The phrase "socially harmful" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe something that has a negative impact on society, such as harmful behavior, activities, or beliefs. For example, "The results of the study have shown that smoking is a socially harmful practice that poses serious health risks."
He delivered the inaugural Oscar Mendelsohn lecture in 1971 at Monash University and advocated policies for Australia such as population control, prevention of war, long-term plans for the management of the environment and natural resources, Aboriginal land rights, socialism, recycling, advertising bans on socially harmful products, and more regulation of the environment.
As the main form of communication between birds (who think in a flock mentality) is vocalization, trying to hinder "normal" vocalizations (which just happen to be more frequent in the morning and at dusk) can be socially harmful, which can in turn lead to physical harm.
They will be socially harmful if they result in marginalizing those most at risk from those exposures.
But he knew the sport was becoming socially harmful and feared that it might end up outlawed.
Drug laws have become the most arrogant, pointless and socially harmful foible of centralised power in modern times.
Money invested in very profitable but socially harmful industries — oil, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling, for example — can undo the good accomplished by the money earned from those investments.
Christopher Carpenter, who ran the study, said: "In general, the 'dark side' of Facebook requires more research in order to better understand Facebook's socially beneficial and harmful aspects in order to enhance the former and curtail the latter.
This paper argues that the government gains the greatest legitimacy when regulating for the protection of harms to others, but even paternalism can support state action when health risks are socially embedded and harmful to the public.
The reason that hate crime legislation identifies attributes requiring special protection must be not because these particular facets of human identity are any more or less meaningful, interesting, valuable, or morally significant than plenty of others (for instance, class) but that these factors are currently ones which are subject to socially undesirable and harmful discrimination.
But let's say that the VC Fund organizes as a Series LLC and sorts its companies into different Series, i.e., environmentally-friendly, environmentally-harmful, socially-conscious, socially-apathetic, etc.
But it's tricky to separate the harmful, socially-constructed differences between the sexes and the differences that we're going to have to resort to hardcore genetic engineering to change.
