Its purpose is to encourage socially desirable attitudes and behavior.

The second provides children with powerful external pressures to act in socially desirable ways.

Of course, as you say, "some racial mixture is socially desirable."

Much of her images challenge the view that a normal appearance is deemed socially desirable.

For example, people can be motivated such that they find it socially desirable to appear to have certain attitudes.

But an unfortunate side effect is the lost opportunity to provide some socially desirable planned obsolescence.

His unexpected inheritance of a large fortune makes him socially desirable.

"But increasing productivity in this fashion is not a socially desirable thing unless we can put those laid off back to work."

A second issue that has been identified is the generation of socially desirable stories by the community members.