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Lifestyles & their study
anthropogenic
anthropological
anthropologically
anthropologist
anthropology
cultural
cultural critic
cultural criticism
cultural diffusion
cultural ecology
ethnological
ethnologically
ethnologist
ethnology
sociocultural
socioculturally
sub-trend
superorganic
the global village
trend

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milieu | American Dictionary

milieu
noun[ C ]
us/mɪlˈjʊ, -ˈju/pluralmilieus or milieuxus/mɪlˈjʊ, -ˈjʊz, -ˈju, -ˈjuz/
the people and the physical and social conditions and events that provide a background in which someone acts or lives:
the Irish-Catholic milieu of Chicago
a cultural milieu

Examples of milieu

milieu
She foregrounds experience and her own subjective responses, sometimes at the expense of situating her work within existing theoretical milieus.
It provides a framework for understanding why families interact as they do in a particular cultural milieu.
They are embedded in a social and cultural world, linked to other concepts and feelings and sparked by stimuli specific to that milieu.
It included variants of 'cruel song' with a sentimental plea for pity, and songs that revelled in the criminal or semi-criminal milieu.
Surely there are other ways of delivering a compelling experience to a participant other than emulating his/her natural milieu.
This was an important first step towards the emergence of an own-protest milieu in the later 1960s.
It behooves us to attend to the circumstances that created the productive milieux.
More than half a century after the cultural battle between artists and bourgeois opened, it was still very much alive in the theatrical milieu.
The very properties needed to separate the cellular milieu from the extracellular environment, both aqueous, also preclude direct transport of water-soluble compounds.
A prospective population based cohort study of the effects of disablement and social milieu on the onset and maintenance of late-life depression.
This milieu encouraged spectators to find diversions other than attentive listening.
Pathways and barriers to mental health care in an urban multicultural milieu : an epidemiological and ethnographic study.
The book traces a genealogy of exchange between these two milieux.
This volume initiates the reader into the varied milieux of the period, and in that way provides a rich and insightful specificity.
His account of the recent past, however, yields fewer historical surprises or original insights, perhaps because the contemporary intellectual context is our own cultural milieu.
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