And the way that mere habits can come to masquerade as unbreachable social certainties.
From a small incident here a hit-and-run accident the film spirals out until it starts to call into question a whole range of apparent social certainties.
Neame believes audiences "would have become bored if we had more stories of people stealing snuff boxes and stuff", a past storyline, and is keen to explore the breakdown in the social certainties brought on by the war.
Just as recession-weary Britons have flocked to Downton Abbey, perhaps seeking escape into a past of social certainties and national might, so Americans have reached back in time to one of the country's literary masterpieces: The Great Gatsby.
When it comes to the social sciences, certainty may not be the most useful tool.
Disasters can increase social confidence and certainty.
That will give the social housing sector certainty, he says.
Yet the relative roles of objectivity, certainty, social embeddedness, gender bias, and other factors in the process of science, and the best way to teach its apparently inescapably paradoxical character, remain complex, controversial, and unresolved (e.g., Weinberg 2001; McComas 2002; Blystone and Blodgett 2006; Haack 2007; Lombrozo et al. 2008; Yacoubian and BouJaoude 2010).
Here's the back story: in the mid-1960s, the social and artistic certainties which had served to hold together "modern jazz" as an idea began to fragment, for a number of reasons.
When combined with "uptalk," these phrases are effectively a social taboo against expressing certainty, commitment or confidence in anything we say.
