Social society
* A society social group
* All societies appear to distinguish between people and become more or less important that others
  - believe animals have played and do play a special role in our spiritual lives
  - create hierarchies, and forms of address
  - employ sanctions to enforce standards of behaviour
  - evolve naturally out of their predecessors
* All societies have a classifacatory system of determining kinship terminology
  - form of social status
  - mechanism for wasting labor
  - variety of traditional ways of managing and resolving conflict
  - equal status and share equal responsibilities and duties in helping each other
  - institutions and techniques that function as does a biological immune system
* All societies have laws and procedures how to deal with slander
  - proscribing murder, rape, theft and a myriad other acts deemed destructive
  - norms governing sexual behavior
  - religion, and all depend upon it for solidarity
  - social rules
* All societies have some degree of liberty
  - division of labor based on age and sex
  - type of ceremony to commemorate the passing of a life
  - structures and patterns that favor one roup over another
  - their permanent proportion of criminals
  - three realms that are autonomous, but organically related with each other
  - value systems that direct how one acts and interacts in society
  - world views which are based on a set of cultural assumptions
* All societies recognize and respect the power of music
  - the frailness of the human condition
  - see the human body as more than just a physical organism
  - share seven cultural universals
  - survive by manipulating nature
  - ultimately depend on their economic performance to further their own existence
* All societies use kinship as a basis for forming social groups and for classifying people
  - speech as a vehicle of language
  - value different types of intelligences
  - society uses statistics to track cause and effect
* Every society always has some women who never marry
  - changes over time
  - contains some sociopaths who kill people
  - defines itself by what it chooses to remember and by what it chooses to forget
* Every society has a distinct cultural system made up of instrumental, symbolic and social relations
  - place where people can network among their peers
  - an elite
  - gays
  - individuals who have no desire to be religious
  - male and female ideals
  - quite different attitudes and taboos about same sex affection and sexual activity
  - rites of passage between childhood and adulthood
  - rituals or rites concerned with separating boys and girls, females from males
  - is composed of individuals
  - ought to have laws protecting children
  - regulates the thoughts and behavior of individuals
* Many societies collapse because of criminality, drugs, sex and the like
  - expect the sons of leaders to become leaders
* Many societies have databases for identifying plants
  - different forms of male and female speech
  - rules or laws about nudity , and where they allow it
  - strict rules about homosexuality
  - keep local records, photos and even information about cemeteries
  - place a higher value on males than females
  - require every citizen to vote
  - try to enforce monogamous relationships
* Most societies are multicultural, and many oppress indigenous people in the name of development
  - patrilineal
  - build schools
* Most societies create culture
  - intellectual culture
  - depend on the fertility of their fields for food
* Most societies encourage individuals
  - religious men, e.g., rabbis, to marry and produce large families
  - evolve over time
* Most societies have a code of conduct for fossil collecting
  - creation myth which explains how and when the Earth was formed
  - strong taboo against the practice of incest or intra-familial marriages
  - differences
  - inheritances
  - initiation rites
  - majorities
  - moral duties
  - some form of incest avoidance
  - taboos about mating across the lines of clan, ethnicity, or race
  - the goal of promoting astronomy
  - hold in high esteem persons who reach down and help others
  - increase complexity
  - introduce animals
* Most societies involve individuals
  - kill cows
  - live in countries
  - make life
  - now exhibit cultural pluralism
  - pay individuals
  - proclaim the equal worth of all citizens and pass laws to support that claim
  - provide medicine
* Most societies recognize marriages
  - sex marriages
  - regard other species as their relatives
* Most societies rely on energy
  - require labor
  - see women
  - seek to distribute health care according to concepts of efficiency and equity
  - socialize to two and only two genders but some societies provide for three or more
  - support individuals
  - tend to stress one way over the other
  - undergo a generational pattern of defining experience
* Most societies use knowledge
  - science
  - scientific knowledge
  - wood
  - view a hero as a person with impressive physical abilities
* Societies accept decisions.
