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a moral/legal/social obligation
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We have a moral obligation to take care of our environment.
a political/social/economic etc issue
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They discussed a number of political issues.
a social circle
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Dan and I didn’t mix in the same social circles.
a social club (= where you meet people and talk )
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Older people may benefit from joining a social club.
a social conscience (= a moral sense of how society should be or how you can help it )
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The writer’s strong social conscience is obvious in all his novels.
a social critic (= of human society and its organizations )
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Social critics have argued that television viewing decreases people's other social activities.
a social custom
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Our people do not want to imitate western social customs.
a social evening (= an event at which a group of people meet and spend time with each other )
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We should organize a social evening to welcome the new members of staff.
a social event (= an event at which a group of people meet and spend time together for pleasure )
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I don’t go to many social events since my husband’s death.
a social evil (= something bad that happens in human society )
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The community is being torn apart by poverty, drug abuse and other social evils.
a social experiment (= one in which people try a new way of living and organizing society )
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The community started out as a social experiment.
a social group (= a group of people from a particular class in society )
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Lower social groups had a higher average family size.
a social occasion
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I prefer not to discuss business at social occasions.
a social relationship
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Satisfactory social relationships with adults are very important.
a social situation (= a situation in which someone is with other people )
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He felt uncomfortable in social situations.
a social taboo
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There is a social taboo against expressing negative views of other races.
a social/cultural convention
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Each society has its own cultural conventions.
a social/cultural etc phenomenon
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Crime is a complex social phenomenon.
a social/political/cultural dimension
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His writing has a strong political dimension.
be/live on social security (= be receiving money from the government )
cultural/economic/social etc imperialism
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Small nations resent Western cultural imperialism.
cultural/social evolution
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Neither cultural or social evolution is any guarantee that we are moving towards a better world.
cultural/social values
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a book about a clash between British and Chinese cultural values
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The films of the time reflected these changing social values.
economic/political/social etc chaos
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Afterwards there was widespread famine and economic chaos.
economic/social/environmental etc benefits
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Tourism has brought considerable economic benefits to the island.
educational/social etc psychology
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experts in the field of developmental psychology
environmental/political/social awareness
have a new/social etc dimension
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Learning a language has an important cultural dimension.
political/social conflict
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Widespread unemployment often leads to social conflict.
political/social etc history
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the political history of Germany
political/social satire
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a comedy group that does political satire
political/social/economic etc elite
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the domination of power by a small political elite
political/social/economic etc grouping
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During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping.
political/social/economic etc repercussions
political/social/economic realities
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He's ignoring political realities.
political/social/historical etc significance
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The political significance of this change should not be underestimated.
racial/social inequity
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a report on racial inequity in the UK
racial/social/political harmony
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We aim to promote racial harmony through shared sporting activities.
social audit
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a social audit of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
social background
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Universities aim to attract students from varied social backgrounds.
social barriers
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The Internet allows people of all ages to interact without the usual social barriers.
social butterfly
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Gwen’s a real social butterfly .
social class
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Is there a link between crime and social class?
social climber
social club
social competence
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The first years of life are very important in a child's growth toward social competence.
Social conditioning
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Social conditioning makes crying more difficult for men.
social conscience
social contract
social democracy
social engineering
social exclusion
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efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion
social expectations (= relating to what society thinks or expects )
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Social expectations of masculine and feminine behaviour changed drastically during the 1960s and '70s.
social fabric
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The country’s social fabric is disintegrating.
social factors
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Social factors have played their part in the decline in family sizes.
social fund
social graces
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Max definitely lacked social graces .
social habits (= the things people normally do when they are with other people )
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Television changed some of our social habits.
social housing
social implications
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She’s studying the social implications of different patterns of work.
social inequality
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Education can play a large part in reducing social inequality.
social institutions
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social institutions such as the family and religion
social mobility
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social mobility
social networking site
social networking
social ruin (= when someone loses their position or rank in society )
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In those days, breaking off your engagement could mean social ruin.
social science
social security
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social security benefits
social service
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Contact social services for help.
social skills (= the ability to get on well with people )
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Unsociable toddlers were found to have poor social skills later.
social status
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I lied about my family’s social status.
social stratification
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The Indian caste system is an example of social stratification.
