# SOC

SOC, SoC, Soc, may refer to:

## Science and technology

* Science Operations Centre, a center of the European Space Agency
* Information security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with computer security issues
* Selectable output control
* Separation of concerns, a program design principle in computer science and software engineering
* Service-oriented communications
* Service-oriented computing, another term for Service-oriented architecture
* Soil organic carbon, see Soil carbon
* Solid Oxide Cell, an electrochemical conversion device operating either in SOFC, SOEC, or rSOC mode
* Specialized Oceanographic Center, a center of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
* Spectrum Operations Committee, a Stanford University independent research center
* spin–orbit coupling
* State of charge, for batteries
* Store-Operated Calcium channel
* Super Optimal Broth with catabolite repression, a bacterial growth medium
* Superior olivary complex
* System on a chip (SoC), in electronic design
* System Organ Class, an organizational division in the dictionary MedDRA
* Substance of Concern

## Associations and societies

* Society (abbr.: "soc.")
* Scottish Ornithologists' Club
* Scouts of China
* Serbian Orthodox Church
* Société des Ornithologistes du Canada, the French name of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists
* Society of Cartographers, United Kingdom
* Society of Operating Cameramen, the original name for the Society of Camera Operators
* Special Olympics Canada
* Syrian Opposition Coalition, better known as the National Coalition

## Businesses

* SOC Films, a film company founded by Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
* Sirte Oil Company
* Social overhead capital
* South Oil Company
* SOC Telemed, a telemedicine company backed by Warburg Pincus
* SOC LLC, a security company owned by Day & Zimmermann
* System and Organization Controls, a suite of reports produced during an audit

## Military

* Curtiss SOC Seagull, a US Navy scout observation seaplane produced by Curtiss, first in service in 1935
* Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable), (MEU (SOC)) a United States Marine Corps term for a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
* Special Operations Command, various military and police organizations

## Mathematics

* Second-order condition, a mathematical condition that distinguishes maxima and minima from other stationary points
* Self-organized criticality, a property of dynamical systems in physics

## Transport

* Adisumarmo International Airport (IATA: SOC), Indonesia
* Southend Central railway station (National Rail station code: SOC), Essex, England

## Other uses

* Google Summer of Code
* School of Communication, a school in American University
* Security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with security issues
* The Settlers of Catan, a multiplayer board game
* Shippers Owned Container, intermodal container owned by the shipper or receiver instead of by the shipping line
* Soc (subculture), a 1950s precursor to the preppy look
* Sound of Contact, a British-based rock band
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a video game
* Standard Occupational Classification System, a system of the United States Department of Labor
* Standard of care, medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific
** E.g., the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
* State of Cambodia, the official English name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) during the transitional times that led to the restoration of the monarchy (1989–1993)
* Statement of claim, a legal document on which one states a cause of action
* Strategic Organizing Center, a group of United States labor unions
* Stream of consciousness (disambiguation), a writing or psychological style with disjointed thoughts
* Swedish Open Championships, an annual table tennis tournament