literate society

collocation in English

meaningsofliterateandsociety

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literate
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ət/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ət/
able to read ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofliterateandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Education entailing normative values has always been a part ofliteratesociety.
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Does it mean, he asks, that aliteratesocietyis less oral than a so-called oral society?
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As a result ofliteratesocietycontinually 'raising the ante', therefore, the illiteracy figures rise, and the gap between the more and the less developed countries becomes ever wider.
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It is a terrible thing to be illiterate in aliteratesociety.
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We are doomed unless we recognise that we need to have a totallyliteratesociety.
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All this occurred within a backward and barelyliteratesociety, where oligarchs exercised political control and manipulated the economy.
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An ecologicallyliteratesocietywould be a sustainable society which did not destroy the natural environment on which they depend.
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This highlyliteratesocietyplaces strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16.
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Literacy is the ability to read and write proficiently, which allows one to understand and communicate ideas so as to participate in aliteratesociety.
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It signals a belief that, inliteratesociety, young childreneven one- and two-year oldsare in the process of becoming literate.
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The revolution in high technology is bound to affect the forms of governance in literate societies.
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Children raised in literate societies recognize their names very early.
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Their goal is to create information literate societies by creating and maintaining educational policies for information literacy.
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Literate societies may continue an oral tradition - particularly within the family (for example bedtime stories) or informal social structures.
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