social studies
social tension
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The economic crisis was accompanied by mounting social tension.
social ties
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Besides marriage, other social ties drew people together.
social unrest
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The policy led to rising unemployment and social unrest.
social whirl
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the social whirl of New York publishing
social work
social worker
social/cultural etc norms
social/cultural/sexual etc revolution
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the biggest social revolution we have had in this country
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the sexual revolution of the 1960s
social/economic/educational disadvantage
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Unemployment often leads to social disadvantage.
social/economic/emotional etc deprivation
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Low birth weight is related to economic deprivation.
social/human contact (= spending time with other people )
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He lived alone and had little human contact.
social/political/cultural etc formation
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Marx founded a new science: the science of the history of social formations.
social/political/economic consequences
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The rise in food prices has had enormous economic and political consequences.
social/political/economic equality
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Black people had to fight for social and economic equality with whites.
social/political/economic etc change
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Demands for political and social change are growing.
social/political/economic structure
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Many changes had taken place in the social and political structure of the island.
the cultural/social environment
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Changes in the cultural environment affect people’s attitudes and values.
the Labour/Conservative/Social Democratic etc government
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In August 1931, the Labour government collapsed.
the political/economic/social etc climate
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At the time the political climate was moving steadily to the right.
the social scale
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At the other end of the social scale, life is a constant struggle to get enough to eat.
the social scene
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She loved the city, and really enjoyed the social scene.
the social side
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The social side of the group is very important.
the social sphere
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The following chapter considers the influence of factors in the wider social sphere.
the social/political/historical etc context
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You often need to understand the cultural context of jokes.
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background
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Restored quarrymen's cottages at Gloddfa Ganol show the social background of the industrial workers.
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Childhood cancers, including leukaemia, can strike a healthy child at random, regardless of race, social background or creed.
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Both parents were of Breton origin, but of markedly different social backgrounds .
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It must be seen against the social background of early Anglo-Saxon society in the seventh century.
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Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players.
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The police tend to operate with different expectations of individuals from different social backgrounds .
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A Chance to Dance aims to encourage children of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds .
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This proceeding ignored the current theory that intelligence was independent of social background .
behaviour
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Such a cost none the less needs setting against the advantages in any ecological study of gorilla social behaviour .
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This is the case with all deviant social behaviour , such as incorrect marriages or theft.
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Evil to their mind is easily detectable: it reveals itself in bizarre appearances, anti-social behaviour .
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What many people believe to be stimulation is actually a loss of inhibition that normally controls their social behaviour .
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Enlightened self-interest is, for those of us who are not saints, the necessary condition of social behaviour .
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For many weeks she watched and noted their social behaviour without being spat at.
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The expansion, or attempted expansion, of genes is seen as the central causal mechanism underlying both individual and social behaviour .
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Solitariness is thus a result of social behaviour and may produce particular societal structures involving wide dispersion.
benefit
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Such reduced absenteeism is a social benefit in that it reduces public expenditure through the statutory sick-pay scheme.
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Workers are paid in glass, receive their social benefits in glass and must sell the glass to stay alive.
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They can have very different employment protection laws and social benefits .
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Dole campaigns vigorously against federal mandates that require states to provide stipulated social benefits or meet a variety of federal guidelines.
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It is thought that therapeutic operations provide such a social benefit by the psychological benefit.
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Marginal social cost and marginal social benefit would then be equated at the point E *;.
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Thus, beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost.
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Expanding output would add more to social benefit than to social cost.
change
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Historians study social change and they focus on particular events for their data.
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Anyway, I knew all along that this education was going to be put to work for social change .
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Study, explore and anticipate social change affecting the global environment; 3.
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Instead, it will be a vehicle for gradual, quiet yet profound social change .
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And what, in any case, did these radical critics of social change in fact propose to offer?
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How far did war affect the economy or bring about social change ?
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The Victorian period was one of tremendous economic and social change .
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This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change .
class
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There continued to be striking regional and social class variations in infant mortality and in life expectancy at later ages.
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The Baker-Donaher family were the flip side of the Wilkins of Reading: different hemispheres, different social class .
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Pupils among the less affluent social classes account for half of the population but only 13 % of entry to top universities.
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There were some clear social class differences in their answers.
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There is an unspoken recognition of a certain disposition or habitus among the social classes .
