Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of social " in BNC.

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1 The BMA could not countenance the challenge eugenics posed to its specific brand of social and physiological individualism , with its stress on the importance of individual initiative and on the value of each and every human life .
2 Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles .
3 The destruction of the Ba'athist regime , the armed services , the manufacturing and industrial sectors , the infrastructure , the energy supply and the capacity for sustaining any normal level of social life in Iraq ‘ in order to restore the sovereignty of Kuwait ’ could go ahead .
4 The main subjective component of social isolation examined by social researchers relates to loneliness .
5 I should have known that no amount of understanding can carry any individual for long against the swirling crowds of social existence , and that soon after rejoining them I too should be stampeding with them .
6 The story of Icthus is one of dynamic church planting and growth and the development of a well-balanced ministry of social care and evangelism .
7 As Wright Mills observed in his critique , ‘ The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists ’ : ‘ If the members of an academic profession are recruited from similar social contexts and if their backgrounds and careers are relatively similar , there is a tendency for them to be uniformly set for some common perspective ’ .
8 The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society , the real foundation , on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness .
9 To help things along we provide our usual framework of social activities , sharing costs between survivors .
10 Others , in one of the most astounding forms of social behaviour , make slaves of a different kind of ant .
11 Even ‘ when they knew their cause was lost … they reached out again , in the Thirties and Forties , and sought to achieve new and only imagined forms of social control ’ ( Thompson , 1968 edn . ) .
12 Obviously the ideological appeal to Thatcherism is across a broad spectrum of social locations .
13 It is invaluable to the sociologist who wishes to trace broad patterns of social change , and to make comparisons between the social conditions of one period and another ( see also p. 100 ) .
14 Ethnomethodology has developed various ways of demonstrating these unwritten rules of social life , and of showing how they are continuously achieved by social actors .
15 The low level of social assistance and the stigma attached to receiving it make it implausible that significant ‘ scrounging ’ took place .
16 If people are accorded status because of the respect in which their achievements are held , then status may be regarded as a normal part of social life .
17 The relevance of more specific indices of social change , including urbanization and rates of literacy , are discussed as sub-themes where appropriate .
18 As an integral condition of democracy at work and beyond , the progressive reduction of social hierarchy in the division of labour , whether this hierarchy is thought in terms of mental/manual labour ( Poulantzas ) , function of capital/function of labour ( Carchedi ) , ‘ conception ’ versus ‘ execution ’ ( Braverman ) , or in some other way .
19 But the general result , for all its great unevenness between writers , was a specific kind of social relationship which can be defined as a form of professional independence within integrated and dominant market relations .
20 In their critique of unmanaged capitalism and of colonialism this was especially so , and , together with the related Fabians , they had important influence on the evolution of the working-class Labour Party into a specific kind of social democracy .
21 Many workers were also worried that the community care proposals would lead to de-skilling , partly because of the increased use of non-professional helpers and partly because care packages would concentrate on practical help with a lower value being placed on the less quantifiable aspects of social work support .
22 The appalling health of the population , revealed by Boer War recruitment , did much to persuade the Establishment of the need for an extensive programme of social reform to improve the condition of the working class .
23 But whatever the mechanism of its conception , it meant that Labour and cooperation would enter future elections on a mutually beneficial and supportive programme of social and political reform .
24 Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire .
25 It was this biotic aspect of human behaviour to which they gave special attention in trying to understand how populations and individuals adapted to one another and how this sorting process resulted in spatial distributions of social groups .
26 This tactical change , confirmed at the ninth full session of the Communist International in February 1928 , and aimed , according to Georges Cogniot , at creating in France a working-class front against the combined bloc of social democracy and the bourgeoisie , was none the less interpreted by many in the PCF primarily as the need to intensify the struggle against social democracy .
27 Comparison was extensively used as the method of analysis and explanation ( the comparative method ) by many early sociologists when trying to identify the major historical patterns of social change .
28 One of these which originally led to the nonprofessional but nationally-recognized Certificate of Social Service ( CCETSW , 1975 ) , has now been incorporated into a new and alternative route to a full professional social work qualification for some of the kinds of social service personnel we have referred to as paraprofessionals ( CCETSW , 1989 ) .
29 On the contrary , under favourable conditions ( which were never clearly specified ) the rise of economic specialization led to the development of a new and improved kind of social cohesion and one largely inspired , it would seem , by utopian socialism .
30 More often than not , social disengagement will not have been intentional , and certainly not brought about simply by the process of ageing , but rather by a failure to maintain an adequate level of social life beyond that of being parents .
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