Search results for "Mores" - New World Encyclopedia

it expressed simply in social customs and mores; rather, it was an over-arching ... simply social expressions of traditional mores. Even when traditional values ...

pulpit teachings and contemporary religious mores as being authorized by "an ... that she fell victim to contemporary mores surrounding the role of women ...

charted the evolution of human customs and mores, developing concepts as diffusion ... published in 1906). Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals ...

was even more unconventional, flouting social mores, and using abrasive repartee to challenge the self-importance of other philosophers. He lived ...

or the individual should teach sexual mores. Sexual education may thus ... the state or the family should teach sexual mores. They believe that sexual ...

astute critiques of political and historical mores. Moreover, Lucan was admired for his ability to retain the style of the ancient epic while avoiding ...

to her status as a Baroness. (Ironically, the mores of this period allowed women of higher classes to live physically separated from their husbands ...

the epidemic, including a decline in social mores, with people acting less ... the complete disappearance of social mores during the time of the plague ...

a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. Lucilius experimented with other meters before settling on dactylic ...

to this event. During Kronia, social mores were temporarily dissolved. For example, slaves were emancipated from their duties, and permitted ...

Scotland, a lesson in what happens when social mores are betrayed. ==Background== In 1688 William, glad to enlist British help in his wars with ...

in its own national laws, customs, mores, government and arts. The "Mighty Handful," more than any other group of composers in Russia ...

the growth of urbanization, changes in social mores, and the emergence of a modern commercial culture. Like the expatriates Henry James, T. S. Eliot ...

on the state of English politics and mores, and he does so in prose that is some of the liveliest of his times. Defoe has never fallen out of ...

time, but its allegory of courtly manners and mores is unmistakable to one familiar with the politics of Skelton's time. In the poem, the narrator ...

fifties and contributed to the erosion of sexual mores in the decades that followed, the music exerted far-reaching influence on the integration of African ...

of the world view, norms, and mores children absorb at a young age from their parents and the surrounding environment. As the conscience, it ...

modern life, especially on changing sexual mores and the loss of religious ... caused by his frequent focus on sexual mores and the contrast between ...

of the Moralia (loosely translated as Customs and Mores), an eclectic collection of seventy-eight essays and transcribed speeches. It includes On ...

for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores from small town provincialism to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” ...

answered with biting satire that either spoofed the mores of society as in The Rape of the Lock or mocked his literary rivals as in The Dunciad and many ...

Farm (communism); one commenting on modern social mores is Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Hans Christian Andersen's satirization ...

Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" Bierce's twelve-volume Collected Works were published in 1909, the seventh ...

action against not only the prevailing social mores, but against the natural order at work in the novel, dooms her in the end. When she throws herself ...

and ill (youth rebellion and the loosening of sexual mores). As the leading voice of New England Transcendentalism, Emerson was central to an ...

other people in the clan, as well as other social mores. Hence, when the tribe gathers to worship the emblem representing its chosen totem, it is actually ...

outright racism bred close-minded laws and social mores against miscegenation. The taboo against interracial marriage has been largely lifted worldwide ...

like the Satavahana kings. Dr. Mores has identified various cabinet and other positions in the kingdom from inscriptions. The prime minister ...

believed, by "the gradual softening of social mores" in the middle classes. Their taste for "material pleasures" was spreading to ...

to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the U.S. (Beyond the Black Stump) and overt antipathy towards the post-World War II socialist ...

attempt by the Puritans to dictate the values and mores of society ultimately ended in a spectacular failure. After Charles II was crowned, the ...

having them chosen for them. Although to modern mores this social arrangement would be considered paternalistic and condescending at best, Davis's ...

to be a sociological novel and commentary on social mores of the time; which was his last book. ===The Leatherstocking tales=== The five Leatherstocking ...

