Example sentences of "social [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Above them will be the set of newly retired warriors , while above this set will be sets of elders , their relative status depending on their social ages , who will be responsible for internal political and legal matters and perhaps for communicating with the gods . |
| 2 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 3 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 4 | The ‘ biogrammar ’ of evolutionary stable strategies and the acquired ‘ sociogrammar ’ of social rules and roles are not so distinctly separated ; they interlace functionally and epigenetically in ways that are not yet understood . |
| 5 | She cares little for appearance and does not abide by the usual social rules . |
| 6 | Captivity of any kind ; being confined in an artificial environment , or being forced to conform to a suffocating set of social rules and conventions . |
| 7 | Certainly , older people learn to play the game according to the dominant social rules . |
| 8 | Much anthropology has been written on the ways in which culture and social rules constrain women . |
| 9 | My concern is to show that , on , the contrary , culture and social rules may well constrain males to fit a given society 's ideas about virtuous male behaviour . |
| 10 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 11 | There are also informal rules of good play ( like ‘ castle early ’ ) and perhaps social rules governing the proper conduct of chess matches . |
| 12 | The last paragraph introduces a contrast within hermeneutics between understanding individual actions through social rules and collective meanings — what one might call ‘ top-down ’ — and understanding collective arrangements through their individual elements — ‘ bottom-up ’ . |
| 13 | Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged . |
| 14 | Nor are subjective meanings or rational choices independent of public social rules for doing the right or rational thing . |
| 15 | All members of society would be efficiently socialised into a complete acceptance of the social rules , perhaps leading to complete internalisation of the rules . |
| 16 | This is because social arrangements are to some extent arbitrary ways of organising human life — there is an apparently endless range of variations in social rules , ideas and conventions . |
| 17 | However , from a social action perspective socialisation can never be simply a matter of internalisation of fixed social rules . |
| 18 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 19 | This theoretical position can be compared to the ethnomethodological account of social rules ( e.g. Coulter , 1983 ; Garfunkel , 1967 ; Wieder , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | Ethnomethodological theorists suggest that social rules can not be fully determined , but that their meaning is often discovered post hoc through their application . |
| 21 | They see society and human action as being structured by social rules and values , and portray social systems as reproducing themselves via socialization — the transmission of social values to new generations through the family , the educational system and so on . |
| 22 | In Giddens , reflection is largely on social rules . |
| 23 | We were also aware that if we published a list of set texts their names would be engraved in stone , and the canon would be unchangeable , reflecting out-of-date literary and social opinions . |
| 24 | Money is one of the more fascinating of social inventions which depends on counting as a capacity to express , in a word , measure , the social value of individuals , labour and commodities in society . |
| 25 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 26 | But the fact that introducing people to each other in those circumstances facilitates social contacts is itself a reason for doing so . |
| 27 | Although young children ( say , from eighteen months to six years ) can be quarrelsome ( as we shall see in chapter 8 ) , pro-social actions may be seen in some 10–20 per cent of all social contacts . |
| 28 | Staff in both departments found it necessary to maintain informal or social contacts to obtain information required for their tasks , and had some misgivings about the lateral flow of mutually relevant information . |
| 29 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 30 | After husband 's departure : ( i ) failure to cope with children ; ( ii ) failure to cope with full-time job ; ( iii ) loss of social contacts . |