Sentence examples for societal convention from inspiring English sources

As passionate in rebellion as it was futile in reform, Werther reflected its generation's opposition to societal convention and at the same time their inability to effect change.

But it may be one thing to believe that one has broken a societal convention and quite another to believe that one has broken a moral rule.

For instance, one might urge, the conventions of my society make it the case that I own my house, but this fact is then true simpliciter, without relativization to a particular societal convention.

Studies suggest that laypeople prefer to explain generics in terms of inherent features (e.g. pink is delicate and girls are hardwired to be attracted to it) rather than external features (e.g. it is merely a societal convention for girls to wear pink; Cimpian & Salomon, 2014).

Historians have noted that those accused of witchcraft were predominantly women, especially women who didn't adhere to societal convention.

Its exact dimensions, divisions, and duration can be measured and described in any number of ways: its turning, tabulated with reference to the sun, the moon, the stars, as well as civil and societal convention.

Or are societal conventions and outfit etiquette supposed to be respected on this day as well?

The play shows the protagonists' emancipation from the Prussian code of honour and from societal conventions of marriage.

Ms. Lee's nocturnal revels are staged assaults against societal conventions and, in her case, a rigid upbringing.

And according to the psychologists Elliot Turiel and Judith Smetana, preschoolers have an inkling of the difference between societal conventions and moral principles.

I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times".