society
has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] (sociology) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)So impressive were those serious years of study at the university that Hans later wrote , `` to be perfectly free , the young man must revel in the great kingdom of thought and imagination ; there is a struggle there , in which , if he falls , it is easy for him to rise again , there is freedom of utterance there , which draws after it no irreparable consequences on society . (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)Our society has `` emancipated '' the woman , giving her new independence and new authority . `` It reflects what is going_on in other areas of the marriage and in society itself . Society here and abroad has been built around the dominating male - even the Bible appears to endorse the concept . (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann 's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned , the press seems to have missed it . |
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[ noun ] a formal association of people with similar interests
Examples "he joined a golf club" "they formed a small lunch society" "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Better minds than Hale 's were - and still are - convinced that there is a society of spirits beyond our ken '' . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)In one way the Institutes and Societies do a disservice to the schools . It is discouraging for students to realize that the societies do not truly uphold the standards for which they are supposed to stand . No one can deny that these `` back_door '' admissions to membership provisions have been seriously abused nor that they have not resulted in the admission of downright incompetents to membership in supposedly learned societies . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Nor is it an accident that baseball , growing into the national game in the last 75 years , has become a microcosm of American life , that learned societies such_as the American_Folklore_Society and the American_Historical_Association were founded in the 1880's , or that courses in American literature , American civilization , American anything have swept our school and college curricula . Related terms association sorority chapter fraternity country_club tennis_club yacht_club glee_club golf_club hunt Veterans_of_Foreign_Wars American_Legion bookclub racket_club athenaeum turnverein rowing_club slate_club chess_club secret_society service_club investors_club jockey_club club_member ordain |
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[ noun ] the state of being with someone
Examples "he missed their company" "he enjoyed the society of his friends" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sociology) the fashionable elite
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