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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultural centre
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Paris was then the cultural centre of Europe.
a cultural festival
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A cultural festival will celebrate the traditions of the local people.
a cultural gap (= a difference between cultures )
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There is a cultural gap between Europe and America on this subject.
a cultural misunderstanding (= a misunderstanding caused by different cultures doing things in a different way )
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Cultural misunderstandings have led to fights between students.
a cultural shift
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We all know there were cultural shifts in the 1960s that significantly changed our society.
a cultural/musical event
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a monthly guide to the cultural events in London
a cultural/religious tradition
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cultural traditions that date back many generations
a cultural/scientific/academic exchange
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The mayors of Tokyo and New York signed an agreement to encourage cultural exchanges between the cities.
a social/cultural convention
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Each society has its own cultural conventions.
a social/cultural etc phenomenon
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Crime is a complex social phenomenon.
a social/political/cultural dimension
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His writing has a strong political dimension.
cultural activities
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There is plenty of opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities.
cultural background
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Some of his attitudes were due to his cultural background.
cultural diversity
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Cultural diversity is a central feature of modern British society.
cultural pluralism
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a nation characterized by cultural pluralism
cultural stereotypes
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His jokes often depend on cultural stereotypes.
cultural/architectural/literary etc heritage
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the cultural heritage of Italy
cultural/economic/social etc imperialism
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Small nations resent Western cultural imperialism.
cultural/political/racial etc divide
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people on both sides of the political divide
cultural/political/regional etc differences
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the major cultural differences between the west and the east
cultural/racial/class barriers
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Sport is a sure way to break down racial barriers.
cultural/social evolution
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Neither cultural or social evolution is any guarantee that we are moving towards a better world.
cultural/social values
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a book about a clash between British and Chinese cultural values
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The films of the time reflected these changing social values.
literary/classical/cultural etc allusions
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Eliot’s poetry is full of biblical allusions.
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In his poetry we find many allusions to the human body.
political/cultural/economic influence
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French political influence began to dominate the country.
political/economic/cultural etc dominance
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the economic and political dominance of Western countries
political/intellectual/cultural etc ferment
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the artistic ferment of the late sixth century
social/cultural etc norms
social/cultural/sexual etc revolution
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the biggest social revolution we have had in this country
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the sexual revolution of the 1960s
social/political/cultural etc formation
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Marx founded a new science: the science of the history of social formations.
the cultural/social environment
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Changes in the cultural environment affect people’s attitudes and values.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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He was not a music lover, nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity .
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At the same time we expose local people to new developments that may be beneficial to cultural activities .
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Prisoners' education is enhanced by a wide range of cultural activities .
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And dancing and music and other cultural activities were provided which the hands were obliged to attend.
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All prisoners are urged to pursue educational and cultural activities .
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This myth has persistently mitigated against a recognition of other centres of cultural activity .
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There should be room for relaxation, for sport, for social and cultural activities as well as academic work.
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The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry.
background
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Assemblies, dress requirements, school meals provision and links with parents may be insensitive to different cultural backgrounds and linguistic diversity.
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If the parents have different cultural backgrounds , the tasks of reconciling the image to the reality is more complicated.
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This is the cultural background against which fraud has been carried out.
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Models provide a shared frame of reference for people from different cultural backgrounds .
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They fill out your cultural background and describe the foods and street life.
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Whatever the cultural background one characteristic went right across the board: the desire to evangelise.
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Successful organizations will be sensitive to the unique needs and interests of workers of differing cultural backgrounds .
capital
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Eduardo Arroyo, who confuses the vulgarity of Madrid's status as cultural capital with the praiseworthiness of a perverse act.
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In the main, the holders of cultural capital can be regarded as the dominated fraction of the dominant class.
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It is precisely this mix that makes Britain, and particularly London, the cultural capital of the world.
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Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based.
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The basis for education's ability to bring about this process of social reproduction lies in what Bourdieu terms cultural capital .
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What are concealed are the material inequalities of leisure power, the unequal distributions of cultural capital .
centre
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It's a tourist and cultural centre as well as a centre for violence.
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The bus station was similarly desolate, while the cinema, cultural centre , public baths and a hospital have closed.
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The builders are not using any nails in the construction, in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre .
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And from the affluence they have brought has come Winterthur's other fame as a cultural centre .
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But, what is there for the art enthusiast in this cultural centre ?
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In the later Middle Ages, Prague was an important merchant city and cultural centre .
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It is also a significant conference and cultural centre .
change
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Work reorganization was achieved in Pilkingtons despite the absence of a pre-planned strategy for cultural change .
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Their firsthand involvement in the human problems of cultural change has made a lasting impression on most of them.
