Society

:For the song by the California punk band Pennywise, see Society (song).

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The social sciences use the term society to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed (or semi-open) social system, in which most interactions are with other individuals belonging to the group. More abstractly, a society is defined as a network of relationships between social entities. A society is also sometimes defined as an interdependent community, but the sociologist Tonnies seek to draw a contrast between a society and a community.

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Social sciences - Social system - Abstractly - Network - Relation - Entities - Community - Tonnies

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The English word society emerged in the 14th century and was derived from the French word société. In turn, this had its origin in the Latin societas, a "friendly association with others", from socius meaning "companion, associate, comrade or business partner". Thus the meaning of society is closely related to what is considered to be social. Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members share some mutual concern or interest, a common objective or common characteristics. As such, society is often used as synonymous with the collective citizenry of a country as directed through national institutions concerned with civic welfare.

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Latin - Social - Country

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