social | meaning of social in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishSociology, Animalssocialso‧cial1 /ˈsəʊʃəl $ ˈsoʊ-/ ●●● S1 W1 adjective     → antisocial, sociable, unsocialCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: relating to meeting people, forming relationships with them, and spending time with themnounssomebody's social life (=activities that involve being with other people for pleasure)Teenagers enjoy an active social life.social skills (=the ability to deal with people easily)In school, the children also learn social skills.social graces (=good and polite behaviour towards other people)I had none of the social graces of my fellow pupils.social contact/interactionWork provides social contact.a social call (=one that does not relate to business)Don't misunderstand, this is purely a social call. Examples from the Corpussocial• The child at the stage of concrete operations can assume the viewpoint of others and spoken language is social and communicative.• Governments have made efforts to improve women's social and economic status.• Elephants are social animals.• demands for social change• social changes that brought women even greater freedom• True believers are adamant that without annexation there can be no financial or social equity in Tucson -- end of discussion.• the struggle for social justice• Full of character, Paxos has an easy social life, ideal for people on holiday by themselves.• As yet there has been little research considering early retirement among women and its social meaning and impact.• Rising unemployment led to even more social problems.• Subjectivity becomes contained in discourse: a solution which does not deal adequately with its complicated place in psychology and social relations.• Here we need to rely on our social scientific knowledge about our own legal and social institutions.• Not least important, marriage is a great social stabilizer of men.• Our social worker came and he said Mum had told him I had a boyfriend. the social order• At the same time, he envisaged these innate and largely egoistic tendencies as threatening to the social order.• For the utilitarian, apparently, it was enough to demonstrate the advantages offered by the social order.• In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order.• Members of these groups, which are linked together in an organic whole, work cooperatively to maintain the social order.• Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order.• There are people in these centers of participation in the social order.• The church ensures that this concept of being part of the social order of things is adhered to.social classes• Students come from a wide variety of social classes.• Coverage by occupational pension schemes is not, however, evenly distributed amongst all social classes.• Private renting tends to be a residual tenure for all the social classes.• The differences between girls and boys are small compared with the differences between localities, types of school and social classes.• To bring about this sense of community, Eliot includes historical and contemporary Londoners of various social classes.• In spite of this, however, differences in infant and adult mortality rates between social classes have widened.• Once thought of as a disorder of upper social classes, it now seems to be well represented across the socioeconomic spectrum.• While she affirmed learning across social classes, Jane Addams was a critic of higher education.• Firstly, hopes that opening the universities to lower social classes might reveal untapped reserves of brain-power have been disappointed. social graces• Dona wanted to be alone and was bored with social graces.• We have a very high premium on courtesy, politeness, observing the social graces.• She seemed like a princess to him, not just for her social graces but for her social standing and wealth.• So Mrs Thatcher, demonstrating hitherto unsuspected social graces, decided to step into the breach herself.• I have never found that my lack of social graces has been a hindrance. social animals• For us, it is a necessary ingredient, perhaps in no small measure because we are social animals.• There is no reason to doubt that such mixtures of behaviour would not occur in social animals.• Like families gathered at Christmas, social animals are poised between cooperation and conflict.• Generally, then, one would expect to find reciprocation in populations of highly social animals living in small intensely interactive groups.• These conflicts are the very essence of being the social animals we are. Examples from the Corpussocial• She looked like the kind of girl you would have met at a church social.• There would be whispers at the church socials, catty remarks behind her back in the supermarket aisles.• A synagogue canceled its ice cream social and auction sale.• We also hold socials, parties, and organise day trips, again free of charge.• This is not to underestimate the Club's previous social calendar which for many years included successful dinner dances and club socials.From Longman Business DictionaryOrigin social1