| DUFSS | Duke-University of North Carolina Functional Social Support [questionnaire] |
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| DUSOCS | Duke social support and stress scale |
| ELSI | ethical, legal, and social issues |
| GSS | gamete-shedding substance; General Social Survey; Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker [disease] |
| IFHPMSM | International Federation for Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Social Medicine |
| social dominance | Superiority of relationship and rank of an individual in relation to his associates. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| social isolation | The separation of individuals or groups resulting in the lack of or minimizing of social contact and/or communication. This separation may be accomplished by physical separation, by social barriers and by psychological mechanisms. In the latter, there may be interaction but no real communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social maladjustment | Maladjustment without manifest psychiatric disorder, as that occasioned by an inability to cope with social situations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social medicine | A branch of medicine concerned with the role of socio-environmental factors in the occurrence, prevention and treatment of disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social mobility | The movement or shifting of membership between or within social classes by individuals or by groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social network therapy | A type of therapy involving the assembling of all persons emotionally or functionally important to the patient for the purpose of affecting behavioural change in the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social perception | The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviours of one's associates or social groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social planning | Interactional process combining investigation, discussion, and agreement by a number of people in the preparation and carrying out of a program to ameliorate conditions of need or social pathology in the community. It usually involves the action of a formal political, legal, or recognised voluntary body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social problems | Situations affecting a significant number of people, that are believed to be sources of difficulty or threaten the stability of the community, and that require programs of amelioration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social psychiatry | An approach to psychiatric theory and practice emphasizing the cultural and sociological aspects of mental disorder and treatment; the application of psychiatry to social problems. See: community psychiatry. (05 Mar 2000) |