Search results for "Mores" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • it expressed simply in social customs and mores; rather, it was an over-arching ... simply social expressions of traditional mores. Even when traditional values ...
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  • pulpit teachings and contemporary religious mores as being authorized by "an ... that she fell victim to contemporary mores surrounding the role of women ...
    18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
  • charted the evolution of human customs and mores, developing concepts as diffusion ... published in 1906). Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals ...
    16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
  • was even more unconventional, flouting social mores, and using abrasive repartee to challenge the self-importance of other philosophers. He lived ...
    9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
  • or the individual should teach sexual mores. Sexual education may thus ... the state or the family should teach sexual mores. They believe that sexual ...
    26 KB (3,715 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
  • astute critiques of political and historical mores. Moreover, Lucan was admired for his ability to retain the style of the ancient epic while avoiding ...
    9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
  • to her status as a Baroness. (Ironically, the mores of this period allowed women of higher classes to live physically separated from their husbands ...
    8 KB (1,162 words) - 16:34, 15 August 2021
  • the epidemic, including a decline in social mores, with people acting less ... the complete disappearance of social mores during the time of the plague ...
    19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
  • a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. Lucilius experimented with other meters before settling on dactylic ...
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  • to this event. During Kronia, social mores were temporarily dissolved. For example, slaves were emancipated from their duties, and permitted ...
    12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
  • Scotland, a lesson in what happens when social mores are betrayed. ==Background== In 1688 William, glad to enlist British help in his wars with ...
    14 KB (2,279 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
  • in its own national laws, customs, mores, government and arts. The "Mighty Handful," more than any other group of composers in Russia ...
    14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
  • the growth of urbanization, changes in social mores, and the emergence of a modern commercial culture. Like the expatriates Henry James, T. S. Eliot ...
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  • 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 ...
    14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the world view, norms, and mores children absorb at a young age from their parents and the surrounding environment. As the conscience, it ...
    17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
  • modern life, especially on changing sexual mores and the loss of religious ... caused by his frequent focus on sexual mores and the contrast between ...
    27 KB (4,092 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
  • of the Moralia (loosely translated as Customs and Mores), an eclectic collection of seventy-eight essays and transcribed speeches. It includes On ...
    17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
  • for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores from small town provincialism to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” ...
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