The phrase "adverse social consequences" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing negative effects or outcomes that impact society or social relationships.
Example: "The new policy may lead to adverse social consequences, affecting community cohesion and trust."
Alternatives: "negative social effects" or "harmful social outcomes."
Gambling regulations are crafted to curb adverse social consequences.
As Friedman and others continually demonstrated, design of public policy without regard to market alternatives has adverse social consequences".
This transaction achieves these objectives without the adverse social consequences for employees that would be likely in most other merger scenarios".
Even the technical, linguistically oriented "Rectification of Names" is liberally sprinkled with comments about the adverse social consequences attending the abuse and misuse of language.
They should also be about the disruption to neighbourhoods, the heartache of being forced to leave a much-loved home, the possible adverse social consequences of dispersing vulnerable people, and so on (it's worth underlining here that the £3m Southwark council house had been too dilapidated for anyone to live in for years).
However, the authors claim that further increases up to the average OECD levels, to reflect long-run marginal production costs, could have adverse social consequences and should be implemented in a stepwise fashion.
When SES was already low before family bereavement, adverse social economic consequences might be more difficult to handle and put an adolescent at an increased risk for internalizing problems [ 10, 37].
41 Intervening early may also help to reduce the adverse social and societal consequences of the disorder for both individuals and their family and carers.
At my college in Cambridge, for instance, the harassment policy fails to state that it will investigate any complaint that is made, or that students who do make a complaint will be protected from adverse social or academic consequences.
There were doubts about the feasibility of sealing the rivers from their flood plains and fears of adverse environmental and social consequences arising from the attempt to do so.
There is ample evidence of the adverse economic and social consequences of child malnutrition.
