(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.
(n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
(n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(5) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(8) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(9) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(10) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(11) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(12) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
(13) Accidental injury is the leading cause of death in persons between the ages of 1 and 50 years in our Western society.
(14) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(15) It is clearly demonstrated that, although it will be very difficult to single out effects of specific safety measures, the combined safety actions taken by a society are very effective in getting the safety factor under control.
(16) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(17) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
(18) The risk of postoperative cerebrovascular accident did not correlate with age, sex, history of multiple cerebrovascular accidents, poststroke transient ischemic attacks, American Society for Anesthesia physical status, aspirin use, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, intraoperative blood pressure, time since previous cerebrovascular accident, or cause of previous cerebrovascular accident.
(19) There is a clear conflict between the economics, society and the politics, the immediate versus the long term.
(20) The ANC has the historical responsibility to lead our nation and help build a united non-racial society."
Sociology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the dental profession defines quality to include psychological, sociologic, and economic factors and establishes measurable standards of performance, dental quality assurance cannot exist in any meaningful way.
(2) The counselor, usually a woman, may have a background or training in social work, psychology, sociology, counseling, or nursing.
(3) These differences are congruent with age-related changes in speech and voice but also might be explained by other physiological or sociological variables.
(4) Western society has undergone a vast sociological change during the 20th century in terms of the value of sexuality.
(5) The article considers three major non-Marxist explanations of the modern welfare state: functionalist sociological theories, economic theories of government policy, and pluralist theories of democracy.
(6) These relationships are seen as pointing to an area which, by systematic investigation, would permit the psychology of personality and the sociology of values to be more closely integrated.
(7) The first two parts of this article examine the place of research on pain in, and its contribution to, the sociological literature.
(8) The results of this sociological survey revealed rumerous socio-economic problems in both areas, but more so in the "old" area.
(9) The physician is called upon to play an essential part in this work, which he can correctly fulfill only by taking into account the sociological, cultural, psychological, educational and prosthetic aspects.
(10) Parental needs were categorized as physical, psychologic, or sociologic in origin.
(11) I was shocked," says the fourth-year sociology student.
(12) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
(13) Glycan chains present on cell surfaces carry specific information of biological importance, which is believed to play crucial roles in cell proliferation and cell sociological behavior.
(14) In a new report from the Campaign for Social Science, we argue that there should be a 10% increase in budgets across the board, with that extra money being directed towards cross-disciplinary research, where the social sciences have a critical role to play in addressing the big problems that will confront the UK over the next decade.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Urry ‘It’s frustrating how social sciences get sidelined in public debate’ John Urry, professor of sociology, Lancaster University, says: “There is no doubt that the casual way in which the social sciences get sidelined in public debate is frustrating.
(15) In parallel with this, a sociological study of women who had been invited by both methods was undertaken in which information was obtained from responders and non-responders on attitudes to health care.
(16) Concepts from medical anthropology and medical sociology are related to five components of health seeking -- symptom definition, illness-related shifts in role behavior, lay consultation and referral, treatment actions, and adherence.
(17) As a feature of social change and as an aspect of social stratification, ageing and age groups have been seriously neglected by sociological theory.
(18) In short, we argue that the sociologic data presented (4) are not consistent with the constant sum model of hemisphericity discussed in that paper.
(19) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(20) In basic cross-tabulations, 63 out of the total 356 psychological and sociological characteristics proved to be differently distributed for men and women.