Sentence examples for rigid conceptions from inspiring English sources

I've had responses from students, friends and colleagues ranging from 'here, we think its a disease' (in a very helpful informative tone!) to 'so what, its 2014', Most of the stigma is bound up with rigid conceptions of gender roles, which is very gradually changing.

The recognition of the complexity of one's or a community's identity is an exodus in which one is liberated from rigid conceptions of identity.

We argue that this system of ethical review contains an extremely rigid conception of 'quality', and further, that a restrictive, positivistic ethical paradigm is, in our experience, dominant within it.

A rigid, or "non-fluid" conception of evidence would have renounced further attention to co-Q10 once we already had "evidence" showing it didn't work.

To his mind, this is what makes his solution closer in spirit to Giles of Rome than to either Godfrey or Henry, without committing him to a conception of the distinction as rigid as that of Giles.

Early in his book, Gleick explores one of the earliest conceptions of time travel, the Universe Rigid — a four-dimensional construct thought up by Wells.

"To even ask after the utility of philosophy shows the entrenchment of the technological understanding of being": A Rigid Designator posts a discussion of Heidegger's conception of philosophy.

Kant's conception of morality as a matter of rigid adherence to strict principles emerges as partly an intended remedy for his own hypochondria.

Yet his conception of grief was, if anything, more rigid than Kübler-Ross's: he believed that most people needed only four to six weeks, and eight to ten sessions with a psychiatrist, to get over a loss.

Their conceptions of things like gender, sexuality, race and religion are extremely rigid.

We interpret this to mean that students' conceptions of science shifted away from the idea that science is a rigid, step-by-step method (e.g., " the scientific method") to an understanding that it is a process that is responsive to experimental results and constantly evolving in the face of new data, new techniques, and new ideas.