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In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
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As the twentieth century got under way, other cultural changes made slenderness seem desirable.
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An example of a cultural change is moving from standardized incentive rewards to individualized ones.
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These traumatic cultural changes created a radically new religious situation.
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To win a significant amount of new business would require a big cultural change at the company.
context
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There is one important difference, however, that has changed the cultural context in which theology does its work.
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Unfortunately, the core teachings were set in cultural contexts that have been largely superseded.
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Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.
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It is the cultural context that provides Dasein with meaningful possibilities for its concrete ways of being engaged in the world.
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Each of these stages is an element in a complex societal structure and cultural context .
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Again, these techniques are revealingly similar in widely different cultural contexts .
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We decode messages in personal, social and cultural contexts .
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There are many teachers working out of their cultural contexts , and very frequent movement and transfer.
development
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Concluding remarks Scientific dating techniques, and none more than radiocarbon, have revolutionised the archaeologist's understanding of human cultural development .
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In the parochial-participant culture we have the contemporary problem of cultural development in many of the emerging nations.
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That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development .
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The conditions for economic and cultural development are such that we no longer need to mutilate ourselves in any way.
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Apart from higher education, other cultural developments were retarded.
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In doing this they provide the material for their own cultural development that is self-determining and self-governing.
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Freud emphasized the importance of the latency period for the cultural development of the individual, and hence the society.
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It shows how wealth, created through shipbuilding, iron, lead and armaments manufacture, was redirected towards cultural development .
difference
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Most significantly, an ahistorical, largely theoretical, emphasis on cultural difference remains limited.
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Even within strong corporate cultures, values are rarely strong or homogeneous enough to override cultural differences .
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Teachers need to be alive to cultural differences which may particularly affect bilingual pupils' handling of literature.
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Not that racial and cultural differences can not exist.
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Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation.
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This sense of linguistic exclusion can be complicated by various cultural differences .
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And the cultural difference is even more pronounced when it comes to personnel.
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In these isolated areas local cultural differences have developed and persisted.
diversity
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The overall social and political project is the creation of a harmonious, democratic cultural pluralism, a healthy cultural diversity .
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It is rich in intellectual curiosity and academic and cultural diversity .
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The impact on the rich cultural diversity of communities all around the world is immense.
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That lack of cultural diversity is a problem.
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Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches.
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The El Pueblo gift store is an extension of these organizations' commitment to fostering understanding and appreciation for cultural diversity .
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But behind this bleak image is a country of colour and immense cultural diversity .
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Nothing much happens in their little town, apparently, and these guys provide some welcome cultural diversity .
event
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They don't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate.
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Most of the neighborhood Web sites post information about community meetings and cultural events .
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Many department stores operate non-profit spaces for ticketed cultural events such as museum shows from abroad.
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They went to cultural events , they took music lessons.
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Many art exhibitions and cultural events were sent abroad.
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By the mid-seventies this had become one of the most controversial cultural events on the country.
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You're only seven minutes ride away from Kowloon's main cultural events and shopping areas.
exchange
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Walesa's visit was also intended to boost bilateral trade and cultural exchanges .
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The treaties covered bilateral protection and promotion of investments, penal cooperation, cultural exchanges and customs cooperation, officials said.
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What emerges is the implication that the perceived cultural exchange between these selected texts reveal preoccupations found throughout the whole culture.
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Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges .
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New religious ideas and moral codes were made accessible by widescale immigration, cultural exchanges and mass communication.
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Long periods of enforced coexistence may include concessions or agreements and important, often fruitful, cultural exchange .
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Everyone seemed cool and distracted, uninterested in trade or cultural exchanges .
factor
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They need to check that all cultural factors and management decisions are right.
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Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development.
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Social, environmental and cultural factors may be.
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Secondly, it addresses the issue of the importance, in our models of economic development, of cultural factors .
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The first question concerns the individual, structural, and cultural factors that motivate people to rebel.
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Economic, racial, political, historic and cultural factors have combined to interweave the fabric of the world.
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If the first view is sound it removes the need for a model with cultural factors in it.
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The study of sociology began to show the importance of the family and class and cultural factors in child development.
form
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The very radical autonomy of modernist cultural forms makes their social or social-historical explanation an extremely difficult pursuit.
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Not only could he translate languages, he translated what was buried beneath themthe gestures, cultural forms , shared social signals.
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The cultural forms of late capitalism have thus become entirely pervasive and able to subsume any attempt at opposition.
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These studies concentrated on images of women, a type of criticism which views films as cultural forms imbued with sexist ideology.
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However, cultural forms themselves are essentially external to human beings as actors.
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Moreover, it has been reworked within the cultural forms and practices of a whole variety of subaltern groups.
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And typically the forms used for such display are versions of the cultural forms adopted and displayed by the ruling classes.
