Sentence examples for social instruments from inspiring English sources

While reducing us to consumers, free market fundamentalism also corrodes, corrupts or demonizes all other basic social instruments, like effective government programs and regulations.

Emily and Vryling's mighty mockery of New England mores with their rapier-like aphorisms is also a mockery of the social instruments, of church and family, government and press, with which Emily herself is restrained and relegated to her own narrow limits in pursuit of a boundless inner freedom.

The concept arose out of several critiques of the early dominant emphasis on organizations as social instruments rationally designed to achieve specified goals.

Is it an economic motor or a social instrument?

It is by definition a social instrument, turning middle managers into bullet-point dandies.

She was also known as one of two co-authors of a monograph, "Day Care as a Social Instrument," written for the Ford Foundation in the early 1960's.

At about this time taxation began to be regarded as a social instrument, but it was not until 1910 that graduated rates were introduced and an abatement was granted of £10 per child to taxpayers whose income did not exceed £500.

Stevenson applied this emphasis to the competition between people with different ends, and stressed the role of moral language as a social instrument for persuasion (Ethics and Language, Ch. 5).

This paper presents the philosophy and the preliminary results of these projects and suggests that a reformed school seems to be the only efficient social instrument for promoting creativity on a large scale.

Flexner himself had expressed the public health ambition that doctors would become a "social instrument... whose function is fast becoming social and preventive, rather than individual and curative".

The psychometric qualities of the instrument, as in all social network instruments, are acceptable.