Sentences with phrase «of social conformity»

By extension, S allele carriers may be more likely to demonstrate negative cognitive biases, such as engage in narrow thinking and cognitive focus, which facilitate maintenance to collectivistic cultural norms of social conformity and interdependence, whereas L allele carriers may exhibit positive cognitive biases, such as open, creative thinking and greater willingness to take risks, which promote individualistic cultural norms of self - expression and autonomy (Isen et al. 1987; Fredrickson 2001).

A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's fiction - feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.

After an entire article of pin - the - tail on the semantic donkey based on the ficalness of word gender (different from actual gender, as I have never yet met a boat that was truely a «she»), the potentiality of a close friendship being more (when one of them went on to have several wives and children, one relationship so driven by lust for a woman that he took her from another man and tried to have her husband killed — so clearly not just marriages of social conformity), and a false analgy to slavery's restrictions in the Bible.

Her dearest wish during adolescence was to «be like everybody else,» to be allowed to practice the outward and visible signs of social conformity.

It is probable that a majority of all alcoholics are of the «hidden» variety — individuals who are having serious problems with alcohol but whose behavior is still enough within the bounds of social conformity to allow their alcoholism to be kept secret within the family.

Not exact matches

1) conformity to our own desires with no consideration for the well - being of others or even our own long term well - being and 2) conformity to the common pathologies of our social milieu.

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.

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

The early term of meaning was centered around «social conformity» its examples of meaning laid in the intolerence of difference for the social well being of a group.

They signalize conformity to social demands — not, however, for the sake of common values, but in order that one may be left free to pursue his own ways.

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

Such models do not create genuine pluralism; rather they perpetuate unity in conformity, meaning that the experiences of ethnic minority social groups are unacceptable when they fail to coincide with the normative criteria of human experience prescribed by the white majority social group.

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.

This avoidance is important to Black Americans and to other oppressed ethnic minority social groups, because the background of social pluralism in America has been the prevailing notion that «the melting pot» and «Anglo - Saxon conformity» constitute the two accepted models of assimilation and acculturation.

In the 1950s, social critics were already bemoaning a stultifying spirit of 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.

«We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability.»

It must then pass on to Christian citizens, acting in their civic capacity, the task of re-shaping the existing order in closer conformity to the principles... It is sometimes supposed that what the Church has to do is to sketch a perfect social order and urge men to establish it.

In contrast with these, advertising has in its dynamics no motivation to seek the improvement of the individual or to impart qualities of social usefulness, unless conformity to material values may be so characterized....

If the authentic self is defined largely through its autonomy from the collective standards of social propriety and aesthetic judgment, then conformity to collective expectations is a sign of the self's distortion and even corruption.

Part of the attack on suburban conformity had included precisely the criticism that churchgoing was but a social ritual, not a sign of deep commitment.

The adulteration of the church by power, e.g., its social conformity in the Middle Ages, corresponds precisely to the action described here, namely, that of Ahaz.

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

The copying behaviour of both the new, naïve infants and the migrating males reveals the potency and importance of social learning in these wild primates, extending even to the conformity we know so well in humans.»

Our current research topics include empathy, altruistic behavior, first impression, fairness, social comparison, theory of mind, and social conformity.

The horrors of the Holocaust led researchers to study the effects of social influence, conformity, and obedience.

The purpose of Yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is less concerned with the details of a mysterious alien force that wants to colonize our planet than the drive toward social conformity it represents.

With his groundbreaking examinations of queer identity and his fondness for the heyday of classic melodrama, Todd Haynes seemed almost too perfect a choice to film an adaptation of «The Price of Salt,» Patricia Highsmith's ahead - of - its - time 1952 novel about two women who boldly defied the stifling social conformity of the era.

Here is a bundle with my Conformity resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformit...

There is also a revision activity for Conformity topic and a Social Influence Unit Overview for students which on the cover has the specification points and continues with a compilation of all past exam questions relating to the topic with month / year references.

Here is a bundle with my Obedience resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformity...

Here is a bundle with my Resistance to Social Influence resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformity, obedience etc because I understand some people may only want a certain part of a unit.

Here is a bundle with my Working Memory Model resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformity, obedience etc because I understand some people may only want a certain part of a unit.

Here is a bundle with my Obedience resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformity, obedience etc because I understand some people may only want a certain part of a unit.

Here is a bundle with my Social Change resources from the Social Influence part of Psychology, I am bundling some of the topic resources e.g conformity, obedience etc because I understand some people may only want a certain part of a unit.

A useful table that summarises key differences between obedience and conformity before then giving more detailed explanations of these integral behaviours in social psychology.

We further found that there are characteristic clusters of value choice in the two social classes: working - class parental values center on conformity to external prescriptions, middle - class parental values on self - direction.

Brought up to love conformity and honor authority, entire social classes reject the notion of transformative living or revolutionary thought.

Christian Vincent's dream - like paintings explore the dynamics of conformity and desire in social situations within the framework of a post-industrial world.

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.

The ritual of the «job interview» can be considered as a courtship that's conditioned by protocols that ask for a quite particular display: with social relations as material, a dance of conformity, the attempted imagining and echoing of expectations.

But the exceptional creative ferment of the 1960s was partly fueled by an aesthetic sense of dull conformity, coupled with the social and political constraint of the era.

Corollaries of this fallacy include peer review, publication in professional journals, consensus, and conformity to social mores, all tenets of Post Modern Science, all attributable to Karl Popper, and widely practiced among AGW sources and their academies, including especially the issue reverberating on this thread: the unsound conjecture of ocean acidification from anthropogenic CO2.

Perlman further contends that the hierarchical nature of law practice reinforces conformity, since those with low social status are more likely to comply with a directive from a higher authority.

This traditional social construction of disability places the emphasis on the individual's lack of conformity with the non-disabled norm.

This sort of broad policy could only work where there is a very broad consensus among those sought to be governed that it's right to go along with it — and that's exactly what you don't have here — or, alas, where there's a majority that wishes to enforce conformity on the minority and is willing to use social and other pressures to bring that about.

For instance, social relationships may directly encourage or indirectly model healthy behaviors; thus, being part of a social network is typically associated with conformity to social norms relevant to health and self - care.

Supporting the notion of cultural traits as evolutionary adaptations, recent cross-national evidence shows that cultural values of individualism and collectivism serve an adaptive, «anti-pathogen» function, protecting vulnerable geographical regions from increased spread of disease - causing pathogens via the promotion of collectivistic social norms, such as conformity and parochialism (Fincher et al. 2008).