* Societies achieve development
  - sustainable development
  - adapt to changing conditions, and they choose changes that work, or they die out
* Societies are active throughout the world
  - capable of clubs
  - dedicated to knowledge
  - dynamic and diverse, and they are subject to laws of cause and effect
  - elites
  - functions of their history and environment
* Societies are groups of people
  - players working toward a common goal
* Societies are located in cities
  - populations
  - neither organisms nor are they thinking beings
* Societies are non-profit organizations
  - sites which promote the culture and improvement of a particular plant
  - professional associations
* Societies are used for cooperation
  - sharing knowledge
  - survival
  - base on truth
* Societies become more complex as they become larger
  - benefit most from free trade
* Societies can be a group of friends or business men with mutual interest
  - collectively choose abundance by limiting population
  - heal themselves following a dynamic similar to cellular repair
  - learn and change
  - carry out operations
  - change in many of their fundamental relationships
  - compose of members
  - constantly change meanings of sound words into taboos
  - construct meanings of gender, race, place, time, etc
  - containing diverse subcultures contain multiple ideologies
  - continue for centuries even millennia with recognizable identities
  - mechanisms to deal with natural human desires
  - patriarchy out of infantile fears
  - decline when their people lose faith in themselves
  - depend on their citizens and organizations for productive activity
* Societies differ in how social order is attained
  - their attitude toward rules and laws some rigid, other flexible
  - encounter animals
  - generally evolve with time and as global circumstances change
* Societies have agencies
* Societies have different ways of absorbing strain
  - achieving change
  - durations
  - many rituals related to major life passages, like birth, marriage and death
  - potential
  - rights as well as individuals
  - to be ecologically sustainable for the survival of all species on Earth
* Societies have ways in which people's religious beliefs are celebrated
  - of controlling the way food and other goods pass from one person to another
  - hire teachers
  - include grandfathers
  - increasingly shape and change the natural environment
  - lists chemical and chemistry-related societies, divided alphabetically by country
* Societies live and die by beliefs
  - maintain newspapers
* Societies make contributions
  - great contributions
  - measure what they care about
  - need babies
* Societies offer legal services
  - operating on solar energy are more sustainable than societies operating on fossil fuels
* Societies pay attention
  - possess cats
* Societies require individual participants
  - mathematical knowledge
  - mathematics to keep records, allocate resources, and make decisions
* Societies tend to assign social roles on the basis of age and sex
  - have binary gender systems in which everyone is categorized as male or female
  - to take advantage
  - undergo two kinds of death, one natural and the other trivial
* Societies use concepts
  - hierarchies to make the world understandable and manageable
  - usually change by virtue of technological progress and economic thrusts into new markets
  - vary in the way that power is distributed within the family
  - view their rulers or chiefs as inheritors of the community's magical power
  - worldwide have faith in invisible, holy beings that affect human life on Earth
* Society actually regulates reproductive behavior
  - allows parents and teachers to control a child s bodily functions
  - also is both an organism and a collection of organisms
  - applies adult standards in order to shape and mould the child
  - believes that our emotional feelings are a result of our experiences in our environment
* Society can be cruel when it comes to someone's economic status
  - benefit when the individual's motivation is shared by the collective
  - cause an individual to have any character it desires by providing the right environment
  - separate the youth and the elderly
  - carrier of culture
  - chain of relations
* Society collection of individuals and of the various groups they voluntarily form
  - complex identity consisting of many cultures and traditions
* Society consists of heterogeneous individuals who interact non-hierarchically to mutual advantages
  - what people do because of necessity, because they have to
  - continually places specific and often restrictive standards on the female gender
  - controls access to medications to protect consumers
  - creates data by inventing a variety of number systems to quantify data
  - defines success as fame, fortune and achievement
* Society depends on clean and safe water
  - moral foundations
  - derives enormous benefits from diesel engines, which also produce air-borne particulates
  - elicits sexual behavior in kids
  - encourages selfishness, greediness, vulgarity, and cruelty
  - enhances efficiency by division of labor
  - evolves just as the individual
* Society exists because of rules, laws, standards, guidelines and restrictions
  - prior to any particular individual's existence
  - to promote the security and dignity of the person
  - exists, in a sense, to control people
* Society expects a person to relate to another's presence and to interact appropriately
  - all normal people to get married and live a monogamous life for ever and ever
  - girls to behave differently than boys
  - married couples to have children if they are able and willing
  - men to be masculine, strong, dominant, aggressive, and in control
* Society focuses on consumerism, prestige and the like
  - quality of life, which means wellness for individuals, families, and communities
  - primarily on women when dealing with rape and sexual assault
  - governs appearances and personalities
  - group of people sharing a common culture
* Society has a natural tendency to place influence on others
  - problem with unwanted , unsightly excrement
  - responsibility to the fetus, but society also has a responsibility to the mother
* Society has a tendency to devolve to it's lowest common denominator
