context
Sociology
Writing
Examples of context in the following topics:
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Environmental Context of Architecture
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Situational and Environmental Context
- It is important to understand the environmental and situational contexts in which you are giving a speech.
- In each of these instances, context is crucial.
- What you're missing, in this instance, is the context of that conversation.
- Situational context refers to the actual reason why you are speaking or presenting.
- Environmental context refers to the physical space in which you're speaking.
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Social Context for Learning
- Some social constructivists discuss two aspects of social context that largely affect the nature and extent of the learning (Gredler, 1997; Wertch, 1991):
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Introduction to Inflection
- In the context of grammar, inflection is altering a word to change its form, usually by adding letters.
- In English grammar, "inflection" is the broad umbrella term for changing a word to suit its grammatical context.
- We often need to change nouns based on grammatical context.
- To recap, "conjugation" refers to changing a verb to suit its grammatical context.
- You also might need to change some adjectives based on the grammatical context of the rest of your sentence.
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Context of Culture and Gender
- Understanding the cultural and gender context of your speech is vital to making a connection with your audience.
- When considering both gender and cultural contexts, we often encounter bias, both intentional and unintentional, and implicit or explicit.
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Social Context and Sexual Behavior
- Social context influences sexual behavior; sexuality is expressed and understood through socialized processes.
- Since sexuality is expressed through means learned by socialization, social context is bound to influence sexual behavior.
- In other contexts, the hug could be interpreted as sexual interest.
- Thus, social context is essential when one considers potentially sexual behavior.
- In a different context, the same gesture could have very different connotations.
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Physical Context
- The physical context is the setting where the speech occurs.
- The physical context for the co-located audience is the setting or room where you speak.
- Physical Context for the Combined Co-Located with One or More Secondary Locations
- Physical Context when Speaking to Remote Locations by Video Conferencing Technology
- Identify the types of physical context you may encounter and plan your speech accordingly
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Intended Context of Reception
- Art's context of reception depends on a variety of circumstances, both on the part of the artist as well as the artistic community the artist is participating in.
- Art's context of reception depends on a variety of circumstances, both on the part of the artist as well as the artistic community and climate that the artist is participating in.
- Motivated purposes usually arise from the artwork's historical context, which consists of a multitude of different factors, including the social, political, economic, and cultural settings of the period; the artist's patrons; and the artist's intended audience.
- The painting reflects the context of the time: namely, a shift towards representing political current events in art.
- The work reflects the context of its time, in which art was driven nearly exclusively by religious institutions and used to illustrate and provide instruction about the principles of the religion.
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Rational Action in Specific Contexts
- In the context of the transformations, the original expression also acquires a special meaning which is distinguishable from its role as a general model.
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The Life Course
- The life course approach analyzes people's lives within structural, social, and cultural contexts.
- The life course approach, also known as the life course perspective, or life course theory, refers to an approach developed in the 1960s for analyzing people's lives within structural, social, and cultural contexts.
- The life course approach examines an individual's life history and sees for example how early events influence future decisions and events, giving particular attention to the connection between individuals and the historical and socioeconomic context in which they have lived.
- Explain the life course perspective as it relates to a person's development from infancy to old age, in terms of structural, social and cultural contexts