conventionalization
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In this case, as in very many others, the conventionalization consists in ignoring the violation of current standards of propriety.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
It is by conventionalization that the literature and pictorial representations of science avoid collision with the mores of propriety, decency, etc.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
When the women lived in the temple that fact established conventionalization about them and gave to their life that regulation which has made decency and order in all ages.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
In the mythologies this kind of conventionalization was essential.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
All the arts are a conventionalization, an ordering of nature.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold
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