Sentences with phrase «traditional assumptions of»

We create careers for ambitious people by moving beyond traditional assumptions of what it means to work in talent acquisition.

In his latest work he examines what it means to be African American in the 21st century and challenges the traditional assumptions of the creation and performance of blackness today.

The Twin Cities real estate market continues to defy the traditional assumptions of supply and demand as year - on - year home prices rise while supply also increases.

«Our traditional assumptions of ownership are really frustrated by these digital distribution models,» said Aaron Perzanowski, an associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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But electronic key cards have taken the place of traditional locks and keys due in large part to the assumption of improved security.

A raft of media companies cater specifically to millennials, operating under the assumption that traditional publishers don't do a great job reaching the 20 - something crowd.

The only place where the Bible and science conflict at all is the science of origins (if science it could be called), and that is only an issue if one insists that 1) genesis is absolutely literal; 2) genesis is the whole story and there is nothing more; 3) traditional assumptions about genesis are the only ones and there is no other way to understand the book.

One might say that the foregoing argument hinges too much on the assumption of a traditional Last Judgment.

In the parentheses following each of these assumptions, I will contrast them with the assumptions of traditional, psychoanalytically oriented therapies:

The assumption of traditional moralism is that by emphasizing the individual's personal culpability one would make him more responsible and more moral.

Critical New Testament studies, in contrast to the traditional Christian assumption that Jesus was God on earth, have started from the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

Environmental philosophy is a growing subdiscipline within Western philosophy, characterized by the assumption that traditional Western metaphysics and moral theory are inadequate to the solution of environmental problems and that in our age alternative, ecological world views and axiologies are needed.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

Women are speaking with a new voice, a courageous voice which challenges many traditional assumptions — the most important is the challenge to the notion that women are required, by tradition and by the biblical heritage, to submit to all forms of inhuman treatment.

Secondly, my understanding of interreligious polemics is not predicated, as some traditional understandings have been, on an assumption of unrevisability and indefeasibility.

Job, Plato, and the Greater and lesser Commandments are my basic traditional assumptions, together with the new freedom in science to admit self - activity as the index of mentality or the psychical.

The Incarnation (God's assumption of human nature and flesh) and Atonement (the meaning of the death of Jesus) are the two traditional doctrines for expressing this faith.

Recognizing these assumptions about theology and epistemology helps to explain why Protestants in the United States keep repeating traditional ways of thinking about «truth.»

Clearly, the distinctive assumption of the traditional approach has been refuted.

In contrast, Ford's genetic approach shares with the traditional one the assumption that the whole of Whitehead's metaphysical system can be found completely in Process and Reality.

The psychological strategy fully shares its optimistic assumptions about the inherent benevolence abiding in all people, the moral significance of the individual's expressive needs, the absolute moral priority of the unhindered and unencumbered individual over the exigencies of the group, as well as its antipathy toward social convention and traditional institutions.

At the same time, certain complaints recur: traditional curricula are rooted in precritical assumptions, serve academic guilds, pre-empt feminist or minority studies, and are built on unviable ways of relating theory and practice.

The recognition that the nonhuman animal is an end in itself and not merely a means to human ends explodes the assumption of traditional ethics.

Moreover, secular myths having to do with individual freedom, material success, and perhaps especially the wonders of technology may be an even more powerful source of societal legitimation than, traditional religious arguments by virtue of being grounded in many assumptions that are virtually axiomatic in the culture.

They point out that the key assumption behind traditional economic theory is its understanding of the nature of the human person.

Assumptions of the traditional theory lead to the substitution of universals for particular qualitative facts and particular facts of relatedness.

Still, the Virgin of Wheaton that slowly emerged in our course was a Protestant one, even if she came to light in conversation with the four traditional Catholic Marian teachings: Mary as Mother of God, her perpetual virginity (before, during, and after the birth of Christ), her immaculate conception, and her bodily assumption into heaven.

Within the more traditional framework, fundamentalism has been described as a «world - view,» a rather tight (or narrow, or simplistic) view of the world — an orientation that is perhaps hierarchically organized around the ultimate value of otherworldly salvation, an orientation that supplies totally encompassing normative expectations for how people should behave, a set of beliefs and assumptions that are deeply meaningful to the people who hold them and that give meaning to these people's lives.

In view of the increasing costs of retirement, the traditional notion that retirees will only need 70 percent of their working income could very well be a dangerously misguided assumption.

«Our findings on the effects of homework challenge the traditional assumption that homework is «inherently good» (Gill & Schlossman, 2001, p. 27), and instead suggest that researchers, practitioners, students, and parents unpack why the default practice of assigning heavy homework loads exists, in the face of evidence of its negative effects.»

Here's an event that challenges one assumption that underlies a lot of what you've read on e.politics: Paper - free Politics: How the Internet Replaced Traditional Outreach in the TX Governor's Race In the early primary campaign season of 2010, things seemed oddly quiet in Texas...

It was the President's fervent hope that the deep love Queen Elizabeth shown for the Commonwealth «will continue to light the way for all of us and our successors, as we endeavour to establish firmly in a world, where many traditional assumptions are under serious threat, the values of fairness, decency, freedom and openness, which have been the object of her work.

«Far from the traditional risk - focused assumptions, extreme sports participation facilitates more positive psychological experiences and express human values such as humility, harmony, creativity, spirituality and a vital sense of self that enriches everyday life,» Professor Schweitzer said.

The basic elements and assumptions of traditional supervisory practice are all present in this simple model.

That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft - cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna enhance the local abundance of wild, native animals.

The day ends with our first traditional interview, except that now we can all explore the possibility of a match based on shared experience rather than assumption and imagination.

Today, researchers are challenging traditional assumptions about transplant eligibility and donor matching in an effort to expand the universe of patients who can benefit from this treatment while improving long - term success rates.

Sweet also examined cultural explanations to determine how traditional gender assumptions about the unique skills of women and men might lead to identity differences, including those that relate to the importance of a career to one's identity.

Tinder might be taking the dating world by storm, but so far the traditional dating websites like OkCupid and Match have been studying their users and providing us with valuable data about how people actually date, instead of just making assumptions.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

The «parallel system» approach to chartering's future rests on two mistaken assumptions: first, that by simply creating new schools and not purposely antagonizing the traditional system, chartering wouldn't attract the ire of defenders of the status quo; and second, that if chartering proved successful and popular, the sky was the limit on growth.

When asked about the assumption that more education actually makes people question authority, not follow it blindly, LeVine explains that modern institutions such as Western schooling make individuals more likely to question traditional authority — an older member of a family, for example.

Deficit and race - based assumptions in Indigenous education: At Thornbury Primary School in Victoria, all students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are taught the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional owners of the land the school is on.

Our company bypassed this erroneous assumption (and the negative press that surely would have followed) by aggressively promoting the app as a supplementary test preparation method, instead of a replacement, to traditional methods of study.

Through interpreting and analysing authors» ideas and positions represented in traditional and contemporary texts in a range of media, in English or translated forms, students learn to question stated and unstated cultural beliefs and assumptions, and appreciate issues of intercultural meaning and sensitivity.

But even some of the most strenuous charter advocates are wary of a blanket assumption that charters are superior, in part because they are so different from traditional schools and from one another.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

Our interest, however, arises also from democratic assumptions underlying the organization of the U.S. school system and from the traditional resistance of schools to greater community - level participation.

«It is time to move away from traditional assumptions about how schools should look, how teachers should teach, and how students should learn,» argued Maria Worthen and Lillian Pace, authors of a new policy paper in support of competency - based learning.