From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOCIAL occurs
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1.
... social.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
2.
... social action;
a new therapy based on ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
3.
... social, and
religious.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
4.
... social, and
religious backgrounds.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
5.
... social, business,
or personal reason for going ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Therefore,
ask yourself on
each
occasion, "Have I any
good social,
business, or
personal reason for
going to this
place?
6.
Social distinctions,
petty rivalries and jealousies -- these ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
7.
... social engagements.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We could make few
social engagements.
8.
... social, ethnic,
and economic backgrounds.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
When the
phrase "We are people who
normally would not
mix" (
page 17 of this book) was
written in
1939, it
referred to a
Fellowship composed largely of
men (and a few
women) with quite
similar
social,
ethnic, and
economic backgrounds.
9.
... social instinct,
if men cared nothing for ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If there were no
social instinct, if
men cared nothing for the
society of one another, there would be no
society.
10.
... social life
of this world.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Now you are
getting back into the
social life of this
world.
11.
... social lubricant.
BB p.110,
To Wives
We
know all about
liquor as
a
social lubricant.
12.
... social pioneering
which forged a new instrument ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
13.
... social problem,
alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
14.
... social sense,
we still suffered many of ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But we soon
discovered that while we weren't
alone any more in a
social sense, we still
suffered
many of the
old pangs of
anxious apartness.
15.
... social stigma
associated with this condition is ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
16.
... social usage!"
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
They won't
grow up and
conform to
social usage!"
17.
... social worker
who understood what alcohol could ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
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