"societal tension" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the tension or conflict that exists within a society, typically due to differences in beliefs, values, or socio-economic status. You can use "societal tension" in various contexts, such as in academic writing, news articles, or social commentary. Here is an example: "The recent political climate has only heightened the societal tension between the rich and the poor, leading to protests and unrest in many parts of the country."
Without political intervention, more societal tensions will come from job-stealing robots, he believes.
Throughout history, irony has served useful purposes, like providing a rhetorical outlet for unspoken societal tensions.
The newly launched startup's insensitivity hit some pretty tender nerves during a time when cultural and societal tensions are high.
Through these connecting points in Ana's and Europe's situation, we wish to illustrate and discuss some of the personal as well as societal tensions and challenges in terms of citizenship and citizenship formation in Europe of today, in an era of international migration.
Societal tensions add to the pressure to solve China's huge environmental problem.
If we can defuse these societal tensions before they erupt--even a little--they do not break out into social violence.
The Survey on the Global Agenda supports this viewpoint, revealing that experts all over the world consider rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa to be the biggest challenge facing the world in 2014.
Haynes played the different societal tensions against one another -- the racism and oppression of women an open secret, the homophobia a buried one -- building to a tragic crescendo for its interracial soul mates while unexpectedly granting its gay spouse a blissful escape.
This paper applies ideas from Beck, Power and Collins & Evans to investigate why crises triggered by societal risks heighten tension between self-regulated experts and the state, and why this increased tension threatens professional self-regulation.
This illustrates how transition in norms at a societal level causes tension at the individual and community levels [ 18, 39].
