Sentence examples for encouraging conformity from inspiring English sources

Therefore the manner in which nurses are trained is rigid, controlling and encouraging conformity, passivity, dependency and subordination.

A community can liberate or encourage conformity; it can include or keep people out.

She said this in English, expressing an idea considered rebellious in a society that prizes and encourages conformity.

On the other, they created communities which encouraged conformity because they knew it would help to increase productivity.

Sexual harassment is rife at university, the NUS says, and the culture at universities often encourages conformity.

For their part, teenage girls are quick to point out that their world encourages conformity -- and conformity too often means looking and dressing in a certain way.

The reigning look for women is as punitive and perverse as the Victorian corset, and encourages conformity in place of the raucous individuality that marks true style.

In 17 full-length plays and more than 30 one-acts, Mr. Wilson has created a luminous portrait of Americans asserting their individuality in a country that encourages conformity.

Peer review is the way it is applied now encourages conformity and mediocrity and favors people who know how to network and play the petty games of academia, not those who have brilliant ideas.

Ionannidis and Nicholson argue that the peer-review process, in which groups called study sections review and rank research applications submitted by their colleagues, is inherently flawed and encourages "conformity, if not mediocrity". The result?

The hairstylist John Barrett -- who once tried to budge Ivana Trump out of her golden beehive, only to be told, somewhat regally, "It's what people expect of me" -- suggests that we live in "a how-to age," one that essentially encourages conformity.