Example sentences of "social [noun] [conj] has " in BNC.

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1 The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing .
2 Modernism certainly had its place in the destruction of the ancien régime , but it is only one particular form of social change and has recently been most conspicuous in its failures .
3 Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account .
4 Subsidiarity is an old doctrine from German Catholic social philosophy and has far more to do with this than with constitutional theory .
5 Within this environment , he is a fully competent social performer and has an adequate knowledge of the rules and conditions that pertain to his behaviour .
6 Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter .
7 It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) .
8 It is itself a social product that has arisen as a result of political and ideological processes and institutions and its particular form has to be explained in terms of such processes .
9 Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse .
10 This residual approach adopts a simplistic explanation of social problems and has faith in the inherent validity of the existing social system ( Callahan , 1985 ) .
11 But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification .
12 The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character .
13 There are no instant fixes , either in terms of an absolutist retreat to the class-based socialism of the past , or in a headlong rush to the classless social democracy that has so often been portrayed as the only future .
14 A recently widowed friend of mine , well into her 80s , writes to say that she ‘ was asked to speak on bereavement-coping at a conference of social works and has had two more bookings as a result . ’
15 This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services .
16 A similar ambivalence can be sensed in Uppercross Cottage : on the one hand , its windows can relieve a social occasion by allowing those under stress to admire the view and recover their composure ; on the other , the tendency of the younger generation to appear at those windows unannounced , and even to come in by them , suggests a social life that has become altogether too informal and erratic .
17 It is today less dismissive of other approaches to the study of social life and has found a niche as a specialized way of analysing how people make sense of , construct , and confirm their world-view and their way of life .
18 He has little or no social life and has severe problems in evolving any kind of friendship . ’
19 Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing .
20 Much research has started from the premise that old age is a social problem and has concentrated upon the problem dimensions of ageing such as ill health , disability and senile dementia , rather than examining normal ageing .
21 Such a body is now being provided in relation to social services but has not yet been provided for education .
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