cultural expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofculturalandexpectation
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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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expectation
noun
uk/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that good things are going to happen in ...
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(Definition ofculturalandexpectationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcultural expectation
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On the other hand, theculturalexpectationis that men should provide for themselves and women should be provided for.
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Caring was described as a family obligation, aculturalexpectationthat would not and could not be challenged.
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That is theculturalexpectationthat parents will have of this new nursery voucher scheme.
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When two individuals meet for the first time, it is theculturalexpectationthat only impersonal information will be exchanged.
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The additionalculturalexpectationthat women be chaste, modest, and deferential can also contribute to gender-biased employment opportunities.
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How clothing operates in relation to age is thus significant for our understanding of how cultural expectations concerning age act upon and present the body.
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It supports our cultural expectations of female behavior, labeling violent women as incapable of making logical choices.
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And what if the couple did not get on, a likely result in view of the different cultural expectations of marriage?
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Conversely, at another level, photography is a series of different practices, different strands, all of which have different intentions, different cultural expectations and social usages.
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These approaches generally conflict with cultural expectations about the exchange of assets within families and inter-generational transfers.
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It has been suggested that the non-linear pattern of writing may conform to cultural expectations.
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Some of the men's greater involvement with grain production stemmed from the physical requirements and cultural expectations related to this type of agricultural labour.
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More recent cultural expectations have enlarged their support function to include the making of armaments and serving in military forces.
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Perhaps the most significant finding is the fact that the seasonal distribution of conflict cases does in fact coincide with cultural expectations.
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It appears that contemporary attitudes, and of the women in particular, are still upholding the patriarchal frame of thought and cultural expectations.
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Participants may interpret indexical signs according to different cultural expectations, including different interpretations of the functions particular indexical meanings may perform.
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Moreover, females and males may exhibit distinct display rules as governed by the cultural expectations of individuals of different genders, ages, etc., within a culture.
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In other countries, such obligations are part of the cultural expectations of society and do not need to be made explicit.
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These are background cultural expectations and in (106)-(107) they are fulfilled - yet the modification is anomalous.
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The interface between cultural expectations and material constraints is currently producing divergent outcomes.
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