How to Use sociocultural in a Sentence

sociocultural

adjective
  • 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
  • But that’s a broader sociocultural trend that changes to one ceremony will do nothing to solve.
    — Vulture, 23 Feb. 2022
  • From a sociocultural standpoint, these ideals are created in part through media.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • 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
  • The delay is not due to a lack of emotion but reflects sociocultural norms that discourage emotional expression in men.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • From a young age, everything about Black girls is placed under an intense sociocultural microscope.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • As houses of worship become the sites for such crimes and other sociocultural unrest, their traditional roles as places of refuge risk erosion.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps the more challenging issue would be that of changing sociocultural norms surrounding guns.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2013
  • The narrative curve is familiar too, from personal to sociocultural and then back to personal again.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Smell awareness can also reveal sociocultural information that tends to be eclipsed by the other senses.
    — Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The media, workplace policies and healthcare providers are but a few of the key players in reshaping this sociocultural dialogue.
    — Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nottoway’s sociocultural significance was far more complex – as shown by the celebrations that followed the fire.
    — Betsy Pudliner, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Where are the contemporary cinematic epics addressing the unique sociocultural issues that shape our own?
    — Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The work follows a series of Togar’s monologues about sound’s sociocultural purposes, focusing on two episodes.
    — Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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 the end, both Ben and PAT learn the sociocultural order of human-machine relations.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Foreign spectators also can be unable to understand meanings, jokes, or sociocultural references of these films.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
  • 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
  • Back then, the connection aimed to paint Zayn as a similarly paradigm-shifting artist—a pop icon, sure, but also an avatar of so many sociocultural dynamics.
    — Sameer Rao, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the era of MAGA, the forehead has become a site of sociocultural contestation.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 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
  • The sociocultural context of an Italian American dietary item.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • While differences of opinion exist in how best to respond, a near universal belief is that change — whether legislative, sociocultural or community-driven — is overdue.
    — Josiah Bates, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • 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

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