The phrase "social preoccupations" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in the context of someone's or a group's singular focus on a particular social issue or cause, often to the exclusion of other concerns. For example, "The mayor's social preoccupations prevented him from focusing on other important governing issues."
After 1900 he introduced his social preoccupations into most of his stories.
Both highly influential products anticipated some of the social preoccupations in the 2000s, she pointed out: sustainability in one instance; customizable, do-it-yourself design in the other.
"Parenting" is one of those words, like "veggie," that worm their way into common parlance on the back of infectious social preoccupations.
If you were trying to design a product that satisfied the social preoccupations of the moment, you couldn't have done better than to come up with a hen.
But as we move back and forth between his unchanging rocks and his ever-evolving clouds, Epstein's historical, temporal, and social preoccupations begin to reveal themselves.
Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison (1854) details with a nice sense of irony the social preoccupations of Adelaide in the mid-19th century, but it was not a well-known novel.
Cerna's love of rural life, together with what Călinescu describes as a "social preoccupation", made him an outspoken opponent of the way in which the authorities handled the peasant uprising of 1907.
Though these people seem to be a careful racial and social mix, their preoccupations are still conveniently English Whimsical.
While sprinting around the Google alphabet, I'm alive to the great 21st-century American preoccupations: social life (Facebook, MySpace), entertainment (Netflix, YouTube, Pandora), real estate (Realtor, Zillow) and, above all, shopping.
But far from promoting social harmony, the preoccupation with talent had produced social breakdown.
(It is not known, however, how far down the social scale this preoccupation extended in reality).
