1.   A descriptive sociology requires a sensitizing of oneself to the social phenomena described whatever May be their nature or conceptual complexity.

2.   Crime is a complex social phenomenon with no single cause or solution.

3.   Crime is a complex social phenomenon.

4.   It follows that punishment - or indeed any social phenomenon - is an inevitably highly complex phenomenon which requires extremely subtle analysis.

5.   Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon.

6.   Secondly, Rutter evidently holds that any behavioural effects of lead are irrelevant to social phenomena, eg juvenile delinquency.

7.   Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.

8.   The shortcomings of such an approach lie in the preoccupation with social phenomena which are directly observable.

9.   To explain a social phenomenon is therefore to capture its uniqueness and show why it happened when it need not have done.

10.   When women ponder on an individual, emotion or social phenomenon, it is called Gossip.