Sentences with phrase «standard societal expectations»

During a 6 - month stay on the island of Aruba in 2006, Tom says the people there helped him learn that being successful in life was about more than just accomplishing the standard societal expectations (go to school, get a job, buy a house, etc.).

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I also think we could do a lot better at figuring that out if we could have real discussions about the issue, including distinguishing what is actually «the standard» and what are related, but independent concepts (eg, curriculum, student / teacher paradigms) and more substantive questions like developmental appropriateness, aligning expectations to societal needs — and justifying those needs and that alignment — etc, etc....

Complicating matters is the fact that different generations appear to have different notions of privacy and that may eventually play into what constitutes a «reasonable expectation of privacy» since societal values form a foundation for an «objective» standard.