society

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The rise and fall of these metrics is not necessarily good or bad for a society, so long as the society is able to adapt its WITs to the changing conditions so that individuals within the society are able to meet their needs throughout the transition.

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  1. noun The totality of social relationships among humans.
  2. noun A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture.
  3. noun The institutions and culture of a distinct self-perpetuating group.

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  • At times I found Karl and his problems much less interesting than the changes in American society -- such as the complete transformation of the American family to the point where marriage is less common than uncles acting as heads of households--alluded to in the story's background. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
  • Why? Because the family is considered sacred in Korean society, and a dumb foreigner, especially a know-nothing American G.I., has no business prying into the complex interrelationships of a Korean clan. —  AHMM,July-August2008
  • I genuinely believe that part of the cleansing process in Irish society should be the establishment of a special prison for corrupt politicians, business men, property developers and white collar crime merchants. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • Like virtually everything else in American society, the CLEP test is a commodity, and the College Board, like any business, wants to make sure customers are pleased and will return for more. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "So despite the individualism in American society, the natural, barrio-level connection in us make positive results in policing our kids before they slide to crimes and law enforcement get to them," he explained.
 

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  1. French société, from Old French, from Latin societās, fellowship, from socius, companion; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French société = Provencal societat = Sp sociedad = Portuguese sociedade = Italian società, from Latin societa (t-)s, companionship, society, from socius, sharing, partaking, associated, as a noun a companion, fellow: see social.
 

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/səˈsaɪɛti/
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