social reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandreality
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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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reality
noun
uk/riˈæl.ə.ti/us/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofsocialandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocial reality
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Ageing with television : images of television drama and conceptions ofsocialreality.
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A legal interpretation is a decision which mobilizes coercive forces to immediately solidify the interpretation into asocialreality.
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The norms of a certain kind of experimental practice were now equated with the essential structure of thesocialrealityto be investigated.
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In general, conversation analysts believe that there is no independentsocialrealitythat exists separately from the daily social interaction between people.
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A straightforward mapping of a physical theory built for a physical reality onto asocialrealitycould be rather misleading.
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However, thesocialrealityof intergenerational relations means that inheritance has increasingly become part of the debate about the costs of welfare.
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Generally, domestic architecture is still studied as reflecting asocialrealitywithout a dynamic role of its own.
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Like that of their predecessors, their task was to graspsocialreality'with a love of learning, in the direction of progress, for the people!'.
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There is no denial that there is asocialreality, that the expression of meaning and communication are vital.
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In periods of social change, often a need for legitimation of the newsocialrealitycan be felt.
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What is thesocialrealitybehind such a perception?
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Thissocialrealitymakes care-givers vulnerable to manifold constraints that may ultimately lead to failing care.
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Secondly, can they really be descriptive if, like unthinking looking-glasses, they reflectsocialreality?
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Although they differed widely in their motivation, these interventions shared the common desire to effect a radical transformation of rural economic andsocialreality.
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A second problem revolves around the view of language as independently constituitive ofsocialreality.
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And this becomes problematic within a subalternist interpretation because of an oversimplification of a complexsocialreality.
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The relationship betweensocialrealityand myth cannot be taken for granted but must itself be made the subject of analysis.
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It does, however, obscure other dimensions ofsocialreality.
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