cultural ideal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofculturalandideal
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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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ideal
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪəl/us/aɪˈdiː.əl/
a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very ...
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(Definition ofculturalandidealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These have in common declining social status and degradation of selfimage, as theculturalideal, youthful femininity, can no longer be met.
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Her study examines hard country through the burlesque, 'a comic mode that can be used to undermine anyculturalideal' (p. 27).
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Individualism is an attitude and a pursuit, often an expensive one, common to late modern societies, but is far from being aculturalidealworldwide.
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The "octopus grip" became both a description of economic reality and also aculturalideal.
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Profeminist men have questioned theculturalidealof traditional masculinity.
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With the breakup of the large haciendas, charros were no longer economically necessary but were used as aculturalideal, especially by the film industry in the mid-20th century.
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These tensions between cultural ideals and real life experiences were illustrated repeatedly in the narratives of several of the participants in the focus groups.
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However, cultural ideals and normative strictures on the one hand and social practice and experience on the other, are rarely identical, if ever.
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Tensions between cultural ideals and pragmatic realities were found about three topics : nursing home placements, expectations of children for care-giving, and statesponsored support.
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One could speak, with the troubadours, of the invention of new traditions which would eventually formalise certain cultural ideals of the aristocracy and become what we call 'courtly love'.
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Cultural ideals about women's work can also affect men whose outward gender expression is considered feminine within a given society.
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The ego takes into account ethical and cultural ideals in order to balance out the desires originating in the id.
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People become neurotic because they can not tolerate the frustration which society imposes in the service of its cultural ideals.
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Gender schemas, or gendered cultural ideals which determine a persons preferences, are also installed into our behaviors beginning at infancy.
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Also, increased exposure to other races and cultural ideals help suppress the racial bias within the brain circuitry.
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She reflects upon her daily interactions with her daughters and notes her experiences of motherhood and the social and cultural ideals that are placed on her.
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