Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Focus (linguistics)" ¶ 26
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

class and focus
A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.
A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.
From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.
Increased focus has been given to, " disparate feminisms, nationalisms, and media in various locations and across class, racial, and ethnic groups throughout the world ".
In terms of inheritance inequality, some economists and sociologists focus on the inter generational transmission of income or wealth which is said to have a direct impact on one's mobility ( or immobility ) and class position in society.
As with the anarchists, they too saw the Bolshevik take-over of the soviets ( like that of the trade unions ) as subverting the revolution and beginning the restoration of domination and exploitation ... Over the years this emphasis on working class autonomy has resulted in a reinterpretation of Marxist theory that has brought out the two-sided character of the class struggle and shifted the focus from capital ( the preoccupation of orthodox Marxism ) to the workers ... As a result, not only has there been a recognition that capitalism seeks to subordinate everyone's life ( from the traditional factory proletariat to peasants, housewives and students ) but that all those peoples ' struggles involve both the resistance to this subordination and the effort to construct alternative ways of being.
It advocates universal education with a focus on developing the proletariat with knowledge, class consciousness, and understanding the historical development of communism.
Cohen ( 1955 ): working class teenagers joined gangs due to frustration of inability to achieve status and goals of the middle class ; Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ): blocked opportunity, but unequal distribution of opportunities lead to creating different types of gangs ( that is, some focused on robbery and property theft, some on fighting and conflict and some were retreatists focusing on drug taking ); Spergel ( 1966 ) was one of the first criminologists to focus on evidence-based practice rather than intuition into gang life and culture.
Opponents say that many educational agencies have adopted outcomes which focus too much on attitudes ( e. g., " Students will enjoy physical education class ") rather than academic content.
Soap operas from Australia and the United Kingdom tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations, and are frequently set in working class environments.
The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 284 pages ; Scholarly studies on the habits, manners, networks, institutions, and public roles of the American middle class with a focus on cities in the North.
Much work on Bloomsbury continues to focus on the group ’ s class origins and alleged elitism, their satire, their atheism, their oppositional politics and liberal economics, their non-abstract art, their modernist fiction, their art and literary criticism, and their non-nuclear family and sexual arrangements.
While the " red " parties tend to focus on the adverse effects of capitalism on the working class, the " green " parties tend to focus on the ecological consequences of unrestrained capitalism.
The main focus of the study of Karl Marx was the working class of the Industrial Revolution.
In contrast to the Manifesto, Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ( 1859 ), and Capital ( 1867 ) focus on the unfolding logic of a system, rather than class struggle.
Indian activists were also very active in using this time to educate others about the issues of caste, class and religious conflict in India, with particular focus on the plight of the Dalit, sometimes referred to as the ' untouchables ' in Indian society.
It makes the assumption that the economy trumps other concerns ; allowing for the elevation of class as the focus of study.
Later discussion of The Two Cultures tended to obscure Snow's initial focus on differences between British systems ( of both schooling and social class ) and those of competing countries.
The second class of studies, of which Patai's is an exemplar for Arab culture, had a more narrow focus.
Christian is kind but vague, and ultimately uninterested in individuals, preferring to focus on the plight of the working class.
International relations theories can be divided into " positivist / rationalist " theories which focus on a principally state-level analysis, and " post-positivist / reflectivist " ones which incorporate expanded meanings of security, ranging from class, to gender, to postcolonial security.
Marxist approaches argue the position of historical materialism and make the assumption that the economic concerns transcend others ; allowing for the elevation of class as the focus of study.

