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<A NAME="socialdarwinism">
<B>social Darwinism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the application of the Darwinian theory of evolution to the origin, growth, and development of human society. <BR> <I>Ex. Social Darwinism ... held that human races evolve like animal species and that the nonwhite races were at the bottom of the evolutionary scale (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocracy">
<B>social democracy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the principles of any one of various political parties advocating a gradual transition to socialism by democratic processes. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=socialism.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocrat">
<B>social democrat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an advocate of social democracy. </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocratic">
<B>social democratic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by or founded on the principles of social democracy. </DL>
<A NAME="socialdisease">
<B>social disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=venereal disease.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any disease that is spread, or is believed to be spread, through direct contact between people, such as infectious mononucleosis. </DL>
<A NAME="socialengineer">
<B>social engineer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in social engineering. </DL>
<A NAME="socialengineering">
<B>social engineering,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the application of the principles of the social sciences to practical social problems. </DL>
<A NAME="socialevil">
<B>social evil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>anything that is a danger to the welfare of people or opposed to the values of society. <BR> <I>Ex. Rat-infested slums and drunkenness are social evils.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=prostitution.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialgospel">
<B>social gospel</B> or <B>Social Gospel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an American Protestant movement of the early 1900's that sought to apply the Christian gospel to social problems and issues. <BR> <I>Ex. The problem in industrialization, with bitter conflicts between capital and labor ... led the churches into preaching the optimistic "Social Gospel" of the early 1900's (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialgospeler">
<B>social-gospeler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a follower or supporter of the social gospel. </DL>
<A NAME="socialinsurance">
<B>social insurance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> insurance of a person against unemployment or illness, through government action. <BR> <I>Ex. There are several types of social insurance, such as accident insurance or workman's compensation, sickness and old-age insurance, and unemployment insurance (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialism">
<B>socialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theory or system of social organization by which the major means of production and distribution are owned, managed, or controlled by the government (state socialism), by associations of workers (guild socialism), or by the community as a whole. (SYN) collectivism. <DD><B> 2. </B>a political movement advocating or associated with this system. <DD><B> 3. </B>the practice of such a system. </DL>
<A NAME="socialist">
<B>socialist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who favors or supports socialism. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=socialistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialist">
<B>Socialist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of a Socialist Party. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a Socialist Party. </DL>
<A NAME="socialistic">
<B>socialistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with socialism or socialists. <DD><B> 2. </B>favoring or supporting socialism. adv. <B>socialistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialistparty">
<B>Socialist Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a political party that favors and supports socialism. </DL>
<A NAME="socialistrealism">
<B>socialist realism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the official aesthetic doctrine of the former Soviet Union which maintained that art, literature, and music are to foster development of a socialist society. <DD><B> 2. </B>the style of art, literature, and music that followed this doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. The slender young Soviet poet ... has reportedly emerged as the new leader in innovations that have sprung up outside the persistent dogmatic socialist realism of Stalinist poetry (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialite">
<B>socialite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the fashionable society of a community. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person active in the social life of a community. </DL>
<A NAME="sociality">
<B>sociality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>social activity; social intercourse. <DD><B> 2. </B>social nature or tendencies. <BR> <I>Ex. The congregating of people in cities and towns shows sociality.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialization">
<B>socialization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of socializing. <BR> <I>Ex. Socialization is a genuine and wholesome identification of a person with the welfare of other persons, of his own group and of other groups (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being socialized. <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of placing or establishing something on a socialistic basis. </DL>
<A NAME="socialize">
<B>socialize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to be social or sociable; enter social relationships with others. <BR> <I>Ex. He has never learned to socialize with his fellow workers.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to establish or regulate in accordance with socialism. <BR> <I>Ex. to socialize transportation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make social. <BR> <I>Ex. to socialize a discussion.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make fit for living with others; adapt to life as a social animal. <DD><B> 4. </B>to adapt to community needs. noun <B>socializer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socializedmedicine">
<B>socialized medicine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the providing of medical care and hospital services for all persons, either free or at nominal cost, especially through government subsidy and administration. </DL>
<A NAME="socialladder">
<B>social ladder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the levels of society, from lowest to highest. <BR> <I>Ex. As an aggressive climber, he rose rapidly on the social ladder.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socially">
<B>socially, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a social way or manner; in relation to other people. <BR> <I>Ex. to be highly developed socially.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>as a member of society or of a social group. <BR> <I>Ex. He is an able man, but socially he is a failure.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialminded">
<B>social-minded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> aware of and concerned with social problems and conditions. <BR> <I>Ex. ... this active, social-minded cardinal is loved for his generosity and simplicity (Newsweek).</I> noun <B>social-mindedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialpathology">
<B>social pathology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the study of the problems and ills of human society, such as poverty, unemployment, crime, and divorce, considered as analogous to bodily disease. <DD><B> 2. </B>these problems and ills themselves. </DL>
<A NAME="socialpressure">
<B>social pressure,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the force of a group on an individual to make him behave more like the members of the group. </DL>
<A NAME="socialpsychiatrist">
<B>social psychiatrist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies or is skilled in social psychiatry. </DL>
<A NAME="socialpsychiatry">
<B>social psychiatry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of psychiatry that deals with the social influences that cause mental disorders and with the application of psychiatry to social problems. </DL>
<A NAME="socialpsychologist">
<B>social psychologist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies or is skilled in social psychology. </DL>
<A NAME="socialpsychology">
<B>social psychology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of psychology concerned with human beings in their relations to each other. </DL>
<A NAME="socialrealism">
<B>Social Realism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an anti-Romantic movement in art and literature primarily concerned with depicting and commenting upon the social, economic, and political problems of the times. The novels of Upton Sinclair and the paintings of the Ashcan School are examples of American Social Realism. </DL>
<A NAME="socialrealist">
<B>Social Realist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a follower or supporter of Social Realism. </DL>
<A NAME="socialregister">
<B>social register,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a list of people who are prominent in fashionable society. </DL>
<A NAME="socialregisterite">
<B>social registerite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person listed in the social register; socially prominent person. </DL>
<A NAME="socialsavings">
<B>social savings,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the difference between the cost of a new technology and the cost of the technology it replaces. <BR> <I>Ex. What would the additional costs have been of transporting the same quantity of goods by the next best alternative--in this case mostly the canals? The difference,--called the "social savings," would be the true measure of the significance of the railways in the American economy (Times Literary Supplement).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialscience">
<B>social science,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the study of people, their activities, their customs, and their institutions in relationship to others. History, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, and civics are social sciences. </DL>
<A NAME="socialscientist">
<B>social scientist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person skilled in one or more of the social sciences. </DL>
<A NAME="socialsecretary">
<B>social secretary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a secretary who makes arrangements for and keeps track of the social activities of a person or group. </DL>
<A NAME="socialsecurity">
<B>social security,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a system of Federal oldage pensions and medical care for retired persons and their dependents, begun in 1935. The program is financed by compulsory contributions from the employee, the employer, and the self-employed. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar system in countries other than the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="socialservice">
<B>social service,</B> <B>=social work.</B></DL>
<A NAME="socialsettlement">
<B>social settlement,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an establishment to improve conditions in a poor neighborhood; settlement house. </DL>
<A NAME="socialstudies">
<B>social studies,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a course of study in elementary and high schools that includes history, civics, economics, anthropology, geography, and other related fields. </DL>
<A NAME="socialunit">
<B>social unit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or any grouping of people considered as a unit in social organization. <BR> <I>Ex. An individual and a family are two different kinds of social units.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the group of residents in a given area of a community which is being redeveloped. </DL>
