modern society

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandsociety

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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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 ofmodernandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Here, for the first time, empirical data are presented which adequately address the complexities of old age inmodernsocietyfrom a truly interdisciplinary perspective.
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He hatedmodernsocietyfor its lack of order and its pluralism, diversities and contradictions and valued modern technology's alleged ability to overcome this chaos.
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And yet any account ofmodernsocietyis likely to point to the contingency of just such areas of agreement.
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Modernsocietyhas witnessed increased longevity and this has raised expectations that the life-span will continue to be stretched.
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Much literature is devoted to the omnipresence of the media inmodernsocietyand the possible trivialization of politics.
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Even pain-rejectingmodernsocietywill demand impassivity under certain circumstances.
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Modernsociety, he says, is fragmented by the division of labor into numerous specializations.
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But the divorce also raised the most fundamental questions about the nature ofmodernsociety.
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The high prevalence and severe outcomes of this disease have made it a major public health concern inmodernsociety.
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Inmodernsociety, medical interventions to remedy fecundity disorders or to cure infecundity are becoming more common.
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It also reflects the rigidity of gender roles and the disadvantaged position of women in earlymodernsociety.
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This is particularly important for our understanding of convents in earlymodernsociety.
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These two examples indicate that religion was an important means of social diversification in earlymodernsociety.
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Every historian of earlymodernsociety, culture, gender, government and religion should make use of this work.
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In almost everymodernsocietythat classifies its population, a census sits at the center of institutional expressions of the ethnoracial order.
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What does this specific case mean for the politics of academia, for the social role of archaeology, and formodernsocietyin general?
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What is under challenge, they argue, is the much vaunted notion thatmodernsocietygirded by rationalscientific pursuits could deliver the good life.
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This development not only eliminated immigrants' institutions, but also put an end to all other decentralized courts which had existed in earlymodernsociety.
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How do you see the role of an economist inmodernsociety?
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