Define Society?

Question

Define Society in your opinion, I just wants to see if i'm on the right track:) and i also wants to see how other poeple define Society other than myself, try to make ur answer long:)

To me Society means there are rules and discipline for people to follow. Hidden rules even if its not written. A society has to have leaders to be a role model so poeple can follow and make sure the poeple are following the rules. It doesn't mean the ruler has control over the poeple rights.

Answer 1

A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by common interests and may have distinctive culture and institutions. In a society, members can be from a different ethnic group.


The English word ‘society’ can be stretched or narrowed to cover almost any form of association of persons possessing any degree of common interests, values, or goals. ‘Society’ in the nineteenth century meant the upper classes; one might now refer to ‘international academic society’ or ‘European society’, though these uses might be disputed. The primary and most normal sense refers to a society defined by the boundaries of the state, even though this usage is odd and potentially misleading in the many cases where there is more than one sizeable ethnic or cultural group in a society, like Canada and South Africa.

The influential German sociologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Weber and Ferdinand Tönnies, suggested that societies take different forms in so far as the very nature of the association between people differs. Tönnies distinguished a Gemeinschaft form, where people are linked by assumption, tradition, and familiar ties, from Gesellschaft, where their association is agreed, self-conscious, and quasi-contractual. All societies contain elements of both.

A wide variety of contemporary writers choose to refer, in a Hegelian manner, to a ‘civil society’. A civil society in this sense is not the population of a state as such and it is very far from being the mere amalgam of people on a particular territory. Civil society is a range of relationships and organizations which possess a tendency to form a political system. The history of France from, say, 1780 exemplifies the distinction: the state has been re-formed and redefined many times but France has remained a distinct and continuous civil society throughout the period. Neither Europe nor Brittany or Provence separately, for all that they might have societies in some sense, have been a civil society in the way that France has.

some quotations for society are;

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." - Edward Abbey

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." - Lord Acton

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it." - Henry Brooks Adams

"The happiness of society is the end of government." - John Adams

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous." - Aristotle

Answer 2

Define Society

Answer 3

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We do define ourselves and that can include societies definition if we choose to allow it. I choose to remain largely undefined, following my heart and mind - a combination of what feels right and makes sense to me. Not all are willing or able to do such things as finding your own way is not an easy path to follow As for the question that prompted yours: The only ones who can claim to "know" beyond a shadow of a doubt are those who refuse to consider other points of view. In my experience that tends to be far more the religious extremists than those who are not religious. The rest of us either believe or don't believe, for some that is a choice, for others it is an internal "default" for lack of better word.

Answer 4

When I think of Society. I automatically think of our leaders and what they are making us believe and think to the age when we are born to when we die. Society is really strong and powerful. It's also like we have to follow society too. We often want to follow it as well but no one is telling us we have to. Honestly this is a topic I can rant about but that's my shortened version.