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so·cial en·vi·ron·ment

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  1. Social environment

    The social environment, social context, sociocultural context, or milieu, refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact. The interaction may be in person or through communication media, even anonymous or one-way, and may not imply equality of social status. Therefore the social environment is a broader concept than that of social class or social circle.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Social Environment

    The aggregate of social and cultural institutions, forms, patterns, and processes that influence the life of an individual or community.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of social environment in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of social environment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of social environment in a Sentence

  1. African Americans:

    Another possible explanation is that African American women of low SES experience higher rates of psychosocial stressors such as chronic stress, depression, discrimination and are more likely to live and work in a worse physical and social environment.

  2. Raphael E. Cuomo:

    The social environment has a major influence on health behaviors that in turn are associated with risk for cancer.

  3. Schindler Chief Executive Thomas Oetterli:

    The divorce rate is a driver of our business, with the changing social environment, there are also changes for our industry that can be a stimulus for growth.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  5. Feng Yuan:

    Under Taiwan's social environment, the external conditions are more conducive for women's organizations to speak out, the space for civil society organizations here is quite limited.


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2 Comments
  • Abbas Muhammad
    Abbas Muhammad
    Social environment refers to the people, values, culture and institutions that are found in any social group.
    LikeReply 45 years ago
  • Hira Mani Subedi
    Hira Mani Subedi
    sabin subedi
    LikeReply 27 years ago

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