Word: conformance
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...community have gained. "We're not 'do-gooders' concerned only with 'helping youth,' and we're not a social service organization," Slack has pointed out. "We want to reduce the amount of crime committed by adolescents." Thus the program is not primarily interested in causing delinquents to conform with American middle-class ideals and may even employ methods which the middle-class would not approve. "If the kids hang out in bar-rooms, the scientist will just have to go into the bar-room," Slack said. "If necessary to gain their confidence we might even buy loud jackets...
...into the dominant American middle class life. He tried straightening his hair, and even bleaching his skin. But the guaranteed preparations didn't quite work. And so the Negro, albeit unconsciously, sought to convince the white that even if his appearance would never be white, his behavior did not conform to the stereotype of the sexually licentious, Knife-wielding darkie. In the fact of so little opportunity for mutual contact and understanding a spectacular tactic was called...
...Gogh told an audience of 150 at the Fogg Museum that because of this threat many potentially creative people become inhibited and passively conform to the demands of others. Creativity demands independent opinion, not passive acceptance of other people's ideas, he insisted...
...noted, one who does not conform is punished. He cited the example of the dismissal of his 19th century namesake from a Belgian mission for giving all his goods to the poor...
...George Anderson, director of Manhattan's Academy of Religion and Mental Health, the breakdown of a minister's wife is most often caused by pressure to conform. "This is compounded by her own guilts and anxieties-guilt over her own shortcomings and her earlier history. Marrying a minister doesn't wipe out either her past or her thoughts." In the view of a Boston psychiatrist, ministers' wives suffer most from a feeling of "abandonment." Several of his patients are up to their ears in church work, using it as a substitute for a personal need that...