Sentences with phrase «into social conformity»

And lets get right to the point: regardless of whether divinity is real, people who embrace these kinds of behaviors are, in reality, using their god as a rhetorical / emotional weapon to bully others into social conformity.

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Superficially but with widespread potency, one's degree of culture is judged by his manners and conformity to correct social usage, good taste in dress and appearance, cleanliness and freedom from offensive odors or habits, ability to converse agreeably and to fit smoothly into any social situation.

The real wedge, he argues, was the spirit of Reform — the spirit that claimed (these are my words, not Taylor's) that all social institutions should be subject to revisions that would bring them into conformity to the consciences of the people who had to live within them.

Consequently, throughout their history in America Blacks have always found themselves coerced into conformity to the normative definition of human experience imposed on them by the white majority social group.

Using the Utopian rhetoric typical of twentieth - century avant - gardes, he wrote of a desire to escape the bounds of a social system that rewards conformity and limits experience, and argued, in stridently Marxist terms, that this system forces artists into producing bourgeois objects for an art market that requires the stability of the assembly line.