Sentence examples for social forms from inspiring English sources

The Georgetown women kept up the social forms, but without the substance of power.

These relations are partly direct and partly mediated by social forms.

The mainstream's intellectual timidity constrained its critique of old social forms and beliefs.

The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool.

One feels it acutely in workplaces, in the social forms by which people are slotted and certified in their careers.

Love may or may not be a universal emotion, but clearly the social forms it takes are infinitely malleable.

Making such claims for the social forms of the coffeehouse, however, is not the same thing as making them for coffee itself.

It seems certain that religions, like other social forms, evolve: that is to say they arise from modifications of earlier forms.

Or were Blairism and Cool Britannia just the cosmetic face of a country languishing under rigid social forms and a clunky infrastructure?

In deciding how to organize a star mission, Dr. Moore looks to the most "familiar, ubiquitous, well-ordered and well-understood" of social forms, the human family.

When she came to edit the Virago Book of Fairy Tales she had become suspicious of the popular culture and the social forms that underlay the old stories.