Sentence examples for widespread conformity from inspiring English sources

The critique of the growing conformity of life got more persistent during the 1950s, and a number of social scientists in widely read books criticized what they saw as widespread conformity and inauthenticity.

State espousal of Zhu Xi thought and state repression of noted early Ming litterateurs, such as the poet Gao Qi and the thinker Fang Xiaoru, made for widespread philosophical conformity during the 15th century.

The popular art forms Sontag had in mind were science-fiction and horror movies, which gave monstrous shape to widespread fears of nuclear annihilation, environmental catastrophe and soul-killing conformity.

Recently, Whiten and van Schaik (2007) have made the claim that although conformity in the sense of "following the majority" may be widespread taxonomically, chimpanzees and humans are unique in that they converge on the behavioral variant that is most common in the group, even if they have alternative behaviors in their individual repertoires that accomplish the same goal just as efficiently.

These two points of view i.e., that power comes from conformity to class or freedom from class may be illustrated by the widespread category of taboo.

But first he gives us some words to live by: The widespread use of the market reduces the strain on the social fabric by rendering conformity unnecesssary with respect to any activities it encompasses.Mr Friedman tends to view representative government as a rather poor means of getting things done.

Mills believed that such conformity was an aspect of what he called "mass society" -- a condition of widespread political apathy that allowed business and political leaders to pursue the arms race and the potential for a nuclear war without much opposition.

Conformity is everything.

Its target is dull conformity.

"It was conformity"..

His brand of conformity?