cultural expectation

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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.
It supports our cultural expectations of female behavior, labeling violent women as incapable of making logical choices.
And what if the couple did not get on, a likely result in view of the different cultural expectations of marriage?
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.
These approaches generally conflict with cultural expectations about the exchange of assets within families and inter-generational transfers.
It has been suggested that the non-linear pattern of writing may conform to cultural expectations.
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.
More recent cultural expectations have enlarged their support function to include the making of armaments and serving in military forces.
Perhaps the most significant finding is the fact that the seasonal distribution of conflict cases does in fact coincide with cultural expectations.
It appears that contemporary attitudes, and of the women in particular, are still upholding the patriarchal frame of thought and cultural expectations.
Participants may interpret indexical signs according to different cultural expectations, including different interpretations of the functions particular indexical meanings may perform.
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.
In other countries, such obligations are part of the cultural expectations of society and do not need to be made explicit.
These are background cultural expectations and in (106)-(107) they are fulfilled - yet the modification is anomalous.
The interface between cultural expectations and material constraints is currently producing divergent outcomes.
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