"We argue that there [are] average sex differences" in the importance of communal goals "but that it's really the communal goals that matter" in whether one chooses science, Diekman says.
It's the culmination of work from a team of Minneapolis social practice artists who specialize in community engagement, and the idea is to start calling attention to the importance of communal water systems.
In a survey of undergraduates, they found that women, on average, gave higher ratings to the importance of communal goals than men did, and that men gave higher ratings to agentic goals than women did.
Having a roommate remains a rite of passage for the vast majority of freshmen and, now more than ever, college administrators emphasize the importance of communal living for students.
The administered questionnaire was populated with questions seeking data on livestock herd size, dynamics of livestock production and their management, individual views on significance of migration, and benefits of sedentarization, as well as views on land subdivision and importance of communal land.
Her father, who lead a community radio station in Cape Town and later on in other parts of Africa, demonstrated the importance of communal expression early on.
The Italian forestry law of 1923 and the mountain and regional development acts of 1952 and 1971 explicitly acknowledged the importance of communal forestry.
Clearly what — in retrospect, what is apparent, I think, in all of these situations, is Dante's insistence on the power, on the importance of a communal destiny, a communal fate.
communal living; communalism". .
Taylor (1991) in discussing the ethics of authenticity provides a good summary of the importance of this communal horizon of significance for the construction of a 'thick' self and therefore a 'thick' community: "The agent seeking significance in life, trying to define him- or herself meaningfully, has to exist in a horizon of important questions [shared concerns].
