Sentence examples for social adaptations from inspiring English sources

According to this view, bias, lack of logic and other supposed flaws that pollute the stream of reason are instead social adaptations that enable one group to persuade (and defeat) another.

As advocated by Shutes, studies of contextualised pastoral systems allow understanding of the social adaptations that have emerged to mediate seasonal shortage, risk and uncertainty.

Moreover, it is distinguished between system-centered adaptations that enable proper functioning in educational contexts, and social adaptations that address typical information processing biases.

Each period is characterized by distinctive technological and social adaptations.

Nevertheless, each clearly recognized that most social adaptations are locally disadvantageous.

We admire these virtues and call them social adaptations because they are good for others and for society as a whole--but they are not locally advantageous.

Social adaptation was measured with the Socialization, Living Skills, and Communication domains of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, interview edition (VABS; Sparrow, Balla, & Cicchetti, 1983).

It is with a hopeful political message that he concludes this compendious account of the interaction between biological and social adaptation.

In the mid-1990's, the orientation planners realized that social adaptation was crucial to academic success and must be the focus of the week.

In Social Theory and Social Structure (1949; rev. ed. 1968), Merton developed a theory of deviant behaviour based on different types of social adaptation.

Alzheimer's disease, also known as AD, is a neuro-degenerative disease that affects cognitive functions, further impacting patients' behaviour and social adaptation.