According to COCA, societal, while largely used in academia, also sees significant use in magazines and newspapers. It also convincingly outscores social when collocated with terms such as shift and estrangement. On the other hand, the use of societal worker, societal service, societal justice etc., do not register on COCA's scales.

2015年12月9日 · I'm looking for a word that summarizes the following: real estate in neighbourhoods that add value to people’s societal activities and social life, to residents and others, that is paid or sponsored by government, regardless who or what kind of organization or enterprise handles or possesses it.

2015年9月5日 · You'll have better luck defining race by ancestral geographical origin, but only for making valid statements about correlations within populations, not about individuals. And geographical origin isn't always a good fit for societal definition of race. Please forgive me for leaving to you the task of researching the term "human genetic diversity."

2014年10月10日 · There is a girl in my lab who, despite having been corrected numerous times in the past, continues to disregard the lab procedures regarding chain of command. She constantly goes over supervisors' ...

2014年8月5日 · Your understanding of the meanings conveyed by the words is sound, but it's your understanding. In the way they are generally used, there is considerable overlap in the 'meaning' conveyed by them When my trainee teachers wrote lesson plans, they knew exactly how to word their aims and objectives, and would be corrected if they use these words …

2010年8月14日 · What is the plural form of "status"? I agree that today a similar question would be considered off-topic and probably migrated to ELL but the risk with closing under researched questions is that one day, not today, not tomorrow but maybe in six months time or in five years, this page will be deleted.

2019年9月25日 · Additional to user067531's excellent answer: In English people will often use derogatory words (or variants of those words) in ways that would typically be viewed as hurtful, but given the context in which they're used they become almost an in-joke.

2018年6月1日 · This film is a coming of age story about a young man who rebuffs societal norms and the expectations of his parents on his path to maturity. The word rebel has become the optimum word choice for North American English speakers who are trying to characterize a person who disregards society norms.

2011年10月23日 · An "average" person is a normal person BY DEFINITION. "Normal" means "close to" average (in statistics), but plus or minus. It is this "plus or minus" part that allows "normal" to be NOT average. Even so, it would mean that the deviation from average is a "normal" or usual amount, and not "way out."

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