Sentence examples for social artifacts from inspiring English sources

Comment on the peculiarities of the present interests him more than "social artifacts".

Architectural photographers like Iwan Baan stress buildings as social artifacts, showing people unposed, using them.

"Rugova tried to create a kind of Lego Kosovo out of social artifacts," said Kelmendi, the linguist and editor.

A less confident director than Mr. Grindley might have felt a need to postmodernize "Journey's End": to present its characters as social artifacts amid a severely stylized production.

As filmmakers and scholars look more closely at those seemingly exploitative films, however, they have shifted their focus from the psyche to the era's history, arguing that schlocky B-movies, in particular, deserve study as important social artifacts or as a way people process the terrors of real life.

In the last years there has been a growing interest in using social media in every area of higher education (from political and social sciences towards engineering or medicine disciplines), with tools and technologies such as blogs and microblogs, folksonomies, RSS feeds, wikis, media-sharing applications, networking sites or other social artifacts.

In this seminar, I will explore the nature of the problem, and discuss very preliminary thinking on pathways to address the increasingly urgent need to document and preserve these often-critical social and societal artifacts.

Since Wikipedia is a continuously changing, social artifact there will always be exceptions to the socially defined rules that have emerged to govern its content, but overall, the basic structures remain remarkably stable.

Whatever the current controversy, "Poetry of the Taliban" serves as a martial and social artifact from a broken land.

A design science of sustainable enterprise seeks to marry scientific and practitioner knowledge to guide the creation of enterprises (a meso-scale social artifact) that will contribute to a future consistent with the vision of sustainable development.

What About Murder?" (The title refers to the two caveats or complaints most often directed against his kind of sociology's equable "relativism": how can you study music as a mere social artifact — what about Mozart? How can you consider criminal justice a mutable convention — what about Murder?) The book is both a jocular personal testament of faith and a window into Becker's beliefs.