Exempel på civilizing

• The urban reformist elites enthusiastically invoked reformative programmes, for example, regulating the disorder of urban space and "civilizing" people.

• Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission.

• In the town itself, it was hoped the introduction of compulsory education would have a civilizing influence on the urban miscreant.

• We are still dealing with an urban middle class project of reform-a civilizing mission-in which gender issues are central.

• They do not merely speak for a straightforward attempt to make the civilizing power of science operative in the reader's mind.

• There is an acceptance within the text that increasingly the local state took control over the civilizing mission previously exercised by a ubiquitous voluntary sector.

• Elster conjectures that strategic arguing illustrates the more general phenomenon of the 'civilizing effect of hypocrisy'.

• The imperial, civilizing values of the age seemed under threat, brazenly challenged and on metropolitan stages too.

• During colonial rule, teachers played an essential intermediary role in the colonial state's 'civilizing mission' and enjoyed a high social status in society.

• Combined with a residual universalism, this provided the framework within which to evoke the civilizing mission.

• But in any case, the 'civilizing force' is not self-actuating.

• A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men.

• On the other hand, the extent of the disease awakened the humanitarian instincts of colonizers who took their 'civilizing' objectives seriously.

• This is how colonial authority was established and the civilizing mission introduced!

• Villagers, then, have not wholly conceded the virtues of the 'civilizing mission'.