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Most controls were from lower to mid-middle class , while the cases had a greater spread of social class.
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The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes .
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These determinants include motivation, culture, social class , the family and so on.
contact
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You can't get it from ordinary social contact like sharing food, towels, toilets or hugs.
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While some tribal people moved into Freetown, they, too, had limited social contact with the Creoles.
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The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests, whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace.
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This confirms the well observed inverse relationship between disability and social contact .
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A key question concerns the types of social contact that may be associated with a high risk of transmission of P cepacia.
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More specifically, it was the daughters, as opposed to spouse carers, who were upset by the reduced social contact .
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People still want to have the social contact that work offers, and want to stay in regular touch with their co-workers.
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But a busy life inevitably leaves little time for social contact .
context
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Some would argue that above semantics lies a level concerned with the use of language in its social context .
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I plan to consider these questions as they relate to the human need to create and maintain self-identity in a social context .
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In the first place, the rhetorical perspective advocates understanding attitudes in terms of the wider social context .
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You rarely find consideration of the social context of error, or of its significance in the growth of the writer.
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Individuals do not move through a smooth physical vacuum; they negotiate structured social contexts in company with other individuals.
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In the social context , drugs such as caffeine, sugar and chocolate are well accepted and much enjoyed by millions worldwide.
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Attempts to help people in distress are less successful when treated in isolation from the social context in which they live.
control
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The companies' main concerns, however, were with social control of their workforces outside the pits.
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He tries to provide for reform within a political framework and he introduces consensus, as a social control variable.
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It was therefore apparent that the specific practice of lawyers can not be theorised as social control .
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All political regimes attempt to manipulate information as a means of social control .
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In urban areas, therefore, the effectiveness of informal social control is reduced.
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Once again shame and stigma are being touted as methods of social control .
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The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control .
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The revivals also provided for social control .
cost
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There is a case for government intervention to make sure marginal social cost and marginal social benefit are equated.
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A few feminists are achingly aware of both their personal desires to he thin and the social cost of those desires.
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In the latter illustration consideration has also to be taken of social costs and benefits.
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As with other parental costs , parental expenditures On education arc also social costs because they absorb economic resources.
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These procedures are essentially intended to assess the social costs of school reorganization.
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Expanding output would add more to social benefit than to social cost .
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For these reasons, the precise extent of the social cost of monopoly remains a subject of continuing controversy.
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At the equilibrium quantity Q the marginal consumer benefit is P l but the marginal social cost is P 2.
deprivation
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Complex and difficult lives are simplified into iconic statements of social deprivation .
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It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved.
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Strategies to promote the nation's health should acknowledge the importance of material and social deprivation more explicitly.
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The inclusion of measures of social deprivation is also poorly thought out.
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Despite many attempts to link drug use with social deprivation , the association is spurious.
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New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation .
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Many cases of mild mental handicap are thus caused by social deprivation .
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Grief, loneliness, poor health, financial worries, social deprivation all contribute to a feeling of acute depression.
development
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Other articles in the issue cover consumer rights, photography, and the role of non-government organisations in social development .
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He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs.
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Reading and moral development Much of the content of social development is concerned with ethics.
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Similarly, development of affect plays a role in social development.
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It is about something infinitely subtle: moral and social development .
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The head then commented on his social development .
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Thirdly, a crucial aim of the text is to show how the relationship between cultural and economic processes influences social development .
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Partners might feel that personal and social development should be set out clearly among the objectives of educational programmes.
event
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Funerals are not just some grim social event for retired people.
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This hall caters for many sporting activities and social events .
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At first they just focused on the fun part, the social events .
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The May festival has become a major social event in the racing calendar and includes a classic trial for the Derby.
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An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event , because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
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The railways allowed ordinary people to visit the seaside and the country, so that natural-history excursions became social events .
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Nowadays, Super Sunday has become more of a social event .
group
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From a Marxist view, a class is a social group whose members share the same relationship to the means of production.
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Socialization occurs, not simply in individual histories but in the continuities of social groups as well.
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To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups .
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Specifically she develops two areas, feminist theory and liberation theology, as potential candidates to regenerate the social group work movement.
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Speakers of different languages and cultural backgrounds, and from different social groups , vary quite significantly in their preferred language norms.
