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• So I suppose it's no surprise that a May 7 press release from the the World Congress of Families (WCF), an extremely conservative group that "seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society," accused CCF of wanting to '' de-institutionalize marriage "and of celebrating the fact" that an increasing number of women are choosing not to marry and have children. Stephanie Coontz: Unconventional Wisdom on Families
• For the remaining 18 social units (neither all adults nor all juveniles captured), we used daily field notes to assess the probable number of uncaught animals.
• The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
• Historically, the family has been the basic social unit of the community.
• The settlers were moving out on their own, creating new social units - manors, lordships, abbeys, bourgs - where none had existed before.
• Cohesive social units foraging a particular area over several generations would enhance efficiency by transmitting such information among closely related animals.
• High-energy technology has resulted in the aggregation of such huge amounts of power that small social units operating alone are often ruthlessly and unheedingly swept aside in their ends are antithetic to the purposes of those who control the power. Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods
• Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’.
• The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
• Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wider social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull.