social dynamics

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. the study of social processes, especially social change.

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Etymology

Origin of social dynamics

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political and social dynamics that underlaid what was in many ways a Vietnamese civil war, the U.S. military invasion that accompanied the internecine fighting between communist-led revolutionaries seeking to reunify a divided Vietnam and the anticommunist Vietnamese who opposed them turned what might have been a mostly Vietnamese conflict into one of major global significance.

From Slate

It's well documented in the context of ethnic massacres and riots, to the extent that one of the leading authors on the social dynamics behind ethnic massacres, Donald Horowitz, says that when you see propaganda spread prior to an ethnic massacre, you should see it as essentially a recipe for what is going to happen.

From Salon

After the 1978 mass murder and suicide of 909 people in the Jonestown settlement in Guyana directed by the charismatic leader Jim Jones, Zimbardo explored the social dynamics of cults.

From Los Angeles Times

Swift, however, puts a face to the shifting social dynamics between men and women that these tangible gains have allowed.

From Salon

“I don’t justify the violence, but I think it can be explained through social dynamics,” he said, adding that years of inequality in education, health and social issues had taken their toll.

From BBC