societal concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocietalandconcern
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societal
adjective[before noun]
uk/səˈsaɪ.ə.təl/us/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬əl/
relating to or ...
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concern
noun
uk/kənˈsɜːn/us/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofsocietalandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocietal concern
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Over the past few decades there has been a rise insocietalconcernabout literacy development throughout the world.
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Two leading approaches are what we can call the "perception of risk" framework and the "societalconcern" framework.
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This may or may not fall under the heading ofsocietalconcern.
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In conditions where skin colour is a fundamentalsocietalconcern, theirs must be a state of utter marginality.
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Promotion of cigarettes in general aids individual tobacco firms in the current environment of increasingsocietalconcernfor and legislative responses to the health effects of smoke and second-hand smoke.
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For example,societalconcernseems to include both direct costs - "large-scale detriment" - and indirect costs such as loss of confidence in government and presumably the safety regulators too.
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On the other hand critics of quantified risk assessment argue that it cannot adequately capture all relevant features, such as "societalconcern" and so should be abandoned.
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There was growingsocietalconcernabout domestic violence and increased recognition of the need to address it.
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To address societal concerns and maintain a competitive advantage, farmers frequently feel pressured to incorporate technological advances into their production system7.
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Societal concerns due to the occurrence of multiple fatalities in a single event is known as societal risk.
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Societal risk is therefore a subset of societal concerns.
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Societal concerns and demands do not directly affect farmers' choices of production practices, but do exert substantial influence through political and economic pressures.
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On the other hand, there are societal concerns about falling birth rates and diminution of the working population which still has to finance and care for a growing elderly population.
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The social and societal concerns had existed by then, but it was not that they became incorporated explicitly in the marketing literature.
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