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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A society is a body of humans generally seen as a community or group of humans - or other organisms of a single species - that is outlined by the bounds of cultural identity, social solidarity, functional interdependence, or eusociality. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture or institutions. Like other groups, a society allows its individual members to achieve individual needs or wishes that they could not fulfill separately by themselves, without the existence of the social group. Society, however, may be unique in that it is ontologically independent of, and utterly irreducible to, the qualities of its constituent individuals. As a reality sui generis, or "of its own kind", it is emergently composed of social facts that often hinder rather than help the pursuits of the subjects that form its physical and psychological underpinnings. More broadly, a society is an economic, social or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied multitude 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 Bhutan; a broader cultural group, such as a Western society; or even a social organism such as an ant colony. The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. Sociology is the study of society and social behavior. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Can society be moral or immoral, or is it impossible to aggregate morality? Q. In other words, can you 'sum up' everyone's morality to assign some sort of grade of 'morality' to the society as a whole? Asked by zingis - Sun Sep 23 12:07:51 2007 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments A. Aggregate morality is called a culture. While the cultural morality is a result of the contribution of each individual, it does little to predict an individuals moral position. How the individual is accepted within their culture, however, does depend on the aggregate morality. I liken it to a crowd gathered to watch a large sporting event. The general inclination of the culture is to root for the home team, but nothing says a given individual conforms to that thought. But individuals who fail to conform to the group culture are aware of it, and will conduct themselves differently than they would if they were within a sympathetic culture. Their reactions differ, possibly choosing passifism (quietly eating their nachos, considering the… [cont.] Answered by freebird - Sun Sep 23 14:45:19 2007 How has society s responsibility to individual needs changed in the last 10 years? Q. How has society s responsibility to individual needs changed in the last 10 years? What do you think the role of human service workers will be in the future? Asked by Nezbit - Tue Apr 29 20:35:41 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Today, the individual is more important than ever. 10 years is a very short time, so I can't cite a documented shift during that time. But people are not marginalized or left out because of individual differences as much as they used to be. For example, people with disabilities are being acknowledged and accommodated for their individual needs these days. 50 years ago, they would lump all children with disabilities (whether mental or physical) in the same classroom and give them a second-rate education. I think that society's responsibility has changed in that we care less about the good of the community. People no longer sacrifice themselves, or at least they're not quiet anymore if they're being ignored. Instead, we care about if our… [cont.] Answered by tritonetelephone - Tue Apr 29 20:54:24 2008 How would you start a society if you had the opportunity?
Q. Which institutions, objectives, values, systems, etc. would you establish or invest in? Assuming you had access to current technologies and information, but limited space and resources, how would you create your society? Asked by Andrew S - Sun Nov 2 17:22:50 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. I would get two people with opposing views on life and let them work it out. Answered by rsnlfan - Sun Nov 2 23:00:09 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "society" Quotes about society.
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