class and sensitive
And while no one expects total democracy on the academic scene, the scholar will be particularly sensitive to a line between first and second class citizenship drawn on any basis other than that of academic rank or professional achievement.
In C ++, the standard way of accessing AltiVec support is mutually exclusive with use of the Standard Template Library < code > vector <></ code > class template due to the treatment of " vector " as a reserved word when the compiler does not implement the context sensitive keyword version of vector.
Similar in appearance to the Palm Pilot class of handheld computers, the touch sensitive screen is operated on with a stylus ; simple handwriting recognition software is provided by the program Tapatap.
Woodson Elementary, Natalie Jones, was forbidden from delivering a class presentation on assassinated gay San Francisco city councillor Harvey Milk because her principal, and later the school district, declared it a " sensitive " issue that not all parents might want their children to learn about.
If, for example, potential business class customers will pay a large price differential only if economy class seats are uncomfortable while economy class customers are more sensitive to price than comfort, airlines may have substantial incentives to purposely make economy seating uncomfortable.
Photomultiplier tubes ( photomultipliers or PMTs for short ), members of the class of vacuum tubes, and more specifically vacuum phototubes, are extremely sensitive detectors of light in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Increase in LPG prices has been a politically sensitive matter in India as it potentially affects the urban middle class voting pattern.
Where Roger Douglas had deregulated the industrial, financial, fiscal and agricultural sectors of the New Zealand economy, Ruth Richardson, under the auspices of a National ( predominantly conservative ) administration, was able to focus on social services and labour relations, sensitive areas which the preceding Labour administration had not been willing to reform in light of its traditional working class constituency.
In her autobiography True ( 1998 ), she describes herself as have endured an insular childhood, a sensitive child of working class, Methodist fundamentalist parents.
Education ’ s method of molding is linguistic, and so the language to be used is that which will create a human being sensitive to its racial, sexual, and class identity.
Also, in the course of Haiti's first free and fair election, Jean-Bertrand Aristide rose to power by rallying the poor majority behind his organization while openly criticizing the elites of the country ( mostly white and mulatto ); elites of the minority were very sensitive to his populist stance and viewed him as hostile, and the leaders of the elite ( such as the Group of 184 and Convergence Démocratique organizations ) openly accused Aristide of fomenting class war and even claimed he was permitting popular violence against the elite.
Many scenes were cut because they were deemed too violent, profane or politically sensitive, including a quote from Mao Zedong about the nature of revolutions and class struggle.
He was poor growing up, and he said he was "... a sensitive kid in a working class neighborhood.
In other words, they are not class conscious, although they are very sensitive indeed to status distinctions.
Duddy went on to serve as the editor of UDA magazine Ulster for a time and in 1983 published a book of his poetry entitled Concrete Whirlpools of the Mind which received praise for its sensitive treatment of the problems for young working class men drawn into violence.

class and expressions
In 1991, addressing a graduating class of the University of Michigan, U. S. President George H. W. Bush spoke against " a movement would declare certain topics ' off-limits ,' certain expressions ' off-limits ', even certain gestures ' off-limits '" in allusion to liberal Political Correctness.
The RDF data model is similar to classic conceptual modeling approaches such as entity-relationship or class diagrams, as it is based upon the idea of making statements about resources ( in particular Web resources ) in the form of subject-predicate-object expressions.
AspectJ has a number of such expressions and encapsulates them in a special class, an aspect.
In the United States and Canada expressions include hookey, playing hookey, ditching, dipping, jigging, sluffing, skipping, cutting class, or simply just cutting.
BBC reviewed, " Mukerji plays the character of a middle class girl with great conviction ", and Udita Jhunjhunwala writing for Mid Day added, " Her expressions and acting are understated in a role that fits her like a glove.
to derive resizing expressions particular to each class.
Hegel's Geist and Marx's universal class are idealist and materialist expressions of this idea of humans treated as social beings, organized to act in concert.
Joly taught the class entirely in French ( with no translation ) by using gestures, pointing to objects and using tone of voice and facial expressions to convey meaning.
After the French Revolution, the standard pronunciation in France changed to that of the bourgeois class in Paris, but Quebec retained many pronunciations and expressions shared with modern Oïl languages such as Norman, Gallo, Picard, Poitevin and Saintongeais.
Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions ; the new generation, among sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983.
Unlike Smalltalk, F-Script provides specific notational extensions to support the Array class, using curly brackets to describe literal arrays, which may contain any F-Script expressions.
In contrast with ScriptX expressions, Java programs are always written inside a class definition, and return either a value or void.
Ironically, this universal interdependence, rather than leading to greater human solidarity, has coincided with increasing racial, ethnic, religious, and class divisions, and new – and to some confusing or disturbing – cultural expressions.

1.321 seconds.