The phrase "a function of societal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain factors or phenomena are influenced by or related to societal elements or structures.
Example: "The rise in mental health issues is often seen as a function of societal pressures and expectations."
Alternatives: "a result of societal" or "an outcome of societal".
This suggests that the relationship between race and health varies as a function of the societal context in which it operates.
Of course, the location of a particular problem on this two-dimensional representation also changes as a function of technological and societal changes.
An egalitarian fairness principle may stand strong in socialist societies, where individual behaviour is believed to be shaped by society, and inequality as such is a function of an unfair societal structure rather than being due to any fault of the individual.
This paper presents a modelling approach to visualize the regional spatial and temporal dynamics in landscape service supply as a function of changing landscapes and societal demand.
To capture the function of societal issues in shaping teacher knowledge, qualitative interpretive modes of enquiry have been considered important research tools in the last twenty years (Ben-Peretz 2011).
State failure comes in degrees and is often a function of both the collapse of state institutions and societal collapse.
On the other hand, the societal success of cities is also a function of urban well-being and happiness.
CA adoption is seldom strictly a function of individual profit maximization alone, but also can reflect non-individual or societal interests.
Pentti Malaska's dynamic model of transformation sees societal development as a learning process resulting in social progress as a function of time.
Used unsuccessfully in a letter to the parking violations appeals board last year, his excuse raises the intriguing question of whether service at ground zero in the months of cleanup after the terrorist attack still functions as a sort of societal trump card in New York all these months later.
