Example sentences of "[noun sg] to social [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , the marked advance of women in education and in the professions in the seventies was a notable , if belated testament to social advance , even if some of this progress owed much to the belligerent assertiveness of the feminist movement as well .
2 Sociologists ' strictures about loss of familiarity due to the disruption to social life , as in the study of Bethnal Green ( Young and Wilmott , 1957 ) , at first went largely unheeded , though their conclusions were unmistakable : Abercrombie 's Greater London Plan had now to be looked at in rather a different light .
3 Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level .
4 I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime .
5 Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity .
6 Spencer insisted that free enterprise was the key to social progress , and used biological evolutionism to argue that Nature itself exhibited a universal tendency towards progress .
7 And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures .
8 The key to social satisfaction is in meeting like-minded people with a mutual interest — whether or not they happen to have a hearing loss is incidental .
9 ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits as most have no recourse to social protection when employment or training places are not available to them , ’ the report says .
10 The recourse to social control measures has been entirely removed from this Act and can now be invoked only under general statute that regulates powers to suspend individual rights ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch. s. 1666 ) .
11 The purpose of the new rules is to ensure that there is no recourse to social security benefits or access to housing .
12 In developed and developing countries alike indigenous paraprofessionals seem to be more effective than professionals in working with certain clients and communities or at the very least they are seen as adding a valuable dimension to social service provision .
13 This dimension to social policy is especially relevant to the question of how public intervention in the lives of families where child care difficulties have arisen can be most effective .
14 Discussion of less traditional approaches and concerns continues with reference to social work and citizens ' charters , citizenship and participation .
15 There is a reference to social class disadvantages in the English report , but overall there is no clear target group .
16 Henry Maudsley in the 1860s , for example , developed the notion that masturbatory insanity was characterised by intense self-regard and conceit , extreme perversion of feeling and corresponding deranging of thought , and later by failure of intelligence , nocturnal hallucinations , and suicidal and homicidal propensities , all characteristics which doomed the boy to social disaster .
17 Such typologies are useful if , and only if , they bear some correspondence to social structure and social processes as perceived by social actors .
18 The theory underpinning crisis intervention is of particular relevance to social work practice with old people and their families .
19 The right to social protection . "
20 Students would lose the right to social security benefits , but the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals last night pledged to fight this element — only referred to in the bill 's preface — throughout its parliamentary passage and the courts if necessary .
21 Its core would be those states which are committed to making European co-operation work across the board from security to social policy : Germany and its immediate neighbours .
22 That does not mean it makes no difference to social welfare which rules we settle upon .
23 The truth is that pop is of much greater danger to social democracy than it is to capitalism .
24 There was , however , one overriding reason for taking the conventional approach : much of the existing literature on women 's domestic roles draws attention to social class differences in women 's satisfaction with domesticity ; middle-class women are supposedly more dissatisfied than working-class women .
25 Those who operate according to total ignorance about the women 's movement also pay scant attention to social class and race as critical concerns in the content and teaching and provision of what passes as adult education .
26 The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual .
27 Alongside ( and reinforcing ) the shift in responsibility for residential care from health to other agencies was , therefore , a shift to social security budgets as a major source of development monies .
28 Consequently , alcohol abuse should be dealt with not as a problem in itself , but as an individual 's reaction to social distress .
29 By the early 1970s a typical continental European country was devoting a little over 20 per cent of GDP to social expenditure , the United States and United Kingdom 17–18 per cent , and Japan 10 per cent .
30 Spencer argued that sexual difference was a product of mankind 's successful adaptation to social survival and that it should be understood in terms of women 's individual evolution being arrested earlier than men 's to permit the conservation of their energies for reproduction .
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