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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"cultural sensibility"”.
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Building Advocacy in Healthcare: The Impact of Intergroup Dialogue on the Cultural Sensibility Outcomes of Health Profession Students Using an Individual Diversity Development Framework
… intergroup dialogue has on the development of cultural sensibility in future healthcare providers with the ultimate goal of continuously striving for culturally competence. The analyses revealed a statistical significance in the improvement of students' understanding of how culture influences …
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Architecture and the movies : two examples
… them and general, illustrative of a larger cultural sensibility. Both reveal a cultural condition: its authorities, its emphases, its concerns: And yet, as forms of expression, they are very different architecture is tactile and spatial, it is the world constructed: movies are two …
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Interrogating the cybernetic imaginary, or, Control and communication in the human and the machine
This cultural history explores the coming into being of an emergent cultural sensibility of the computer age, the cybernetic imaginary. Articulated through four events which take place in public discourse--the thinking machine, the game, the future, and information--the analysis suggests that it is …
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Crafting Situated Services: Meaningful Design for Social Innovation with Textile Artisan Communities
… terms of livelihood, environmental stewardship, cultural heritage, and social equality. To alleviate these problems, a range of top-down strategies has been deployed, but they are often ineffective in addressing the specific needs and aspirations of diverse contexts. On the other hand, bottom-up …
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The Multiple Meanings of San Diego's Little Italy: A Study of the Impact of Real and Symbolic Space and Boundaries on the Ethnic Identities of Eight Italian Americans
… and Manifestations of Social Capital, b) Cultural Characteristics and Dynamics, and c) Evolving Purpose of Place. Each theme in turn comprised four subthemes that helped to illuminate each theme’s dynamics.</p> <p>Overall, a sense of community ownership was evident in the narratives from …
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From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’?: The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor
… Their discussion of ‘an emergent religious and cultural sensibility’ implies a post-modern, post secular and hermeneutical re-affirmation of religion. Vattimo’s philosophy is presented as emerging from its own axiom of “weak thought” which is itself a secularising principle. By way of contrast, …
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The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby
… George Eliot and Lady Victoria Welby were cultural precursors to the biosemiotic thought of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, specifically in the way in which these three thinkers sought to find a ‘common grammar’ between natural and human practices. While only Lady Welby …