western society

collocation in English

meaningsofwesternandsociety

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western
adjective
uk
/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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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 ofwesternandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwestern society

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Unlike their dreams of the freedom and openness ofwesternsociety, often what they find is a profound sense of emptiness that seizes them ferociously.
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This, the authors state, reflects a wider consumer interest in health and body matters inwesternsociety.
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Westernsocietyhas come to rely on other people to provide expertise in health care and on science to provide a cure.
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Still, cognition and memory remain components of selfhood in modernwesternsociety, and cannot be merely written off.
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By searching for the origins of modernwesternsociety, the investigation seems as weighted towards understanding ourselves as it does towards the society under scrutiny.
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Inwesternsociety, the body is often regarded as both symbol and product, and a homogenised ideal of body and beauty based on consumer values has wide currency.
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Inwesternsocietytoday, the idea that you survive by making swops between identities, rather than by joining a movement, has acquired the status of orthodoxy.
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Westernsocietyhas not stopped making things, of course; but as a general trend, we are ceasing to be directly physically linked to the making of the things we use.
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It is not the masses, after all, who have failedwesternsociety, but those elites whose very distrust of the masses had led them to take control.
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I have always believed that the epidemic of dieting inwesternsocietyis responsible for the increase in slimming illnesses.
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It is easy for us, in the comfort of an unaffectedwesternsociety, to underestimate the consequences of environmental disruption.
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We are now inwesternsocietyperhaps in the presence of a lot of possibly new diseases.
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All of us, especially in urban areas, face such problems, which are common throughoutwesternsociety.
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