Example sentences of "[adj] about the social " in BNC.

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1 They are important in understanding the instincts lying behind people 's relations to ethnic , racial and nationalist politics but we need to become much more specific about the social and historical circumstances in which these latent feelings are actually felt and expressed .
2 Being clear about the social purpose of the organisation ( in management jargon , its mission and core values ) , and using this to clarify the nature of its relationships with users and provide an ethical system of values to guide behaviour , is a key task for managers and politicians jointly .
3 To date , the social representation theorists have tended to be somewhat vague about the social conditions which foster the development of social representations , as understood in the particular sense .
4 The organisation is glum about the social consequences for Europe .
5 Bodo asked about the building trade in West Germany , Herr Nordern about economic planning , Frau Nordern was curious about the social welfare services , and Paul asked about rock and roll , about which Karl modestly denied all knowledge .
6 First , to the extent that nationalized natural monopolies made losses because marginal costs lay below average costs , the government became increasingly concerned about the social cost of the distortions introduced elsewhere by the taxes required to finance these losses .
7 Employees may also be worried about the social life in the new area and leaving their friends behind .
8 What is , however , essential is that Posidonius was very worried about the social turbulence of his time , even if it did not affect his home island , Rhodes , as seriously as the Greek mainland .
9 Many of the early sociologists were anxious about the social changes occurring around them and wanted to establish sociology as a comprehensive scientific discipline , charged with discovering sociological laws of behaviour and constructing social policy based on these laws .
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