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In many ways, then, peasants are more likely to be exposed to socio-economic change than other social groups .
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Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge.
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This reaction was not quite the same in the two main social groups , however.
history
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Here is the rich story of the social history of one of Britain's most important sports.
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On the economic and social history of the period its influence was also enormous.
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But none of the considerations mentioned above has so far impinged upon the social history of art.
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It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history .
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The little decorations of social history are thin traces laid over a surface.
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It is the stuff from which social history , and columns a century hence, are made.
institution
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The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.
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There are, of course, many links and parallels between economic history and the development of the government and social institutions .
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It is beyond doubt that the service was meant to be a social institution with aims in addition to those of an economic nature.
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The social institutions of traditionalism, such as religion and ideology, can also be seen as deformed, pathological modes of communication.
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Like words, social institutions , customs, and beliefs all change drastically over time.
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The poll reveals lack of confidence in leading social institutions .
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In practice, functionalists appear preoccupied with discovering the positive functions, the beneficial effects of social institutions .
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Tradition, along with custom and social institutions , is one of the major components of non-material culture.
interaction
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It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions .
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Social knowledge, the form of knowledge created by humans, is constructed by children primarily out of their social interactions .
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The goat's movements and social interactions show a similar seasonal variation.
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To the extent that educational programs purport to teach social knowledge, legitimate opportunities for social interaction must be provided.
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But this, in turn, led to some curious social interactions .
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As children have different histories of general experiences, so do they have different histories of social experiences, or social interaction .
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Social Interaction Another factor in cognitive development is social interaction.
issue
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Society and social issues crept into film as the servant of plot.
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But, as Townsend suggests, structured dependence is not only about macro-economic and social issues .
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In college I became more conscious of social issues , and that expanded at law school.
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Brookside, as in its earliest days, had pretensions to be at the cutting edge of a social issue .
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In each so-called cooperative the attention paid to social issues , work conditions, and community welfare was meeting strong opposition.
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Very quickly, the local Labour parties identified with the social issues of the day.
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With most other social issues you can disagree on how you want to do some-thing.
justice
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The demand for equality and social justice - that everyone must be the same - derives from what was originally envy.
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Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.
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Delivery on social justice now seems further away than ever.
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He is a reformer with an outspoken commitment to civil society, social justice , the rule of law and expanded freedom.
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It therefore serves the cause of social justice to take groups as well as individuals into account.
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But I was a greedy child who knew nothing of cliches or social justice .
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He promised administrative reform, social justice , and an end to corruption.
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Commitments to social justice were thrown out of the window in pursuit of a more polarised and unequal economic model.
life
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She's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church.
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Alcohol provided a social life for Dad as well as an escape.
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There is a further theme to do with the collective nature of social life .
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There was also the busy social life of a Broadway gypsy.
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There is a good social life and I've met friends.
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She was thoroughly enjoying herself, she assured Amy, and had a very full social life .
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The social life of the village revolved around the club; the clubhouse was like a den.
order
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Meanwhile, though, his interests in much of his prose gravitated towards the city and the consideration of social order .
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Members of these groups, which are linked together in an organic whole, work cooperatively to maintain the social order .
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The diversity of the spirits thus directly parallels the Akawaio social order .
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There are people in these centers of participation in the social order .
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The sense of insecurity which affected the city-states of Mesopotamia led to a rudimentary interest in the history of social order .
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For now we can proceed in terms of dealing with a fundamental social order which can be usefully described as disorganized capitalism.
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It was hoped by this means to produce an acceptable social order without the overt use of force.
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And such explanations only contributed to the existing capitalist social order .
policy
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To this principle of social policy , add a principle of government.
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Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth, they dominate political, economic, and social policy .
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But in the study of social policy , the importance of individuals should not be wholly underestimated.
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Within social policy , however, the power of the doctors provides related examples.
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Unlike those stressed above, these are questions about the impact of social policy upon economic policy rather than the other way round.
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Nevertheless, the key decisions about resources for the social policy sector will be regarded as economic policy decisions.
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It was important to sketch in some of the history of developments in social policy .
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So they conclude with a social policy agenda.
problem
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This may be a social problem or a sociological problem.
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Hughes writes on a number of social problem topics, but at least some of this is in response to specific invitations.
