They value loyalty to a group, sharing and solidarity among its members and conformity to its norms.
A thing's conformity to its eternal reason, its truth, is its having the being its exemplar specifies.
Assimilation (A) is a strong identification with the host culture and society coupled with a firm conformity to its norms, values, and codes of conduct, and a weak identification with ancestry.
"In a way our understanding was helped because Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns.
To the contrary, "the legitimacy of secular legislation" depends on "whether the State can advance some justification for its law beyond its conformity to religious doctrine".
Yet the significance in understanding the Global South lies not in its withering socio-political diversity but in its conformity to the capitalist uniformity.
The main rationale expressed by receptive respondents is that the legitimacy of a method depends on its capacity to adequately respond to a research question and not on its conformity to the experimental canon.
The poems in Frost's early books, especially North of Boston, differ radically from late 19th-century Romantic verse with its ever-benign view of nature, its didactic emphasis, and its slavish conformity to established verse forms and themes.
By adopting the organizational designs favoured by experts (such as professors of management, management consultants, and professional bodies), an institution signals its conformity to the prevailing norms, thereby gaining approval from influential external groups.
In what he described, in the preface to the second edition (1787) of the Critique of Pure Reason, as his "Copernican" revolution, he proposed that knowledge should not depend on the conformity of a judgment to an object in experience; rather, the existence of an object in experience should depend on its conformity to human knowledge.
The Napoleonic Code, therefore, was founded on the premise that, for the first time in history, a purely rational law should be created, free from all past prejudices and deriving its content from "sublimated common sense"; its moral justification was to be found not in ancient custom or monarchical paternalism but in its conformity to the dictates of reason.
