How to Use sociocultural in a Sentence

sociocultural

adjective
  • Some of that is sociocultural, but some of it is in the DNA.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Chang’s shows had elements of the latter two but were more about probing the sociocultural roots of food.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The study cites a number of sociocultural reasons for this.
    Rose Stokes, refinery29.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Both the legal and sociocultural responses to these cases, Oberman told me, tend to cleave to race and class lines.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the era of MAGA, the forehead has become a site of sociocultural contestation.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • But that’s a broader sociocultural trend that changes to one ceremony will do nothing to solve.
    Vulture, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But on the eve of Friday's historic vote, the mood is much darker – and more divisive – than during the recent sociocultural shifts that have reshaped modern Ireland.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2018
  • Smith’s tale teems with freebooting DIY tinkerers, traverses the sociocultural trend lines of our time and runs smack dab through Portland.
    OregonLive.com, 1 May 2018
  • From a sociocultural standpoint, these ideals are created in part through media.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • As long as there’s something there to glom on to—almost any sociocultural raw material will do—the takes will begin to fly immediately.
    Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The narrative curve is familiar too, from personal to sociocultural and then back to personal again.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • From a young age, everything about Black girls is placed under an intense sociocultural microscope.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The purpose of this program is to serve the family, regardless of culture or sociocultural level, according to the deputy director of the program, Ingrid Estrada.
    Silvia Solis, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
  • The first season was the ideal mix of teen drama and adventure epic, with a fun but relatively low-stakes treasure hunt and just enough character oomph as the ensemble wrestled with the sociocultural stereotypes thrust upon them.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Smell awareness can also reveal sociocultural information that tends to be eclipsed by the other senses.
    Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • By most sociocultural standards established since the beginning of time, my adult life could be viewed as inadequate and incomplete, if not tragic.
    Morgan Parker, ELLE, 4 June 2022
  • The zombie metaphor is eminently malleable, the amorphous horde a putty to be shaped into any sociocultural commentary.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • All the scientific challenges combined with the sociocultural climate around birth control have created a kind of perfect storm preventing a male pill from hitting the market.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Perhaps the more challenging issue would be that of changing sociocultural norms surrounding guns.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2013
  • But in its highest gear, the show peerlessly vanishes the line between sociocultural satire and mental instability, between send up and crack up.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2016
  • In 1978, after pressure from the government and other sociocultural factors, the policy was reversed, the ban was lifted, and restoration of priesthood and temple blessings was granted to Mormons of African descent.
    Mica McGriggs, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
  • It’s less in the individual level and more in providing these sociocultural models for what a proper feminine woman is like or what a proper masculine male is like.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Early research shows that models can draw from the sociocultural experience of a specific demographic group and display the biases of that group.
    Josh A. Goldstein, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Roychowdhury was a sociocultural journalist for the Hindustan Times in India and was constantly seeking new artists.
    Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Some kind of sociocultural mainstream will always exist and constitute itself as an opponent of outsider groups’ demands for change and inclusion.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
  • What he’s done in this book is write engagingly about a topic that interests many lay readers, not the sociocultural trivialities that have become academics’ sole province.
    Daniel J. Samet, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • But even if the public considered him foolish for having turned away from the series, the decade following Chappelle’s departure also saw him being heralded as a sociocultural savant.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • In their work, the duo merges the traditions of couture fashion with the future of where high fashion is heading toward: sociocultural inclusivity and freedom of artistic definition.
    Malik Peay, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Film still Despite having ruled India for 300 years, leaving behind a tall and robust sociocultural legacy, the representation of the Mughals in mass media has been less than satisfactory.
    Manimugdha S Sharma, Quartz India, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Papaya juice and hot dogs, the specialty of Gray’s Papaya, seem, conversely, like favorites of separate — perhaps opposing — sociocultural groups.
    Alex Traub, New York Times, 24 May 2023

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