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We will pay special attention to the underlying social problems in high-crime areas, particularly to prevent young people drifting into crime.
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Scarcely a single social problem was left untouched.
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Students would be too busy with real life to be bothered about social problems and conditions.
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As regards social problems , it is always easier to talk about a fair distribution of wealth than to impose it.
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Bereaved men often talk about their social problems being rather more connected with their homes than outside them.
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The widespread collapse into an enervated self can not be attributed solely to the economic and social problems of our day.
relationship
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These are, however, necessary consequences of the division of labour and the consequent role of trust in social relationships .
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Being passive, she can never crete the paternal law that orders social relationships .
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How useful these data are in revealing anything new about human social relationships depends very much on how we interpret them.
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Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
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Other techniques are available for obtaining insights into people's world-view and social relationships , and some will be briefly described here.
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Every social relationship entails a state of indebtedness just as every state of indebtedness entails a social relationship.
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The social relationships engaged in by Margaret Nicholson include a wide variety of friends and the stress on family ties is missing.
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This means that the forces of production in a hunting economy will correspond with a particular set of social relationships .
responsibility
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Their sense of social responsibility is to society at large.
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These arguments make perfect sense in a free-enterprise business with no social responsibility .
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However, the concept of social responsibility and service is of limited use in developing a radical social movement.
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There is a separation between science and ethics, between technology and social responsibility .
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The fourth type of press theory put forward is that of social responsibility .
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Perhaps most important of all, however, is Bateson's treatment of the issue of social responsibility .
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The first involved the social responsibility of management.
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To ignore those who live at home is unacceptable; it runs counter to a general sense of social responsibility .
skill
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To develop imagination and learn social skills .
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Our students are markedly lacking in social skills , the ability to meet people and to get along with them.
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They see individual achievement as rewarding for men, social skills as rewarding for women.
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But the concern over work inhibition is not language; it is the development of social skills .
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It is also a major social skill .
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Health and safety habits must be learned as well as recreational pastimes, social skills , and establishment of interpersonal relations.
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Thus, social skills involve assessing the skills of the other person, a process known as mutual construing.
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Her strengths are impressive: her competence in the world, her highly developed social skills , her humor, her warmth.
status
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Despite these disadvantages, many older people have been able to maintain their social status by remaining active, alert and healthy.
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Hughes makes the discovery of social status an intriguing undertaking.
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There is now a social status attached to non-manual jobs, to being a two-car family and so on.
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It was a sign of Low Rent origins, of inferior social status , of poor taste.
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In social status they varied considerably.
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Despite the invention of Bloomsbury morality, Woolf was trapped by her lack of money, education and social status .
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They discriminate against you because of colour, never mind that you have the same social status .
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The Durava was a considerably smaller caste than the Salagama, and its social status was probably slightly lower.
structure
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This social structure is itself unequal, and works to the benefit of this dominant group.
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Its average age will essentially depend on the ambient social structure .
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These fundamental economic relations shape, in addition, all other aspects of the social structure .
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It is not just life that breaks down, but social structures and mores, the whole container of civilization.
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Christine tells me how there is no distinction on the island between religious belief and social structure .
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Marxist analyses of the social structure suggest that the political system is dominated by representatives of the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class.
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The value-science integrate was socially situated in that the values were seen as specific to a given social structure .
system
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Power and influence are what social systems live on.
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To last for very long any social system needs to be buttressed by a powerful integrating ideology.
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The social system has certain basic needs which must be met if it is to survive.
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Robert Foley is an anthropologist at Cambridge University who has tried to piece together the history of our social system .
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Each state agreed to recognise and respect the other, including their respective political and social systems .
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There is no longer any free space where individuals might develop alternative cultural and social systems .
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In order to show this Marx explains the simultaneous growth of both the ideology and the social system of capitalism.
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A person admitted to a residential home is joining a different social system , away from the family.
welfare
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Conservatives are right when they argue that government social welfare activities are antithetical grafts on the root stock of capitalism.
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That does not mean it makes no difference to social welfare which rules we settle upon.
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Through her contacts with corrections and social welfare agencies, she had more than half a dozen different caseworkers.
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In all countries that we studied paraprofessionals constitute the bulk of the social welfare work-force.
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The initial concern with social welfare was further demonstrated by the provision of state-hired social workers.
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Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit.
