More than just great photographs, they are reliable social documents.

It is a social document of a peculiarly comprehensive kind.

The stories form an "absorbing social document" of those times.

It is perhaps these, though, which are of the most lasting value as social documents.

It is seen as a political statement or a social document.

More important, Lewis's best novels are well worth reading, and not merely as social documents.

Viewing the series in retrospect it stands as a major social document of the times.

The art work serves as a cultural and social document.

Nevertheless, the show stands as a major social document of the era.

The project was intended to create a social document of Ireland at the time.