Some articles on social function, social, function:
... Music genres can be identified by their social function ... Trivial examples are wedding music and Christmas music ...
... of landed property that became one of the hallmarks of modern Brazilian social history (see ) ... of revitalizing ideologies centered on a fabled, millenarian return an earlier, pre-bourgeois social order, as was the case in the 1890s Canudos War and the 1910s Contestado War ... by means of a more rational appeal to the allegedly social function of property ...
... country, the Left Wise Prince was detached from the daily operations, and his prime function during war and peace was a control of the army ...
Famous quotes containing the words function and/or social:
“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)