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But those problems are real and the social welfare state is in retreat.
world
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Thus understanding the social world of vulnerable elderly people involves exploring the meaning of death in a personal way.
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Virtually all of them see their academic institutions as complex social worlds with competing pressures and multiple tasks and goals.
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The social world of the 1950s was profoundly different.
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But can the same be said about the social world ?
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The rules of the social world are, from a hermeneutic point of view, importantly different from causal laws.
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When the young worker's social world was bounded by his village such considerations did not matter.
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Individuals and their relationship to the social world were also the prime concern of Thomas.
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Clowns in the social world of soccer fans, are the pathetic figures who will never make it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Social Security
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an increase in spending on Social Security and Medicare
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Can you write your Social Security number in the box please?
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How'd you find it, living on Social Security?
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Once I've paid for my rent and food, most of my Social Security is used up.
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The government faces strong opposition to its proposals to cut Social Security payments.
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After two years of being on experimental drugs for her epilepsy, Harlan got on Medicare via Social Security disability.
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Decisions of tribunals may be appealed to the Social Security Commissioners on a point of law.
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However, I have an equally strong conviction that a balanced-budget amendment is a threat to Social Security and our economic health.
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Last but certainly not least, Social Security and Medicare have been very good deals for participants.
a political/social etc animal
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I was never a political animal .
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One advantage in being a social animal is that one need not discover practices for oneself.
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To Freud man is a social animal without being entirely a socialized animal.
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Unlike Wellington, Harriett was a political animal through and through, whose ambition was that her men should succeed.
social services
social/legal/political etc framework
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But he accepted the social framework of his day and the status and role of women within it.
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He tries to provide for reform within a political framework and he introduces consensus, as a social control variable.
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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It summarises geological knowledge of metalliferous mineralisation, reviews current and past exploration, and describes its administrative and legal framework .
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No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
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Some relate to the present legal framework .
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The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.
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What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
social/personal/sex etc life
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Full of character, Paxos has an easy social life , ideal for people on holiday by themselves.
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He considered her sound as a bell in most ways, apart from this mad preoccupation with Nicandra's social life .
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He frequently attempted to deflect criticism of his administration and personal life by characterizing such allegations as the product of white racism.
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He would state all these things and would add that Citizen Oswald takes no part in the social life of the shop.
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She didn't have many friends and not much of a social life .
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The next programme started - an analysis of political and social life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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The social life of the island was in disarray.
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They are active shoppers and visibly social, using their social life to forward their careers.
the political/social landscape
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A minority government would represent a change in the political landscape .
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His words transformed the political landscape .
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In the name of democracy, they are transforming the political landscape to make democracy marginal.
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In the public sphere, women must assume sufficient power to change the cultural imagery and the political landscape .
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Large-scale, bureaucratic organizations are the dominant features of the political landscape .
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Such commentators have argued that the breakdown of morality in the 1960s has had lasting effects on the social landscape .
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This gap is one of the most prominent features on the political landscape at the dawn of 1996.
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Women, who had up to 1945 been barred from participating in elections, changed the political landscape by becoming voters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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social changes that brought women even greater freedom
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demands for social change
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Elephants are social animals.
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Governments have made efforts to improve women's social and economic status.
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Rising unemployment led to even more social problems.
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the struggle for social justice
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As yet there has been little research considering early retirement among women and its social meaning and impact.
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Full of character, Paxos has an easy social life, ideal for people on holiday by themselves.
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Here we need to rely on our social scientific knowledge about our own legal and social institutions.
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Not least important, marriage is a great social stabilizer of men.
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Our social worker came and he said Mum had told him I had a boyfriend.
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Subjectivity becomes contained in discourse: a solution which does not deal adequately with its complicated place in psychology and social relations.
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The child at the stage of concrete operations can assume the viewpoint of others and spoken language is social and communicative.
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True believers are adamant that without annexation there can be no financial or social equity in Tucson -- end of discussion.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A synagogue canceled its ice cream social and auction sale.
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She looked like the kind of girl you would have met at a church social .
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There would be whispers at the church socials, catty remarks behind her back in the supermarket aisles.
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This is not to underestimate the Club's previous social calendar which for many years included successful dinner dances and club socials.
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We also hold socials, parties, and organise day trips, again free of charge.