Its members were bound by the common ideals of Ceylonese nationalism, parliamentary democracy, and gradual economic progress through free enterprise.
She would also, I imagine, examine the fate of the refugees, the disintegration of the EU as a common ideal, the rise of anti-politics and the uncertainties across Europe and in post-Brexit UK.
That belief — Klinenberg calls it "the cult of the individual" — may be the closest thing American culture has to a common ideal, and it's the premise on which a lot of single people base their lives.
This ideal type expresses major concerns about weight and is affected by the thin body ideal, a common ideal of beauty for women in Western societies.
When we act together as citizens through the state, we act on the basis of shared reasons, a common ideal of justice.
Of course the thing can only be done by competence all round and by that spirit of cooperation right through the working staff which only a common ideal can inspire.
"They have the Platonic concept of a mutually shared common ideal.
Students, parents and community members are shareholders of something, too -- a common ideal -- and have the right to look for a return that goes beyond high stakes standardized tests or a high school diploma.
In books like "High School Achievement" and "Public and Private High Schools," Coleman particularly singled out Catholic schools for their core curriculum that embodied the "common school ideal" and for the "social capital" they built by involving parents and parishioners.
It is also possible that high SES teenagers apply the common "beauty ideal" of being slim to themselves, whereas low SES teenagers might perceive themselves as being outside the world of the well-established and "beautiful" in any case, so that the idealistic beauty image represents no role model for them.
