This dissertation takes a social-historical approach to the study of art. From Wordnik.com. [Dissertation on Burlesque] Reference
So a social-historical interpretation is possible where Transcendentalism is the effect, not the cause. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The future of Unitarian Christianity.] Reference
His goal is to undermine economic analysis of the region, and is not geared to enhance social-historical analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference
There are social-historical, diatopographical and diachronological reasons on why we use certain words in certain contexts. From Wordnik.com. [On insults, or not] Reference
As for the children of divorce, they deserve the same sympathy as any other victims of an inevitable social-historical shift. From Wordnik.com. [Has Divorce Reached Its Natural Rate?] Reference
Only a narrowly focused specialist scientist, unconcerned with environmental or other social-historical influences, would want to make such an argument. From Wordnik.com. [A Post-Wedge World] Reference
Among Holocaust documentaries, Lanzmann's "Shoah" is the most accomplished and legendary, brimming with raw social-historical insight and absolutely chilling personal detail. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed] Reference
Instead, he favors the importance of looking at the dynamics of social processes and the specific causal mechanisms that can be discovered in particular social-historical settings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Even someone who believes that our scientific concepts perfectly map "nature's joints" can allow that scientists come to have the ideas and concepts they do through social-historical processes. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Metaphysics] Reference
The effect of the assimilation process on the social actors and their environment allows flexibility and variety in the ethnic blends, depending on the social-historical conditions in which they take shape. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century.] Reference
The philosophical interest in quantum computing is threefold: First, from a social-historical perspective, quantum computing is a domain where experimentalists find themselves ahead of their fellow theorists. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Computing] Reference
HOLLANDER: Well, actually this book -- the "Anti-Americanism" book -- is a bit of a social history, and I put a date -- I bracketed the period '65 to' 90 because some of my intention was documentary or social-historical. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990] Reference
One is to insist that goal-setting is an indispensable prelude to change in social institutions, when in fact institutions change as new groups enter them and gain power; and when in fact goals have meaning at all only as labels given to the direction in which social-historical forces are moving an institution. From Wordnik.com. [Education Now] Reference
And off he goes, in social-historical voice, on the subject of the towering heels worn by 16th-century Venetian women. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There's the social-historical, which has her blossoming into the late 60s, made fearless by the new contraceptive pill. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Mr Kemp, who also has a Masters of Theology degree, says interviewees 'stories were placed in a social-historical narrative of Arcadia. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
"The challenge of sociological storytelling is to see the social-historical currents that are running throughout individuals 'lives," Black writes. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley Advocate: News] Reference
Semi-sciences of that kind, the juridical and the social-historical, endeavour to solve the questions of a man's life by pretending to decide each in its own way, the question of the life of all humanity. From Wordnik.com. [A Confession] Reference
The idea was that the development of technology regularly moved much further and faster in human social-historical evolution than other aspects of culture: our institutions of government, our values, habits, our understanding of society and ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09] Reference
"It took me a while to warm to the weird premise and some of the grotesqueries it involves, but I think part of what impresses me is how nervy it is in playing out the poetry of the conceit for all that it's worth and letting all the social-historical elements - from two world wars to Hurricane Katrina (and not overlooking the degree to which it sidesteps all the racial issues) - take a back seat to the love story.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
An understanding of theology such as this takes into account the "second-order" nature of theology, i.e., theology as being an 'interpretation' of God's Word, as well as the need to both reflect on the history of interpretation, but also deal critically with it as we are interpreters from a different 'social-historical context' than our fore-bearers who are attempting to reach people from a different 'social-historical context.' artboulet: is sad that he finished "World Without End" and doesn't have a novel to read before bed tonight. From Wordnik.com. [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference
"There's a social-historical aspect that is very important in modern dance and ballet -- these forms are affected by the cultures in which they were created and thrived, and continue to thrive in. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
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