Sentence examples for prevailing social from inspiring English sources

Both white and older black Americans viewed it as a threat to the prevailing social order.

She is prepared to commit a crime against the prevailing social order to fulfill a moral obligation.

The pitch of a man's voice also changes with stress and in response to the prevailing social hierarchy.

Practically overnight, the prevailing social fabric is utterly rearranged, and Jonze paints this shift as astonishingly casual.

Something very important changed in Western behavior and attitudes, and it stood much prevailing social theory on its head.

The young men also mistrusted the propensity of their radical white, Indian, and mixed-race comrades to monopolize discussions and thus replicate the prevailing social order.

These public declarations of the prevailing social norms likely play a central role in spurring the widespread cooperation in Black Rock City.

Lives were ruined, lives were lost and the Isle of Man's reputation was in tatters, as a result of the prevailing social and political attitudes of that day".

The earlier era was defined by a rejection of prevailing social norms, from segregation to sexual modesty to name a few.

He is a casteless outsider who feels inwardly unrestrained by prevailing social codes and mores, and he conforms outwardly to them only when it serves his own ends.

The reform processes and prevailing social-economic contexts would most likely explain the inequity which was observed in 2004 in this study.