Example sentences of "of social [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all know , there is still great prejudice among speakers of RP against other accents such as Cockney , and in England the correct accent is a mark of social acceptability . |
| 2 | The influx of new upper-class members underlying these changes led to social innovations such as published listings of the gentry and members of ‘ Society ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 90 , citing Davidoff ) , which were a blatant example of social closure in their regulation of social acceptability and status among the propertied . |
| 3 | I had the trappings of success , of social acceptability . |
| 4 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 5 | I 've said little about the rich descriptive skill , the human insight with which he leads the reader through humorous happenings , tragic episodes , through the follies of social manoeuvring and the deceptions of love , through a portrait gallery of adolescent girls , aging homosexuals , upstart socialites , and solidly sensible servants , to an eventual understanding of his , Marcel 's , artistic vocation . |
| 6 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 7 | In our region , communication is a function of social space . |
| 8 | It follows from that objective that the nature of social space can vary , and hence that such variation must occur between places . |
| 9 | This led to a courtly style of social dance which Petipa studied and taught fur some six years in Madrid before returning to St. Petersburg as balletmaster . |
| 10 | Over the preceding half century , new kinds of bourgeois song , for theatre and home , emerge ; new kinds of social dance develop ; there is an explosion in urban street song , often using new kinds of tune ; the commercialization of traditional ( especially Scots and Irish ) song begins ; new kinds of song from industrialized working-class areas are produced ; new kinds of public house entertainments evolve ; organized mass choral singing and wind band movements begin . |
| 11 | The work will include at least three pilot projects in the Third World and a larger number of social experiments in France . ’ |
| 12 | This may be related to a relative lack of social stability : being more frequently single and in less permanent accommodation . |
| 13 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 14 | The breakdown of social stability . |
| 15 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 16 | Conservative writers have developed complex theoretical systems to explain the maintenance of social stability and legitimacy ( see pp. 20 — 21 on Talcott Parsons ) or how industrial society is evolving towards more complex and sophisticated forms ( see pp. 278 — 80 on Niklas Luhmann ) . |
| 17 | Sexual collapse seemed the necessary path of social revolution ; sexual and family decorum a vital part of social stability . |
| 18 | Anxieties about moral standards reflected a deep belief that the roots of social stability lay in individual and public morality . |
| 19 | Under the Republic France had put an end to the frequent changes of regime since 1789 , had achieved a good degree of social stability and guaranteed personal freedoms to its people . |
| 20 | It was immediately hypothesized that the relative degrees of focusing and diffuseness might be related to different degrees of social stability in the communities . |
| 21 | Yet , provided the regional distinction is borne firmly in mind , the work of both groups may serve to illuminate the debate over the prospects of social stability in the countryside . |
| 22 | Both currents of revisionist work , then , contradict liberal optimism about the prospects of social stability in the countryside . |
| 23 | In this way the conflict of interest between the classes is disguised and a degree of social stability produced , but the basic contradictions and conflicts of class societies remain unresolved . |
| 24 | Economically it might be simpler if there was no peasantry , but was not its sturdy conservatism a guarantee of social stability , as its sturdy and numerous progeny were the backbone of most government 's armies ? |
| 25 | Building on Weber 's conception of ‘ status ’ and the way in which such social honour is differentially distributed between social groups , Gusfield notes that , at times of ( rapid ) social change , certain groups may experience an increase or loss of social honour . |
| 26 | A status group is made up of individuals who are awarded a similar amount of social honour and therefore share the same status situation . |
| 27 | Castes and sub-castes were formed and distinguished largely in terms of social honour ; life styles were sharply differentiated and accorded varying degrees of prestige . |
| 28 | Raglan Castle belongs mainly to the 15th century and was as much a product of social grandeur , as it was military necessity . |
| 29 | For Callinicos it is October which made the vision of social transformation ‘ concrete ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed ; for Morris and other Marxists the nature of work necessarily changes in the process of social transformation . |