Jones's portrait of the claustrophobia and conformity of 1950s England is sharp and assured, a convincing illustration of the dangerous consequences of a muzzled society.
She writes, "The elitism and conformity of their cloistered world was incompatible with the values I had grown up with, which prized diversity, social mobility, and democracy".
The poles collapsed into each other in acts of violence against the authority of regulation and conformity, of differentiation by numbers.
In contrast to the stuffiness and conformity of many academic settings, gender studies students and scholars are tolerant, friendly, and enlightened in their attitudes to race, sexual orientation and transsexuality.
Much postwar pessimism had to do with the superficiality of mass culture in an age of affluence, and with the fear that the banality and conformity of consumer society had reduced people to robots.
and Elgar's marches; of John Bull; of Poona and the Somme; of the old flog-and-fag public-school system; of Newbolt, Kipling and Rupert Brooke; of clubs, codes and conformity; of an unchangeable status quo". But you get the picture.
And while it may seem to convey a message about the tedium and conformity of industrial labour, he tells Guardian Australia he is "not a political artist, although people are at liberty to interpret my work from a political standpoint … I'm interested in the universal circumstances of human life".
Setting it in the early 1960s, on the cusp between the repression and conformity of the cold war and McCarthy-era 1950s and the yet-to-unfold social and cultural upheavals of the 60s, allows Weiner an arc of character growth that is staggering in its possibilities.
In another caustic assessment of the nightclub fire, the newspaper O Globo said in an editorial on Tuesday that an array of factors, involving "administrative ineptitude, corruption, omission of public authorities and conformity of the common citizen," contributes to a loss of life in Brazil that is at once alarming and banal.
Loyalty to Nazism also played a role, as did other more nebulous factors such as the supposed innate obedience and conformity of the German people, and the Allied doctrine of unconditional surrender, which appeared to rob moderate Germans of a viable alternative to continued defiance.
Despite their compelling content, the interactive textbooks seen so far perpetuate the "linearity and conformity" of traditional learning, where everything is geared from kindergarten to high-school to preparing for college entrance; whigh-school toare expreparing the cost oforreativity.
