Word: conformity
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...blamed for the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror that Mao had unleashed and then nourished. Mao didn't count among the fiendish four, but when the plucky Chinese I encountered talked of the Gang, they would hold up five fingers, then fold the thumb back slowly to conform to the official co-conspirator count. The message was clear: Mao was that disappearing finger...
You’re saying that media advice on music leads to lots of people cultivating similar tastes in music, moving from this to arguing that “cultivating similar tastes” equals conformity, and concluding that this “conformity” creates a class system, where those who don’t conform are made to feel like idiots...
...research, not teaching, and so in order to rise in the rankings, colleges hire faculty not for teaching, but for research. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But when a single influential ranking defines success in one direction, schools that attempt divergence, or even balance, are pressured to conform for traveling another route. In this case, colleges are punished in the rankings for having better teachers, which could be a problem if one wished for students to learn...
...bike as a kid, stood sixth overall through 14 stages (out of 21) in this year's Tour. He grew up without a television or radio in a Mennonite household in Pennsylvania, and he needed permission from a pastor to wear racing tights in public. Landis still won't conform. After riding shotgun for Armstrong on the U.S. Postal team for the past three Tours, he jumped to the Swiss Phonack squad this season for more money and a spot as team leader. (Nonleaders can earn a few hundred thousand annually; Lance, millions.) "They want you to give...
...fair, or have the same moral systems," says Bekoff. But it does mean that-- just as with so many other attributes once considered unique to humans, including toolmaking and language--animals have at least rudimentary versions of what we call morality. That would conform to Darwin's ideas of evolution, and indeed, Darwin himself was convinced this must be true. "It would be bad evolutionary biology," says Bekoff, "to assume that moral behavior just pops on the scene only with...