What Is A Society?
Author: Jordi Shoman

When you start to delve into the question "what is society" you
will realize that this is indeed a very deep subject. There is
no one answer because a society is not a thing that can be
easily explained in one or two sentences. In fact, this could
actually be a topic for a thesis by a graduate student in
philosophy and it would take many volumes to include all the
possible answers. Let's start by looking at what we consider to
be a society.

In our daily lives, a society is the place where we live. It is
made up of the government, the education system, the health care
and the many occupations that people have. Each and every person
is an important part of a society because each one has something
to contribute. It is a very broad concept that is often broken
down into different segments or facets of life. Within a
society, there are smaller societies or groups of people who
have a particular goal or ambition. These could be government
agencies, groups of students or groups raising money for a
cause.

There are also other factors that separate smaller societies
from one another. These include culture, language, race, and
religion. Within a society, there can be many different
cultures. If you look at the whole world as one society, you
can easily realize just how many differences there are. Even
within a country, city or town, you have numerous differences
and you can even have different societies within a
neighborhood. The neighborhood of a city could be an ethnic
society all its own.

In the larger frame of things, all these societies interact
with one another on a daily basis bringing new ideas and ways
of doing things. Customs transfer from one culture to another,
immigrants become assimilated within a society and people react
with violence when a part of their society is threatened. All of
these things make up a society, which is more of a quality than
a thing.


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