Sentence examples for cultural conceptions from inspiring English sources

So while it is too early to judge the extent immune concepts have influenced cultural conceptions of the individual in the social sciences and self-identification in Western cultures more broadly, clearly a larger role is emerging.

Mesopotamian religious and cultural conceptions are reflected in biblical cosmogony, primeval history (including the Flood story in Genesis 6 9 8 22), and law collections.

What are older Korean immigrants' cultural conceptions of home arrangements and environments?

Cultural conceptions about gender figure in "the very apparatus of production whereby sexes themselves are established" (Butler 1999, 11).

In an effort to overcome this opposition, a model was proposed seeking to articulate the individual and cultural conceptions of the human values through a societal approach.

Insofar as our cultural conceptions affect our understandings of sex, feminists must be much more careful about sex classifications and rethink what sex amounts to (Stone 2007, chapter 1).

Once upon a time, our cultural conception of the housewife was one of conformity, banality and stifling domesticity (the dread June Cleaver syndrome).

Such a woman is never far from the necessity to cook or abstain from food, to perform an unselfish act, to exercise tolerance and self-sacrifice in relationships that define the core of our cultural conception of love.

Women who put their careers on hold, says one of the authors, UC Berkeley's Marc Goulden, must battle "the cultural conception that the faster you are the better you are, particularly in the sciences.

Tracing the historical and cultural masculinization of thought and the corresponding reconception of nature as dead and mechanical rather than organic and alive, Bordo demonstrates how what was lost was the previous cultural conception of a "female cosmos and 'feminine' orientation towards the world" (1987, 100).

Marriage is central to concepts of good citizenship, and so exclusion from it displaces gays and lesbians from full and equal citizenship: "being fit for marriage is intimately bound up with our cultural conception of what it means to be a citizen … because marriage is culturally conceived as playing a uniquely foundational role in sustaining civil society" (Calhoun 2000, 108).