Sentences with phrase «social osmosis»

Everyone downplays their chances at this stage - the candidates, the campaign team and eventually, through a sort of social osmosis, the media.

The unlettered Catholic who came to the United States in the last century fashioned a way of life within the host Protestant culture that was tight, intellectually narrow, and wrapped in an invisible and largely impermeable membrane that resisted social osmosis with the rest of the country.

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So far, I have proposed that many activist evangelicals have really come to hold their social views on the basis of cultural osmosis or legitimate political argumentation.