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In what follows I shall claim that postmodern cultural forms do indeed signify, only that they signify differently.
formation
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The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations .
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The cultural formation processes discussed in Chapter 2 all have to be taken into account in any assessment of this question.
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Many cultural formations have of course been restricted in this way.
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It was within this crisis of the broader social formation that the particular cultural formation of the circle around Godwin became significant.
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The cultural formation we know as Bloomsbury is very different from both.
group
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In their use of the test it was found that the order of salience of certain roles varied between different cultural groups .
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Variations appropriate to different cultural groups should be devised.
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In his work, different cultural groups or social classes appear as separate races with definite and visible physical characteristics.
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At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures.
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Cross-cultural issues can arise when expectations of child-rearing patterns may differ across cultural groups .
heritage
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Do we want to pass on our cultural heritage by accident or by design?
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As mystery, it becomes a unique cultural heritage unavailable to foreigners.
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The price they paid was my cultural heritage .
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They will encourage public and private efforts aimed at the preservation of the cultural heritage in their States. 40.
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Swahili's cultural heritage was by no means the cultural heritage of all.
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Rivers represent a cultural heritage as well.
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When people do not know how to bring up or what to teach their children their cultural heritage is indeed in jeopardy.
history
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Reworking her rich and cultural history to question Western attitudes and assumptions.
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Golden Age: Ideology and cultural history .
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This information is laced throughout with cultural history and personal stories.
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Scars Of Sweet Paradise is worth reading as a slice of cultural history , even if one has no interest in Joplin.
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Oxford undertakes to cover Britain's entire cultural history .
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At a late date in our cultural history , he had created a language both formal and authoritative.
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This document is central to Florentine cultural history in the fifteenth century.
identity
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The legislation was largely inspired by the priority which the regional parties gave to preserving local cultural identities .
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He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education.
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A consideration of these ideas fostered the recognition that the children had social, racial and cultural identities as well as disabilities.
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This principle needs expanding to cover impacts on communities, and on language and cultural identity .
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Video lives A series of programmes about cultural identities by contemporary video and film-makers organised in collaboration with Birmingham Library Services.
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They both also have greater historic cultural identities .
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There is no cultural identity in a region.
imperialism
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It also helps to sensitise the Church to the dangers of cultural imperialism .
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Some critics have accused these Western pop artists of exploiting Third World traditions in an extension of cultural imperialism .
influence
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More subtle forms of cultural influence also abound.
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Today, the spread of cultural influence has attained vertiginous speed.
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Each frame of reference is constructed largely through cultural influences .
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Will the ever faster spread of cultural influence remove the frontiers between civilizations that were once so firm in world history?
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They will be discussed in terms of material resources and economic developments, as well as urban networks, financial relationships and cultural influences .
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Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences .
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The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements, where the Cistercian Order was most active.
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Yet this political hostility did not prevent its welcoming, on occasion, cultural influence from the West.
institution
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It is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions , but it rains there.
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That study is expected to document the role of cultural institutions in creating employment and attracting businesses to New York City.
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Until leasing prospects improve, property owners should donate the space to nonprofit groups and cultural institutions .
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Her style of leadership has angered both political parties and the cultural institutions with which she deals.
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Family formation and family building patterns are reflections of various socio-economic and cultural institutions , traditions and conditions of development.
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It is a cultural institution , no less important than the Hermitage or the Bolshoi Theatre.
life
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Milton's ideas, for instance, were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life .
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With the academy Supplying hungry audiences, the town enjoyed a cultural life that belied its size.
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Almost a century later Manaus's neglected cultural life is re-emerging with a Slavic twist.
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In the meanwhile, a new Leviathan has surfaced in cultural life .
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The Karimojong are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose economic, social and cultural life revolves around cattle.
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But it is Winterthur's art collections that almost dwarf the rest of its cultural life .
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These exhibitions became central to Sheffield's cultural life , and were the turning-points in the careers of several young artists.
norm
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Research can not tell us how to work with people whose cultural norms and traditions are different from our own.
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Meeting inside a model could logically connect communications protocols to the model itself rather than the cultural norms of a geographical area.
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The analysts will have to adhere to the cultural norms of the organisation in order to be successful with their database project.
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He did not feel comfortable challenging what he thought was a cultural norm .
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Both are equally prisoners of the cultural norms of business.
pattern
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This suggests that in some circumstances material prosperity may increase without cultural patterns changing markedly.
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The cultural patterns themselves are influenced by the structural instability and the cultural stalemate.
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The underlying cultural patterns anthropologists seek means the implications offered by changing historical circumstances are given insufficient attention.
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If I understand the cultural pattern correctly, they should be more hostile to the people up the hill than to us.