English forms. In the antebellum South, with social mores that rivaled those of England, mourning was just as strictly observed. The sequence in the ...

made in a public manner (convicium contra bonos mores). In this case the essence of the offense lay in the unwarrantable public proclamation. In such ...

shift easily, and prevailing cultural mores are determined and protected by the next clearest division between groups—geography. ...

ideology and scholarship the issue of sexual mores was also a recurrent theme of the media coverage of the controversy. (Orans 1996) ...

The Victorian period saw a tightening of sexual mores. The First World War began an upsurge in sexual freedom and indulgence, even as large portions ...

their social relationships. Their sexual mores were very liberal, and they ... dressed modestly, had conservative sexual mores, and kept a kosher diet. ...

relate to individual violations of mores or to the adjustment of proprietary relationships. In a social context, a convention may retain the ...

that the logical application of language and social mores would provide this justification, i.e. voting patterns etc, the deep ecologist would note that ...

the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, experimentation with psychedelic drugs ...

Flanders is more economic than moral. While the mores of the early eighteenth century wouldn't permit Moll to be an actual heroine, Defoe hardly ...

that were considered destabilizing to the mores of medieval society. For instance, Cathars rejected the giving of oaths as wrongful; an oath ...

modern literature, concerned with the thoughts and mores of not just great men, but the common man as well. As with Shakespeare's plays for the ...

to place, in accordance with the cultural norms and mores. ==Theories of crime== There are many theories, including strain theory developed by ...

he hoped that a solution would be found if social mores changed in a way that encouraged people to see the importance of breeding. ...

to their social status and contemporary mores. Marx's children with wife Jenny were: Jenny Caroline (m. Longuet; 1844–1883); Jenny Laura ...

by which a society imparts its body of values and mores in the pursuance and attainment of the society’s collective vision, aspirations, and goals. ...

though it still governs a large portion of Qatari mores and rituals. The Basic Law of Qatar, 1970, institutionalized customs rooted in Qatar ...

births rose three-fold after WWII, as sexual mores changed. Simultaneously, the scientific community began to stress the dominance of nurture over genetics ...

they are typically equally influenced by the social mores and material affluence of Western culture. The popularity of meditation in the mainstream West ...

warfare, transgression of established mores, the Aum sound, the Supreme Self. In the ]]Rig Veda\\ the term śiva is used to refer to Indra. (2.20.3, ...

#039;s deeply ingrained cultural and religious mores. Gay sex is punishable by imprisonment in the south and possibly death in the Muslim north. ...

romance of her life. He wanted her to ignore social mores and live with him without marriage, but she wanted to marry and have children. After a year ...

Lawrence wished to free himself from the sexual mores of the past so that he could examine the role of sexuality in spiritual and religious experience ...

The enforcement by public authorities of strict Catholic social mores was a stated intent of the regime, mainly by using a law (the Ley de Vagos ...

food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores. One of the first U.S. cities to issue anti-discrimination ordinances on the basis of sexual ...

upheaval in southern society and mores, and by stressing future over past loyalty, he was willing to allow recanting Rebels to dominate the new ...

values and contributed to loosening sexual mores. In the twenty-first century the dissemination of emotionally charged music through new electronic ...

Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy. ...

study of the tribe, recording information on social mores, language, economy, warfare methods, and burial practices. These Spanish expeditions had been ...

importation or continuation of cultural mores or elements from former colonial powers may be regarded as a form of Neocolonialism. ...

is, since she did not rebel against the social mores of her society as did Mary Wollstonecraft—she did not attract the attention of early feminist ...

he would break with many of its values and social mores, both in his writing and in his personal life. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929 ...

chooses to honor human moral codes and social mores. Nietzsche envisioned the perfect man as being beyond moral codes; Siegel and Shuster envisioned ...

white Southerners who have been influenced by the mores of their community. To maintain their status, they have to be friendly with the local police ...

culture had been constructed around a set of mores and values which places white women at its center and in which the purity of their conduct and their ...