Example sentences of "social and [adj] structure " in BNC.

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1 None of these trends in social and economic structure and party identification mean that Labour can never win again , nor that the Conservatives are sure to win .
2 It is now suggested that it is much more appropriate to see child abuse as a result of multiple interacting factors , including the parents ' and children 's psychological traits , the family 's place in the larger social and economic structure , and the balance of external supports and stresses , both interpersonal and material .
3 Are these variations personal and idiosyncratic , or does people 's experience vary more systematically in relation to their position in the social and economic structure ?
4 prior to the departure of the Iwakura Mission , the Meiji regime too had started a limited programme of industrialization and social change , much of it contingent on the dismantling of the political , social and economic structure that had prevailed under the Tokugawa .
5 ANDES argues that only through reforms in the social and economic structure of the country , and with an end to the concentration of power in the hands of the oligarchy , can the inadequacies and inequalities of the Salvadorean education system be overcome .
6 Social services set out to meet needs , and to solve problems , but they can also be used to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of society .
7 In very general terms , Marxist theorists look for the location of power in the wider social and economic structure of society There is continuing debate within Marxism over the exact role that the state ( or political level ) fulfils and whether it has any significant independence from the requirements of the owners of the means of production and the preservation of the system of capital accumulation In the long term , however , Marxists argue that the scope for human beings to choose freely and to shape their society as they wish is severely circumscribed by the private ownership of the means of production , the necessity of the state to respond to the crises and problems generated by capitalism as an economic system and the inequality of competition between different ideologies Elite theories do not go so far in limiting the scope for individuals to choose or to shape their societies They argue that individuals can choose , subjectively , to join , to maintain or to challenge the structure of power which exists .
8 From the records of property holding in the city of London between c 1200 and 1666 , it is possible to trace a remarkable sequence of changes in the fabric of the city , the density of settlement , the property market , and the social and economic structure .
9 ‘ . In its call for ‘ rigorous constructive argument ’ and a general reorganisation of the political , social and economic structure of the country it articulated the frustrations of a broad spectrum of opinion with existing policies .
10 Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected .
11 The local historian who is trying to build up a picture of the social and economic structure of his own parish must always take into consideration the extent of the common and the value of the rights over it .
12 The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society .
13 It will also have to be seen in close relationship with other aspects of rural society and the economy , as well as with the overall social and economic structures at national and European levels .
14 Sylvanus is seen partly as a threat to sexual virtue , partly as a threat to social and economic structures which have traditionally guaranteed certain rights and freedoms to agricultural workers .
15 In particular , both argue that reorganization was part of an attempt to adjust systems of representation to fit with the social and economic structures of the late twentieth century .
16 In addition , there is a wide range of area studies units which examine the history , politics , social and economic structures and cultures of the Middle East , India , China and Japan .
17 All of this makes sense in relation to the historical context of England in particular where , on MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) evidence , social and economic structures have been based upon a strong sense of individualism , and not upon traditional ties of kinship , for at least 600 years .
18 Even while the system remains capitalist it may at different phases be dominated by differently organized social and economic structures .
19 Although in the middle of the seventeenth century Muscovy was racked by a series of civil rebellions , peasant wars , religious turmoil and military mutiny , it was also during this period that the foundations for the political , social and economic structures of the tsarist imperial system were laid down .
20 So , under men like Halsbury , they reacted to the legislation of the later nineteenth century with all the inflexibility of those who are determined that what was good enough for their fathers ' social and economic structures was good enough for them .
21 It is also seeking to explore ways and means whereby men and women can play a larger part in the reconstruction of local working-class communities through the establishment of new forms of social and economic structures designed to meet local needs in a collective fashion .
22 Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts .
23 In an age of increasing information networks , strengthen by the needs of globalised industrial , social and economic structures , there is little doubt that standalone information platforms are a peculiarity .
24 But , as Davis is careful to point out , behind this issue are social and economic structures on the one hand and the support of kin or blood relations on the other .
25 One factor which has contributed to the role being played by women , is their major contribution to the autonomous social and economic structures developed by Palestinians in defiance of occupation .
26 Instead they issue from the divided heart of humanity , perpetually institutionalised in sinful social and political structures .
27 As the example of Sheffield makes clear , local economic policies of the left are heavily influenced in their development by changes in local economic , social and political structures and practices .
28 Parallel to this contrast is another , that while the long-wave school tends to focus on production the regulationists see the wider social and political structures of society as being necessary to the maintenance of particular regimes of production .
29 Miles , 1989 ) as well as the tension that appears from the need to link an account of the racialization of social and political structures and discourses with an understanding of individual action and institutional behaviour .
30 Between 1820 and 1870 there occurred a rare moment of historical calm , Nizan argues , during which French economic , social and political structures stabilised .
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