing essentially a symbolic Argentinean juridical presence to one involving a more active role in the running of the islands by Argentina.
The picture, itself an iconic representation, became a symbolic reminder not only of Ojukwu's role as the father of APGA but also of his stature in Igbo history.
The British Monarchy is a Constitutional Monarchy meaning it is much like Japan's system in which they play a purely symbolic role and we activate just as if we were a complete republic.
It plays a vital role in our local tourism economy and investing in the new gateways at both its ends is symbolic, sending a strong message that the state stands ready to continue to promote tourism in our area and further strengthen our region.
I then show, using a reef fish as the empirical model, that the signals used during negotiation and commitment phases of the cooperative sex allocation strategy provide symbolic representations of the theoretical model's key functional parameters; individual dominance, individual body size, individual sex (i.e. the functional referents) and individual sex role in the future (i.e. the negotiated cooperative solution).
With Mrs. Coonley's passing in 1958, and John Malach's assumption of the role of headmaster in 1960, a symbolic torch is passed.
As King says, «there's an actual ha - ha (in the novel), of course, and it plays a major role in the story, but the symbolic relevance is the presence of a huge unaddressed fissure — traumatic brain injury — in the landscape of the protagonist's life.»
As King says, «there's an actual ha - ha (in the novel), of course, and it plays a major role in the story, but the symbolic relevance is the presence of a huge unaddressed...
But the winners in this situation will be more than the environment — for the tourism industry dependent upon this iconic reef for its symbolic and historic role off Belize's mainland, these protective measures are not to be underestimated.
American Mystic includes a number of photographs in which Meatyard cast family members and friends in central roles, often masked and enacting symbolic dramas, such as Romance (N.) from Ambrose Bierce # 3, 1962.
The act of photographing these symbolic spaces recalls the family snapshot and the role that the camera plays in holding memories.
Special Exhibitions Organic: Photographs of the Natural World April 11 — October 12, 2015 Photography Gallery Free From the scientific to the symbolic, photographs of nature have played an integral role in the history of the medium.
From the scientific to the symbolic, photographs of nature have played an integral role in the history of the medium.
The developing story of the national reassessment of disgraceful Confederate monuments has productively unearthed, for the general public, the symbolic power of art and its propagandistic role in perpetuating systems of power and control.
Many artists today routinely portray themselves in fictional, symbolic roles and speak of themselves as performers.
Chris Evans» work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role.
In these experiences, Byars not only reworked his role as an artist but also the mise en scène, giving symbolic value to rigorous objects and stressing the inherent beauty of materials, including fabric, stone and especially gold.
Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art, Approximately 20 works demonstrate the symbolic roles birds serve within African cultures.
The exhibition includes sculpture, installation and a film, which coalesce to consider the binary power structures of sadomasochism, ritual, authority and control, in order to reveal, through the artist's distinct visual language, how these roles are both symbolic and reversible.
Working in a classical sculptural lexicon, Dexter Dymoke's practice explores the correlations and tensions between objects, materials and their engagement in space — he describes his work as an engagement with a discrete but rigorous conceptual enquiry into the symbolic and metaphoric role of materials.
Performative dimension of some of her projects try to accent the symbolic role of the body politics in the economic and power system.
These paintings were sometimes symbolic of the Imperial Court and the structure of society and social order, whereas the Taoist and Buddhist readings stressed how human presence played a minor role in the vastness of the universe.
She explores (and generates) feminist narratives and counter-narratives that cast the role of the art object in new light, introducing utilitarian, symbolic, and even mystical possibilities in contexts that are often limited to formalist readings.
If imaginaries are «symbolic elaborations of what we observe,» then contemporary art plays an important role in recognizing how we see ourselves and allows the viewer to experience the imaginary through artistic practice.
Dogs are embedded in myth, ritual and the human experience; their roles span from beloved pet, surrogate child, guard and working dogs, to dark, symbolic representations.
However, due to global spotlights on the contributing role of artisanally - mined minerals with the financing of the Democratic Republic of Congo's on - going armed conflict, these minerals have become symbolic of conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the nine adjoining states.
The planting of the saplings was a symbolic act of protecting and nurturing nature, as well as recognizing the role of water in sustaining all life.
Moreover, the demand for this precious metal in Chennai is mounting owing to its symbolic value, and predominant role in South Indian traditions and weddings.
Applying the basic assumptions from symbolic interactionist theory, this study takes a structural view of roles and borrows from three middle range theories in order to observe how the transition to parenthood effects couples.
The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].