Example sentences of "which social [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 the anthropologist is committed not simply to description , but to analysing and questioning the definitions and assumptions on which social groups base their existence and predicate their activities , and to unveiling that which may be concealed or unrecognised .
2 It also presupposes that the assumptions upon which social policies have been based in the past have changed in recent years in order to facilitate women 's participation in activities outside the home .
3 The social psychological survey embodied the practical use of scaling techniques by which the attitudes of respondents were held to exemplify positions on basic dimensions and , in this respect , has profoundly affected the way in which social researchers think about the constitution of " things " that constitute the social world .
4 The implications are that , in a way similar to the class analyses we discussed in the last chapter , there is a major discrepancy between the ways in which social scientists conceptualise what is taking place and how people feel and understand what is taking place .
5 But there must be a point beyond which they can not go — some remaining ‘ self ’ to which social scientists appeal .
6 It is ironic the new arrangements , in which social services return to the role of gatekeepers to public funds for residential care , are described as the introduction of community care .
7 Finally , one must be aware of yet another way in which social actions have meaning .
8 These are valuable skills which social workers use on behalf of clients and their families and sometimes on their own behalf .
9 From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address .
10 The sexual aspects of adult life are immensely varied and will be considered in more detail as we come to think of the client groups with which social workers deal .
11 He recognises that the ‘ shift ’ from memory to written record involves changes in conventions for which social explanations have to be offered , rather than a change in ‘ cognitive ’ processes or at the radical , absolute level that Goody implies .
12 I am more concerned with the ways in which social mechanisms work to permit the growth and refinement of abilities necessary for sporting involvement .
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