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The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates.
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They have cut the nerve of traditional religion, which is often tied to specific geographical locations and cultural patterns .
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It is thought that there are some generalized cultural patterns that can be recognized.
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Idea-management thus has very different prospects according to the cultural pattern of the organization.
policy
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It indicates rather a degree of hesitation in the leadership of the party as to the correct cultural policy to be pursued.
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Officially only eleven years old in 1945, Socialist Realism continued to condition Soviet cultural policies throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
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Even in Khrushchev's more relaxed era, fear of dissent from official cultural policies continued to run high.
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This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government's cultural policy .
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This, of course, is no basis for national cultural policies .
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On the other hand, no funds and no subsidy schemes at all would mean an end to cultural policies .
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There were enormous difficulties, equally, in the sphere of cultural policy and minority rights.
practices
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Death is one of those remote events which are brought to bear on behavior only with the aid of cultural practices .
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Instead desire is present on the very surface of social and cultural practices .
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Many cultural practices have, of course, been traced to accidents.
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Their specific and local histories, often threatened and repressed, are inserted ` between the lines' of dominant cultural practices .
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The same three kinds of values may be detected in the design of other cultural practices .
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The term suggests an element of danger, certainly of risk, a military metaphor applied to western cultural practices .
production
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In addition to this kind of specific organization, guilds in some societies were involved in more general cultural production .
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From all these situations, possible alternative bases for variations in cultural production can exist.
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What has then happened is a class division, of a stable and organized kind, within cultural production .
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The former process is seen as cultural production , the latter as merely instrumental.
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Neither the artisanal nor the post-artisanal phase of market relations in cultural production can be said to have ended.
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It reflected changing means and relations of cultural production and consumption.
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Nizan was convinced that February 1934 was a watershed not only in terms of cultural politics, but also in terms of cultural production .
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Each facet of Nizan's cultural production evidently needs to be contextualised precisely.
revolution
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This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since.
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So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ?
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Many Tory party cheer-leaders boast that there has been a cultural revolution .
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A mere fraction of the population shared in the cultural revolution .
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It says a cultural revolution is necessary if students are to be adequately equipped for the twenty-first century.
stereotype
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The cultural stereotype of cattle stealing as an exciting, adventurous activity may also have contributed to its acceptance.
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Academic Standards: A self-fulfilling effect of cultural stereotypes is diminished expectations.
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The most successful advertising campaigns have targeted cultural stereotypes by associating contraception with virility.
tradition
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Protestants and Catholics certainly see themselves as different peoples with different histories, and for the most part maintain different cultural traditions .
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Today, the lack of a widely accepted cultural tradition for giving the necessary support after childbirth puts many families at risk.
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Despite strong regional cultural traditions , Tyne side was affected by these developments.
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And Los Descendientes del Presidio de Tucson recognize that pending milestone with a party in honor of our cultural traditions .
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In this we can see the continuing influence of a cultural tradition .
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They tend to restrict the causes of criminality to hereditary characteristics and overlook the effects of environmental influences and cultural traditions .
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Brains evolved the capacity to communicate with other brains by means of language and cultural traditions .
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They fostered the development of a new, urban, cultural tradition .
value
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A good part of the difficulty is derived directly from the structure of social and cultural values discussed earlier in this book.
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In such cases cultural values acquire a new importance and can become decisive.
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Again we are faced with a shift in cultural values .
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From the 1950s to the 1990s radical changes in teaching styles reflect major changes in social and cultural values .
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Two quotes help to illustrate the importance of giving people belief in their own cultural values .
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Freud did not hold that instincts directly caused behaviour, uninfluenced by the surrounding cultural values .
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In our own society, for example, our cultural values towards debt have changed.
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Thus the products and services demanded have reflected this change in cultural values .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baroque music was part of a broader cultural movement that affected all the arts.
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Houston's cultural offerings are just what we were looking for.
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Puerto Rico has a distinct cultural identity.
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Teachers must be equipped to deal with the linguistic and cultural diversity of the student body.
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The Principal feels that cultural education is very important.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both biological and cultural explanations, however, have sceptical implications as far as morality is concerned.
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Both of these would be products of a continued modernization process based on a principle of cultural differentiation.
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It also includes discouraging cultural traits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society.
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Maybe, but certainly not as the force in marketing, consuming and cultural influence the Boomers were themselves.
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Nobody has the controlling cultural authority to tell women to what lengths they should go.
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Our persistent cultural blind spot on the effects of such exclusion is now proving to be very problematic.
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The assumptions underlying these techniques are generally the same as those of the cultural transmission concept of learning.
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Their specific and local histories, often threatened and repressed, are inserted ` between the lines' of dominant cultural practices.