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- adjective Of or pertaining to
social andhistorical factors.
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That is, I get to talk to people from all walks of life about the issues that matter most to me, and to not only get their perspectives on issues ranging from interracial dating to affirmative action and pornography to D/s relationships, but to also help them see the sociohistorical context in which those discussions, opinions, and feelings are invariably grounded.
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The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience reviews “various aspects of lesbian experience” including the “impact of heterosexism/stigma, gender role socialization, minority status of women and lesbians, identity development within a multicultural society, changes in psychological theories about lesbians in sociohistorical context.”
Stanley Fish on the Ward Churchill verdict. Ann Althouse 2009
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Or worse; the suggested relationship to poetry might prove congenial to those who overhastily assert that much of contemporary theoretical discourse in the humanities, pretending to describe sociohistorical reality, actually commits egregious crimes of genre with every line it writes: Texts that would otherwise be recognized as impressively bad prose-poems instead pass for something called theory (or theoretically-informed analysis).
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003
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Dubin participated in the planning sessions and was commissioned to write one of the catalog essays, a critical examination of Barbie set against a broad sociohistorical backdrop.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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Dubin participated in the planning sessions and was commissioned to write one of the catalog essays, a critical examination of Barbie set against a broad sociohistorical backdrop.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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Drawing on themes from Michel Foucault, the team symbolizes its withdrawal of allegiance from the out-moded sociohistorical construct of power and authoritarianism implicit in the state of buoyancy by performing "The Death of Man" in an empty pool.
Olympic Notes Crowther, Prudence 1996
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In his many books and articles, he posed sweeping questions about the nature of Islamic art, seeking to discover the impulses that generated its specific forms and dynamics of growth, and to explore the interconnections between faith and sociohistorical circumstances in its development.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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In his many books and articles, he posed sweeping questions about the nature of Islamic art, seeking to discover the impulses that generated its specific forms and dynamics of growth, and to explore the interconnections between faith and sociohistorical circumstances in its development.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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Espacio Femenino will open on February 24th to present 5 screenings of contemporary films; fiction feature film, sociohistorical documentary, creative documentary, selection of shorts ...
Shanghaiist Kirsti J?nson 2010
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As for the moral copout [huh] Sailer-types wait for, where we eliminate all efforts to help black people out of a conclusion that they are beyond assistance because of genetic inferiority, again, we'd have to spell out what kind of actual, plausible sociohistorical process we can imagine leading to it.
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