A society or a human society is a group of people related to each other through constant relations or a large social grouping that shares the same geographical or virtual territory and that are subject to the same political authority and cultural expectations.
The term society came from the Latin word societas, which in turn was derived from the noun socius which is used to describe a bond or interaction among parties that are friendly, or at least civil to each other. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals sharing a distinctive culture. A given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In social sciences, a society regularly consists of social stratification and/or dominance hierarchy.
When used in the sense of an association, a society is a body of individuals outlined by the bounds of functional interdependence and possibly comprising characteristics such as national or cultural identity, social solidarity, language, or hierarchical organization.
Like other groupings, a society allows its members to achieve their needs or wishes that they could not fulfil alone. The social fact can be identified, understood, or specified within a circumstance that certain resources, objectives, requirements, or results are needed and employed in an individual manner and for individual ends, although they cannot be achieved or fulfilled in an individual manner as well, but they can be gotten only in a collective, collaborative manner.
More broadly, a society is an economic, social, or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection 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 Britain or a broader cultural group, such as a Western society. The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. A 'society' may even refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.
The term society came from the Latin word societas, which in turn was derived from the noun socius which is used to describe a bond or interaction among parties that are friendly, or at least civil to each other. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals sharing a distinctive culture. A given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In social sciences, a society regularly consists of social stratification and/or dominance hierarchy.
When used in the sense of an association, a society is a body of individuals outlined by the bounds of functional interdependence and possibly comprising characteristics such as national or cultural identity, social solidarity, language, or hierarchical organization.
Like other groupings, a society allows its members to achieve their needs or wishes that they could not fulfil alone. The social fact can be identified, understood, or specified within a circumstance that certain resources, objectives, requirements, or results are needed and employed in an individual manner and for individual ends, although they cannot be achieved or fulfilled in an individual manner as well, but they can be gotten only in a collective, collaborative manner.
More broadly, a society is an economic, social, or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection 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 Britain or a broader cultural group, such as a Western society. The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. A 'society' may even refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.
