| social welfare | Organised institutions which provide services to ameliorate conditions of need or social pathology in the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| career choice | Selection of a type of occupation or profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
| choice behaviour | The act of making a selection among two or more alternatives, usually after a period of deliberation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| copy choice | A genetic recombination mechanism where the new DNA molecule comes about by replicating selected parts of each parental DNA molecule and by alternating between the two (maternal and paternal). (09 Oct 1997) |
| object choice | In psychoanalysis, the object (usually a person) upon which psychic energy is centreed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| animal welfare | The protection of animals in laboratories or other specific environments and the promotion of their health through better nutrition, housing, and care. This may be carried out through legislation or regulation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the mother. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infant welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the infant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Rahe-Holmes social readjustment rating scale | A widely used scale in the social and behavioural sciences that assigns values to significant life events such as marriage, birth of offspring, bereavement, loss of job; such events correlate with emotional states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hierarchy, social | Social rank-order established by certain behavioural patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| psychology, social | The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of group membership upon the behaviour, attitudes, and beliefs of an individual. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social | 1. Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties. "Social phenomena." 2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person. 3. Consisting in union or mutual intercourse. "Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication." (Milton) 4. <botany> Naturally growing in groups or masses; said of many individual plants of the same species. 5. <zoology> Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians. Social science, the science of all that relates to the social condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member of an organised community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labour, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like. <zoology> Social whale, the blackfish. The social evil, prostitution. Synonym: Sociable, companionable, conversible, friendly, familiar, communicative, convival, festive. Origin: L. Socialis, from socius a companion; akin to sequi to follow: cf. F. Social. See Sue to follow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| social adaptation | Adjustment to living in accordance with interpersonal, social, and cultural norms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social adjustment | Those types of relationships which involve the accommodation of the individual to circumstances in his social environment for the satisfaction of his needs or motives. (12 Dec 1998) |