  - view mental health issues differently from medical ones
* Society has an effect on the brain
  - intimate relationship with rivers as resources
  - few other forms of control over the political system
  - higher standards of living today than in the past
  - laws against the use of recreational drugs
  - many customs that require varying amounts of time to follow
* Society has the responsibility to protect ALL children from abuse and neglect
  - tendency to say that all sex is straight hetero sex and anything else is dirty
  - human product
  - includes the economic systems, society's institutions and values of professional groups
  - increasingly relies on complex computerized systems to accomplish basic daily functioning
* Society influences sexual behavior and presents children with conflicting ideas
  - the development of technology
* Society is affected by the billions of dollars spent yearly on brain health issues
  - also hierarchically related to individuals
* Society is an abstract construct built on the results of the games and struggles of the past
  - artificial construction, a defense against nature's power
  - extension of the individual
  - interaction of systems which is in constant change
  - as addicted to scientists as scientists are addicted to science
* Society is based on stereotypes
  - the control and direction of socio-sexual behavior
  - basic to the Japanese view of the world
  - both a creation of human beings and an environment for human development
* Society is built by man and reflects man's culture, laws, mores, and lifestyles
  - on the interaction of different organizations
* Society is composed of families, and is what the heads of families make it
  - interdependent parts working together to fill the needs of society
  - mutually interdependent groups
  - the dead as well as the living
* Society is comprised of a community of interdependent individuals and families
  - dynamic communities that determine the nature of health care
  - individuals with great competence in their respective fields
* Society is defined by patterns of human communication
  - previous generations
  - in terms of the crimes it commits
* Society is dependent on democratic access to information
  - rules, rules which are enforced
  - desensitized when it comes to violence
* Society is divided into classes
  - different classes
  - rigid castes denoted by genetic purity
  - warring groups and classes, based upon material interests
  - division of labor and combin ation of labor
  - egalitarian, democratic, and respectful of human rights
* Society is essential to human development
  - the fulfillment of the human vocation
  - essentially the mutual exchange of services
  - ethnically diverse, and many religions are represented
  - everything, including power
  - fixated on body shape and size
  - formed by a large group of individuals with diverse thoughts and beliefs
  - fundamentally egalitarian and has no privileged class
  - group-oriented and people identify strongly with their group
  - hard on overweight people, even on people who are only mildly overweight
  - homogeneous with no significant ethnic minorities
  - increasingly concerned about environmental degradation, animal welfare, and food safety
  - influenced by the field of chemistry in essentially all phases of life
* Society is made of people, and if the people are bad, then society is bad
  - up of clans, localized territorially, and socio-political confederation
* Society is made up of individual human beings
  - many factors
  - people, and people are the same the world over
  - maintained by natural sense and natural feeling
* Society is more accepting of gambling, and more adults gamble openly and legally
  - or less organized on the basis that there are
* Society is our extended mind and body
  - state of nature
  - patrilineal , with lines of descent and inheritances traced through the males
  - primarily a set-up of relations established among individuals
  - principally organized around kinship with a rigid kinship hierarchy
  - responsible for supporting and aiding integration and preservation of adoptive families
* Society is seen as characterised by injustices and inequalities based on gender
  - the product of human action structured by norms and values
  - something in nature that precedes the individual
* Society is the audience and the public eye
  - driving force behind much of human behavior
* Society is the environment for the human organisms found living in it
  - of itself
  - expression of community as seen from within
  - human subsystem of environment
  - outcome of conscious and purposeful behavior
  - pattern of human interaction
  - reason that children and youth are in the streets
  - totality of relationships among human beings
  - work-shop in which new ones are elaborated
  - used to fighting local crime
  - very dependent on transporting goods and people
  - viewed as a stable, orderly system
  - well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws
  - where men expose their true convictions and stand as pillars of strength for society
  - woven together by the different skills of people, each complementing the other
* Society is, from a certain perspective, simply an organized group of individuals
  - in essence, the way in which people interact within communities
  - judges people by the times at which they conduct certain activities
  - legal entity to which people can donate their estates or a legacy
  - likes to categorize things, to include people
  - makes use of many different animals for food and clothing
  - mandates that food be completely and totally safe for all individuals
  - matrix of individual complex souls
* Society needs a common set of values that encourages the efficient exchange of goods and services
  - institutions to serve such social goals as political freedom and social justice
  - occurs as a result of interaction between individuals and small groups of individuals
* Society often encourages people to quickly move away from grief
  - labels sexual activity perpetrated by women as affectionate or appropriate
  - measures power by criteria such as accomplishment, money, status, influence, or fame
  - perceives people with mental illnesses as strange, scary, or even dangerous
