Sentence examples for enforcing conformity from inspiring English sources
Adorno and Horkheimer, by contrast, viewed pop culture as an instrument of economic and political control, enforcing conformity behind a permissive screen.
A visitor who recalls the Soviet knack for enforcing conformity might expect to find the university a bastion of pious propagandists.
This is not the intolerance of witchcraft trials or the inquisition, but in our smug complacency, we overlook today's manifestations of enforcing conformity and managing behaviour.
Moreover, the danger of states "enforcing conformity within the diverse communities it designates" (124) is high, and we should surely heed this warning.
By the end of the 16th century, the authority of the papacy had been broken in most of northern Europe, and each ruler tried to consolidate the unity of his realm by enforcing conformity either to Roman Catholicism or to the ruler's preferred version of Protestantism.
Sociologists describe them as serving as a sort of unofficial mechanism for enforcing conformity in postwar Japan, singling out Japanese who were seen as straying too far to the left, or other groups that anger them, such as embassies of countries with whom Japan has territorial disputes.
We are becoming a nation of enforced conformity.
His target was the use of language to subvert individualism and enforce conformity.
Rebels and cynics don't adapt as well to enforced conformity as obedient apple polishers.
Entire groups were uprooted, exiled, or deported by secular or religious authorities in an effort to enforce conformity.
