The phrase "asserting social" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the act of declaring or affirming social aspects, issues, or identities.
Example: "The researcher is asserting social values that are often overlooked in traditional studies."
Alternatives: "declaring social" or "affirming social".
The destruction that the self-regulating market caused was met by attempts to assert social control over market processes.
As someone who graduated from Yale during the first half of the last century, I believe that I can say with some authority that it is not altogether true that, as your article asserts, social status at Yale, Harvard and Princeton in those days was determined by membership in certain private clubs and secret societies.
Birds sometimes use plumage to assess and assert social dominance, to display breeding condition in sexually selected species, or to make threatening displays, as in the sunbittern's mimicry of a large predator to ward off hawks and protect young chicks.
The perfectionism social disconnection model (PSDM) asserts socially prescribed perfectionism confers risk for depression by eroding social self-esteem.
They have issued a noisy assault on the way the social sciences have done business for the last 50 years, asserting that social scientists have a collective phobia about possible biological influences on behavior and an obsession with more "politically correct" environmental explanations.
It also prohibits portraying "the attractiveness" of such relations and bans asserting "the social equivalence of traditional and nontraditional sexual relations".
Two weeks after Bush's Inauguration, Ryan gave a speech at Cato asserting that Social Security was no longer the third rail of American politics.
Nevertheless, Aquinas's use of the Aristotelian axiom, "human beings are naturally political animals" almost always takes it as asserting our social, not solitary, nature – our need for interpersonal relationships both for friendship and for such necessities as food, clothing, speech, and so forth.
They further asserted that social influence was directly reflected when informal social networks exchange information on childbearing [ 31].
