| SQ | Social Quotient; 사회지수 |
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| AASS | American Association for Social Security |
| ASHA | American School Health Association; American Social Health Association; American Speech and Hearing ... |
| BSAG | Bristol Social Adjustment Guides |
| CSW | Certified Social Worker; current sleep walker |
| social conditions | The state of society as it exists or in flux. While it usually refers to society as a whole in a specified geographical or political region, it is applicable also to restricted strata of a society. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| social conformity | Behavioural or attitudinal compliance with recognised social patterns or standards. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social control | The influence on the behaviour of a person exerted by other persons or by society as a whole; e.g., through appropriate social norms, ostracism, or the criminal law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social control, formal | Control which is exerted by the more stable organizations of society, such as established institutions and the law. They are ordinarily embodied in definite codes, usually written. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social control, informal | Those forms of control which are exerted in less concrete and tangible ways, as through folkways, mores, conventions, and public sentiment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social control policies | Decisions for determining and guiding present and future objectives from among alternatives. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social desirability | A personality trait rendering the individual acceptable in social or interpersonal relations. It is related to social acceptance, social approval, popularity, social status, leadership qualities, or any quality making him a socially desirable companion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social diseases | An obsolete term used to designate venereal disease's, especially gonorrhoea and syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social distance | The degree of closeness or acceptance an individual or group feels toward another individual or group. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social dominance | Superiority of relationship and rank of an individual in relation to his associates. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social environment | The aggregate of social and cultural institutions, forms, patterns, and processes that influence the life of an individual or community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social facilitation | Any enhancement of a motivated behaviour in which individuals do the same thing with some degree of mutual stimulation and consequent coordination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social identification | The process wherein the individual so strongly feels himself a member of a group that he adopts its ideas, beliefs, and habits. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social instinct | Tendency or inclination to band together with and share the customs of others of a group, and to conform to the opinions and adopt the views of the group. Synonym: social instinct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social intelligence | The capacity to understand and manage one's human relations and social affairs. (05 Mar 2000) |