social acceptance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandacceptance
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk/əkˈsep.təns/us/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofsocialandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The correlation between phonological adaptation and grammatical integration orsocialacceptanceis an empirical question for each speech community.
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These are empirical claims that we suspect cannot be known in advance of the general availability andsocialacceptanceof the techniques.
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However, thesocialacceptanceof such marriages in rural areas remains uncertain.
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For example, knowing the current slang of the peer group is critical tosocialacceptance, especially during the pre-adolescent and adolescent years.
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Others, despite their mobility, were able to attain neither status norsocialacceptance.
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Such behavior would violate his broad definition of rational choice as being a matter of self-interested pursuit of both economic gain andsocialacceptance.
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Formal admittance to the city did not automatically result insocialacceptance.
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In many cases, attending ishthemas became a means ofsocialacceptancein new neighbourhoods.
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At the most general level, they are motivated by needs forsocialacceptance, the control of resources, and predictability.
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Few preventive interventions have given attention to the self-conscious emotions as causal factors insocialacceptanceand peer status in older children.
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To summarize, once an organizational form becomes legitimate, it is unlikely that increased density will substantially affect its degree ofsocialacceptance.
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This said, it is unlikely that once an organizational form becomes legitimate, increased density will substantially affect its degree ofsocialacceptance.
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We hypothesized that being victimized would predict aggressive behavior, attention difficulties, anxiety and depression symptoms, social withdrawal, lowsocialacceptance, school absence, and poor academic achievement.
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Fullsocialacceptanceof this new model was achieved only after heated debate.
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Reform also became a means of gainingsocialacceptancein the new neighbourhoods where people moved to after the violence.
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These are loanwords that have attained a cer tain level ofsocialacceptance, as gauged by their attestation in dictionaries or other publications of word lists.
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Fullsocialacceptanceof this new way of conceiving of medicine, and of the new type of physician trained within it, took longer and was achieved only after heated debate.
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We also need to do this because we needsocialacceptancein 2013.
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