Sentence examples for shaping values from inspiring English sources

The mutifyas may not have political or legal power but they exert a powerful, subtle influence on society by shaping values, not only in their work at the fatwa centre but also in mosques in the capital, where they lecture and hold all-female study circles.

Several community-based pregnancy prevention programs, such as the Wise Guys Male Responsibility Curriculum, a weekly classroom program that has been used in 350 communities, successfully target teenage boys in educating and shaping values about sexual responsibility and behavior.

Factors highly likely to be influential in shaping values and perceptions include ethnicity, nationality, culture, education, personality, and experience [ 2].

Here, we review recent studies showing how altering brain chemistry can alter moral judgment and behavior, focusing in particular on the neuromodulator serotonin and its role in shaping values related to harm and fairness.

Assessment can be formative (guiding future learning, providing reassurance, promoting reflection shaping values) or summative (making an overall judgment about competence, fitness to practice, or qualification for advancement to higher levels of responsibility) [ 1].

In an East Asian context, it seems strange to promote a communitarian philosophy that was shaped by concerns about individualistic excesses in Western countries when the communitarian Confucian tradition continues to shape values and inform 'habits of the heart'.

They ask us to shape values at home and to pass on order and discipline to our children.

The significance of culturally shaped values has been described in studies between African American and white patients, Chinese and non-Chinese seniors as well as between other Asian subgroups.

Religious values do indeed still play a significant part in shaping social values, perhaps increasingly so".

Does the media reflect the values at work in our society or does the media contribute to shaping those values?

Tighter restrictions on advertising – especially to children - would be a good start in shaping the values for the future.