"social harm" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in discussions of social issues, such as in legal and policy contexts. Example sentence: The government's new policies on immigration have caused significant social harm, leading to discrimination and marginalization of certain communities.
But the social harm continues unabated.
There is no evidence of social harm.
"As a healthcare agent, I think the social harm will be huge".
But the idea that there's a causal connection between things like sexual permissiveness and social harm is obviously fatuous.
And if doing so succeeds in deflecting companies from thinking hard about their costs, actual social harm results.
As ever-larger dams have been built, however, resistance has increased from opponents concerned with the environmental and social harm that such dams can cause.
The evangelicals who are performing these good deeds should look at the potential social harm they are doing, as well as the good.
And file-sharing always will be, unless we start instituting an oppressively authoritarian packet filter on the Internet, which would have enormous social harm and squander the power of the free Internet.
Not potential harm to my feelings, not social harm to my idea of right, not damage to the great precepts of religion or to my stuffy uncle's sense of propriety.
If "free speech trumps any consideration of social harm … almost any showing of harm resulting from hate speech … will be insufficient to justify restrictions on free speech of the kind that we are talking about".
The ban was also criticised last year by the home affairs committee of MPs, which warned it would create tensions between police and immigrant communities and was not based on evidence that using khat caused medical or social harm.
