| social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people) |
| social dancing | dancing as part of a social occasion |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
| role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting, what is your role on the team? |
| gender role | the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness, your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity |
| social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions |
social welfare
welfare
public assistance | governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need, she lives on welfare |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
| Social Security | social welfare program in the U.S., includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance |
| social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
| social work | any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children |
| social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
function
purpose
role
use | what something is used for, the function of an auger is to bore holes, ballet is beautiful but what use is it? |
character role
theatrical role
part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
bit part
minor role | a small role |
title role
name part | the role of the character after whom the play is named |
| social psychology | the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole |
| social science | the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society |
social anthropology
cultural anthropology | the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society |
| social democracy | the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means |
semantic role
participant role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause |
affected role
patient role
patient | the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
agentive role
agent | the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
benefactive role
beneficiary | the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
instrumental role
instrument | the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process |
locative role
locative | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb |
recipient role
recipient | the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
resultant role
result | the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause |
temporal role
temporal | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb |
| Social Security number | the number of a particular individual's Social Security account |
| social policy | a policy of for dealing with social issues |
| social action | a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) |
intercourse
social intercourse | communication between individuals |
| social event | an event characteristic of persons forming groups |
affair
occasion social occasion
function
social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |
| social group | people sharing some social relation |
class stratum
social class
socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
Social Security Administration
SSA | an independent government agency responsible for the Social Security system |
unit
social unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group, the coach said the offensive unit did a good job, after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit |
club
social club
society guild
gild
lodge
order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
social gathering
social affair | a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship |
sociable
social
mixer | a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity |
| Social Democratic Party | a political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late th century, originally Marxist, now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism |
Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission
ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
social organization
social organisation
social structure
social system
structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships, the social organization of England and America is very different, sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family |
movement
social movement
front | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals, he was a charter member of the movement, politicians have to respect a mass movement, he led the national liberation front |