Sentences with phrase «social circumstances generate»

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Mainly through worship, education and social activities, these congregations appropriate symbols and generate new ones, claim and revise traditions, defend and bridge social boundaries, articulate and invent meanings and values by which to make sense of changing circumstances.

For example, Sampson and Laub's (2005) age - graded social control theory assumes that changes in life circumstances may generate turning points in an individual's criminal career.