Collocations withsociety
These are words often used in combination withsociety.
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advanced society
But progress has its price, and the task is a difficult one-the task of adapting to an advanced society.
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affluent society
The ecological approaches modelled palaeolithic societies as living on the edge and always in need, but also led to such qualifications as the original affluent society and the original ecologists.
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ageing society
Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society.
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agrarian society
Property transmission within the family and kin groups - an allegedly pre-modern pattern - proves to be a concomitant of the modernization of an agrarian society.
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agricultural society
Particularly in the sixteenth century, this had become a heavily polarized agricultural society.
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bourgeois society
He interpreted the incident as a microcosm of revolutionary longing thwarted by bourgeois society.
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breakdown of society
If continued, it could lead to the breakdown of society.
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capitalist society
In the process, the book raises several important issues about the formation and maintenance of residential space in one capitalist society.
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capitalistic society
I believe that inflation is, as it were, something which is with us; a permanent part of our capitalistic society.
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cashless society
We are certainly moving towards the cashless society.
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changing society
Family caregiving in a changing society : the effects of employment on caregiver stress.
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choral society
I was a chorister at school for a few years and my wife sings with our local choral society.
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civil society
One extension of this point returns us to the issue of institutional structures within civil society.
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civilian society
The 1960s, with the breakthrough of civilian society, thus became a turning point.
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civilized society
It was not a mighty step in the emergence of a civilized society.
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classless society
A truly classless society would emerge as everyone co-operated on an equal footing.
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closed society
We can never return to the alleged innocence and beauty of the closed society.
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compassionate society
We in this country assume that we are a compassionate society.
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contemporary society
In contemporary society, there are strong social norms against such envy.
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decent society
The freedoms traditionally associated with political participation-speech, press, association and assembly-fall well outside the pale of rights a decent society must honor.
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democratic society
Throughout, her analysis is informed by an awareness of the contradictions and tensions inherent to the role of the police in a democratic society.
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diverse society
This was a critical step in the highly charged symbolic process of pluralising popular culture in a small but extremely diverse society.
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divided society
Polarisation did not, of course, diminish, but rather increased, as the divided society sped towards its own fulfilment in civil war.
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dominant society
These contacts had fuelled aristocratic competition, albeit within a limited regional framework, and helped shape the evolution of the dominant society.
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egalitarian society
Rectifying losses in athletic contests is not in the core of what an egalitarian society owes its members.
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equitable society
Most importantly of all are the actions of world trade, however, in order to ensure a fair and more equitable society for all.
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feudal society
The burghers had grown strong in feudal society and wanted a suitable position among the estates.
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free society
In a "free society" what grounds are there for restricting the freedom of adults to purchase, and of medical practitioners to sell, cosmetic surgery?
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given society
In theory, the necessity for welfare provision by other sectors increases with the advancement of modernity in a given society.
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harmonious society
The main strategy of the illustrated weeklies was to promote the image of a harmonious society without major conflicts.
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hierarchical society
One part of the common good condition is that a decent hierarchical society must honor human rights.
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historical society
After representations had been made by the local historical society, a year was allowed for people to raise the necessary funds to restore the building.
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horticultural society
We all know what the local societies, such as the county archaeological society, and the village scientific or horticultural society, mainly are.
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humane society
However, in a humane society, we must condemn any system that prevents those mistakes from being rectified now.
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hunter-gatherer society
They are a rare example of a complex hunter-gatherer society that constructed large scale monuments.
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ideal society
In a second sense, this ideal society also serves as a metaphor for the autonomous classroom or school.
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inclusive society
The editors themselves acknowledge in their concluding remarks that the idea of an inclusive society as a real and concrete possibility, rather than an ideal, remains partially unrealised.
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industrial society
He argues that this conceptualisation builds a refuge of meaning within the bourgeois romantic critique of industrial society.
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industrialized society
Conversely, these family forms were reduced drastically in the fully industrialized society of 1935, with intensifying family ties.
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integrated society
As well as an integrated transport policy, we must have an integrated society.
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learned society
It is not intended to form yet another learned society with its panoply of officers and costly printed journal.
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literate society
Education entailing normative values has always been a part of literate society.
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litigious society
A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
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mainstream society
Its ' profound differences,' in music style, tone, and costume, were considered alien to the values and lifestyles of the mainstream society.
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male-dominated society
Littleness, smoothness, and delicacy are specifically mentioned among these qualities: ones associated with femininity, and inducing a sense of pleasure and affectionate superiority in a male-dominated society.
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matriarchal society
As women live longer than men, the businesses will be increasingly concentrated into the hands of grandma—the matriarchal society.
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medieval society
Assessing women's position in medieval society is rendered even more difficult as a result of the limited number of historical records available.
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missionary society
Therefore, the missionary society will not have to worry their heads about it.
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modern society
Here, for the first time, empirical data are presented which adequately address the complexities of old age in modern society from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.
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multi-ethnic society
The two short streets - measuring together just over two hundred metres in length - formed a 'micro' multi-ethnic society.
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multicultural society
Is it plausible to uphold a strong version of the duties of citizenship in a de facto multicultural society?
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multiracial society
In a proper multiracial society the law would be able to accommodate marriage customs based on a variety of traditions.
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national society
Not until the ' democratic spring ' of 1944-54 did this ' separate and unequal ' structuring of national society undergo substantive change.
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organized society
So, too, only an organized society can generate alternatives and act upon them.
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patriarchal society
Getting married confirmed a man's entry into patriarchal society, conferring new social roles and responsibilities.
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plural society
This study is more concerned with how the 'plural society' initially emerged rather than how it functions as an analytical concept.
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pluralist society
However, he sees major political and constitutional obstacles to the creation of a more pluralist society that such a resolution implies.
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pluralistic society
As in any massive, decentralized effort in a pluralistic society dominated by mass media, success depends upon continuing and concerted visibility and effective communication mechanisms.
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post-industrial society
A hallmark of a post-industrial society is the prevalence of the white-collar, service sector rather than the blue-collar, industrial sector in its economy.
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pre-industrial society
In this perspective industrial child labour seems to appear as an example of exploitation of children handed down by the pre-industrial society.
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primitive society
It is not only the effect, but the goal: war is at once the cause of and the means to a sought-after effect and end, the segmentation of primitive society.
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prosperous society
She portrays it as a byproduct of an increasingly prosperous society.
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secular society
In a more secular society, church bells and other religious signals lost their significance for many people.
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segregated society
It is a segregated society of shop assistants, warehousemen and clerks.
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socialist society
A socialist society in which no class makes another its tool would result.
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stable society
Theorising about old age tends to assume a stable society as a background to change.
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stratified society
All such factors are crucially important to understanding human relations in a region known for its extremely stratified society.
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technological society
The click is discussed as being an essentially substitutive function within the music, having parallels in modern technological society.
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tolerant society
Although both men desired to promote a tolerant society, they sought to achieve it within very different cultural and national frameworks.
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totalitarian society
If ever he were to live in a totalitarian society, he would be the first to have his head chopped off.
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tribal society
A tribal society confined by repression and colonial domination has all the more reason to seek and celebrate the excitement of dancing with death.
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unequal society
An economically unequal society will also be an emotionally unsupportive society.
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utopian society
Corbett's narrator's cold, dank study, functioning only as a framing device, is nonetheless the novel's absent centre, the empty space at the core of her utopian society.
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western society
Unlike their dreams of the freedom and openness of western society, often what they find is a profound sense of emptiness that seizes them ferociously.
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