Example sentences of "of social [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 This new element in the village population also tends to create new dimensions of social conflict to replace the rural class antagonisms of the occupational community .
2 The fragmentation we see around us is typical of social paradigms approaching the end of their life : they polarize around some fundamental issues .
3 Instead his theory of social determination transformed the Kantian ‘ a priori ’ , the human capacity to reason , which then filled a role similar to Mannheim 's presuppositions available to social being .
4 This theoretical tradition was that of social liberalism developing the evolutionary and organicist elements of this approach into elaborate bodies of theoretical ideas .
5 The measure of social interaction rated the availability of six provisions of social relationships : attachment , social integration , opportunity for nurturing others , reassurance of worth , a sense of reliable alliance and the obtaining of help and guidance .
6 But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family .
7 Moreover , the threat of social upheaval increased the anxiety of the government 's more moderate critics to see the restoration of order .
8 He certainly feared ‘ class legislation ’ and he recognized the tendency of social legislation to destroy the moral fibre of the nation .
9 The pattern of welfare benefits which had become established was that of social insurance covering the major causes of loss of income and paying flat-rate benefits at no more than survival level with a residual public assistance scheme for those in desperate need who were not covered by social insurance .
10 Problems of social adjustment constituted the most frequent single source of anger outbursts among children .
11 Ultimately , the legal system in this form of social structure defends the economic planning of the State .
12 For if the human mind is modified , in and through social development , it is a necessary emphasis of social studies to examine the cultural forms — for Vico , notably , language — through which social development is manifested .
13 Economic life , more generally , was to be regulated through a ‘ socialist market ’ , but with an improved system of social benefits to protect the disadvantaged from its worst effects .
14 These cortical consequences of social evolution provide the basis for the acquisition of some sort of superego , even if they can not ensure that it is a rational , mature and adaptive one .
15 The central purpose of social services remains the adjustment of individuals rather than any fundamental change in their social environment .
16 Mid-Victorian liberals had supposed that , as the beneficent influence of commerce penetrated the decadent societies of the East , ancient tyrannies would give way more or less peacefully to new principles of social order mirroring the civilization of bourgeois England .
17 Although by that time an elected parliament had become an influential factor in politics , the arbiter of social status remained the court , with its officialdom of ministers , chamberlains , masters of ceremonies — all nobles and mostly descendants of the oldest families .
18 The British Association of Social Workers attacked the care provisions of the 1975 Act as an attempt to undermine working-class parents in particular .
19 The Barclay Report ( 1982 ) on the role and tasks of social workers recognized the limitations of the prevailing ‘ one case/one worker ’ approach to social service provision and felt there was some merit in the neighbourhood- or community-based model of practice , using teams of diverse personnel , led by a professionally-trained worker .
20 However , some of the disinterest of social workers reflects the inherent ageism in our society .
21 Over 50 per cent of social workers gave the questions in all dimensions a rating of 4 or 5 .
22 The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are .
23 It is also a suitable time to look forward to a new Government which will use the Department of Social Security to defend the interests of pensioners , the disabled and others in need , rather than the interests of the Treasury , the wealthy and the political constituencies of the Conservative party .
24 Broadly speaking the struggles of social classes to reproduce the material conditions of their existence are part of , but not exhaustive of , civil society .
25 Durkheim 's identification of the fact of social solidarity captured the spirit of his times .
26 This brave new world of social engineering produces the opposite of community contact .
27 In addition , because of social pressures to limit the level of state pensions and other benefits for those outside the labour force , retirement imposes a lowered social status on the majority of older people in comparison with younger adults in the labour force ( Walker , 1980 , 1992 ) .
28 On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ .
29 It is probably the method most associated with the idea of social research constituting the source of much if not most of social science data .
30 How their absence of social distinction affected the performance of their duties can only be guessed .
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