social

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Society - general words
active citizen
active citizenship
amenity
civilized
consumer society
freeman
human interest
hunter-gatherer
non-segregated
non-segregation
social Darwinism
social engineer
social engineering
sociality
socially
sociological
sociologically
sociologist
sociology
uncivilized

societal | American Dictionary

societal
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/səˈsɑɪ·ɪ·t̬əl/
of or relating to human society:
societal concerns/issues/problems
Rapid societal changes have complicated parents' task.

societal | Business English

societal
adjective
 formaluk /səˈsaɪətəl/us
related to or involving society:
What are the broader societal effects of the Information Society?
societal values

Examples of societal

societal
These obvious gender differences in societal roles may potentially translate into gender differences in the sources of social support.
The various and complex cultural, ideological and practical strands discussed above all contributed to the production of idealised societal categories.
Like cooking, cleaning, shopping, and washing, men can do it too, but the societal perception is that these are women's tasks or feminine gendered activities.
This question implies that care is a complex interplay of different societal dimensions, individual behaviour and structural factors.
To inform research priority setting, a measure of the societal value of resolving a particular research question is required.
To what extent can private motivation serve as a mobilizing force for public or societal acts?
Meaningful societal change (of which accountability is likely to be a key part) requires the overhaul of political, legal and social institutions.
Recent literature, in contrast, has tended to reject this stance, arguing instead that military efficiency was influenced heavily by societal culture.
State and society have been debilitated by the former's lack of legitimacy and by cumulative onslaughts on the economy and societal integrity.
Many of these techniques are costly, both on a per-case and aggregate societal basis, and will compete for increasingly scarce healthcase resources.
When the government undertakes activities, the possibility is created for gains to be transferred to individuals for their own advantage, reducing the societal benefits produced.
On the contrary, tying the protection of individual rights to the character and functioning of the society makes individuals hostage to societal fortune.
The societal perspective focuses primarily on the cost-worthiness of a treatment, based on considerations of social distribution, cost containment, and rationing.
They also illustrate how ageing is constantly being negotiated at an individual and societal level, and how successful ageing occurs in different ways.
In its most general form, the utilitarian principle calls for maximizing overall societal benefits.
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