social fabric

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandfabric

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/
us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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fabric
noun
uk
/ˈfæb.rɪk/
us
/ˈfæb.rɪk/
cloth or material for making clothes, covering ...
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(Definition ofsocialandfabricfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsocial fabric

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Technology cannot close every loophole that exists in thesocialfabric.
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However, markets need to be adapted to the localsocialfabricand environmental constraints and have to take into account the legacy of past policies.
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For him 'architecture is metaphoric; architecture is always a representation of thesocialfabric'.
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Structural factors, then, may be moderated by differences insocialfabricat the lower end of the socioeconomic continuum.
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This was the last period in which thesocialfabricof housing was a central theoretical focus for the design professions.
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Pagnol begins by presenting the multiple rifts in thesocialfabricof the village.
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Thesocialfabricof popular music-making introduces the vernacular trappings of clothing, language, attitude and fashion and the opportunity to own them and shape them.
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These religious and political value suppliers sought to instil horizontal co-operation and solidarity in asocialfabricthoroughly pervaded by clientelism.
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In the ethnographies, these two neighborhoods presented a picture of relative similarity in theirsocialfabric.
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Indeed, a wide range of people lead specific musical activities as part of a richsocialfabric.
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The old and new threads with which the newsocialfabricwas woven are described, but in a fashion which leaves loose ends.
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Instead, they emerge as configurations in an existingsocialfabricof interdependent nodes and inter twined relationships.
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As a metaphor, we often speak of a "socialfabric" to illustrate the complexity of social connections in a society.
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Whether these views were anti-family or not, 'weakening' or 'strengthening' of thesocialfabric, is mostly a matter of semantics and of life-style preference.
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Diagnostic concepts like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder mark, for medical intervention, behaviors that both tear at thesocialfabricand bring misery to the afflicted.
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A national press portrayed images of festering, welfare-dependent ghettos where crime, drugs and female-headed families seemed to threaten the moral andsocialfabric.
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At issue is thus a new placement of risk in thesocialfabric.
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This formulation is reflected in the community's traditional customs, religious rituals, ceremonies, ethics, politics, andsocialfabric.
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Such was the character of the threat to thesocialfabricof absolution by the confessors.
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