  - only has two social genders to choose from
* Society plays a large part in how women are perceived
  - major part in corrupting police officers
  - significant role in the increase of young people wanting to change their bodies
  - possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things
  - presumes that parents want to and do act in their children's best interest
  - process that maximizes individual growth through interactions with others
  - recognizes that animals have their own lives that are worthy of living
  - reflection of our inner state of consciousness
  - reflects the collective consciousness of the people
  - regulates guns, explosives, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and pornography
  - relies on the water cycle to deliver water for all kinds of uses
  - results from the interaction of individuals
  - s favourite drugs are alcohol and tobacco, both strongly addictive and misused by millions
  - seems obsessed with sex and violence is glorified in music and movies
* Society seems to be the idea that groups of people who have the same values clump together
  - require marking of changes in social status
  - sees and acts through race
  - sets normalizations that divide men and women into two separate groups
  - shapes human identity and human consciousness
  - social institution
  - starts from the concept of the absolute freedom in choice
* Society still stigmatizes and discriminates against people with disabilities
  - views lesbianism as an abnormality
  - structure in process energized by man
  - system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature
  - teaches women to look beautiful
* Society tends to define love along the same lines as affection
  - equate a disability with reduced abilities overall
  - forget about individual people and their feelings
  - grant more social weight to some people than to others
  - have a judgmental attitude about sexually transmitted diseases
  - regard statistics as something that happens to someone else
  - stereotype men as wage earners and disciplinarians
  - try to find single individuals to blame for accidents
  - view people with disadvantages as dependent and incompetent
  - thinks that level of intelligence determines level of ability
  - union of men for the purpose of accomplishing a particular objective
  - uses schooling to prepare young people for the world of work and culture
  - values human life and bodily integrity much higher than property
* Society views sex as an individualistic choice
  - women as sex objects whose value decreases as they get older
  - worldwide is marked today by the presence of many religions
* Some societies actually respect alcohol dragons, mainly for their potent alcohol secretions
  - become markets
  - can promote interdisciplinary relationships with biology and the physical sciences
* Some societies consider domestic ownership to be an important element of free and independent media
  - the use of various herbs and plants to be traditional methods
  - contain queens
  - dedicate to conservation
  - even create 'in-between' categories, or 'third genders'
* Some societies have arrangements whereby children are brought up in other families
  - big snakes
  - fission
  - pairs
  - rabbits
  - hold that they are special and somehow more important than other societies
  - kill mammals
  - organize specifically to promote deep-sky or planetary or meteor observing
  - partition their environment more than others
  - possess dogs
  - publish journals
  - recognize polygamy and polyandry
  - resist change more than others
  - seek democratic prestige by requiring every citizen to vote
  - support science
* Some societies use a variation of candling, whereby herbed smoke is simply blown into the ears
  - natural resources
  - value human rights, some violate the rights of weaker members
+ Foster care: Children :: Law
  * Fosterage is not the same as foster care. Some societies have arrangements whereby children are brought up in other families. This is a social matter, not a legal matter.
+ Homemaker, History, Urban societies: Occupations :: Social sciences :: Family
  * Every society always has some women who never marry. They might stay at home and do 'housework' for other family members, or they might work outside the house like a man. In many urban societies, there have been few jobs that a woman was allowed to do. In modern society there are still strong traditions about the jobs that women should do.
+ Incest, Summary: Psychology :: Sexual acts
  * Most societies have some form of incest avoidance. Brown, Donald E., 'Human Universals'. In addition, the Balinese and some Inuit tribes have altogether different beliefs about what constitutes illegal and immoral incest.
+ Institution
  * Societies decide what is right and wrong, and what punishments there are for doing wrong.
+ Marriage: Sacraments
  * The most common form of marriage is a legally binding heterosexual union. Some societies recognize polygamy and polyandry. In Senegal, for example, nearly 47 percent of marriages are multiple.
+ Nudity, What societies think about nudity, Rules
  * Many societies have rules or laws about nudity, and where they allow it. For example, in some societies, the law allows nudity on a beach, but does not allow nudity in a public street. The same sort of laws can also allow people to be partly naked in some places but not in others, for example, women might be allowed to have naked breasts on the beach, but not in a shopping centre. This is allowed in many parts of Europe and Australia. In many other countries, it is not allowed.
+ Social capital: Social sciences :: Economics
  * Society works best when there is plenty of social capital. The less social capital there is, the more social problems there usually are. If there is no social capital, war and revolution often results.
+ Utopia (book): Fiction books :: 1516 books
  * The book is about an island with an imagined society. In the book, a visitor to this island tells about his trip there. According to him, Utopia has a system of laws that is perfect. Society there is also perfect. The political system is so good that nothing better can be thought out. Today, the word is used to refer to a society that is unrealistic, and impossible to make.