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Singular society

Plural countable and uncountable; plural societies

society (countable and uncountable; plural societies)

  1. (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
    This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
  2. (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest.
    It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
  3. (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
  4. (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
    It’s not for society to decide whether I can play the didgeridoo in my own home.
    He thinks that the fact that this child grew up to be a murderer is the fault of society.
  5. (uncountable) high society.
    Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
      "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
  6. (law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act a common goal.

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Tue Jul 7 06:58:05 2009

A society is a body of individuals of a species, generally seen as a community or group, that is outlined by the bounds of functional interdependence, comprising also possible characters or conditions such as cultural identity, social solidarity, or eusociality. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture or institutions. Like other groups, a society allows its individual members to achieve individual needs or wishes that they could not fulfill separately by themselves, without the existence of the social group. Society, however, may be unique in that it is ontologically independent of, and utterly irreducible to, the qualities of its constituent individuals. As a reality sui generis, or "of its own kind", it is emergently composed of social facts that often hinder rather than help the pursuits of the subjects that form its physical and psychological underpinnings.

More broadly, a society is an economic, social or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied multitude of individuals. Members of a society may be from different ethnic groups. A society may be a particular ethnic group, such as the Saxons; a nation state, such as Bhutan; a broader cultural group, such as a Western society; or even a social organism such as an ant colony.

The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. Sociology is the study of society and social behavior.

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Tue Aug 4 15:03:42 2009

How do I get into a money society like Japan created to meet all money and financial needs?
Q. Japan has a money society. We live in a north america society. North America society has work and family and recreation and computer. I want a money society that addresses financial needs and money needs. How do we put me in a money society?
Asked by Eagle Mountain - Fri Apr 17 12:23:47 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Go and live in Somalia. You'l be the richest man there. That will make u feel real good.
Answered by Sungura mjanja - Fri Apr 17 12:37:36 2009

Can society be moral or immoral, or is it impossible to aggregate morality?
Q. In other words, can you 'sum up' everyone's morality to assign some sort of grade of 'morality' to the society as a whole?
Asked by zingis - Sun Sep 23 12:07:51 2007 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Aggregate morality is called a culture. While the cultural morality is a result of the contribution of each individual, it does little to predict an individuals moral position. How the individual is accepted within their culture, however, does depend on the aggregate morality. I liken it to a crowd gathered to watch a large sporting event. The general inclination of the culture is to root for the home team, but nothing says a given individual conforms to that thought. But individuals who fail to conform to the group culture are aware of it, and will conduct themselves differently than they would if they were within a sympathetic culture. Their reactions differ, possibly choosing passifism (quietly eating their nachos, considering the… [cont.]
Answered by freebird - Sun Sep 23 14:45:19 2007

What is the relationship between business and society?
Q. I am writing a paper on the relationship between business and society. I know how these entities relate to one another but I need to locate three articles (sources) to critique. The paper is short and I've pretty much have it covered, except that I can't seem to find the three articles I need to corroborate my paper. I've Googled it, asked Jeeves, checked Wikipedia, but can't seem to find anything. Can anyone direct me to where I can find three articles that address Business and Society and how they relate to each other? Thanks so much!
Asked by Chasti R - Wed May 7 12:51:51 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Sometimes society reflects businesses and sometimes businesses reflect society. Here's a random story that illustrates the interdependance:
Answered by Question Guy - Wed May 7 12:54:03 2008

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We are bootstrapping a new world, one in which information technology and computational systems are as deeply embedded in our . society. as the scientific method or religious belief seem to be, and the precise names of the gods we worship ...

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie . Society. came into being because of a roast pig we had to keep secret from the German soldiers, so I feel a kinship to Mr. Lamb. I am sorry to bother you, but I would be sorrier still not to know ...

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Dead poets . society. UPDATE. I'd just like to say amen to a comment Sen. Robert Thompson of Paragould made yesterday at the meeting of a committee discussing Higher Education Department spending plans for existing college scholarship ...

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Thu Aug 6 12:10:35 2009

Quotes about society.

  • "A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god."
  • "What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees."
  • "Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection."
  • "The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism."
  • I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
    • Rubén Blades
  • Has anyone been out in society recently? Cause its shit!
    • Russel Brand
  • "What times! What manners!."
  • "The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice."
  • It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.