Concept information
Preferred term
society
Definition
- A group of people or other nonhuman animals organized to cooperatively achieve common basic goals, including reproduction, sustenance, shelter, and defense. A society can also be a voluntarily organized group with political, cultural, or religious goals. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Society]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Agent Orange
- anthropocentrism
- Audubon Society
- automobiles
- Bhopal disaster
- Big Society
- birth control
- Black Death
- carcinogens
- carpooling
- central planning
- chaos theory
- Chernobyl
- cities
- cloning
- cocaine
- common property theory
- commuting
- death of nature
- death rate
- debt
- democratic collapse
- design and ecodesign
- developed (first) world
- diffusionism
- disasters
- disease
- domination of nature
- drugs
- efficiency
- energy
- environmental racism
- evolution
- fires
- flight
- highways
- HIV/AIDS
- human body
- human waste
- infant mortality rates
- landfills
- lawns
- markets
- mass media
- megalopolis
- monoculture
- needs and wants
- NIMBYism
- pets
- quality of life
- race
- sewage and sewer systems
- sex
- sexually transmitted diseases
- smoking
- social ecology
- sport utility vehicles
- suburbs
- syphilis
- totalitarianism
- tourism
- urban growth control
- urban sprawl
- vegetarianism
- viruses
- war
- war on drugs
- waste incineration
- Wilderness Society
- wind energy
- wise use movement
- workplace hazards
- World Wildlife Fund
- zero population growth
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/society
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