cultural assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofculturalandassumption
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cultural
adjective
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofculturalandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tracing the sources of that pervasiveculturalassumptionis extremely complex, but this essay will attempt to develop some lines of inquiry.
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There is still a strongculturalassumptionthat family responsibilities should continue to fall on women.
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Very often the definition of poverty is full of implicit cultural assumptions that have explanatory force only in the industrialised nations.
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Crises played an important role in 'unfreezing' existing practices and cultural assumptions.
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A combination of cultural assumptions shapes age-related access to paid employment and reinforces the social value assigned to participation.
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Early modern playhouses functioned under a very different set of cultural assumptions.
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First to emerge is that definitions of old age are highly problematic and may turn on chronological age, on functional capacity or on cultural assumptions.
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In the process, it also suggests the racial and cultural assumptions built into psychoanalysis itself.
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Jurisprudence is the nexus where authoritative texts, cultural assumptions, and political expediency come together during a crisis.
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Her metamorphosis requires that she disengage from the authority of her preconceived cultural assumptions.
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There are long-standing cultural assumptions that adolescent behavior is often erratic and oppositional.
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Theculturalassumptionthat cameras always show us reality tricks many viewers into assuming the animals in the photos are real until they examine the pictures carefully.
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No doubt the clinicians and family in this case also brought their own cultural assumptions to bear on the circumstances and subsequent judgments.
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In neither country is such care support enjoined by law, and its provision rests on personal and cultural assumptions of love and duty rather than legal sanctions.
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In their challenge to the polarities of good and evil, civilisation and savagery, these articulations reflected a range of long-established cultural assumptions, as well as contemporary intellectual developments.
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Contrary to the later aristocratic stereotype, most of these individuals probably shared as many cultural assumptions with their own subjects as with foreign lords and ladies.
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