Example sentences of "social group [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Pirenne ( 1914 ) , in his study of the development of capitalism , distinguished its various stages in terms of the principal directions of economic activity and the social groups which took the leading role at each stage ; and many historical studies of elites have similarly concentrated attention upon the rise and decline of particular economic groups . |
| 2 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 3 | Social groups which lack the civic skills to represent their own interests are particularly vulnerable to neglect by decentralizing agencies . |
| 4 | The evidence suggests that Cade 's support was fairly widely based , and that the strength of his leadership lay in his ability to act as spokesmen for all the social groups which supported him . |
| 5 | Favret-Saada 's unique analysis ( ibid. 1–28 ) of the bizarre subjective position she found herself in is a masterful assessment of the difficulties which arise when the ethnographer seeks to gain knowledge of a social group which depends for its existence on ‘ misknowledge ’ or silence : |
| 6 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 7 | For them the ‘ corporate ruling group ’ is a ‘ unique social group which has no convincing parallels in history ’ . |
| 8 | The organized community or social group which gives to the individual his unity of self may be called the ‘ generalized other ’ . |
| 9 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |