> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 25 topics, 25 evergreens, 8 sources</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[society]]</s> In one sense an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization and in another sense the [[material conditions]] that make up that cultural and economic organization. Alternatively:: [[social order]]. > [!wikipedia] [society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society) > > A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent [[social behavior]], or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. > > 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 of members. > > Societies construct patterns of [[behavior]] by deeming certain actions or concepts as acceptable or unacceptable. These patterns of behavior within a given society are known as societal norms. Societies, and their norms, undergo gradual and perpetual changes. > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[Business people are sorcerers]] > - [[Can society exist without discrimination]] > - [[Empires are born through conquest and maintained by bureaucracy]] > - [[Farming outcompeted foraging by allowing for higher populations]] > - [[Hunter-gatherer societies were very diverse]] > - [[Use social order instead of society to better acknowledge hierarchy and inequality]] > - [[We suck at naming things]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[notes - Clinical vs Non-clinical depression]] > - [[notes - Dukkha]] > - [[notes - How to achieve]] > - [[videoContrapoints-Envy]] > - [[10_Sources/Readwise/Tweets/tweets - Tweets From Hank Green|tweets - Tweets From Hank Green]] > - [[Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari]] > - [[video - What makes gen z humor so interesting]] > - [[10_Sources/tweets - Tweets From Hank Green|tweets - Tweets From Hank Green]] > - [[topics]] > - [[social justice]] > - [[worldview]] > - [[Autism]] > - [[Hierarchy of needs]] > - [[Yama]] > - [[anthropology]] > - [[bureaucracy]] > - [[communication]] > - [[equality]] > - [[homeostatic property cluster]] > - [[human behavior]] > - [[internet]] > - [[natural law]] > - [[neurodiversity]] > - [[oppression]] > - [[prosocial behavior]] > - [[social construct]] > - [[social control]] > - [[social hierarchy]] > - [[yoga]] > - [[Politics]] > - [[Psychology]] > - [[socialization]] > - [[47 Humanity]] > - [[Farming domesticated humans]] > - [[Gender is a social construct]] > - [[How do we effect change in society]] > - [[Human settlement allowed for social order to rapidly evolve]] > - [[Insecure material conditions increase cognitive load and reduce outcomes]] > - [[Is cognitive dissonance fundamental to the human experience]] > - [[Medical treatment should be wholistic not prescriptive]] > - [[Our authority figures curate and reinforce what we are allowed to imitate]] > - [[People have been conditioned to believe the bible has to be infallible]] > - [[Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the best one]] > - [[The black identity has evolved past it's political origins]] > - [[There has been a decrease in mental health not an increase in mental illness]] > - [[We are confined to the tools of our time]] > - [[We need equity of access not equality of opportunity]] > - [[What is the cognitive effect of living in an unjust world]] > - [[What maintains our social order]] > - [[Why representation in media is important]] #### Discussion > ![[10_Sources/books - Darwin's Cathedral#^292550146]]