social upheaval
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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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upheaval
noun[C or U]
uk/ʌpˈhiː.vəl/us/ʌpˈhiː.vəl/
a great change, especially causing or involving much difficulty, activity, ...
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(Definition ofsocialandupheavalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, this was a period of economic andsocialupheaval, of agrarian crises and cultural differentiation.
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But innovations spread faster in times ofsocialupheavalgenerally.
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The role of anomie,socialupheaval, and political protest is largely presented as marginal to democratization.
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This had led to poverty andsocialupheaval.
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A shared regional perception of how the world is changing would facilitate adaptation to such changes, and this could minimizesocialupheavaland disintegration.
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They tend to appear, or become more visible, at times ofsocialupheaval, and are easy scapegoats for the widespread uncertainty and insecurity brought on by rapid social change.
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Acceleration of population growth could upset the balance between population and subsistence, and lead to falling living standards, growing political instability and evensocialupheaval.
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The apparently certain life course trajectories of non-disabled men have been increasingly undermined by technological andsocialupheaval.
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And after the experience of a long period ofsocialupheavalthey, in turn, appreciated the stable research environment.
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The strike was called in a context of severe economic, political andsocialupheaval, which the bakery workers believed, wrongly, would benefit their cause.
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Within thesocialupheavalof late modernity, these social relations, and the life course assumptions attached to them, have become increasingly contested.
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This crucial development largely reflected the substantial impact of tremendoussocialupheavalon cultural perceptions of marriage and gender.
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Only in the early 20th century did a profoundsocialupheavaltake place, with many rural individuals migrating to the cities, where they eventually entered the urban working class.
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Bengal became 'unfortunate' aftersocialupheavalin the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries splintered its unity.
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They are prepared to blame the comprehensive schools for every possiblesocialupheaval, evil and delinquency.
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Those frustrations build up until there is asocialupheaval.
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It is asocialupheavalin some quarters of the country of earthquake proportions.
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We should be concerned by all of thissocialupheaval.
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It has increased unemployment, inequalities andsocialupheavalat national and regional level.
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