Human Society
A Human Society is a human community that is a social group (that involves persistent interpersonal relationships, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations).
- Context:
- It can (typically) have an Economic System, to regulate economic acts.
- It can (typically) have a Political System, to regulate political acts (such as societal rule making).
- It can (typically) have a Societal Institutions.
- It can range from being a Pre-Industrial Society to being an Industrial Society (with a state system) to being a Post-Industrial Society.
- It can range from being a Collectivist Society to being a Individualistic Society.
- It can range from being a Rich Society to being a Poor Society.
- It can range from being an Equal Society to being an Unequal Society.
- It can be modeled by a Societal Model.
- It can experience a Societal Change.
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- Example(s):
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- 2014_U.S., 2014_Germany, 2014_China, ..., 1756 Great Britain, ...
- 2014_California, 2014_Guandong, ...
- 2014_San Francisco, 2014_Shanghai, ...
- a Household.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Learned Society, such as a SIGKDD.
- a Robot Community.
- See: Nation State, City, Human Social Behavior, Infrastructure, Social Group, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Relation, Culture, Institutions, Social Science, Social Stratification, Dominance Hierarchy, Collaborative, Subculture.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/society Retrieved:2015-7-25.
- A human society is a group of people involved in persistent interpersonal relationships, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap.
A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology.
More broadly, and especially within structuralist thought, a society may be illustrated as an economic, social, industrial or cultural infrastructure, made up of, yet distinct from, a varied collection of individuals. In this regard society can mean the objective relationships people have with the material world and with other people, rather than "other people" beyond the individual and their familiar social environment.
- A human society is a group of people involved in persistent interpersonal relationships, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.