Sentence examples for societal assumptions from inspiring English sources

These interactions are the visible manifestation of societal assumptions about women's inferiority in intellectual and professional situations.

I also wanted to write about a poor white person who, contrary to societal assumptions, is a kind and empathetic person.

"How does one find forms capable of challenging the orthodoxies of 20th century art, as Alexandra Harris does in Romantic Moderns, or interrogate basic societal assumptions, as Kathryn Schulz does in Being Wrong.

It was the late 1960's, and a lot of old societal assumptions were being rethought, but not as yet the ones that decreed that the girls at my Long Island high school all needed to learn how to make cakes, not repair lamps.

All these things are societal assumptions, and how far can you go with that?" In revising "Wanderlust" he and Mr. Marino excised a subplot in which Mr. Rudd's character, a suddenly unemployed corporate type, journeys to his parents' condominium in Boca Raton, Fla., and focused on the dilemma of both husband and wife, who each fall in and out of love with the hippies that embraces them.

Such societal assumptions can perpetuate stereotype threats (Elliott 2015) and lead students to feel incompetent or unwelcome in science, which can prevent them from developing feelings of ownership, commitment, and identification in these fields (Walton and Cohen 2007).

"We're trying to create a societal assumption that 12th-graders will go on to college".

She coined the term feminine mystique to describe the societal assumption that women could find fulfillment through housework, marriage, sexual passivity, and child rearing alone.

"For most 10th-graders there's a societal assumption that you'll go on to 11th grade, and for most 11th-graders there's an assumption you'll go on to 12th grade," said Steven L. Johnson, Sinclair's president.

That's an ugly statistic, and one that — with 31 percent of poor households headed by single women — reflects the same political and societal assumption about whose job it is to provide "care" for children in a different way.

All breadwinner mothers — all working parents — would benefit from ending our societal assumption that children have a parent available at home, but to have a single conversation about whether "women working for pay makes it harder for parents to raise children" assumes choices that many women don't have.