Social scientific research operates on the premise that there are direct links between individual behavior and cultural ideals.

This considers cultural ideals, values, and rules about sexual expression which are external to the individual.

Both of these women helped to popularize dark skin in Japan, which ran contrary to previous cultural ideals.

"Even though it may not be enacted every day, the family dinner is still there as a cultural ideal."

Alternative activities were proposed to sustain original cultural ideals.

Profeminist men have questioned the cultural ideal of traditional masculinity.

Also, female dolls reflect the cultural ideal of thinness in women.

But the unity evoked by the fair's architecture was more than an abstract cultural ideal.

Here, light and transparency become metaphors for a reconfigured cultural ideal.

A woman surgeon can separate away the cultural ideal from reality.