What's the difference between parochial and parochialism?

Parochial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (2) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
  • (3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
  • (4) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
  • (5) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
  • (6) Scientific inquiry, for the most part, can be described as parochial.
  • (7) The MAACL-R scores of 139 middle and senior high public school students (76 females, 63 males) were compared with those of 403 parochial school students (196 females and 207 males).
  • (8) Because most experiments on lateral eye movement and laterality are done with one parochially based group, it was wondered if percentages of laterality and consistency of glance would be consistent in disparate groups.
  • (9) Other leaders, however, proved equally unable to transcend parochialism when the crunch came.
  • (10) Indeed, you could argue that Better Together's estimation of women's political contribution is more respectful, for instance, than that of the Labour MP Austin Mitchell, and a school of thought that finds, with him, that women are not so much too preoccupied, as too feeble, mild, parochial and, basically, female, not to be discriminated against.
  • (11) Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them.
  • (12) Some of our conclusions are parochial, some are generally applicable; others are applicable only to countries with comprehensive health care.
  • (13) The goal is: (1) to show that data pertaining to individual cause of death extracted from parochial records can contribute to knowledge about historical mortality patterns at the community level, (2) to determine if an epidemiological transition occurred in this population, and (3) to identify changes in disease patterns over time.
  • (14) Differences were noted in the food habits of students in public vs. parochial schools and by birth place.
  • (15) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
  • (16) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
  • (17) I don’t have time to take counsel from the east-coast Twitterati.” “There is,” he continued, talking with the west-coast parochialism of someone who didn’t just move to Perth five years ago, “a significant disconnect between what people are saying over east and what is happening here in Canning.” Andrew Hastie says he was cleared over accidental deaths of two Afghan boys Read more The people of Canning, he said, are concerned about jobs, the ice drug trade and infrastructure.
  • (18) "This will destroy a research-led department with an excellent reputation and make Swansea look insular and parochial," it says.
  • (19) This study shows that HCMV is less parochial in its host range than previously thought.
  • (20) We believe discussion of this question has been needlessly parochial and confused.

Parochialism


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (2) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
  • (3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
  • (4) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
  • (5) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
  • (6) Scientific inquiry, for the most part, can be described as parochial.
  • (7) The MAACL-R scores of 139 middle and senior high public school students (76 females, 63 males) were compared with those of 403 parochial school students (196 females and 207 males).
  • (8) Because most experiments on lateral eye movement and laterality are done with one parochially based group, it was wondered if percentages of laterality and consistency of glance would be consistent in disparate groups.
  • (9) Other leaders, however, proved equally unable to transcend parochialism when the crunch came.
  • (10) Indeed, you could argue that Better Together's estimation of women's political contribution is more respectful, for instance, than that of the Labour MP Austin Mitchell, and a school of thought that finds, with him, that women are not so much too preoccupied, as too feeble, mild, parochial and, basically, female, not to be discriminated against.
  • (11) Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them.
  • (12) Some of our conclusions are parochial, some are generally applicable; others are applicable only to countries with comprehensive health care.
  • (13) The goal is: (1) to show that data pertaining to individual cause of death extracted from parochial records can contribute to knowledge about historical mortality patterns at the community level, (2) to determine if an epidemiological transition occurred in this population, and (3) to identify changes in disease patterns over time.
  • (14) Differences were noted in the food habits of students in public vs. parochial schools and by birth place.
  • (15) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
  • (16) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
  • (17) I don’t have time to take counsel from the east-coast Twitterati.” “There is,” he continued, talking with the west-coast parochialism of someone who didn’t just move to Perth five years ago, “a significant disconnect between what people are saying over east and what is happening here in Canning.” Andrew Hastie says he was cleared over accidental deaths of two Afghan boys Read more The people of Canning, he said, are concerned about jobs, the ice drug trade and infrastructure.
  • (18) "This will destroy a research-led department with an excellent reputation and make Swansea look insular and parochial," it says.
  • (19) This study shows that HCMV is less parochial in its host range than previously thought.
  • (20) We believe discussion of this question has been needlessly parochial and confused.

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