What is "societal"

Usage examples of "societal".

Many women consider that men are emotional cripples in all walks of life, but particularly as grievers, because of societal emphasis on so-called masculine attributes of self-reliance.

I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.

Proving the importance of the prom from both a societal as well as a BIOLOGICAL point of view!

The man whose worship is pure and undiverted from God will be the first link in a chain of family and societal healing.

In past eras, the leaders and ruling families of the Arab world could claim legitimacy from divine right, military conquest, traditional societal structures, descent from the Prophet, or Pan-Arabism.

Our basic societal conception of foreplay endorses the reflex-based approach to sexual interaction, at the expense of a truly impulse-based psychogenic approach.

Clinton, along with the societal cross-dressing social revolutionaries who thrived under his leadership, acted immorally in many nonsexual arenas.

In the centuries that Liokukae has been used as a societal galactic wastebin there has been a rather deadly shaking down.

M: I have listened to Rush on many occasions, and in general have the same societal and political concepts in mind - all Ayn Rand, at their basis.

The most common societal channeling of emotions is that girls can cry and boys can rage.

Taylor maintains that each succeeding social holon "builds upon the properties and societal experiences of the level(s) below and in turn contributes its own 'emergent qualities,' which take the form of new technologies and societal structures, accompanied by new apperceptions of the human-environment relationship.

In addition to that coarse correlation between regional population size and type of society (band, tribe, and so on), there is a finer trend, within each of those categories, between population and societal complexity: for instance, that chiefdoms with large populations prove to be the most centralized, stratified, and complex ones.

If no one else knew Sana, if she were, to the rest of Denver, now only a diabolized assailant come up out of the darkness of the societal unconscious to rend all that was intellectually pure and spiritually sanitary, the Elves knew her, and they knew lies when they heard them.

Also entries in the anthro files under genocide, slavery, cultural pathology, xenophobia and societal devolution.

Strong bonds were formed quickly and easily between individuals of both genders, an early evolutional and not societal development.