Example sentences of "[prep] relation to society " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase . |
| 2 | At the higher levels of education scientists , economists and others who may play a future role in policy making , research and administration must be helped to understand the problems of disadvantaged areas in relation to society and the economy as a whole . |
| 3 | This in turn describes the function of the individual in relation to society — any agency attributed to the individual is subordinated to the maintenance of social structure . |
| 4 | It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally . |
| 5 | The function of their role we see as being , like that of the deviant in relation to society , the visible demonstration of the limits to ‘ legitimate ’ action . |
| 6 | At a wider level , in relation to society as a whole , it might equally be questioned how dominant collectivism and state provision have ever been in the US . |
| 7 | Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it . |
| 8 | Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative . |
| 9 | To understand any part of society , such as the family or religion , the part must be seen in relation to society as a whole . |