societal goal
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societal
adjective[before noun]
uk/səˈsaɪ.ə.təl/us/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬əl/
relating to or ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofsocietalandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thesocietalgoalis to reduce pollution rather than to avoid paying for unsuccessful pollution control projects.
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Proponents of heavier requirements argue that they are necessary for thesocietalgoalof an educated public that is prepared to participate in democratic society.
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These films are more heterotopian in nature since there is a general lack of some greatersocietalgoal being served and thus becomes people merely justifying their survival over others.
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Instrumental justifications are premised on the idea that punishment serves important societal goals that could in principle be realized by other nonstate agents.
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But the point remains that these are distinct societal goals and may be in tension in specific areas of public policy.
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Sometimes we may prefer to satisfy societal goals at the expense of our own, as when we use public transport rather than a car, or buy more costly "green" products.
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Castells (1992: 57) points out the potential similarities between revolutionary and developmental states : in both cases, the state 'substitutes itself for society in the definition of societal goals'.
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In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity.
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They noted that by ensuring that climate change mitigation goals aligned with societal goals, governments would be able to optimize greenhouse gas reductions.
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It is a multidisciplinary system designed to provide data in forms and at rates required by decision makers to address seven societal goals.
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Some property tax measures also promote the societal goals of community stability and allowing people to remain in their homes even in times of inflation.
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Rebellion is a combination of rejection of societal goals and means and a substitution of other goals and means.
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Working to ensure a better understanding of the role that housing plays in advancing key societal goals 4.
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Conformity is the attaining of societal goals by socially accepted means, while innovation is the attaining of those goals in unaccepted ways.
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