traditional norm
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftraditionalandnorm
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traditional
adjective
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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norm
noun[C usually plural]
uk/nɔːm/us/nɔːrm/
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandnormfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This reveals that the key proposition is that thetraditionalnormof filial obligation weakened.
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As a first sample we have a very clear trend in the reorganization of grammatical agreement that seems to be prevailing against thetraditionalnorm: proximity agreement versus subject-verb agreement.
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In this continuity, there are a number of differences to thetraditionalnorm.
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Disregarding her wishes the modern judiciary sees a runaway woman as transgressing traditional norms and morally reprehensible.
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It is harder for children to have their mothers gone than fathers because it goes against thetraditionalnormthat the father is supposed to leave in order to provide.
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Others use fictional characters and situations to question traditional norms, testing, trying, and occasionally reinforcing (whether intentionally or otherwise) notions of race and culture.
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But they gave all they had to this enterprise, deploying family labour-particularly that of women-in new ways which challenged the traditional norms of patriarchal control.
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The traditional norms that largely restrict women's activities to the private sphere also place a responsibility on men to provide financially for themselves and their families.
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Politicians, in such a world, would no longer be bound by traditional norms and could thus ignore with impunity the questions they receive in journalistic interviews and press conferences.
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What is the place of traditional norms or of socialization to certain habits of character if they can be easily altered by the impact of particular incentives at any moment?
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Although the local economy was based on subsistence agriculture and social behaviour was largely dictated by traditional norms, the village was by no means cut off from modernizing influences.
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The body, thus, got a central position as the only fix-point of self-identity left after the dissolution of the traditional norms.
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The painting has long been controversial due to its departure from the traditional norms of portraiture.
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It is unknown whether traditional norms practiced in medical genetics today will be altered by new technological advancements such as full genome sequencing.
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She has written a number of short stories and novels and covers themes, which often challenge traditional norms.
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He brought the party's nationalistic initiatives to the public sphere and argued for the merits of traditional norms and customs especially those dealing with the selection of traditional chiefs.
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Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.
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It describes the various ways in which custom and social pressure coerce economic actors in a society to conform to traditional norms even at the expense of profit.
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